There are those who believe that New Yorkers — who have routinely self-abused by keeping Michael Bloomberg around to lord over them like a scolding, stretched-skin midget king surrounded with the very firepower he denies his subjects — have a hankering, and that hankering is for rule by sexual deviants. And both Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner seem ready to step in and fill that wet, hot, yearning void. Which,

And you thought it could never happen here: National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of

As a complement to Glenn Reynolds’s USA Today column yesterday (featuring the abhorrent behavior of some Nevada law enforcement officers), there’s this excerpt from Radley Balko’s new book, published on Sladon:  “‘Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book’: The new warrior cop is out of control”: Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering

Me, I drive a pair of Jeeps these days, an inline 6-cylinder ’94 Wrangler Sahara that gets about 14-20 MPG, and a V8 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhook that has a tow-capacity of 7400 lbs and logs in 13-22 MPG — and I use a gasoline mower and other gasoline powered tools, as well as pamper with extravagant and delicious CO2 buffets the 5 trees on my property, whose consequent oxygen