My regular readers know I hate capital punishment for two simple reasons. We make mistakes sometimes convicting the innocent and governments that have the power to kill its own citizens always abuse that power sooner or later. I’m not fond of murderers and really believe many deserve swift and sure death but I refuse to entrust government to carry out that chore. Japan is not my idea of a free country. Police regularly inspect people’s homes and businesses without a warrant. Self-defense weapons are banned. I can’t comment on the quality or fairness of their criminal justice system. Criminal suspects have an automatic stigma that interferes with justice everywhere in the world. Japan has quietly hanged 13 people in less than a year. Because of various appeals decades go by before the extreme punishment is actually carried out in Japan. The latest victim of the gallows sounds like a perfect candidate we all would want to see dancing at the end of the rope. Tsutomu Miyazaki, 45 dubbed b...

It’s being reported that Obama has a slight lead on McCain. That in no way means Obama is really that popular, but that McCain is still loathed by Conservatives. Obama and McCain’s Senate votes were too often the same. I’ve complained consistently that there was not one candidate offered up by either party worthy of my vote. The situation went from bad to worse if that was possible. America is once again being tested with an impending war between Israel and Iran, a monetary crisis aggravated by massive home loan foreclosures and rocketing fuel prices. We are facing unprecedented inflation and the civil unrest that will result when the poor are deprived of the entitlements they are accustomed to receiving. Both Obama and McCain are empty suits that will bring this nation more harm than good. Like I said we will be tested. More on the polls, putting Obama in front here.

Washington,D.C.-- It looks as though I accurately predicted the U.S. Supreme Court would hold Heller for its parting shot, Monday June 23rd. I have done everything I could to figure out how the court can decide this case. Try as I might I can only come up with is the simple answer. Either there is or is not a right to keep and bear arms. It’s an all or nothing proposition. Predicting The Supreme Court’s direction is dangerous since all nine members have personal agendas. Far too many of those agendas are not in line with what our founding fathers envisioned. Can rights be doled out or regulated? The short answer is that rights are rights. Americans that have not lost their rights through due process of law can keep and carry suitable military arms. What can be regulated is conduct with these arms and that’s already covered by laws against assault, battery and murder. This may seem like a gun owners, Wish List but it’s not. This is based on the way other Constitutional rights are n...

America’s love for political correctness may kill us all.

Lake Barrington, IL--Rev. Jessie Jackson brought in some 80 gun haters to Lake Barrington, Il to get a high end firearm manufacturer some publicity. DS ARMS specializes in making great civilian semi-automatic copies of the venerable, 65 year- old FNFAL rifles. That Browning design made the FAL one of the top ten battle rifles ever produced. There is a serious problem with using this rifle and that’s the cost. You can buy perhaps three AK-47 rifles for the cost of one DS ARMS Copy. DS ARMS’ products have not made their way to police crime labs because of their use in crimes. So Jessie, what’s the big deal here? We know you hate the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment but are you really that ignorant? Jessie, gun laws were created specifically to keep you and all African-Americans disarmed at the point in our time when the slaves were freed. I guess you want to honor the tradition of the Ku Klux Klan. Jessie we've seen what happens to unarmed Negros in Africa who were being pro...

Over the last 30 years thousands of forgetful people have brought firearms inside carryon bags to the checkpoints and have been arrested. Today despite the fact that there is not a single known case where airport guards stopped a hijacking by uncovering a weapon , there is a zero tolerance policy for anyone with a gun in their bag. Under American laws there must be actual knowledge and intent to carry or bring the gun on the plane in order to gain a criminal conviction. Forgetfulness is a valid defense in court. If a gun owner wants to travel with a gun there is a simple procedure that allows for the gun be placed in checked baggage. Gun owners all know they don’t have to sneak their guns on to the planes. Because prosecutors allow these cases to be litigated, a jury must decide if the defendant truly forgot. After a court acquittal the defendant is in debt for bail bonds, lawyers and time off from work, to get his or her day in court. In other words, the defendant was innocent ...

Washington D.C .—With the Heller case not yet decided, Brady Campaign Chairman Paul Helmke conceded defeat recognizing 75% of Americans believe that the Second Amendment is an individual right. Helmke announced that he expects the Heller case to be a lost cause for gun prohibitionists. Helmke hopes the loss will bring about some sort of a political mobilization intended to get a reversal of the Heller case down the road. The gun prohibitionists have hope of still seeing bans on “certain” firearms and other harassment tools for government to use against gun owners. The gun ban crowd wants to bring in new Liberal, activist Supreme Court judges to rewrite rather than interpret the Constitution. They have high hopes that the reduction of gun control issues in the political arena will help Democrats gain many more seats at all levels of government. The experience of the NRA’s membership swelling to 4 million after the now expired assault weapons ban was enacted and then dramatically ...

I found myself vehicle challenged yesterday and took the bus to keep an appointment. It was the first time I had done that in perhaps 30 years. I dreaded the thought of riding with the gang punks, felons and those smelly untouchables. The waiting, the slow travel and my unfamiliarity with the routes, fares along with perceived misadventures were real concerns. I thought I might find a blog article along the way so I did not feel the need to put off my appointment until I had my car. I arrived at the bus stop early. I received my first insult when I asked how much the fare was. The lady bus driver said, “For you it’s a quarter.” I put in the quarter only to later learn that was the reduced senior citizen price for those over 62. I’m not that %&*#$@$ old yet! I guess I must have had that look as though I needed some Viagra . As I passed stores and buildings I’ve often driven past but this time it was different. I could actually see them for a change. Girl watching was easi...

Corona, CA --God and perhaps the devil are the only ones that will ever know what led several young and privileged women to become mesmerized by a little man who would shock the entire world with a cruel murder spree in 1969. The women involved destroyed their own precious lives after they made the choice to follow Charles Manson straight into Hell. The most notorious act in the Manson Family terror campaign was the bloody massacre in Benedict Canyon that slaughtered the pregnant, young and beautiful film star, Sharon Tate and six others. Many will argue they should have all been executed as their trial court had ordered. I say that death would have been a gift over spending nearly 40 years in a California prison. I'm convinced that life in prison is much worse than death. Susan Atkins now 60 years-old, eventually renounced Manson and became a law-abiding prison inmate. She and the other Manson girls have unsuccessfully sought parole ever since they were eligible to do so. ...

Okay, I’ll agree Drew Peterson is a pariah these days. I can’t agree that he deserves this label since he was career cop with no criminal history. The worst anyone can really say about him is his penchant for young attractive women. I guess that puts me in the same category since I too enjoy them. The real question is what happened to Peterson’s third and fourth wives and did Drew Peterson bring about their fate? The short answer is, nobody knows. Humans are a suspicious lot and murder investigations begin and too often end at the ones closest to the victims. Humans seem to only hurt the ones they love. Where’s the proof? The third wife drowned in the bathtub. Perhaps she had help in getting that way but we can only guess. After we make the first guess as murder we have to guess again who was responsible. Then there is Stacy Peterson. We can’t say that she was murdered because we just don’t know. We suspect foul play but have zero evidence and we can prove nothing at all. T...

Sue Ann Pinner is a gifted soprano and a dear friend. Together we created Illumination a biographical song about Pope John Paul II . I’m not really sure how I got involved with this since I’m the kind of Catholic that only seems to remember the importance of religion when the chips are really down. For me Pope John Paul, II is special. I’ve seen him four times. Twice he appeared on the street where I lived and actually looked up and waived at me. Twice he blessed me from only several feet away. I made no special plans to see the Pope he simply came to me. These things happened as John Paul II was the most traveled Pope in history and made numerous visits to the USA. Yet another “Pope factor” is that I have another dear friend and that’s Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress, singer and dancer, Ann Jillian . Both Pinner and Jillian are devout Catholics. On September 16, 1987 Pope John Paul II presided over a Mass at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium. Among various singers there were two soloist...

It was a L.A. County Superior Court Press Release that called my attention to this story. The court was trying to do some damage control on a minor factual issue in the HBO documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired If the Superior Court was complaining I had to see what the fuss was about. The court was going to be exposed for a horrible example of Celebrity Injustice . In Poland, Roman Pulaski’s Catholic mother was murdered by the Nazi’s and his father was sent to a concentration camp. Polanski lived on a farm and after attending a film school the lad escaped from then Communist Poland to France, where he was born. Soon Polanski was living the American dream finding himself quickly thrust into film making and Hollywood’s A-List. Polanski met and married the beautiful actress, Sharon Tate . While Polanski was in Europe the Manson Family butchered Tate and her friends. The murders were ritualistic in appearance and since Polanski directed Rosemary’s Baby some muck-raking members o...

If the airlines does not have enough problems with public relations, this new idea will bring yet another skunk to the airport. According to the Travel Industry Association , 41 million airplane trips were avoided last year by fellow Americans. That in turn dealt a $67 Billion cumulative cost to our economy. Now in addition to being fondled and frisked like criminals American passengers will be forced to stand on scales revealing their weight. Somehow I don’t think this plan will be popular with women who would rather do their work out getting into their control-top pantyhose than at the gym. Since most Americans haven’t seen their own ideal weight since high school this may finish the job our Transportation Security Administration started of destroying the tourism ingustry. Our airports may become the quietest places around. No more airport noise for neighborhood communities to complain about. My friend Zelda McCorville told me she'd burn down the arrports before she'd e...

At least that’s my reading of the predicament facing the leadership of Israel. We all know that Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a holocaust denier who has vowed to destroy Israel. In addition Iran’s current nuclear ambitions are provocative and threatening. Why must Israel attack this summer you ask? American politics is the answer. Bush, who has a track record as a defender of Israel is set to leave office. Our election is deemed too close to call and Israel’s leaders know that Barak Obama is not committed to doing anything other than withdrawing American troops from that part of the world. Obama’s cozy relationship with the American born Nation of Islam also must trouble Jews worldwide. Obama can’t be counted on to provide more than lip service should Iran follow up on threats against the Jewish state. Waiting for America’s November election to be settled would be too dangerous for Israel since Iran is getting stronger every day. Israel must act now or risk not havin...

Mrs. Clinton “suspended” her Whitehouse campaign at least until she can figure out a way to cut Obama off at the legs. She’s pledged her allegiance to Obama but she has her fingers crossed or the former First Lady would have ended her campaign. As for Obama, you better keep looking over your shoulder and remember, Vince Foster…

Modesto, CA--Scott Peterson stands alone as a convicted and condemned killer where no evidence of murder ever existed. Peterson’s pregnant wife Laci died for sure, but it’s still unknown what caused the woman's death. I believe Scott Peterson was convicted because of the efforts by those Court TV harpies, led by that lynch’em, lightening rod, Nancy Grace . It was a trial by hate that convicted a cheat, liar and womanizer of murder sans a simple cause of death. The jury had to assume that Laci Peterson was murdered, and then leap to convicting Scott Peterson of capital murder. Laci Peterson’s parents have filed a wrongful death civil case against Scott Peterson. That’s far more complicated than it sounds. If Peterson chooses to testify in the civil case he must be removed from Death Row of the San Quentin State Prison to a Modesto, CA jail cell for the civil proceedings. This is where the fun begins. Scott Peterson has nothing to lose and everything to gain by standing trial in a ...

This fellow showed his co-worker just how he feels. I suspect he got a long and needed rest from the challenges his employment brought him. It’s silent surveillance video. I only wish I could figure out how to add the Vogues, 1966 hit, Five- O’clock World to this video. http://view.break.com/513310 - Watch more free videos

In California as in other states the schools are in trouble and so are the hospitals. At least a million or more of the children enrolled in California’s schools are illegal aliens. The hospitals treat many millions more uninsured, illegal aliens for non-life threatening ailments. American taxpayers are forced to pay these bills. Congress and California’s politicians have no intentions of getting serious about deporting the aliens. Can they get serious about doing anything about the problem at all? My question is why must we continue to force American taxpayers to pay for the education and medical services for people who should not even be here? Perhaps if all but life-threatening medical services were denied to those trespassers America would become a lot less attractive to international freeloaders. If services to illegal aliens were eliminated that would be an incentive for them to return home. Signs in Spanish should go up in every tax-supported school and medical institution ...