Chicago, IL —The Windy City is awash in murder.   The bloodshed is predictable precisely with the weather.   Rain, sleet and snow hampers Chicago’s thugs and soft summer nights are filled with relentless victimization, savagery and carnage. Chicago’s politicians are all hard corps Liberals and have promulgated every kind of gun ban they could dream up.   Gun laws never impact criminals and always impact the law-abiding.   The results are far more predictable than Chicago’s weather.    The thugs, thieves and rapists are actually emboldened and facilitated by the gun bans. The politicians either don’t get it or they want law-abiding innocents defenseless and in harm’s way.    The 7 th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has mandated Chicago follow the law of the land.   Unfortunately the politicians are just as lawless as the thugs.   These Fascist bastards refuse to release their iron-fisted control over the law-abiding folk...

Phoenix, AZ—The Circus has folded up its tents and vacated the surroundings of the Maricopa County Superior Court Building complex that hosted, “The Greatest Show on Earth.” If that sounds inappropriate that’s because it was just that.   That Jodi Arias trial was something of a perverted Roman Holliday. Jodi Arias was involved in a somewhat routine domestic disaster that left her young boyfriend Travis Alexander dead.  We now know that Arias killed him but the exact circumstances are shrouded in lies and mystery.  Lies from the mouths of frightened suspects usually flow like water at Niagara Falls.  Was the killing justified?  We can only guess.  Domestic homicide often unleashes massive rage because of so many factors unique to our most intimate relationships. Women defending themselves from attack by men have little choice but to use deadly weapons because there is usually a serious disparity of force between men and women.  Alex...

Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander in better times. Phoenix, AZ —The trial of Jodi Arias was an entertainment driven spectacle.  It was a lot of things, but a fair trial it was not.  The defense lawyers were not up to the task and failed miserably.  I suspect that a lot of the sidebar rulings of Judge Stephens contributed to this enormous judicial fiasco. Arias lost confidence in her lawyers but had no way to fire them and bring in new ones. She felt no options but to attempt to take charge.  Had she better lawyers I doubt she would have lost confidence.  Arias was smart enough to see they could not cut the mustard. As a criminal investigator I specialize in self-defense cases.  The use of deadly force is based on the reasonable man standard.  Here Arias says she was abused and afraid but seems to have too little evidence to back up that claim. Arias lied to police about the circumstances of Travis Alexander’s death.  Most Americ...

Dr. Erica Gomez and her smiling patient UCLA School of Dentistry  Los Angeles, CA —I just completed my treatment at the prestigious UCLA School of Dentistry .   I chose this facility for really good reasons.  I had no dental insurance dropping it because it seemed worthless with regular dentists.  More importantly this school has it’s own dental lab, great professors and their gifted students. There are no shortcuts or substandard materials used here.  The students are doing their absolute best under the watchful eyes of the professors.  Often the student will have a peer watching the procedure and that must bring out the competitive spirit of anyone.  When you think about it who watching the street dentists?  Where do they get their materials and dental lab work?   Going to the dentist is never pleasant unless it’s an examination with no work required.  Even that brings apprehension.  When you think about fi...

Phoenix, AZ —The modern day lynch mob is in place with their smartphones at the ready to capture their idea of judicial history.  The nearby streets are filled with satellite trucks and the TV studio tents for the celebrity media pundits.  The out-of-control media at its worst has already relentlessly tortured the hapless defendant. The Jodi Arias case has shown that human civilization has not improved since the beginning of mankind. I really can’t understand the fascination of so many people for this run of the mill domestic killing.   Arias is no movie star, sports figure but just another under achiever caught up in a common crime.   The killing of her boyfriend is just not the same as the kind of crime we reserve for the death penalty or for that matter even life imprisonment. The only thing we really know for sure is that Arias killed her sometime boyfriend with a great deal of anger and passion.   We also know that she lied and covere...

Greta Garbo, left and Carice van Houten, right Amsterdam, NL —Let me begin by confessing my fascination for beautiful elegant European women.  They know how just to dress, walk, talk, flirt and dazzle my imagination.   I was first exposed to them when I was drafted into the Army and sent to Germany long ago.  They still ring my bell today more than ever. Legendary Swedish film siren Greta Garbo was the epitome of glamour, grace and sexy hot.  She was a natural for films that are still shown today.  A few years ago I discovered a woman with all of Garbo’s attributes when I saw Paul Verhoeven’s terrific film Black Book .  The female lead was Dutch actress,  Carice van Houten .  In Black Book she sang, danced, swam, and acted in four languages in the World War Two thriller.  I instantly fell in love with van Houten’s talent.  I also know that van Houten is destined to begin gathering Academy Awards as she ha...

Washington, DC —As a nation we were in a crisis because of eight years of a disappointing presidency under  George W. Bush .  He engaged in two wars we should have avoided.  We allowed our government to reward Wall Street criminals at every opportunity and the taxpayers took a huge beating.  The real estate bubble broke and bled over millions of Americans. Americans wanted change and looked to an unknown man with a broad smile who made vague promises for hope and change.  Nobody could really guess just what his agenda was but anything seemed better than Bush.   Barack Obama  was a  Chicago Machine Democrat .  This is not your father’s Chicago Machine but the new breed of hard corps Leftists using long established and proven techniques of voter fraud, bribery and extortion to win elections and hold office. Obama somehow escaped any real vetting and his birth origin questions seemed to help rather than sideline the candidate....

Corcoran State Prison, CA —In this tough prison there are few bright spots.  Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan and many other convicted criminals who have committed despicable crimes wait here to simply die.    Most other inmates will quickly get out and the rate of return is astronomical. Of course they destroy lives along the way.  Our correctional institutions do anything but correct.  They are almost all, in reality advanced schools of crime and violence. We have locked up millions of young people in what we call correctional institutions.  We demand they turn their lives around but have made that daunting task impossible.  Perhaps it’s because we place them with one another where they can form peer groups of despair, destruction and depravity.  This concept can only fail. Most of these convicted losers come from ignorance, poverty and are raised by the worst mentors society has to offer.  We only make things worse for them. ...