The violence in Chicago has reached a point where the leaders of the city, those elected to protect the citizens, have outright admitted they have failed at controlling the number of violent crimes. They are thus advising the citizens to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
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My office is near several colleges and universities here in Chicago and I often see young, impressionable students congregating on the sidewalk wearing the emblematic Che’ T-shirts, glorifying the life of a mass murder. What exactly were the fruits of Che’s revolcion? “A typical Ché t-shirt costs more than the entire monthly salary of...
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Use the links below to go directly to the updates: Updated on 4/12 Updated again on 4/21 Recently, the website WikiLeaks released an annotated, edited video from the gun-camera of an Apache helicopter from 2007. The video shows the helicopter shoot several men, some armed others not, two of which turned out to be...
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Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. Barbra Walters’ most fascinating person for 2009 is Michelle Obama. When this ‘most fascinating person’ was asked what her personal paradise is she replied “just clicking through mindless shows” with her dog. How truly fascinating. Please, tell me more… I mean, if you think about this year,...
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President Obama has established a new interagency ‘Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force’ with the authority to “investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, address discrimination in the lending and financial markets and recover proceeds for victims.” Social justice indeed. The problem is that’s precisely...
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As a small-time trader I resent the notion that I have to pay extra to reduce the federal deficit. But a house bill currently in draft aims to do just that by taxing both the purchase and sale of stocks, options, derivatives and futures at .25%. I have a better idea; why don’t we...
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James Howard Kunstler has written a great post today about American society and what we obsess over versus what we should be obsessing over. Below is a snippet of the full post, which is well worth the read: “How infantile is American society? Last night’s CBS “Business Update” (in the midst of its “60...
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I like to say I was raised by ‘a pack of women.’ I grew up in a household of two sisters, a mother, and very frequently a grandmother, who all did their part in my up-bringing. One of the benefits of that, aside from my steady rotation of crushes on my sisters’ friends was...
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When I was growing up, I ran around with all the other kids in my neighborhood. We knew each other’s families and we also knew the neighbors who didn’t have kids and the entire community helped keep an eye on us, kept us well fed on cookies, and in general helped raise us. The...
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I was discussing the merits of owning a firearm with my better half, when she wondered out loud if the U.S. was #1 in gun crimes. So I looked it up and found something interesting. Now I don’t know the merits of this site, this was just a quick search, so sue me if...
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