A U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has dismissed  a lawsuit alleging gross negligence and malicious conduct on behalf of Maryland police in the 2006 death of James Emerick "Jamie" Dean, who was shot and killed by a Maryland State Police sniper during a sta...

The New York State Police department has released the blood alcohol content of Arman Partamian, the SUNY Geneseo student who was found dead last Sunday in an off-campus house belonging to current members of my old fraternity, the PIGS. State Police say the BAC in Partamian's heart blood register...

I hardly agree with all of Pat Buchanan's political views, but he nails it today in condemning Barack Obama's budget plans. In a nutshell, Buchanan basically says that when one half of a country pays the freight for the other half, we're not "on the road to socialism." We...

In a story that hits close to home, Geneseo State University student Arman Partamian was found dead last Sunday morning in an off-campus house, hours after apparently drinking a significant amount of alcohol the day before. Why is this personal? Partamian was enrolled at my college alma mater and wa...

"Global warming" is really taking its toll on us down here in tropical Southern Maryland, as we started getting sleet around noon yesterday that turned into a snow storm by nightfall and didn't let up until a good foot of snow was on the ground this morning. Considering I'm origina...

On February 20, a bill (HB 1368) was introduced in the Maryland House of Delegates that would further restrict waterfront property owners from protecting their land from erosion and even prohibit them from building piers extending into the state's glorious waterways. A choice snippet...

A friend just forwarded an NRA-ILA "alert" to me to let me know that two allegedly pro-gun bills will be heard tomorrow in the Maryland House Judiciary Committee. One of the bills is HB 470, which would repeal the requirement of Maryland's secretary of state police to find a "good...

Given that Barack Obama has signed his $787 billion economic "stimulus" bill into law, I thought I'd go on record to say that this federal spending spree not only won't stimulate the economy, but it can't. Money is simply being shifted around -- imagine watchi...

Time for casual blogging has been scarce the past couple days as my wife and I have been tending to our one-year-old as he battles his first bout with a virus presenting gifts of vomiting and diarrhea, but I had to make time for this police state update from Radley Balko. Regular readers...

If we want to fly the government skies, anyway....