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Law and Government
Veteran police chief calls ‘bulls**t’ on Ron Johnson’s assumptions about Michael Brown’s mindset
When the video surfaced showing Michael Brown robbing a convenience store and manhandling a clerk, Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron…
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Law and Government
Holder says ‘it’s personal’ … and that’s the problem with his involvement in Ferguson
An article this morning at USA Today notes that Attorney General Eric Holder arrived yesterday in Ferguson, Mo., to spearhead a federal…
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Media
Tweet of the Day: Within 10 minutes of presser on death of US reporter, Obama back on links
A meme making the rounds on social media today has a split photo of the president. On one side he…
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Media
Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz accuses liberal media of creating ‘lynch mob mentality’ (Video)
Howard “Howie” Kurtz (which is how his name appears at Wikipedia) has long been a critic of the media. His…
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Law and Government
A tale of two Michael Browns who were shot and killed by Missouri police
“I don’t know what happened in Ferguson, Mo., between the cop and the kid. And neither do you.” So begins a…
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Media
Michael Brown, Ferguson MO, and the real blacks who ‘get it’
There are many factors that make Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal ill-equipped to talk about the racially tense…
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Foreign Affairs
Why are radical Islamists so obsessed with sex?
A disclaimer for starters: I will accept here as a matter of faith (no pun intended) that there are sane…
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Law and Government
An ‘open-and-shut’ case of police brutality in Ferguson, MO’s past
The question of whether the police in Ferguson, Mo., shot down black teenager Michael Brown in cold blood, as many on…
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Economy
Picture of the Day: ‘Ode to the Welfare State’
Today’s welfare state is not your father’s welfare state. A far larger percentage of Americans are on the government dole.…
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Law and Government
Angry crowd in Ferguson chants it wants police officer Darren Wilson dead (Video)
Things seem to be progressing swimmingly in Ferguson, Mo., and environs. Last night, Gov. Jay Nixon imposed a midnight curfew on…
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Politics
Tweet of the Day: Cher calls Sea World ‘Dachau for whales’
For those who missed the story, Sea World theme parks are under siege by animal-rights activists who maintain that training killer whales for…
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Education
Non-Muslim mom claims daughter was not fed lunch she brought to daycare because it was not halal
It is hard to say what is more offensive about a story out of London involving abuse at a daycare…
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Law and Government
Woman arrested for swearing in front of her kids
If a tree falls in the forest, does it utter a profanity? Better still, if a mother utters an f-bomb…
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Economy
Republican Lawmakers: Get rid of the crony wind tax
Kansas Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo joined 54 other House members in calling a wind energy subsidy cronyism and demanding it…
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Law and Government
Police in Ferguson to release name of officer in fatal shooting: What could go wrong? *UPDATE*
Welcome to the latest LU office pool. The contest is open to contributors and readers alike. No investment is necessary.…
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Law and Government
Hagel reverses Army policy against ethnic hairstyles following protest
Good thing the military doesn’t have a rigid code that service members either follow lockstep or pack their bags. Oh, wait……
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Quick Takes
Video: Obama on pace to outgolf Tiger Woods
Hey, an actual achievement Barack Obama can lay claim to as his legacy! From Joseph Curl of the Washington Times:…
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Economy
Tweet of the Day: Obama parties while Ferguson burns
We’ll get to the tweet presently. First a few words from The Wilderness. That’s the name of a blog (h/t…
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Media
Tweet of the Day: Westboro Baptist Church to picket funeral of ‘fag pimp’ Robin Williams
I swear, it’s almost enough to drive a sane person to turn liberal. Pink News (UK) reports: The Westboro Baptist Church have announced…
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Media
Dem MO senator adds fuel to fire, calls Brown shooting ‘execution-style’ murder
As Renee Nal wrote yesterday, there are already enough agitators in Ferguson, Mo., to inflame the already-raw emotions of the black community over…
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Foreign Affairs
ISIS suicide bomb instructor accidentally blows up class, self
ISIS, as our staff reported earlier, may be a fine-tuned fighting machine, but the group is still subject to the…
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Law and Government
Tweet of the Day: Pelosi also thinks Africa is a country
In one particularly hilarious scene from Mark Twain’s comedic essay, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses,” he describes an Indian attack on a canal boat…
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Economy
Hypocrisy alert: Clinton Labor Secretary earns buckets of money to teach about evils of income inequality
He may be slight of stature, but what he lacks in height he makes up for in paycheck. Hypocrisy, too.…
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Law and Government
Quote of the Day: ‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo…’
The truncated sentence in the title, for those unfamiliar with it, is the longest grammatical sentence in the English language…
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Law and Government
Restaurant gives discount to those who pray before eating; anti-religion group threatens to sue
A restaurant in Winston-Salem, N.C. is facing a possible threat of legal action by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) for having the temerity…
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Foreign Affairs
Video: Russian laser show depicts Obama ‘fellating’ banana
This past Monday, Barack Obama celebrated his 43rd birthday. If you failed to acknowledge this important day, don’t blame LU.…
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Law and Government
Another day, two more instances of brainless parents leaving small children in cars
The case last month of a Georgia man who left his toddler to bake to death in a parked car while…
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