“I will explore every legal avenue to expedite this matter and bring it to a swift conclusion,” Rick said Saturday in a statement. “I am confident we will ultimately prevail, that this farce of a prosecution will be revealed for what it is, and that those responsible will be held to account.”
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: The Texas Chainsaw Prosecution: “…the D.A.’s office is trying to criminalize the normal process of constitutional government.”
The first lunar base, the first Martian colony, first mining of the asteroids… And not just because many scifi writers already are predicting it. But because the American political class will keep American companies grounded.
“Here’s the deal: SpaceX, as you may know, is making good on its promise to make access to space cheaper and more reliable. Their Falcon 9 rocket is putting payloads into orbit for less money than the big government contractors charge.
“As one might expect, [politicians] who have such contractors in their own districts and states are unhappy with this. And apparently some are willing to smear SpaceX as retribution.”
The Greens? Not yet. These are Republicans—the supposed champions of market capitalism. So, about that supposedly coming SpaceX spaceport near Brownsville in South Texas? It may never launch anything but red tape.
Via Instapundit.
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“Soldiers and police are supposed to be different. … Police look inward. They’re supposed to protect their fellow citizens from criminals, and to maintain order with a minimum of force.
“It’s the difference between Audie Murphy and Andy Griffith. But nowadays, police are looking, and acting, more like soldiers than cops, with bad consequences. And those who suffer the consequences are usually innocent civilians.”
Just as true post-Ferguson as it was eight years ago. Nevermind the race-baiters bottom-feeders Jackson and Sharpton, who’re there just to make their bucks with their usual b.s., the real story is the armored-automatic-rifled-flashbang-grenade-throwing cops who make the whole scene look like 1984. Enough, already.
Remember Michael Brown? Hell, remember Miriam Carey!
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: “The Ferguson police must prevent rioting and looting and protect their own safety, though it is reasonable to wonder when law enforcement became a paramilitary operation. The sniper rifles, black armored convoys and waves of tear gas deployed across Ferguson neighborhoods are jarring in a free society.”
MORE: “The buzz phrase in policing today is officer safety. You’ll also hear lots of references to preserving order, and fighting wars, be it on crime, drugs, or terrorism. Those are all concepts that emphasize confrontation. It’s a view that pits the officers as the enforcer, and the public as the entity upon which laws and policies and procedures are to be enforced.”
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…one uneaten packet of French Dressing at a time.
Just what nine and 10-year-old boys bored with the nanny-state b.s. (which the girls are pretending to soak up, of course) could use.
And, hey, the school provided the packets. Is that cool, or what?
Via Cobb.
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Forget the expensive journalism degree. Just follow the diagram. (Works for Tea Partiers and Republicans, too. Whatever the issue; they get the outrage.)
Via Simply Jews
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Not only did the Dictator’s Club (aka the UN) allow Hamas to store its rockets and other arms in the DC’s so-called schools and medical clinics, but it seems to have supplied the cement used in shoring up the walls of the attack tunnels.
So when the DC (odd how that abbreviation matches another one that seems to prefer Hamas to Israel) calls for investigation of alleged Israeli “war crimes,” it’s obvious whom the probe also needs to include—if not focus on entirely.
Via Simply Jews.
UPDATE: The “handmaiden of Hamas.”
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