Is There Anything American About America Anymore?
Sometimes I wonder where they took my country when I wasn’t looking. It's been dragged off, sealed in a box and hidden in the basement under a pile of recyclables.
Sometimes I wonder where they took my country when I wasn’t looking. It's been dragged off, sealed in a box and hidden in the basement under a pile of recyclables. Strange things have happened and they are not all attributable to the war in Iraq or a pitiable Congress tied down in the Capitol like Gulliver.
(Associated Press) CHICAGO - Chicago's police department is investigating an officer's use of a Taser last month on an 82-year-old woman who was swinging a hammer when police arrived.
Officials with the city's Department on Aging went to Lillian Fletcher's home Oct. 29 to make a welfare check, and called police when they saw Fletcher in a window swinging a hammer back and forth . . . officers arrived and in an attempt to subdue Fletcher one of them used their Taser. The department is trying to determine if the officer viola…