Showing posts with label law enforcement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law enforcement. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The Self-Correcting System

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     When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. – G. K. Chesterton      The...
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Saturday, January 10, 2026

What Is "The Law Of Nations?"

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     This piece and the many others that have been written since American forces deposed Nicolas Maduro have excited questions about “inter...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Law And Its “Enforcers”

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     Over at Ace’s place, Oregon Muse reminds us of this incisive article about police and policing from Angelo Codevilla. The entire ar...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

There Are Days When Commentary Seems Superfluous...

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     ...because the news speaks for itself: The Hunter Biden emails have been verified as authentic. Businesses are boarding up pre-emptiv...
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Which Way Are You Inclined?

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     I know a fair number of people who are utterly confident that President Trump will be re-elected in November, that the Durham investiga...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

The New Abnormality

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     New York Post columnist Bob McManus has penned a piercing indictment of the de Blasio and Cuomo Administrations:      You say you di...
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Friday, July 3, 2020

Public Spaces And The Current Crisis

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     The ongoing violence and disruption in Democrat-controlled cities has evoked an optimistic piece from Bookworm, who deposeth and sayet...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Carrots And Sticks

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     One of the sturdy wisdoms the “progressives” have striven to eliminate from general acknowledgement and acceptance goes like this: Th...
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Monday, January 6, 2020

War And Its Law

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     Amid all the caterwauling from the Left about how awful it was that President Trump dared to execute Qassem Soleimani, the most fatuous...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Quickies: A Fourth Amendment Conundrum

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     Automobiles in public places have long been objects of legal controversy. Cops are eager to have them treated as outside the protection...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The Limits Of The Law

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     Legislatures will legislate about anything. it’s why there are so many nonsense laws on the books. Every so often you’ll find a list of...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Quickies: Tragedy Begets Sanity

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     Or at least, a halting step toward sanity:      HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says 'no-knock' wa...
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Friday, February 1, 2019

Law Enforcement As Political Bludgeon

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     Several court decisions have ruled that the enforcers of the law, however we understand them, are under neither a legal nor an occupati...
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Friday, December 14, 2018

Quickies: Policing For Profit

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     Do you ever travel with a substantial amount of cash on you, or with valuable articles in your possession? Beware.      Alex at Ammo.c...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Quickies: The Great “We Are The State”

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     Recently a brief piece appeared at Hot Air that asks “Does The Right To Self-Defense Apply Against Agents Of The State?” This is not ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Cowards With Badges?

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     Time was, Americans took pride in what we called “the forces of order.” The police were prominent in that group of public servants. We ...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

A Muscular Minority

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     In any civilized society, those who are willing to use violence to gain what they seek will be a minority. Those who are eager to do so...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Legitimizations

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     Once more, with feeling: Opinions Are Like Assholes: Everyone’s Gotta Have One.      Trouble is, there are...persons who think – i...
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