On a plane from Geneva or Amsterdam a few years ago I sat next to a man and we struck up a conversation.  We seemed to hit it off well and exchanged business cards and went on our way. Later this man’s family became involved in multi-million dollar litigation.  I got a call from his attorney and this fellow I remembered from the plane.  They needed some serious investigation.  Soon I was sent out of state to get the skinny on the adverse party and spent a week or more doing just that.  I searched far and wide for something resembling a smoking gun for use in the courtroom.   My client’s lawyer really put a tight leash on me somewhat obstructing my areas of inquiry.   In these kinds of things the lawyer is the boss. I held my nose and obeyed him. I turned up a bunch of things but nothing seemingly particularly exciting.  I called in my information from the field and forwarded my report later. I was disappointe...

Phoenix, AZ—Mark Henry Milke has legally changed his name to Arizona Milke .  It’s understandable, he’s got a very troubled past.  He is an ex-convict and drug addict that happens to be the father of four-year old Christopher Milke .  James Styers and Roger Scott murdered Young Christopher Milke in December of 1989. If Debra Milke is guilty of any wrongdoing it was by being smitten as a young adult by this smooth older con man.  Mark Milke had that bad boy image and young Debra was delusional that she could meet the challenge to somehow change and tame him.  Mark Milke was a sometime carpet installer when he was not in jail, prison or simply idle because of alcoholism, mental illness or his drug addiction.  Milke has a long documented history of domestic violence with numerous women.  The Orders of Protection, mental commitments and criminal cases were once all available at the Maricopa County Court Clerks records.  Later ...

Chicago, IL —The 7 th U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the blanket Illinois prohibition against law-abiding citizens carrying concealed weapons.   Illinois was the hold out state with no provision for the bearing of arms outside the home. The question on the minds of Second Amendment legal beagles is about the benefits or drawbacks of an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court .   Gun rights hating Chicago politicians stand to lose in a big way.  Additionally the possibility exists that a handful of states may also lose the arbitrary dictatorial control they used to victimize citizens for decades. The real controversy here is the concept of may or shall issue concealed weapon permits. The abuse of citizens gun rights in the may issue states is appalling and tyrannical.  California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington, DC issue permits only to the politically connected in most cases.  These systems are rife with massive corruptio...

Tucson, AZ —Say it ain’t so!  Just one day after railing for a ban on so-called assault weapons, high capacity ammunition magazines and expanded background checks on simple family gun transfers it seems our retired space cadet Mark Kelly was buying the very guns he has been castigating. Right now gun control has no face since Sarah Brady simply got too old and had to retire.   Gabby   Giffords  might be a natural choice because she got newfound fame for being the target of an armed madman.   Sadly Gifford’s injuries have robbed her of her ability to handle the duties required.  Currently here is no famous face of a knowledgeable and dedicated gun banner to take on that role.   The right quasi-celebrity could garner a large paycheck along with a high profile.  The gun banners had high hopes that Mark Kelly could fill Sarah Brady’s shoes. Gabby Giffords was not exactly a supporter of Obama style gun control.  She ac...

Chicago, Il —When it comes to Chicago’s politicians corruption and arrogance knows no bounds.  The Looney Left Wing rules the State of Illinois because of the heavy population of Cook County.  The rest of the somewhat vast land mass of the state is politically conservative, crime free and under the thumb of dictators they despise. Chicago’s politicians and their appointed bureaucrats have routinely violated citizen’s gun rights for more than three decades.  They have falsely arrested and convicted people for merely keeping and bearing arms under peaceful conditions.  Finally challenges to Chicago’s gun bans and the state ban on carrying concealed weapons has been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. 7 th Circuit Court of Appeals .  They have been given a six-month grace period to craft law that does not violate citizen’s rights to carry concealed weapons.  Of course that does not sit well with these jerks that think they are above the law. Ins...

Berlin, Germany — The principal Berlin photography involved with, The Fifth Estate is finished and now they are off to Belgium for the rest of the production.  I can’t wait to see the final product. This is yet another milestone for Studio Bablesberg located in one of my favorite cities. Governments have a terrible habit of lying to their citizens, as they get involved in deadly adventures and intrigue that few rational people would approve.   This is a story about the failure of civilized nations to engage in honorable diplomacy. Investigative Journalist, hacker and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange risked his life and liberty to expose the truth to the citizens of the world.  Today there is a price on Assange’s head.  The government and people of Ecuador are protecting him from imprisonment in any number of nations. Any great effort like the wildly successful WikiLeaks website brings conflict even among friends and this film explores that and...

You can see these kids are not buried in books or anything academic.   In every major city in America our children have been politically groomed with Leftist doublespeak and disinformation.  Our high school graduates understand the joys of Socialism but cannot effectively read or write.  They can’t answer simple question about our form of government and have no clue what the Bill of Rights really says or means.  They have never learned how Socialism failed everywhere.  They can’t tell you much about how America came to exist. The teacher’s unions designed this system of child abuse and the politicians have given them their blessing.  These children have a future of poverty and pain because they were programed specifically for the welfare/nanny state.  These kids have no choice but to support Socialism because they have not learned about competition, communication skills or how to escape poverty.  They have been molded into incredibly igno...

Joliet, I L—Retired Bolingbrook police sergeant, Drew Peterson recently convicted of murder is now serving a 38 year sentence that seems to guarantee he dies in an Illinois prison.  The conviction was obtained through tainted hearsay evidence banned in America since the adoption of our Bill of Rights .  Americans have lost or seen liberty watered down, as right after right is destroyed with unlawful searches, arms prohibitions, Due Process and free speech abuses.   Hearsay evidence in court trials is something out of the Third Reich , not a free nation. Whatever you may think about Drew Peterson he would never have been convicted without the outrage of hearsay evidence being used against him.  Peterson was denied the Constitutional right to confront witnesses testifying against him.  If this happened to him it can happen to anyone.  Prosecutors can now convict anyone they choose for anything they want.  We fought wars to prevent what...

Washington, DC —They say DNA and fingerprint evidence does not lie and that’s for the most part a correct statement.  However those government officials involved in the investigation, collection, preservation and examination of evidence occasionally do some horrible things.  When that happens often it is a perfect crime, because proving such a case is almost impossible. In 1990, Shirley Kinge was convicted in an arson/murder case that where four people perished.  The investigator involved was truly a Golden Boy, New York State Police Trooper, Robert M. Lishansky .  He was an 11 year veteran of that agency and considered one of their brightest and best investigators.  Lishansky was lifting prints from plain paper copies of filed inked fingerprint cards with standard lifting tape and then claiming he lifted them at crime scenes.  At crime scenes latent prints are made visible by dusting them with a fine black powder that sticks to the l...