Archive for February, 2008

Greetings from your friendly neighborhood SWAT team.

Monday, February 18th, 2008

79. It's for the children: the Colorado legislature considers a bill that would criminalize negligent storage of firearms. 80. Aside from the top-secret Camp 7 within the Gitmo terrorist camp, it's now possible that detainees convicted of terrorism could face the death penalty and be executed on Gitmo, which would be ...

Garnishments, gambling and grilled hot dogs.

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

68. Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she might be willing to garnish workers' wages in order to ensure universal health care coverage. She might want to ask Mitt Romney, late of the Republican nomination race, how that has worked out. 69. President Bush sends a $3.1 trillion budget to ...

The needle and the damage done.

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

59. Public health workers turn drug users into first responders by handing out rescue kits that can reverse potentially fatal overdoses. But the White House would rather the junkies just die: But Dr. Bertha Madras, deputy director of the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy, opposes the use ...