How NOT to assert your rights – “Florida man” edition
Thankfully I don’t really see these much. I last addressed a similar concept about 7 years ago, so let’s revisit since this one is calling out speci...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Sales taxes and shelf prices in the United States
One of the many complaints the rest of the world has with the United States, and it’s one on which I share some sentiment, is with a particular part of ou...
Bump stocks and automatic operations
So according to the ATF and Sotomayor’s dissent in the “bump stock” case, Garland v. Cargill, these two operations are identical: and Yeah, ob...
Challenging a repeal
So a UNANIMOUS decision by the Supreme Court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine quashes the entire lawsuit several pro-life groups brought against the ...
About that Hope Woodard video
If you have no idea who Hope Woodard is, don’t fret. I didn’t either until Courtney Ryan’s video on the matter showed up on my YouTube feed: N...
Lavazza and the point of diminishing returns
One concept I feel a lot of people in the espresso communities need to learn, or re-learn, is “point of diminishing returns”, sometimes also called ...
Revisiting Trump and the Fourteenth Amendment
So the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that States cannot exclude former-President (and current Republican front-runner) Donald Trump from their Republ...
Inspect your holsters!
Holsters serve two important purposes: they carry your firearm and, more importantly, they retain your firearm. The retention mechanisms in holsters are extreme...
Sidestepping Miranda
Several years ago I wrote an article going after an appellate court decision out of Washington that, in short, allowed police (in that State, at least) to sides...
When “unanimous” isn’t
When a jury in a criminal trial returns a unanimous verdict of “guilty”, we generally presume they are in 100% agreement on that verdict. But are th...