Bullets fired in government tests penetrated more than half the police body armor vests containing the synthetic fiber Zylon, already the subject of lawsuits over reliability.
Black, Hispanic and white motorists are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched, handcuffed, arrested and subjected to force or the threat of it, a Justice Department study has found.
There’s an old Southern saying that you dance with the one that brung ya, but as the Bush administration found out this week, sometimes you don’t want to dance too closely.
Getting President Bush from here to there consumes an enormous amount of fuel, whether he’s aboard Air Force One, riding in a helicopter or on the ground in a heavily armored limousine. The bill gets steeper every day as the White House is rocked by the same energy prices as regular drivers. Taxpayers still foot the bill.
Cindy Sheehan says she’s tried to keep the focus of her protest on the immorality of the war in Iraq, but she’s found this month that it’s difficult to keep the spotlight off herself.