Los Angeles, CA —There everywhere, small trucks, vans, carts and stands.  They offer water, beverages, ice cream and snacks.  These are the equivalent of a kid’s lemonade stand.  In L.A. people with highly questionable immigration status seem to exclusively operate them.  The vendor’s seem to have sanitation challenges since they don’t seem to have access to hot water to wash their hands.  I think we are all capable of deciding if their products are fit for consumption. The vendor’s products are cheap and service is fast.  Most importantly the vendors aren’t stealing, begging or damaging our way of life. The complaints against the food carts are nearly the exclusively owners of local brick and mortar shops and restaurants. The brick and mortar set have the additional government tyranny to deal with over the new $15.00 per hour minimum wage!. That is in no the way the fault of the food cart operators! The complainers carp and w...

(Notice that in the kinder and gentler days of 1967 police did not even handcuff Donald Ayen) Chicago, IL —The first significant shooting in a school I can remember was in April of 1967 at Waller High School . Today that school is known as Lincoln Park High School Donald Ayen was an 18 year-old White student in this school that had a 80% Black student body. It was the closest school to the notoriously violent Cabrini Green projects housing. Ayen was routinely assaulted, robbed and threatened by the Black losers of this inner-city school. This was about Black on White hate and survival. The Blacks routinely brought handguns and knives to school and there were no countermeasures. Ayen found the school turned a blind eye to his tormentors. There was no protection or meaningful school security. Ayen turned to self-help to deal with these criminals. Ayers read about George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi movement. He found comfort in their efforts to deal with the Negro thr...