The law and the jungle

Mob enforcers Police officials quickly muscle out the competition do their duty to keep a high moral standard in the state:

Officials have shut down a central Indiana business where they suspect patrons were illegally playing poker for money.

Feel free to insert your own doughnut joke:

A police lieutenant in Daytona Beach was fired over accusations that he threatened slower emergency response times if he was not given complimentary specialty Starbucks coffee drinks.

An internal police investigation found that Daytona Lt. Major Garvin received free coffee for about two years from a city Starbucks coffee store.

Well, it's a start:

A company that owns 11 McDonald's restaurants in Nevada was fined one million dollars Wednesday after pleading guilty to employing 58 illegal immigrants.

No work, no incentive to come here illegally. Make it a lot more companies and a few billion in fines, and there will be no more illegal-immigration crisis.

Anybody have any sympathy for Judge Kenneth Scheibenberger, who now faces formal charges of judicial misconduct before the Indiana Supreme Court? I have some:

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi vows to get tough on gun crimes with something called Project EVICT:

Susan Atkins is dying of brain cancer and wanted a "compassionate release" from her life prison sentence so she could "die with digity," surrounded by family and friends instead of prison guards. Yes, that Susan Atkins:

The weasels in D.C. government are responding to the Supreme Court's Heller decision with proposed rules showing they truly do not get it:

Here's what they're proposing:

• Allowing an exception for handgun ownership for self-defense use inside the home.
• If you want to keep a handgun in your home, the MPD will have to perform ballistic testing on it before it can be legally registered.

Well, this is interesting. "Shortbus" is an unrated film with sexually explicit scenes. It's the kind of movie some would call obscene and some would not. In 1973, the Supreme Court more or less gave up on obscenity and decided it should be based on what an "average person" would consider "community standards."

For the "things are not always what they seem" file:

A report of a family fight Wednesday afternoon in New Castle didn't turn out to be what police expected.

A nine-year-old girl called 911 after she awoke from a nap and heard her mother screaming. She went to her mother's bedroom and thought her mother was being attacked.

Turns out, her parents were just enjoying marital relations.

If you're just an average motorist who lets a couple of traffic citations pile up, the authorities would  hound you to death. But if you're a railroad that racks up more than 1,500 tickets for blocking city streets, that's a different story:

Until Tuesday, 1,551 tickets issued to Norfolk Southern since at least 2004 had remained unprosecuted by the Lake County prosecutor's office.
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