Month December 2011

It is a big deal…

… when 140 reservists from the 222nd Field Artillery Unit stationed in Iraq return home to Cedar City UT six months early, just in time for Christmas. The tiny airport here was jammed, with the mayor and police greeting them.…

Another 1%

These are not the folks at the top, they are the men and women who serve in the US all-volunteer force and most of their fellow citizens don’t think about them very often. They’re definitely not getting rich, but they…

Feds poleaxe Sheriff Joe

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving racist thug, who, I can’t help but note, seems to make oddly few drug busts. I guess he’s too busy being racist towards Latinos. NYT “a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos” that…