The fire department in Tar Heel, North Carolina is a volunteer outfit and, apparently, not a very good one at that. A couple of years ago, for example, firefighter David Hunsinger, Jr. died orchestrating a fatal car crash while responding to an … [Continue reading]
The Usual Suspects
Timing, they say, is everything. With investigations by the FBI and the Federal Elections Commission effectively quashing Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) hopes for a fifth term in Congress, one could almost hear her closeted husband Marcus’ sphincter … [Continue reading]
Liars’ Club
Republicans stubbornly insist that tax hikes are job killers despite copious evidence to the contrary. The expiry of President Obama’s payroll tax holiday coupled with the legislative phaseout of many Bush-era giveaways should have, by their central … [Continue reading]
Gunning the Engine
In last week’s piece (Observations from the UT Tower) I deftly argued that swarms of armed protectors are no answer to school safety. Though I had somehow overlooked published reports that a Rangeview, CO high school student had been accidentally … [Continue reading]
Observations from the UT Tower
Thanks to several tips from the community, brothers Shawn and Akein Scott have been arrested in connection with the Mother’s Day mass shootings New Orleans. "The people chose to be on the side of the young innocent children,” acknowledged Police … [Continue reading]
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