You don't know what it is to be her right now. //

This woman is allowed her tears. They aren’t just tears over a sandwich. They were tears about everything that is happening right now. All the unjust nonsense happening in the world that is currently being laid at her feet and the feet of the law enforcement community. All the unjust response toward police is being aimed at her and her fellow badge carriers. Long shifts of dealing with 10 percent of the population 90 percent of the time and much of that 10 percent having the worst day of their life.

She deserves better.

Chins up.

With a bit of luck and skills enhanced by these following Crater of Diamonds State Park tips, you too can find diamonds. Get your sifting screen ready!

Kalel Langford, a 14-year-old from Centerton, Ark., was in town for a baseball tournament March 11 when he and his parents visited Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park.

The teenager was walking near an area called the East Drain, in the southern portion of the park’s diamond search area, when he spotted a sparkling, dark brown stone. “It was just a few inches from a stream of water, with a bunch of other rocks that were about the same size,” he told the park authority later.

The shiny brown rock turned out to be the seventh-largest diamond found at the Arkansas state park since 1972.

The best tips for hunting diamonds in Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas. 

This week was the end of an era for Qantas as the last Boeing 747 left its fleet.…

Terry Stops and Three Strikes have an important place in policing and public safety. No need to throw the baby out with the bath water.

The New York Times ignored a serious factor in claiming a massive COVID-19 spike: Way more states are reporting hospitalizations now than at the April peak.

the time for DOJ and Gen. Flynn to file Replies to the amicus brief arrived today. Those are the briefs I am reviewing today, with the DOJ brief up first. //

A lot will be made of Footnote 1 in the brief which addresses the production of a significant volume of material from the Flynn prosecutors following the transfer of the case to Judge Sullivan, and the entry by Judge Sullivan of his standing order on production by the government of Brady material to Gen. Flynn’s attorneys even though Gen. Flynn had pleaded guilty.

The Reply brief notes that the prosecutors produced approximately 25,000 pages of discovery in connection with Judge Sullivan’s order – documents that had not been provided to Gen. Flynn’s lawyers prior to his entering his guilty plea. In further notes that 21,000 pages of that material involved the FARA filing, and the remaining material dealt with Gen. Flynn’s January 24, 2017, interview, and the various interviews done with him as part of his cooperation with the SCO’s investigation.

Then it gets interesting when it refers to the 25 pages of material disclosed to Gen. Flynn’s attorneys in May 2020 as the result of the independent review conducted by U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen. It states that these documents are relevant to the “discretionary decision to dismiss this case.” //

The final point I’ll make on the DOJ brief is that it lays waste to the claim by Flynn opponents that because Gen. Flynn has pleaded guilty, there is some heightened judicial interest in terms of the separation of powers concerns, and the Executive interest in controlling the charging decision is diminished. As Dep. Sol. General Wall stated in his argument before the Circuit Court, and as is repeated here, there is no basis in the case law for such a distinction. The constitutional concerns regarding separation of powers, under the case law, are the same in either circumstance.

Most significantly – from a nerdish lawyer point of view – is the point that dismissing an action is not a “judicial” act in the same way that entry of judgment or sentencing is a judicial act. Allowing the parties to jointly resolve and dismiss the dispute does not in any way give the resolution the imprimatur of judicial agreement with the outcome. It is nothing more than an acknowledgment by the Court that there is no further case or controversy for the Court to resolve.

The company that produces nuts for American Airlines has 70,000 bags sitting around, and is selling them directly to consumers.

Biden's promises to the the rest of the world stand in stark contrast to what he plans to accomplish for the American worker on Day One, which is nothing.

William Herndon, who would become Lincoln's law partner in 1844, describes the event this way: "we had a society in Springfield, which contained and commanded all the culture and talent of the place. Unlike the other one its meetings were public, and reflected great credit on the community ... The speech was brought out by the burning in St. Louis a few weeks before, by a mob, of a negro. Lincoln took this incident as a sort of text for his remarks ... The address was published in the Sangamon Journal and created for the young orator a reputation which soon extended beyond the limits of the locality in which he lived."

The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:
Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
January 27, 1838

About 6 months ago, our 11 year old science loving daughter told us she wanted to dig for diamonds. I laughed and asked her where she would like to dig for these diamonds. She immediately said, “At Crater of Diamonds State Park”, like I should have known, of course. I am not sure where this Texas girl heard about digging for diamonds in Arkansas, but she was on a mission to go diamond digging. Each time we talked about going on a trip, she would bring it up, so we decided to make her dream come true and go diamond digging.

In the four years I’ve worked at JCK, we’ve published more than a few stories about Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark. It’s the only diamond mine in the world open to the public, and it’s located atop an eroded volcanic pipe in southwest Arkansas. At least once a year, we’ll run an article about a sizable discovery there—like the 3.85 ct. canary yellow diamond 14-year-old Tana Clymer uncovered in April (she sold it for a cool $20,000). //

Hard describes not only the toil required to find a diamond in Crater of Diamonds State Park, it also describes the soil: a rich field of lamproite, after the Greek word meaning glistening, a reference to the shiny mica crystals found in this type of volcanic rock. (Let’s not forget that hard also describes the finished product.) //

We had been told by Waymon Cox, an interpreter for the park, to look for visible signs of erosion.

“You have to dig in the low areas and look for gravel—that usually means colorful rocks and minerals, like jasper, hematite,” Cox told us. “You want to dig in the washouts, between the rows, off the sides of the pathways, wherever you find these little trenches where water has washed through. You don’t have to dig a deep hole—the deeper you dig, the more you’re limiting yourself.”

Finding a spot to break ground was a mystifying process. Cox had said that many of the most prominent diamonds found over the past year had been plucked from the surface, where they’d settled after years of erosion.