Phoenix, AZ —As a parting shot to the people of the State of Arizona, former Governor Janet Napolitano arranged to install scores of photo radar traps in a scheme to enrich campaign contributors and extort money from drivers. This despot then went off to join her pals in the Marxist Obama Regime. This was not about reducing accidents. They have been declining every year. This is about funding a runaway government. This was political extortion, pure and simple. Many people of Arizona hate the cameras as much as i do. There have been grass-roots efforts to shut them down. The politicians have not responded and have hired thugs to carry out the program. Throughout history only extreme violence seems to curb rogue governments. No I’m not weeping for the dead man, former golf pro, Doug Georgianni . The 51-year-old had worked for the extortion camera outfit called RedFlex for about three months. Truthfully I’d rather see a company official or politician responsible for the scheme ...

In most states if a firearm is used in a crime laws require serious additional punishment. So if instead a criminal uses gasoline, knives, bats or a 3,000 pound car to injure or kill someone that somehow deserves lesser punishment. The real key is injury or death. If a criminal in the course of a crime injures, kills or threatens anyone with any dangerous item the enhancement should be uniform. Violent criminals will use whatever they get their hands on at the moment. It’s the violence itself and not the instrument used that causes harm. Keeping all violent all offenders off our streets is a much better answer than gun penalty enhancements. Remember America’s most prolific serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer had no history of using firearms. The two largest mass murders in American history were accomplished with fertilizer and gasoline. The Oklahoma bombing and the Happyland Social Club in New York arson holocaust did not involve the use of firearms.

Gary Sinise is better known as an accomplished and extraordinary actor. He’s a Chicago area lad who followed his dream after being inspired and mentored by his Highland Park high school drama teacher, Barbara Patterson . Sinise was an original member of Chicago’s world class, Steppenwolf Theatre Company . So many notable stars grew in this celebrity incubator it’s difficult to name them all. I meet Sinise recently at the Reagan Presidential Library and museum where he and so many of his Hollywood friends honored 43 living Medal of Honor winners at a wonderful black tie dinner underneath Air Force One . These days Sinise has gone out of his way to thank every veteran he comes into contact with. When Bob Hope died I wondered what A-lister would fill his shoes. Sinise with his, Lt. Dan Band has stepped up to the plate in a big way. I don’t know how this fine man finds the thousands of hours he devotes to veterans. The Band For the soft-spoken Sinise this is no act of self-promo...

On the Presidential Apology Tour --Here are a couple of Marxists who need to go into exile somewhere together. Barack Obama has a love in with Hugo Chavez .

Los Angeles, CA —The chances of legendary record producer Phil Spector getting a new trial are really high. The primary reason is Judge Larry Paul Fidler’s prosecution favoring rulings allowing unprecedented use of ancient and uncharged prior bad acts. These interlopers into the Spector inquiry tainted the jury. Rather than evidence a successful hate campaign brought a conviction that was not supported by the physical evidence. I see a solid conspiracy to frame Phil Spector because of the efforts made by officials to evade normal objective investigation efforts by police, prosecutors and the Medical Examiner. Lana Clarkson’s mental state was suspected in playing a role in her death. Documented problems included: 1. Alcoholism 2. Drug addiction. 3. Financial problems 4. Despondency based on writings and other communications 5. Intervention by medical professionals for these problems. The normal procedures are to conduct a psychological autopsy where these kinds of issues are involved...

Chicago, IL —At Chicago’s Tea Party CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen waded into the crowd to spin the event as anti-government. I guess she thinks anyone that wants to protect the Constitution along with its liberty and freedom must be anti-government. Roesgen also called the event anti-CNN and proclaimed it was being led by Fox News . Roesgen could not grasp the concept that excessive taxation also takes liberty. Taxation to the point of slavery is anything but freedom. There is a strong argument that today’s working Americans are slaves to corrupt politicians and their contributors. I thought we outlawed slavery long ago. The problem with Roesgen was that she did not like the answers to her questions and chose to pick fights with the demonstrators. Roesgen became emotional and unprofessional as she tried to advocate the Barack Obama talking points to demonstrators. It was lousy TV news but great TV. I imagine the public referendum results on this battle of the cable news outle...

Mexico City, Mexico —As Barack Obama continues his Apology Tour he is now bowing to Mexican President Felipe Calderon . They both are trying to solve a problem. They want to stop Mexico’s drug violence without interrupting the flow of illegal aliens and poverty into the United States. The simple solution seems to elude these fellows. They can use Mexican and American law enforcement in a joint effort to seal off the border. The laws and sovereignty of both countries would be adequately protected with little violence. Our guns and narco-cash would stay North and Mexico’s narcotics and trespassers would stay South. Instead the fix for Mexico’s problems is to reduce American’s hard won liberty and freedom. They don’t want to impede Mexico’s export of poverty, violence and narcotics into the United States. We cannot afford the cost of money and freedom offered by our Congress or Obama.

Click on photo to enlarge Conover, N.C.—Domino’s Pizza has to scrape the bottom of the barrel looking for people willing to work for minimum wage. It’s the nature of the business. Some people can take an entry level job making pizzas and move up and on. Others are doomed to fail. Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer had jobs at Domino’s until they grossed out anyone who saw the video they posted. Actress and author, Tori Spelling even has a cameo appearance in this cinema masterpiece! The two cretins have been charged with felony violations of contaminating food distributed to the public. As you can see above Hammonds is also a registered sex offender. Prosecutors will have to prove that the tainted food product was actually delivered. Domino’s may well sue the two performers and get a well-deserved whopping punitive damage judgment that could haunt these stupid kids for the rest of their lives. Next time I want pizza delivered it will come from Papa John’s . I suspect that video of ...

So many Americans love to send their money to Washington, DC these days. I guess it gives them a heartwarming feeling. The more money they send the better they feel! Then, there are the others who see the massive theft, mismanagement and waste of American’s hard earned cash by politicians and bureaucrats. Our government was not created with the intent that it becomes the giant extortion program we have today with taxes on top of taxes making yet more taxes. Government is badly broken and unlike a business government refuses to downsize and layoff unnecessary workers or end wasteful programs. Instead as things get tough the government inflates itself with more programs and regulation of every aspect of every American life. Americans have less freedom, liberty or fruit of their labor than ever before. As the so-called Tea Parties are held across our land today, remember that even King George did not try and collect a fraction of what we are forced to pay and he had a bloody rebellion....

Tracy, CA —In this city of 81,500 people the police department boasted of an important arrest in connection with the murder of eight year-old Sandra Cantu . The cops bagged a Sunday school teacher, Melissa Huckaby , 28 and accused her of rape and child molestation in addition to the killing. There is no question that a despicable and horrific crime occurred. There is no eye-witness, video tape and the cops are not clairvoyant. Something led the cops to believe they had probable cause to make the arrest but have revealed no information other than to admit they did not discover a motive for the crime. As usual a brigade of self-righteous harpies, have surfaced and began to condemn the suspect and demand she be put to death. I don’t suggest for a second that child killers don’t deserve some serious punishment. We have a process for this called a fair trial designed to determine guilt if it even exists. I must take offense to the lynch-mob hate campaigns that always begin at the first ...

Washington, DC —There is little question except that Barack Obama and his minions want to rule the country with the Iron Fist of Communism. Obama campaigned on hope and change but proceeded to destroy out monetary and economic system from the anti-American, Karl Marx playbook instead. Conservative Americans, especially veterans have begun hoarding firearms and ammunition not over fear of new restrictive new gun laws but for predictable need to protect our Constitution, liberty and freedom. The rhetoric’s tone and volume is getting louder and more forceful every day. States such as Texas are taking steps to protect their sovereignty from the malignant spread of the new Federal Socialism. The reorganized Department of Homeland Security should be renamed The Department of Homeland Oppression. They have released a propaganda report to law enforcement agencies that suggest military veterans are a threat to America. What those despots in the Obama Administration recognize is that veterans ...

Los Angeles, CA —Legendary record producer Phil Spector should have never been arrested. Spector was arrested, tried and put through two trials that were unfair and un-American. The most outrageous departure from fairness was the introduction of evidence of some failed relationships spanning 30 years. Recently in California lazy prosecutors created a voter proposition that would allow them to bring up uncharged or proven past allegations. I say lazy because this made convicting people including innocents a lot easier. In Spector’s case the allegations were actually outside that proposition that became law. Most states would never allow that kind of gossip to taint a defendant’s trial. The accusations against Spector should have stood or fallen on the scientific evidence alone. The jury was heavily influenced by gossip and hate rather than evidence. The jury in this high-profile case should have been sequestered because of the media interest and thousands of pages of material poste...

Los Angeles, CA —The jury deliberating the second murder trial of record producing legend, Phil Spector has returned a verdict. KNBC planed a live webcast but that effort failed. Here is the latest: Los Angeles , CA —The six man, six woman jury in the Phil Spector case returned a Guilty verdict on the Second Degree Murder charge and a finding that he used a gun in the commission of a crime. The prosecution has demanded that Spector be remanded to custody pending appeal. The defense has lots of motions to make now for an appeal bond and for a new trial. Judge Larry Paul Fidler remanded Spector into custody until May 29, 2009 when he will be sentenced. Spector will be taken off to the L.A. County Jail where he will be held. There will be more events today and we will have to wait for them to unfold.

Prior to the 1970’s nearly every security officer or guard was armed but for those working in jails or prisons. It was common for security people to make physical arrests and see them trough the court system. Those days are over. A wave of anti-gun hysteria caused businesses and government officials to begin a disarmament of sorts. Insurance companies contributed to this trend by charging the industry higher premiums for customers that had armed security as a way to increase profits. Training for private security workers virtually ended and slowly the holsters became empty. The interference in crime decreased as security took a new approach, Observe and Report. This made security officers as effective as any other hostage. Observe and Report functions today can be delegated to passive video surveillance cameras. They are more accurate and have a much better memory than the mall cop. The function of today’s security workers is to simply dial 911 and wait. Most of the time with respect t...

Berlin, Germany —Who could forget the cute cuddly little Polar bear cub named Knut . He was the star of the Berlin Zoo . He’s still a beautiful creature but he’s all grown now and does what the big bears do, eat people. Yesterday some woman entered Knut’s cage where he and some pals were feeding. I guess he thought he was getting a special treat and began to munch on his visitor. The woman must have been more than a little cuckoo. She was lucky to escape with her life. If I can get through life without Knut biting me on the butt I won’t feel deprived. Remember, when you go to the zoo Don’t Feed The Bears!

Click on picture to enlarge! Tucson, AZ —I was lucky enough to get a DVD of legal scholar, David T. Hardy’s two-hour film about the origin and over two-hundred years of interpolation of American gun rights. The film was copyrighted in 2006 before the Supreme Court ruled on the Heller case that held that the Second Amendment was an individual right rather than the right of state governments or a collective right. Unless you have a love for law, the courts and lawyers explaining and arguing the law, don’t try watching this film alone at home. For me it was as good as it gets. Hardy’s film took the scattered court rulings on gun rights juxtaposed to the located writings of the framers of our freedom and liberty. For lawyers that defend Americans accused of weapons possession related charges this film is a must. The same is true of people who make laws. Hardy has not failed to cover the ugly side of gun control that targeted African-Americans from the day slaves were freed until tod...

International law and Title 46 USC regulates our merchant vessels anywhere in the world. There is no right to firearms or reasonable self-defense. Sarah Brady and her minions has spread their malignant anti-gun plague everywhere including American cargo ships thousands of miles from our shores. We are seeing pirates taking advantage of those gun laws. The merchant vessels are sitting ducks for all manner of violent crime. Why must we enable criminals by providing soft unarmed victims everywhere?

New York, NY -French Connection cop turned feature film and TV producer Sonny Grosso (pictured above) made several movies and produced this cop drama TV series Night Heat. It was well written and acted by an ensemble cast in Toronto, Canada. The theme song was written, composed and sang by the late, Domenic Troiano . Troiano passed away in 2005 at the age of 59 of prostrate cancer. For some reason this show was never released on DVD. That’s a shame since the writers and cast could make a little money on a great series being reborn. Information on the cast and crew from IMDB.

Phoenix, AZ —On19th Avenue just North of Camelback Rd sits Arizona’s premier gun shop, Legendary Guns . They’ve been here since 1988 serving cowboy collectors, shooters, hunters, cops and people seeking to maintain meaningful self defense tools. The staff of this shop is knowledgeable, helpful and diligent as they serve customers. The prices are competitive and most importantly they have the most difficult to obtain and stock firearms anywhere. Dave LaRue is the driving force along with co-owner Joe Forbregd behind this business. I noticed years ago when I first patronized this shop how LaRue and his workers suggested training to their customers and nitpicked the legal details of gun sales requirements. For those lucky enough to live in Arizona gun purchases can be completed in less than ten minutes. They can pay cash and carry their firearms on the spot provided they successful pass the mandated background checks. There is a staff gunsmith on the premises to make repairs and ins...