This terrible news just in at 10:30pm from the Sun: A Baltimore police officer is in critical condition at a hospital tonight after being shot in the Seton Hill neighborhood, officials said. The plainclothes officer was on duty in the 500 block of Orchard St. about 8 p.m. when he was shot in the face,…
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Police raided a 62-year-old Baltimore man’s home who was suspected of selling prescription drugs. Along with drug (Percocet and Xanax) and money, 19 rifles and shotguns were seized. The Sun reports.
Here’s Peter Hermanm’s report in the Sun. The short: Surveillance cameras are helpful, but video is no ‘slam dunk’
I enjoyed attending “New Directions for New York: A Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy” sponsored at the New York Academy of Medicine and the Drug Policy Alliance. I was speaking on the Harm Reduction – Coordinating Strategies panel. Unfortunately, because I broke one of my rules and wrote on the back side…
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…this articleby Nicholas J. Johnson in the Wake Forest Law Review might ruin your day. My summary: Stop wasting time trying to take away people’s guns. It won’t work. Deal with it. 300,000,000 guns is a lot of guns to confiscate, especially from people armed with guns. (thanks to D.K. for sending me the article)…
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The Detroit News reports: Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr.’s administration was dealt an embarrassing blow Friday, after his top lawyer ignited a racial flap by saying the city’s 36th District Court was “acting like a ghetto court.” Kathleen Leavey, who is white, resigned as the city’s corporation counsel Thursday, but said the comment was misinterpreted. That…
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This might be the last thing I write about the inauguration. But the Onion, as usual, has a very funny story.
The Great Blacks in Wax Museum unveiled their Obama statue. Pictures in the Baltimore Sun. That’s Rep. Elijah Cummings on the right. He’s flesh and blood. Now you might think I’m writing The Great Black in Wax Museum because of some thinly veiled hipster irony in this supposed post-racial era. Actually, no. I just like…
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See the cartoon by Tom Tomorrow in Salon.com.
Three Cheers! I enjoyed the afternoon but was a little disappointed with Obama’s speech. I thought he said all the right things. I liked it. But I don’t think, unlike his race speech, that this was a speech for the ages. Oh well. [update: John Dickerson at Slate.com agrees with me.] I wonder when right-wing…
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