Year: 2009
A Cop Who Should Be Fired
I’m pretty late with this one. According to the story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, King County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Schene is shown here beating down a 15-year-old girl because she…wait for it…kicked off her shoe in a way caused it to struck him in the leg: I suppose it’s possible that something else was going on… Read more
Responding to Tom McKenna on the Frederick Verdict
Virginia prosecutor Tom McKenna and I never seem to agree on anything (except maybe guns) and my previous post in response to a police officer’s complaint about the verdict in the Ryan Frederick case is no exception: A blogging police officer complains of a manslaughter conviction for a dope dealer who killed a police officer… Read more
A Response to Scott’s Comments on the Frederick Conviction
A police officer named Scott in Hampton Roads has this to say about the Ryan Frederick verdict: Ryan Frederick will forever be known as a cop killer. He shot and killed Detective Jerrod Shivers in January 2008 while the Chesapeake Police Department was serving a search warrant at his house. He is a cold blooded… Read more
About Joel Rosenberg
Joel Rosenberg has been a co-blogger here on Windypundit for a few months, so I think it’s time to give him an “About” page. I asked him if he wanted to write it, but he told me to write it myself. So I did. Actually, the page is not so much about Joel as it… Read more
Thinking About the Stimulus: Spending
In the two previous posts in my amateur exploration of the stimulus (GDP, and then Recession), I explained what a recession is and what many economists think causes one. Now I’m going to try to explain my understanding of what a solution has to do, and why some people think a stimulus package is a… Read more