As you know if you have been following this dramatic story unfolding in Brooklyn Park, Maryland, seven-year-old Josh Welch has been suspended for two days after he allegedly fashioned his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun. Did I…
According to this preliminary report (20-minute raw video) from WBFF News in Baltimore, the seven-year-old was threatening other children with a crude weapon he had fashioned out of a strawberry danish before authorities intervened. Early reports suggested that the suspect broke…
From the Facebook page of WBFF FOX 45 in Baltimore: First on Fox: 7-year-old Joshua was suspended this morning from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. Joshua says he was eating a pastry during snack time and trying to shape it into…
I guess it might literally be hard to argue this, if you aren't good at making arguments. But I really meant that it's hard to argue it successfully. According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which is what they call their…
Those of you taking the February bar exam this week (including those suffering through it in Missouri after two feet of snow and a power outage) might want to take note. As is usually the case, the coverup was considered…
Turns out that my speculation earlier about what changes Pope-Until-Friday Benedict XVI might make to the rules governing conclaves was a little behind the times, since he apparently has (very recently) already released an Apostolic Letter describing those changes. Looking at…
@reuters, 20 Feb 2013: Pope may make changes to church law on rules governing conclave that will elect successor Here's what I'm hearing from my Vatican sources: Conclave can start early because of upcoming Holy Week Cardinals located overseas can…
Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes, but sometimes they are also stupid. Brown v. Swindell, a 1967 case out of Louisiana, is one of those cases where all the parties deserve some criticism, though the real creeps…
Sometimes the full explanation is not as good as the summary, and that may be the case here, but this one does leave you wondering: NICEVILLE [Fla.] – A 24-year-old man told Niceville Police he was pulled from his bicycle…
Writing at Balkinization, Jason Mazzone notes that the Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for picketing funerals for a variety of bizarre and hateful reasons, has filed an amicus brief in United States v. Windsor. That's the case in which the U.S. Supreme…