I have to agree with Obama — they have every right to build a mosque/community center near the World Trade Center. And those who oppose it have every right to do so as well. Both are protected by the First Amendment. I also agree that the president should weigh in because this is a...
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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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Yesterday the New York Times published this article, which is a classic example of the feckless and blustering BS that is routinely passed on as valid arguments for gun control. The story opens with this paragraph: About 10,000 Americans died by handgun violence, according to federal statistics, in the four months that the Supreme...
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The Supreme Court ruled that Chicago’s ban on handguns was unconstitutional by a vote of 5-4. The ruling reinforced both the 2nd amendment (right to bear arms) and the 14th amendment (due process clause). This is a great step forward for gun rights advocates but more will need to be done. Chicago’s mayor will...
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From Yahoo News: “BP had 760 safety violations in the past five years and paid $373 million in fines, Sullivan said. By contrast, Sunoco and ConocoPhillips each had eight safety violations and ExxonMobil just one, Sullivan said.” My question is why did it take an ecological disaster for the various U.S. regulatory agencies to...
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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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