Blair County, PA is charging inmates $50 for child visits.
Granted, there are some inmates you might not want the kids around. But as a general rule this is a poor way to treat families.

The Houston Chronicle reports that Minutemen may patrol Texas border in October. Some contend that the Minutemen cause more problems than they solve, and that they simply divert the flow of illegals to other areas. Moreover, many parts of the Texas border aren’t as well suited for this type of operation as the open spaces of Arizona are.
Without getting into the merits of the Minutemen effort, I’ve had a question about their people: isn’t it a sign that something is missing in your life if you volunteer to spend hours in a desert, just sitting there watching for someone to show up? Doesn’t seem like that glamorous of a pastime to me.

These Iraqi suicide bombings are happening so frequently I can’t keep track of them all

At least 370 people have been killed in Iraq over the past two weeks in the latest wave of violence.

But why should I, or our liberal media, focus on the negative? Think of the progress. After all, these terrorists are bound to run out of bombs sooner or later. This just accelerates the march toward freedom.

Good:

A Baptist preacher accused of running out nine congregants who disagreed with his Republican politics resigned Tuesday, two days after calling the issue “a great misunderstanding.”
Speaking from the pulpit during a meeting at East Waynesville Baptist Church, the Rev. Chan Chandler told church members that it would “cause more hurt for me and my family” if he stayed.

What about the harm he was causing the church? He had no business abusing his position for partisan purposes, and should have apologized for doing so.

Per the News Sentinel, TDOT now has a Knoxville traffic camera website.
I’m not sure if the system is currently working, because I don’t see any traffic problems. Of course none of the cameras in West Knoxville appear to be online yet.
If we’re going to have big brother, at least give us something like this, that we can use.

Despite the plethora of cameras that can be swung around 360 degrees, TDOT officials emphasize they are not spying on motorists and will not use the system for law enforcement. Dahlinger said TDOT doesn’t record the camera images.
“We don’t record anything because, if we did, we’d be bombarded with requests from attorneys for videos of crashes,” he said.
The system also will have more than 200 speed sensors, most powered by solar panels, which will alert the Transportation Management Center employees of congestion problems. Dahlinger said the devices don’t record the speed of individual vehicles, but of the overall traffic.

Anyone else have trouble believing they don’t record or can target individual vehicles? Hasn’t that become Homeland Security doctrine by now?