Oh, come on now, you can't say you didn't see this coming:
Greenbelt Homes Inc., a cooperative that owns about 1,600 row houses in historic Greenbelt, is considering a rule that would allow residents to ban smoking in the properties if all of those living in a row of four to five homes are in agreement.
Guess I know who to go see when the revolution starts:
An admitted militiaman got 41 guns and more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition back from the government Friday.
Rich Lowry says we should just get over our silly panic about drones spying on us all the time:
You remember that change in Casttle Doctrine law the General Assembly passed last year, the one that has public safety officials trembling in fear that it's now open season on cops? Apparently, some cops aren't as trembly as others. A heavily armed SWAT team in Evansville kicked in the storm door of a home where 18-year-old Stephanie Mill was watching TV and threw a flash-bang stun grenade in on her. But -- whoops! -- turns out they were at the wrong door:
Hey, I've had my "Read my lips" moment with a president I thought could be trusted on taxes. Now you Democrats enjoy yours, hear?
I've been reading everything I can on the Supreme Court's Obamacare ruling, and it seems to amount mostly to cries of foul from conservatives and a great deal of gloating by liberals. About the best analysis I've seen so far is by Larry Slolum at the Legal Theory Blog, who says it represents a "gestalt shift" in constitutional law rather than the "tectonic shift" invalidating the mandate (instead of merely renaming it a tax) would have been:
I've seen a lot of misreporting this week of Monday's Supreme Court ruling on juvenile sentincing, especially in headlines, like this one on an Associated Press story -- "U.S. Supreme Court: No more life without parole for juveniles." The ruling wasn't quite that sweeping, as the story eventually makes a little clearer. What the 5-4 decision did was abolish mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles.
It's a pittance, really, considering the vast sums squandered by the federal government, but, hey, waste is waste:
The U.S. Justice Department is giving $1.3 million to six Indiana towns and cities to hire new police officers.
I see Indiana has gone and gotten famous again while I was on vacation, i.e., "Judge Upholds Ind. Facebook Ban for Sex Offenders." The decision, I'm sure, will engage us in our usual arguments about how far we can go in restricting people who might commit a crime and how carefully we should tread when enacting laws that affect only selected groups instead of everyone. But on my initial reading of the story, this observation of the judge's is what caught my attention:
