Archive for the 'Zero Tolerance' Category

Radical 5th Grade Terrorist Charged with Felony

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

This ten-year-old threat to the state was arrested with a steak knife. Allegedly, she brought it to school to cut her meat, but we know that she was probably on Osama bin Laden’s payroll. For some reason, police didn’t tase the student and she hasn’t been tortured by the CIA yet.
In addition to […]

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Today is Repeal Day. Enjoy!

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

“May stipenders and pensioners never sit in an American senate.” — popular American toast in 1776
Despite the fact that liberals are increasing taxes and conservatives are prohibiting sex toys, Alabamians (limited to certain counties) have something to celebrate today: Repeal Day.
Tom brings our attention to this video produced by my friends at Bureaucrash reminding us […]

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To Protect and to Serve

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Rarely a day passes lately without some new tale of police officers abusing people with tasers. Here’s the latest example:
Authorities are speeding up their investigation of a state trooper who zapped a motorist with a Taser now that video of the traffic stop has been posted on YouTube, the Utah Highway Patrol said Wednesday.
The […]

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Alabama Spreading STDs to Mississippi and Tennessee

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Like some nasty venereal disease, Alabama’s Take Back Our Highways campaign continues to erupt anew, leaving pustules of tickets along the public roads in our state. For those not from Alabama, this is a zero-tolerance campaign where cops are pulling people over for every imaginable and imaginary infraction possible. During the last eruption […]

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Free the Jack

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

This is really hitting close to home.  Because of my affinity for bourbons and related American whiskeys, and because the Jack Daniels distillery is just a few miles north of me, I’m more upset about this particular government seizure than other noteworthy ones over the last few days.   General background:
Here’s a sobering thought: Hundreds of […]

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Zero Tolerance Nazis Strike Again

Friday, November 9th, 2007

This time, it’s because a student hugged another one who had just lost a parent. Makes me feel proud to be an Alabamian. Props.

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