Chicago, IL —It began in the 1970’s when it became obvious that Chicago educated African Americans and Hispanics were not literate enough to pass the police civil service examinations. Lawsuits were filed making claims that the tests were culturally biased. This notion was in vogue with the political left. The testing as we knew it was scrapped. Yes, the department really did not hire very many woman and the ones they did were either Matrons for the lockups or Policewomen for the Youth Division. There were no rank promotions after that. It was generally accepted that women were the weaker sex and could not have presence and appearance of a strong man for those difficult people police must deal with. Others feared the day when our daughters would be killed in the line of duty just like the men. Frankly the women had to compete with thousands of women for a handful of positions so academically they were for the most part brighter and better educated than most of the male officers. The re...

Chicago, IL— Illinois forces it's gun owners to surrender their privacy rights for the privilege of possessing a firearm. You say owning a gun is a right in Illinois? Surly you jest! If you are required to pay for a FOID card and wait months to receive it that’s hardly a right at all considering they don’t make you wait for a driver’s license. The same holds true for waiting periods and redundant background investigations. Remember driving is not a right, but a privilege! Illinois requires completed applications with your personal demographics and a photograph. Attorney General Lisa Madigan feels that this is a public record and intends to disclose it to anyone and everyone accordingly. I’m not saying Madigan’s legal opinion is wrong at all. I think she’s absolutely correct! It’s the requirement for gun owners to provide the information before they can enjoy their second Amendment rights is what’s wrong! Most police agencies require all current and retired cops who possess fire...

Los Angeles, CA —It happened in the downtown Jewelry District of this city. Right out of a Hollywood screenwriter’s imagination, like the Michael Mann plot for that James Caan flick, Thief . It was on February 19, 2011, between the hours of 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM when an industrious pair of thieves tunneled through the walls and lifted some really hot ice worth well over $3 million. This was at a yet to be named business located in the 600 block of South Broadway. Rather than put their merchandise in the vault that night, employees left the goodies out in the display cases like candy. Yes, I agree this scenario has a strong odor of being an, inside job. Getting the LAPD to prove that theory is yet another matter. The merry burglars were able to tunnel in to the business with ease and they purloined the gems while fully covered with hooded outfits and back packs. The question I have is will insurance cover this claim if they simply did not vault the loot while the store was closed? S...

The fun about having a blog is that you get to do what you want to do subject of course to your budget of time and money. I know a lot of you may have ideas for stories and this would be a great time to put in your requests.

West Hollywood, CA —While most of us slept last night, singer Christina Aguilera found herself under arrest and booked into jail for public intoxication . The singer’s boyfriend was stopped by Sheriff’s deputies and arrested for DUI. Aguilera was simply a passenger in the car. I have a huge problem with this arrest. Since the singer was inside the car sitting I’d suggest she was not appearing on a public way in a state of intoxication until she was ordered out of the vehicle by the deputies. There is no question that the deputies had responsibility for the safety and well-being of the allegedly drunken singer. But she could have been handed over to a sober friend or relative rather than get booked in the slammer! The way I see it there was no crime since she was sitting in a car at night. Nobody could possibly tell whether she was sober or intoxicated to become offended by that sight. Things however changed when the cops forced her out to public view. The deputies created the crime f...

Hollywood, CA —I was not going to weigh in on this story until I began to think of the huge collateral damage caused by the abrupt cancellation of, Two and A Half Men . Estimates of the financial loss to CBS are an astronomical, quarter-billion dollars. The show was wildly successful during a period when people everywhere have been avoiding television altogether. The show was the main choice of our airlines to entertain passengers in the sky. Yes, the show is downright funny and the players all have great chemistry. At the heart of this mess is a talented, handsome but troubled Charlie Sheen . Exhibitionistic excessive womanizing, drug and alcohol consumption has taken center stage. That behavior seems to now be pushing Sheen out in the cold. Sheen has been reckless not only with his own blessed career but the careers of everyone connected to the show. I don’t want to see this quality show end. The losers will include the fans America’s Drug War is beyond an abject failure. It has ...

When enough people want the free ride Socialism promises, they’ve made the bed they probably will have to sleep in for the rest of their lives. Of course any nation could simple get recreated by a Socialist style, coup d'état. When Socialists gain power they always convince the peons that they need so many more laws for their own good and safety. Perhaps convince is the wrong word, perhaps insist may be a better choice here. This can happen all at once of slowly over decades like it has in the United States. Since so many the peons will eventually find themselves somewhat uncomfortable or enslaved they too often vote with their feet and find a freer place to live and raise their family. This is where all those new and helpful laws they enacted come in handy. So many things become illegal nearly everyone becomes a criminal. The police can round up the violators of ration card abuse, curfew violations or fraternization with those counter-revolutionary terrorists. Now they have fer...

Okay, a close pal gave me a video green screen for a present. He knows I’m always looking for things to juice up my blog. I broke the thing out tonight and gave it a little spin. Within a couple of Moments I was in both the Borgata of Scottsdale, AZ and outside a movie theater in Westwood Village of L.A. There is magic in television indeed!

Chicago, IL —Being a cop here can bring on incredible pain and suffering. There is the avalanche of verbal and sometimes physical abuse from suspects. There’s always the constant reality of placing yourself in danger responding to radio calls. If it’s not the low level of humanity you must deal with everyday it’s the threat and fear of swift and draconian departmental discipline that can put officers under the gun. Cops must never show fear, or appear to be stressed out. Cops have no choice but to put up an act that masks reality. If a suspect smells a cop’s emotional blood he will walk all over him or her. If the department sees anything too emotional manifested by a cop he will be disgraced and sidelined. Cops become very proficient in hiding their emotional suffering, fears, depression and general anxiety. I can’t help but think about Chicago policeman Bill Cozzi . He was verbally abused by Randle Miles who was very combative in a hospital emergency room. Miles was already re...

When I ask people this question the answer was always the same, " Barack Obama is a big disappointment, but George W. Bush was so much worse!” One, not so minor problem with that answer is that Bush was not running for President! The Republican ticket was led by that Liberal pretend Republican, John McCain . They could have voted for the Liberal they knew instead of that Communist they did not. Bush was never even close to a Conservative and was a really crappy president. Was Bush really a good reason to elect a Communist to lead our nation? Obama either is a Muslim or at least has strong Muslim ties. This is evident in his behavior during the uprisings in the Muslim nations. If the Muslims cease fighting among themselves Israel would become a sad memory. It looks like this may well yet play out. We must also remember Obama was raised as a Muslim. We all know Muslims hate Jews. Obama will be reluctant to help Israel as he keeps our military resources tied up in the very places...

Chicago, IL —Okay the fix was in on the court challenge over residency. The Welfare Zombies have spoken and the worst possible candidate has won. Of course the others were all real stinkers. This is the end of police & fire pensions because the cops and firefighters did not support him. There is still money in the pension fund to mismanage, lose or steal. The devil himself will be destroying what’s left of Chicago’s tax base. Get rid of your Chicago real estate and take the monumental loss. Get out while you can. We are in for a second Civil War and only God can help us now. It will take decades for Chicago to have any hope as a livable place. To survive you will need to be in a place with a clean water supply and necessary food. The people stranded in Chicago will be helpless. To my copper pals I say it can only get a lot worse and it will. If you catch a person with a gun and he has no criminal record and is a genuine taxpayer let him or her go. Tell them to stay safe. Y...

Chicago, IL— All the candidates come from the depths of Socialist Hell. They all reflect ghetto values of corruption and extortionate taxation of any productive citizens left in this city. No matter who wins taxpayers will lose. The Welfare Zombies are being exploited more than ever as their chance at living the American Dream is quashed forever. They get more of the same, poverty, violence and narcotics instead of hope. Chicago has too many generations of ignorant, unmotivated, lazy but prolific breeders have found a place in a surreal and sub-human world. They are at the bottom of human evolution and sinking further every day. Socialism has become a form of genocide for African-Americans in the Windy City.

Washington, DC —The Socialists in our Congress forgot the will of the American people was to stop the bankrupting of America. Rather than cooperate they want to let the government shut down. That of course would interrupt the entitlement programs. In turn civil unrest by the Welfare Zombies is a real possibility. Shutting down the TSA is also a welcome possibility as long as the airlines continue to fly without those un-American parasites. Flying could be fun for a change. The TSA is nothing but tyranny against Americans anyway. Despite wasting billions they’ve never stopped a single incident of terrorism, ever. Frankly I look forward to the shutdown it should stop the hemorrhage of our tax dollars during that period. Perhaps we will see that there are so many agencies we don’t need like the alphabet police and so many agencies created in the last four decades. What wouuld we ever do without an FCC or the FTC? Imagine seeing the IRS unable to function because of a shutdown? That...

Berlin, Germany —Okay, I confess a great love for this city and its people. Berlin , has old world charm, modern elegance and non-stop excitement. Coincidently I will be there in a couple of weeks intoxicating my senses with this incredible metropolis. Liam Neeson is terrific as usual playing the lead character who arrives in Berlin only to become involved in a spectacular accident and wakes up after a four day coma to find his identity apparently stolen. By circumstances Neesen is paired up with the incredibly sexy German actress Diane Kruger who plays an accidental hero of epic proportions. My favorite German actor Sebastian Koch plays a scientist attending a Bio-Tech engineering conference held at the historic, Five Star, Adlon Hotel . Yep, it’s the same place where Michael Jackson dangled his new baby out the window to a large street crowd several years before he died. This grand hotel is a centerpiece for the movie along with many familiar Berlin locations. The action is ...

Today in all but a handful of Leftist run states ordinary law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry loaded, concealed firearms for self defense. These same people attend gun shows including the Massive SHOT Show (60,000 attendees) and the NRA Annual Convention (30,000 attendees). All of these people with so many guns but there are never any shootings or violence connected with these events. The same is true of local gun shows. Please someone anyone, tell be about a criminal shooting at a gun show? The answer is there are none anywhere. If gun liberty is as dangerous as we are led to believe by the gun rights haters there would by at least some evidence of violence surrounding these massive firearm handling events. The truth is guns are only dangerous if you need one and can’t get one. Apparently one of the safest places in America is at a gun show! The real truth is we are all safer with more, not fewer law-abiding people armed with loaded firearms.

Today it’s Communist China cracking down with heavy handed and routine Socialist tactics. People resisting this government are disappearing at an alarming rate as the days of Mao Zedong and the Red Guard seem to have returned. Along with the enslavement, depravation and poverty brought on with Socialism is the shocking mandate that people fleeing these regimes be shot in the back. Death without a trial is the penalty for anyone that tries to escape from Socialism. Socialist governments always create and maintain vast snitch networks where their government agents use bribery, extortion and fear to recruit participants. Socialist government agents threaten mothers with taking their children if they refused to spy on their own families and neighbors. East Germany was a frightening example of Socialist tyranny. The German people were fresh out the 12 year reign of a madman when the Berlin Wall went up in 1961. They simply traded the Gestapo for the Stazi but the tyranny continued. ...

Chicago, IL —Every state that has been hijacked by Socialists politicians over the last four decades has extorted from the taxpayers all they could. Understandably taxpayers have fled these places and there is no more to plunder. Unions were strong in these states as they pushed hard on behalf of their employees to get fair working conditions and a livable salary with benefits. Of course these same unions have vigorously sought to destroy immigration laws that prevented the export of crime, poverty and narcotics into America across our Southern border. As a predictable result, our schools and medical facilities have been destroyed. The problem is Socialists politicians have opened the treasury to illegal aliens, welfare cheats, the narcotics dependant and serial thieves. That is when these Socialists were not giving fraudulent vendor contracts to their pals. All of the Socialist controlled jurisdictions are now bankrupt. They are demanding that the frugal states bail them out despit...

The voters of this state demanded change. They elected people that would protect taxpayers. Teachers are in for some serious belt tightening in a state that has spent itself into bankruptcy. Thousands of teachers and the Leftist, pro-union members of the state Legislature have gone into a lawless rebellion. Perhaps we can put an end to educating Central and South America's children that trespass on our soil to save come cash while we are at it. The answer is simple, fire all renegade teachers for abandoning their positions and impeach the members of the Legislature that willfully fled the state to obstruct the democratic process. There are plenty of unemployed people that are qualified to babysit children in the public day care program they like to call a school system. Let them have the jobs. As for the AWOL lawmakers, they all violated their oaths to faithfully perform their dities and can be now be removed.

Chicago, IL -Many of my blog visitors want to get in on the act of providing information to the world about important matters. It is easier and cheaper than ever to capture and edit video. Cheap Flip HD style cameras are everywhere but with just a little additional effort you can make them watchable and tell the story through simple editing and narration. Don’t ramble on as you shoot video about what you see but instead add the narration during editing. Trust me, you will sound more intelligent. Of course you can add a stand-up where you face the camera and give a 15-20 second sound bite. Stay wide with the lens and move close to the subject you’re shooting. You will get much better audio especially with the on camera microphones. Avoid the zoom feature whenever possible. Take the time to shoot the action holding the camera very still and keeping the camera recording. I does not cost you money to keep the camera rolling like in the days of expensive film and processing. Every shot s...

Today I’m going to attack crappy teachers, their unions and blatant tenure abuse. We have an outrageous dropout rate in America despite offering taxpayer provided classes through high school. When teachers fail our youngsters they set them up for a life of poverty, heartbreak and deprivation. The conventional wisdom is to blame the students and their parents rather than the sacred cows we call teachers. The teaching profession was hijacked by the politically far Left many decades ago and the ignorance of Americans screams out this fact constantly. The American educational system has been sabotaged in order to fail America. Being a teacher requires more than reciting lessons and going through the motions of teaching. The problem is that the vast majority of teachers lack the most important skill to keep the students captivated, interested and excited. That is simple showmanship. Teaching demands that the person giving the class be interested, excited and enthusiastic about the subje...