In an unsigned editorial defending the New York Police Department, the NY Daily News called NYPD critics “comrades in arms.”
The term is just as offensive as it would be to call defenders of the NYPD “jack-booted thugs.”
Editorial: A modern New York fable about stop-and-frisk – NY Daily News.
When this year’s fundraising at Maine Family Planning came up short, the Christian Civic League of Maine declared that its prayers had successfully defunded abortion in Maine.
But God was mightily pissed at the pride shown by the opponents of women’s reproductive freedom and chose to send them a sign. The sign came in the form of more donations to the feisty family planners, eventually surpassing their goal by 20%.
As it says in Psalms, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.”
North Carolina state Rep. Pat McElraft is sponsoring legislation that will prevent medical schools in the state from training doctors in how to perform abortions.
You’re thinking “Who cares? I’m not stuck in the fetid swamp known as the Tar Heel State.” But it does matter, since the University of North Carolina is one of the country’s top five OB-GYN residency programs, so there’s a fair chance your OB-GYN trained there.
Oh well, it’s back to the coat hanger. Only this time, it will be wielded by an actual M.D.
The Feds have given your local police department some nifty tech to track where you and your cellphone are at all times. However, the device, called “Hailstorm,” comes with strings attached:
. . . the Obama administration has aggressively tried to keep [details about Hailstorm] secret. Citing security reasons, the government has intervened in routine state public-records cases and criminal trials, and has advised police not to disclose details. . . .
The Hailstorm, made by Florida-based Harris Corp., can sweep up cellphone subscriber-identity data by tricking phones into thinking it’s a cell tower. That data is then transmitted to the police, allowing them to locate a phone without the user even making a call or sending a text message.
All I can say is that I want to get me one of these things! Installed in the BiteCastle’s Security Office, it will enable me to know where every BiteMe employee is 24/7.
Baltimore police use secret cell phone surveillance tech – NY Daily News.
[Edited 12-27-2017 to add:] NB: The first such product on the market was the Stingray from Harris Corporation (Remember Harris-Intertype? Same guys.). But other similar products can be found under names such as Kingfish, Amberjack, and Hailstorm.
Addressing the controversy surrounding his state’s recently signed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Indiana governor Mike Pence forcefully insisted to reporters Monday that the new law has nothing at all to do with what it was explicitly intended to do. “Let me state directly that in no way is this law designed to allow the kind of anti-gay discrimination that is the law’s single reason for existing,” said Pence, emphasizing that provisions authorizing businesses to refuse service to gay customers were nothing more than the only explanation for the law being drafted in the first place. “Regardless of the widespread misconceptions surrounding it, I want to reassure Hoosiers of all backgrounds that this law will never be interpreted in the way it was unambiguously designed to be from the very beginning.” Pence further clarified that the act’s sole purpose was in fact to safeguard the free exercise of religion it was in no way whatsoever created to protect.
President Rand Paul is adopting the traditional stance of incumbent presidents and trying to look “presidential” while keeping substantive interviews to a minimum. He won’t talk about abortion, Iran, and corporate tax breaks.
He’s also getting good at putting girl reporters in their place.
Not ready for prime time: Rand Paul gets testy when asked basic questions about abortion.
Dear Bitemaster: Where can I go and shoot off my pistol in a church without getting in trouble?
Answer: Get thee to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona, PA. But keep in mind that
Legal gun owner shoots self kneeling at Easter Mass and hides weapon — but no charges filed.
“If you don’t like gay people, take it up with the manufacturer.” — Comedian John Fugelsang
Lutheran Mark Born of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, has proposed a bill to let factory and mercantile workers “voluntarily choose” to waive the state requirement of at least one “day of rest in seven.”
When asked whether that would violate the Bible, Born said, “The Bible is for pussies.”
via ‘Abolishing the Sabbath’: Wisc. Republican proposes doing away with day of rest for workers.
Christie’s push to privatize the lottery was billed as a way to make it run more like a business, but Northstar [the outside management company hired by Christie] today spends more and employs more people than when the lottery was run by the state.
Businesses are not designed to generate revenue for the state; they’re supposed to produce a profit for their owners. And the NJ state lottery is now doing just that, throwing off big bucks for
Under Northstar, lottery revenue is off by ten of millions of dollars. But all is not doom and gloom. Mercury Public Affairs says the new lottery videos are quite popular on Youtube.
New Jersey Lottery Falls Short Of Targets After Chris Christie Privatizes Management.