Well, shut my mouth. A man who reported someone beat him and carved a homophobic slur into his arm staged the attacks, authorities in rural Utah said Tuesday. Millard County Sheriff Robert Dekker said Rick Jones, 21, could face charges after officers investigating the series of reported attacks found inconsistencies in the evidence. The Delta man eventually acknowledged faking the harassment, Dekker said. Brett Tolman, an attorney for Jones, said
June 2015
June 30, 2015
No, intentionalism didn’t kill the rule of law, and putative conservatives should know better than to claim otherwise
Let me begin thus: even after all this time — and even after all the damage that has been done to the country by the left and the various and variegated intrusions and infiltrations of its ideology throughout our culture, our language, and our very espistemology — there are those on the right who are still so committed to covering for their mistakes about Obama (a “good man” who loves
June 29, 2015
You can’t make this stuff up: “How can something like this happen without prior warning?” [Darleen Click]
WSJ on broken Greece THENS—Greece shut down its banking system, ordering lenders to stay closed for six days starting Monday, and its central bank moved to impose controls to prevent money from flooding out of the country. The steps, a fateful climax to five years of debt crisis, put Greece closer than it ever has been to an exit from the euro and pushes the common currency itself into uncharted
June 29, 2015
China’s OPM hack: how to blackmail anyone in the federal government [Darleen Click]
But but but … the Federal Government has better things to worry about, like sprinkling dignity all around like magic fairy dust. By now, it’s clear that hackers — believed to be tied to the Chinese government – stole files from the Office of Personnel Management that amount to a giant “how to blackmail anyone in the federal government” manual. This was America’s “cyber 9/11,” exposing an administration full of
June 29, 2015
Kids show moral courage their parents lack [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Fight the NannyState … A school administrator from Indiana has told Congress that students in his district are trafficking in illicit goods on school property, thanks federal law. And they’re doing it right out in the open in the schools’ lunchrooms. “Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing — and even selling — salt, pepper and sugar in school to add taste
June 29, 2015
Series of church fires [Darleen Click]
This A fire that engulfed a small, predominantly black church in Charlotte was set on purpose, local officials said Wednesday. Now they are trying to determine whether the act of arson was a hate crime. “Shock. Disbelief,” co-Pastor Rhonda Kinsey told Time Warner Cable News. “You hear about it, but you never imagine you would have a fire at your church.” is MACON, Ga. (AP) — A fire that damaged
June 27, 2015
“Time to legalize polygamy” [Darleen Click]
Because, how dare we deny love and dignity to those families who love “plurally” The question presents itself: Where does the next advance come? The answer is going to make nearly everyone uncomfortable: Now that we’ve defined that love and devotion and family isn’t driven by gender alone, why should it be limited to just two individuals? The most natural advance next for marriage lies in legalized polygamy—yet many of
June 27, 2015
How you get there matters. Still
Regardless of where you stand on same sex marriage, ObamaCare, or the very idea of “unintended discrimination,” the process of how we interpret and apply law — and what counts as liberty, in the sense it was intended by the Founders and Framers and to the extent it exists in a representative republic — is crucial to the protection of the individual and a frustration of the state, whose natural