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BATF director Ken Melson  about to resign over botched illegal gun sting op? (Terry Frieden, CNN)
I sure hope so. This prick Melson is getting off easy too. He ought to be indicted for allowing and then covering up this stoopid  politically-inspired alleged anti-gun smuggling sting op gone wrong (and is also rumored to be in cahoots with anti-gun groups) that has resulted in not a few deaths.

Asshole taunter of dying child still at it despite court order (Doug Guthrie, Detroit News)
Where do these people come from? And why do they end up in Michigan?

Some Taylor Swift pics from a recent concert at Detroit's Ford Field (Bryan Mitchell, Detroit Free Press)
Taylor Swift sure is a talented and attractive young woman.

Democrats say GOP needlessly rushing Michigan congressional redistricting plan that pits two Dem incumbents against each other (Kathy Barks Hoffman, Lansing State-Journal)
And if the Dems were in the majority the headline would be exactly the same only with the party names reversed. This "go team Red!/go team Blue!" crap from the mainstream media is so fuckin' predictable isn't it?

Kerry Bernero @ Ann Arbor Art Fair 2010

Lansing mayor's politically ambitious daughter cited for suspicion of impaired driving, charged with marijuana possession (Kevin Grasha, Lansing State-Journal)
"Kelly Bernero, the oldest of Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s two daughters, faces misdemeanor charges including impaired driving and possession of marijuana after being pulled over in East Lansing last week..". Whatever. She's 23 years old for cryin' out loud.  I'd still vote for her.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons (Jonathan V. Last, Wall Street Journal)
"Historically, societies in which men substantially outnumber women are not nice places to live". Demographics is destiny.

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent [Harvey Slivergate: Paperback ed.]
"In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets."

Head of BATF is likely to be fired over gun smuggling scandal (Perez & Barrett, Wall Street Journal)
And Obama's anti-gun nominee to replace him has yet to be confirmed by the senate after two years.