Thoughts & Musings
Sugary Drinks Kill 25k per Year in the U.S. Alone
Consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages may contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, mainly due to Type 2 diabetes, a new study says. The results show sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is linked to 180,000 deaths a year...
Black Leaders Oppose Gun Control
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RABZq5IoaQ] "There is a direct correlation between Gun Control and Black People Control." "Black Codes to deny the Second Amendment to recently freed slaves." "When they take our guns is when they will take our God. And that...
Moody’s Downgrades Chicago’s Motor Fuel Debt
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to A3 from Aa3 the rating on the City of Chicago's (IL) $181 million of outstanding rated motor fuel tax debt. The outlook has been revised to negative. via Moody's. Surprises no one. Barely qualifies as news actually. The...
Conservative Black Chick Launches Super-PAC
The first blacks elected to Congress after the Civil War were Republicans. Rev. Hiram Rhodes Revels was the the first black Senator elected and his peer Joseph Hayne Rainey was the first black elected to the House of Representatives. I’m excited to see the creation of...
Modern Policing Model: The LAPD?
Sheriff’s deputies caught one of the Bloods before he could vanish into the maze of two-story apartment blocks that make up Imperial Courts. Another suspect got away. Deputies spotted the third ducking into one of the apartment buildings. They were preparing to go in...
What Type of Gun Used at NY Car Wash & Barber Shop?
The following is the Associated Press report on the standoff between police and the man who they say opened fire at a barber shop and a car wash on Wednesday in upstate New York, killing four. But as the gun debate rages, it’s interesting to note that the gun used by...
New Database Tracks Private Student Info
Parents and privacy experts are blasting a new national database that compiles personal student information for educational companies that contract with public schools. New York State officials, working with the city, have already uploaded students' names, addresses,...
MLK and His Guns
Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. A recipient of constant death...
SEC Hits Illinois with Securities Fraud Charges
Illinois broke federal securities laws in misstating the true health of the state's depleted pension funds when going out onto the bond market between 2005 and early 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday. ... The finding of securities fraud...
Holder: Drone Killing Americans on U.S. Soil Legal
“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of...
FREEDOM License Plate Banned in D.C.
According to the official list of banned D.C. plate combinations, it may take some extra creativity to get your idea accepted by the city's meticulous censors. The capital city's DMV has a 53-page list of 26,993 license plate no-no's that prohibit everything from...
Druckenmiller: Old Stealing From Young
Druckenmiller, who is known to be media shy, told Bloomberg TV that he sees "a storm coming, maybe bigger than the storm we had in 2008, 2010" and it has to do with a demographic bubble. "But the demographic storm is just starting now. It reminds me of '05 when people...
Joe Biden Knows Nothing About Guns (or Women)
Ok, yes some of these ladies have poor form and would be fine with some proper training. But the truth is that an AR is far (FAR) easier to hold on target and fire than any shotgun on the market. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafkVM-jnbE]
John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley
TURLEY: That's exactly right. In fact, President Obama has not only maintained the position of George W. Bush in the area of national securities and in civil liberties, he's actually expanded on those positions. He is actually worse than George Bush in some areas....
Widespread Violence on the CTA
With almost 20,000 CTA bus trips a day, tempers sometimes flare on a few of them. Regular users of the CTA know what an obstacle course it can be. On the CTA's 1,200 rail cars, riders are often met with a variety of frightening encounters- from armed robbers and cell...
Judge Jeanine on CPD Chief Garry McCarthy
It's time for a vote of no confidence in Garry. He's let his mouth run too much and is simply no longer credible on any topic. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXDYb8tcRg]
Dan Bongino’s Stump Speech
Hope to see more of this guy in the future. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8WLXhahw_A]
A Black Man in a KKK Hood: Race & Crime in Philly
In 2013, no one expects to see a man dressed in a Ku Klux Clan robe mid-morning in Center City, Philadelphia. ... The man, who stood on the corner of 13th and Filbert on Tuesday, is not out to lynch or kill black people. In fact, he is black.Thirty-five-year-old Sixx...
Illinois Pensions — A Simple Primer
I found this while at the Khan Academy. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tczu_dvVuuk]
Quinn Spends Another $1.5 Billion We Don’t Have
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday signed into law an extra $1.5 billion in spending for road construction and child welfare investigations, even as Republicans decried the measure as including ill-timed, pork barrel money. via Chicago Tribune. What is wrong with...