May2016

May 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — I’m a non-smoker. To be more exact, I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. Nevertheless, issues about tobacco plain packaging have been occupying my attention. Why? It is because...

May 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart reporter, self-proclaimed “Dangerous Faggot” and internet supervillian, is continuing to cause a stir on his campus tour, this time at DePaul University: DePaul University Black Lives...

May 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) – NYPD cop Risel Martinez had a pretty bad day. According to the New York Times, it all started at 6:40 pm on May 19. Officer Martinez and his partner were...

May 31, 2016 (Mimesis) — Sorry, police officers. Sometimes, people say mean things about you. We get miffed when you shoot family pets. We get aggravated at the apparent hypocrisy of putting tens of thousands of...

May 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) – There is an unprecedented level of political disagreement these days. In fact, that may be too polite. People are just jackasses. Opposing political parties don’t trigger debate, they trigger hate....

May 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — At my first police department, I was issued all the equipment I would need to be a cop in the housing projects of a major city. I was issued a...

May 27, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — We have a full fledged “public health crisis” on our hands,  according to the Center for Auto Safety in Washington, DC.  Car seats, the bastion of automotive child safety, are...

May 27, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Welcome to the (almost) weekend, and another edition of the Fault Lines Friday Fail.  Our contributors have done all the work, and now it’s time for you, our valued readers,...

May 27, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Former Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Valas, III was a New Hampshire Army National Guard officer with a promising future. In 2013, he had come to San Antonio for an after-action review,...

May 27, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Let’s not bury the lede. Trey Sims is suing Prince William County for its attempt to use a search warrant to allow a child molester to film him while he...