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The Houston PD's Chief, Troy Finner, just confirmed what we'd been told ... namely, that at least one person had been injected with something via needle -- and there well may have been more. Chief Finner said a security guard working the event felt a prick in his neck by an unknown assailant while he was trying to restrain a citizen -- and he quickly fell unconscious. Finner says the guard was revived by use of NARCAN ... and that medical personnel did, indeed, see something on his neck that indicated he'd been stabbed with a syringe.

Unconscious man among four people found in Herndon sewerBy  SCOTT BRODBECKUpdated 7:30 PM EST, Sat, Jan 17, 2009 An unconscious man was among four people Fairfax County police found in a sewer. It was later determined that the man had passed out from drinking, according to police. Responding to a report of people in a Herndon, Va. sewer, Fairfax County police found four men in a large sewer pipe, including one unconscious man.A hazardous materials team was called the the scene to determine whether the unconscious man was overcome by fumes.After being removed from the sewer by firefighters, the unconscious man...

"How do you get away with writing about constitutional issues when no one else does?" a conservative patron asked at a small meeting I spoke at last week "This subject is important enough to people. Why doesn't the national media ever mention the way Congress abuses the Constitution?" Why indeed. It's not necessarily because they're mostly a bunch of socialists, either. All are not. The answer is actually much simpler than that: It would be a very poor career move. First, many members of the national press -- the political reporters, anyway -- live in Washington. And most of those...