Author: Chris Johnson
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Force of Law
Yesterday was a good day. But you don’t want to hear about nerd rants. I took my wife to the hospital for minor surgery. It was successful, and the patent lived. There are hardly any places in this state that are “gun free zones”. Post offices, courts, and jails are the limit, as far as…
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How to you get there from here?
The Internet is a fantastic creature. I’m not speaking of the information you can find on the internet. Nor am I speaking of the entertainment that is available on the Internet. The mere fact that you can ask for information at your desk or on your phone and somehow that request gets there, and the…
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Gray v. Jennings, No. 24-309
The trifecta of pro-Second Amendment cases In the 60s, I can remember wrapping Christmas presents and then going to the Greyhound bus terminal with my mother. There, she would pay to have a box shipped to the Midwest. This had to be done weeks in advance. My relatives would go down to the bus station…
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Small Wins
Defamation: A statement that injures a third party’s reputation. It is a type of tort. Slander: A false statement, usually made orally, which defames another person. The damages from slander must be proved by the party suing. Libel: A method of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures, signs, effigies, or any communication embodied in physical…
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Reading the Tea Leaves
Divination is the art of predicting the future or reading a person using some type of indicator. Most people can do a cold read of a person and get it mostly right. Others do a much better job. My personal example was being on a date with a young lady while at university. We had…
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Snope v. Brown
This might be the most important case regarding the Second Amendment since Heller. Kolbe v. Hogan This case started when the Fourth Circuit Court issued their opinion in Kolbe v. Hogan. Fourteen judges sat, en banc to hear a challenge to Maryland’s “assault weapon ban”. Only four of the judges found that the Second Amendment…
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Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii
In 2017, Mr. Wilson was arrested for trespass. When searched, it was discovered he had a firearm on him. He did not have a license to carry. His case was heard in the lower courts of Hawaii, later it was appealed to the Supreme Court of Hawaii. There, the court found that because he had…
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You Get What You Pay For
My first fiber switch turned out to be a L3 managed “switch”. Way cool. But I purchased a cheap switch and found that it completely undocumented. It has taken me a while to figure things out. The configuration GUI is an What You See Is All You Get type. There is enough there that you…