Over the Labor Day holiday Chicago had 13 murdered and over fifty persons shot. This meant that over 500 people had been murdered in Chicago in 2015, 400 of whom were African-Americans. I wrote before what Superintendent Eddie Johnson said about them: “It’s not a police issue, it’s a society issue. Impoverished neighborhoods, people without hope…
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Is Chicago’s Police Superintendent Eddie Robinson Failing His Officers?
I wrote earlier this week about Chicago’s murders which are on a record-setting pace this year. 400 blacks have been murdered by the time it passed the Labor Day holiday. My wife and daughter were in Chicago over that holiday but why was it I was never concerned for their safety. It was because they…
Why Chicago Has So Many Murders? The Mayor Is Otherwise Engaged.
Chicago has seen over 510 murders this year. 5.2% or 26 were of other than blacks and Hispanics; 16.4% or about 84 were Hispanic; and the remaining 78.4% or 400 were black. The deaths were only a small portion of the shootings. There were 2,982 shootings. That boils down to about 2 homicides a day and…
How Bill Clinton’s Sold Out Our Country and Emboldened North Korea.
You can thank Bill Clinton for Kim Jung Un’s having his little nuclear arsenal. You have to understand Bill lived in dread of having to be other than the “good ol’ boy.” Nothing could be worse than having to stand up to someone. Why that is so few have tried to explain. Was it he…
When The Lights Go Out All Over The Land
The question that we must ask as Obama glides through his last few months in office is one that Ronald Reagan would want us to ask: “Are We Better Off Now Than We Were Eight Years Ago?” One thing for certain is that in one area we a definitely much worse off. That has been…
The Real Problem With The Hillary Candidacy: It Violates the Spirit of the People
When FDR died less than three months after he was sworn into office for his fourth term the country took a deep breath of relief. It wasn’t that he was unpopular for he was highly popular. That was the problem. He had just started his fourth term and his health was poor and if his…