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Just a little while ago, Laurie Dhue reported (during an O'Reilly show break) that a FoxNews reporter, who had filmed a man being arrested by the VA state police on a public road outside the Pentagon grounds, was himself handcuffed by Defense Dept. police and his tape confiscated. The...

A recent (and ongoing) Georgia news event made me think of this question: Do you know any antis who support vigilantism? Here's how I came up with the question. As you have probably heard (unless you dragged the missus into your backyard bomb shelter on September 11), here in Georgia we have...

FoxNews is reporting that a Palestinian terrorist with explosives strapped to his body was shot and killed by a shopper in the supermarket where they were. I haven't heard if the shopper was civilian, police or military--does anyone know?

Today's Washington Times carried this item. http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020218-68758856.htm

From The Observer at http://www.observer.co.uk/islam/story/0,1442,651748,00.html Hmmm....for a country with extremely totalitarian weapons laws, the terrorists didn't seem to have much trouble getting some. :rolleyes:

From the Georgia AG website at http://www.ganet.org/ago/press/press.cgi?prfile=PR.20020213.01 Woo-hoo! (Could some of you 'Bamans enlighten us Jawjuns over proper CCW rules? What types of businesses are off limits? Concealed in car? etc....)

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0204awa-ON.html

From http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/cuyahoga/10126458183213839.xml

From http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_511554.html

Once again, airline "security" fails to impress me. This is what you get when you staff security with a bunch of high-school dropouts (which, by the way, will not change when they become federal employees). From the Washington Times at http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020119-79003878.htm...

http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=storage/qm/01140000aaa04c4f.upi&Type=News&Sys=quotemedia&Fid=NATIONAL&Filter=National%20News I wonder how many folks on this board would get called to the carpet??? :p

From Cnet at http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8436310.html?tag=mn_hd. Emphasis added by me.

From the Sunday Times at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,9003-2002005234,00.html (registration required)

From http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42101,00.html

FoxNews is reporting tonight that police wounded a man believed to be responsible for an office shooting earlier in the day. The "alleged" shooter was still in the office building when police responded to the call. I don't have any more details right now, I just caught part of the report...

From http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011218/od/santa_dc_1.html

From http://uk.news.yahoo.com/011218/80/cm1a0.html

From the Des Moines Register at http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/16773682.html

Kinda old news, actually, but good to see in print again. From the NYT at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/nyregion/16GUNS.html?ex=1009083600&en=78c6864e019ec496&ei=5001 (continued)

According to a pie chart at Zogby's web site, 55% of Americans favor allowing the government to search their mail at random. 43% were opposed, and 2% weren't sure. (note for those looking for the pie chart: it's one of several randomly changing graphics on the main page, so you might have to...