Whatever happened to the "good faith" doctrine in contract law - the idea that parties to a contract will act with fairness, reasonableness, and decency? What's fair, reasonable, or decent about driving the school system straight down into a smoking crater? What can DPS NOT "ill afford?"

This is sort of like asking why the corner market owner is "enamored" with the Mafia Don. When your business can be propelled or destroyed by the stroke of a pen, it's best to be friends with the people holding that pen. Just look at Solyndra, where the well-connected investors were paid out of the bankruptcy before the taxpayers.

"Excessive violence" compared to what? Compared to the little pantywaist guy who ran into his house and upstairs to his bedroom begging the cops to come quickly when he saw a man being beaten on the ground? Why yes.

No, Zimmerman referred to Trayvon as a "punk." There is a slowed-down, looped version of that phrase in which that becomes exceedingly clear, but since it doesn't fit the racialist narrative it's not been broadcast nationwide. One example is YouTube video sZLIZOM32I4

Are you REALLY this dense? Martin wasn't shot for "looking suspicious," he was shot because he was pounding Zimmerman's head on the ground.

Keeping an eye on an unknown young black male in a gated community that's been plagued by burglaries committed by young black males is not an "attack," and the SYG law specifically says "attack." So Martin had absolutely no legal justification whatsoever for punching Zimmerman.

You try having a slim, fit, football player sucker-punch you and jump on top of you and start pounding your head on the ground and then let's see how endangered you feel your life is. Boy, talk about Monday-morning quarterbacking! Unbelievable.

"Stand your ground" applies if you are "attacked." Being followed by someone, especially when you are a stranger walking at night in a gated community that has been plagued by burglaries committed by people who you resemble, is not an "attack," and certainly does not justify punching the person who is following you. So let's drop this ridiculous notion that Martin had any "stand your ground" standing. Here in New Hampshire someone was even convicted for confronting two people who had followed him out of a bar late at night, and he didn't even touch them or raise his hand to them.

Why did the files disappear? When you have the killers locked up and facing the electric chair, they may start singing about their CIA handlers and the depth of corruption on which Fast & Furious is mist on the ocean.

Mr. Goodman - I think that this may be the single most important article I have ever read in the last 20 years. It distills the essential problem of statism down to small, personal, easily-understood scenarios that I think has the potential to reach and persuade millions of people across the nation who know something is seriously wrong, but don't quite know why. Thanks for crafting this article, I'll do what I can to see that it gets as many eyes as possible.