Once again, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has slapped Josh Ryen in the face by halting the scheduled execution of Kevin Cooper, who murdered his family when he was eight and slit his throat. We’ve seen this jockeying before, with Robert Alton Harris and others, not to mention their attempt to disenfranchise the State of California last fall. May the real court save us from ourselves before this monster dies of old age.

UPDATE: Justin Levine of Calbog has more on the far-fetched theories of Kevin Cooper’s supposed innocence.

Today’s Day By Day says all there is to be said about California’s idiotic “deadbeat dad” law:

Thanks, Sheila!

Don’t know how I missed this one. Via Say Uncle and Kim du Toit comes the latest on the “assault” rifles seized from On Target, the Laguna Hills, CA gun store and range where I shoot, by “Attorney” General Bill Lockyer and his minions at the Department of “Justice” last November. At the time, I ended my blog entry by noting that:

Then again, now that “Attorney” General Bill Lockyer is on the case, maybe these guys will be exonerated after all.

I was being sarcastic, of course, but apparently, I shouldn’t have been. The latest news on the bust is that at least one of the types of “assault” rifle the D.O.J. seized from On Target turned out not to be an “assault” rifle after all. Unfortunately, it took two months of pressure by the California Rifle and Pistol Association (state affiliate of the NRA) to impress this inconvenient fact on Silly Billy or his Keystone Kops. By then they had raided the homes of several innocent customers, stolen their non-assault rifles without compensation, and threatened to sue them if they did not cooperate.

Reached for comment, “Attorney” General Lockyer had this to say of his department’s error:

Oopsie! My bad.

And to think, I actually pay three times as much for my little house in Lockyer-Land, as the du Toits pay for a much larger one in the United States. Blech.

Dean and Patterico are having a go over some saucy excerpts from Sex, Art and American Culture, by Camille Paglia. If you liked watching me go mano a mano with Michael I over those baby-murdering abortionists or with Michael II over those gay-marriage-non-recognizing terrorists, you’ll like this exchange even better. One side accuses the other of condoning rape. The other side accuses the first of believing the silly canard that murder is not about death rape is not about sex. It’s a great show, and the best part is, this time I’m not part of it.

Or at least not a major part. I do have one minor contribution to this food fight: a very, very large grain of salt. Take it the next time you read anything by Camille Paglia, Ann Coulter, Xrlq, or anyone else known to use over-the-top rhetoric while discussing potentially sensitive subjects.