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We were all told by the media organizations that McKinney’s recent assault on a Capitol police officer was going to be investigated by a Grand Jury this past Monday. Where’s the Indictment you ask? Wonder no more! I have the answer! A Grand Jury presentation on this matter would take less than an hour and result in a felony assault Indictment. Any second-year law student could get that indictment against McKinney. Since that did not happen I had to find out just what is going on. I have a special talent for that! Gazing into my crystal ball I saw some hot and heavy negotiations between McKinney’s lawyers and the Justice department. Negotiations made because this suspect and her lawyers see the end of her career in Congress looming and are trying to head that off. McKinney’s lawyers are engaged in some major butt-licking right now in order to save their client’s ass. Oops! I meant seat (in Congress). It is in fact a felony to strike a police officer but absent serious injuries a misdeme...

Such was the case of our Civil War and one of the most malignant presidents this country ever had. The president that made war against the Southern states was a tyrant that destroyed freedom, murdered women and children while sending thousands of Union soldiers to their deaths. Did Abraham Lincoln really give a rat’s ass about Negro slaves? The real truth was his Emancipation Proclamation was enacted only to cripple the South’s economy to get a military advantage. His own writings make it clear Lincoln was not fond of giving slaves equal rights. Had the South won that war they would have gotten simple independence from the North. The Southern states would have enjoyed the same form of government without meddling by people hundreds of miles away with different interests and goals. People could have simply voted with their feet when determining where they want to live. John Wilks Booth was a patriot and a Southern hero. He killed a man who suspended the Constitution he swore to uphold, d...

After Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi there was only one uplifting story from that entire disaster. It was the heroic story of a young New Orleans resident, a then, 20 year-old, Jabar Gibson. Gibson had to escape the rising floodwaters and saw a huge school district parking lot filled with what later became destroyed buses. Gibson, a quick-witted lad took it upon himself to “borrow” a school bus, fill it with as many people he could and get them all safely to the Houston Astrodome. Necessity made use of the bus a lawful act even though he had no permission to do that. Gibson reacted swiftly, decisively and saved those lucky enough to find their way on the renegade bus. Gibson seemed to do what FEMA, the state and local governments could not do. Gibson exercised leadership, took decisive action and brought needed and quick relief to as many as 70 victims of that disaster. I knew his story was suitable for a movie of the week. I immediately went on a mission to find G...

Click on the photograph to enlarge! I said I’d give a progress report on the Ralphs Supermarket located at 910 Lincoln Blvd, Venice CA . I’ll let the picture I took today tell it all. It looks like they took two steps backwards and Ralphs has no interest in protecting their customers from the loathsome bacteria coating their shopping carts. The bits of plastic and string you see are where the vagrants tie additional garbage pickings when they run out of room in the carts. That’s proof that the carts are in no way cleaned or sanitized before they are returned to service. I guess they need to be shamed into cleaning up! Who would want to to the food intended for the family dinner table in these nasty shopping carts? Here's the earlier story with video ...

As our lawmakers debate the alien mess, the stampede of unskilled illiterates illegally crossing our borders has greatly intensified. The logic is simple as a few million illegal aliens waive Mexican flags protesting action against them, the guest worker-amnesty program is sure to happen. American politicians have been intimidated into surrendering rather than deal with riots that will surely happen if any effort is made to secure the borders and deport these economic refugees. Our health care system will quickly collapse. Social Security, which is in trouble anyway will receive its final deathblow. Low paying jobs for marginally skilled Americans will evaporate. Our schools facing the new burden of millions of additional children will never be able to cope. The prisons will have to let dangerous criminals out to roam the streets because they will have no room. Chaos, lawlessness and a major depression can be the only result. Either our politicians can protect us from this or they can ...

Political correctness demands that today’s “victims” never have to exercise personal responsibility. Such is the case of the whore hired to service the lacrosse team’s off-campus party. Yes, I did mean to use that politically incorrect word. The facts seem to support that notion. Twanna Brawley is the standard for a phony hate-crime-rape allegation and it’s beginning to reproduce itself in old Durham town. The past criminal conduct of the accusing whore is in fact what she is all about. They’ve made a folk hero out of the slut-for-hire in the community as they demonized the entire 47-member lacrosse team. Grandstanding prosecutor, Mike Nifong has adopted this case to be his re-election campaign showpiece. Why should he pay for advertising when the media is so willing to give Nifong so much free face-time? Why would anyone want a prosecutor who prosecutes his cases in the media instead of a courtroom? Nifong’s barrage of statements about the team members were both libelous and outrageou...

That headline conjures images of the Pop Princess wearing handcuffs and doing the “perp walk” with a police escort. It’s also a cheap way for sleazy news organizations to lure viewers and readers. The L.A. County Department of Children and Family services sent social workers and Sheriff’s deputies to do a routine investigation of the circumstances or the skull fracture suffered by her seven month-old son, Sean. A state law mandates that hospitals make notifications to the welfare agency anytime a child is injured under parental control prompted the investigation. The investigation proved once again that children are made of rubber or none of us would have ever become adults. No wrongdoing was discovered. It’s got to be traumatic enough to deal with an injury to a child, get treatment and deal with the welfare bureaucrats. I can’t imagine what it must be like to deal with the speculation, innuendo and hype generated because Britney Spears is a Pop Princess. In the absence of criminal co...

We all take vacations to get away from stress, aggravation, and pettiness of our every day life. But if our vacations involve air travel, the programs of the TSA and FAA have taken the fun out of travel for too many people. The result is an industry damaged, perhaps beyond repair. American news organizations have really aggravated the problem by frightening Americans through countless news stories about security holes in the air travel system. The TSA and FAA respond by annoying passengers with their silly and ineffective petty security procedures. Using highly visible pettiness and inconvenience tactics against passengers to create an illusion of security is the apparent mission of the TSA. Searching the cargo of airplanes would go unnoticed by millions of passengers and that’s the reason it has never been a priority for the TSA. Airline security has evolved to mere showmanship. The TSA puts on a show for the passengers while squandering tax dollars. I’m sorry I just can’t swallow a s...

L.A. Sheriff’s deputies reportedly seized a gun, suspected cocaine, several computers as well as vehicles from the Bel-Air home of 44 year-old Stefan Eriksson. ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) is also engaged in a full-scale investigation of Eriksson over visa issues and the importation of the believed stolen exotic automobiles. We can expect that the hard drives of Eriksson’s computers will be carefully examined for any and all evidence into his business affairs, lifestyle and sources of money that he had control over. In addition we can anticipate that ATF will trace the gun found in Eriksson’s home to determine where and to who it was sold by any dealer and how it wound up in an alien, ex-con’s possession. All the information eventually will be shared with European law enforcement agencies and Interpol for whatever interest they may have in Eriksson’s activities. Here's the latest from the LA Times ...

Katie is my pick to play the real life Chicago hero policewoman in my feature film, COME FRIDAY .

This never ending saga that began with the spectacular 162 MPH crash of a rare million-dollar Ferrari Enzo last February in Malibu CA has taken yet another wild turn. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Swedish ex-convict Stefan Eriksson , 44, at his Bel-Air home Saturday night. Detectives also served a yet to be determined number of search warrants on property under control of Eriksson. L.A. Sheriff’s records show that Eriksson was arrested Saturday night in Bel Aire at 9:50 PM. The charges remain unclear but he’s being held without bail. In addition there’s a no bail, USIM Immigration hold on Eriksson should he be released from any local charges. Eriksson was booked into the Men’s Central Jail just after 9:00 AM this morning. There is a court apperance set for April 11, 2006 @ 8:30 AM in Division 30 located at 210 w. Temple Street, Los Angeles. An evening update from the L.A. Times ...

Decades earlier the only person allowed to answer emergency phone calls at a police agency was a trained cop. The cities learned they could save a lot of money by hiring civilians to do that job. It was not a good move because the operators had little training and were never up to the task. Frankly too many of these people lack enough basic intelligence to do the job. Here is how it all works these days. You call 911 and an operator answers the call. The operator then types in basic address information for the dispatcher and the officer’s digital mobile terminal (car computer). The operator tells the dispatcher what’s going on. The dispatcher then tells the officers in the field the information from the operator. The officers only get third hand information to do their job. The 911 operators are trained to give the simplest of first aid instructions but the juiciest part of the job is drawing out the excited utterances of the callers as well as full confessions. Miranda and the Fifth A...

Certainly not for those who took sweet plea deals to become snitches. Pellicano and the other holdouts may yet find themselves freed because of tainted evidence. The evidence here may have been infected by law enforcement personnel exceeding legal limitations of the laws and rules of investigative searches. When the cops raided Pellicano they were looking for evidence of threats or extortion involving freelance reporter Anita Busch. The search warrants used were like all warrants. They had to specifically detail what evidence they were going to find and where it would be located. Searching Pellicano’s files related to other clients should have been off limits for a couple of reasons. For one the investigator’s other files were work product from litigation investigations protected by the lawyer client confidential privilege. The other is that they don’t have a link to the Busch case. These are not insignificant issues. Was the motivation of the additional fishing expedition searching an...

We now have the names criminal histories and street gang affiliations of the two dead thugs. They were Kenneth Elrod, 31, of the 5400 block of West Waveland and Demetri Centera, 31, of the 4700 block of North Kenneth in Chicago. Elrod and Centera were proud members of the Latin Eagles street gang. They were both career criminals. Elrod was a burglar and drug offender that has been twice sent to prison. Centera has a rap sheet listing no less that 26 arrests for a wide variety of crimes including drugs, disorderly conduct and trespassing. It turns out that this event began at the Magic Touch Club located 5728 W. Belmont when Elrod caused a disturbance with another man and was removed from the club by the off duty officer. Elrod went home and came back with Centera, guns and extra ammo to exact revenge. They waited for the officer to leave the club and then ambushed him with drawn guns at Belmont and Kilpatrick. Both offenders committed serious new felonies by possessing firearms because...

Robert Pfeifer, one of the defendants in the Pellicano wiretap case, is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles federal court this afternoon at 1:30 PM before Judge Fischer to plead guilty. According to prosecutors Pfeifer threatened in e-mails to flee the country or kill himself rather than face charges and disgrace. This is yet another indication of a deal to cooperate in the prosecution of others in this growing Hollywood eavesdropping scandal. When Pellicano sees that he will never get out of prison, many like me believe he will betray all of his clients. Pellicano will then enjoy his retirement in the witness protection program... 3:50 PM an update : The following is straight from the U.S. Attorney: This afternoon, before Judge Fischer, Robert Pfeifer pleaded guilty to wiretapping. Judge Fischer scheduled a sentencing hearing for June 26. The maximum sentence for the offense is five years in federal prison. Following the entry of the guilty plea, we agreed that Pfeifer could be relea...

Two men in their 20’s were apparently driving in their pick-up truck on Chicago’s Northwest side in the wee hours. They spotted a Hummer at a stoplight. I guess envy and greed took over as the two pointed guns at the driver of this exotic looking vehicle. The frightened Hummer operator happened to have a gun of his own and knew how to use it. He quickly opened fire, fatally wounding the driver and front-seat passenger in the truck. The Hummer operator was lucky enough to have the special privilege to carry a gun for self-protection in Illinois. A permit you ask? Why there’s no such thing! The lucky fellow happened to be a yet to be identified Albany Park District tactical unit officer for the Chicago Police Department. Both of the not so lucky would be carjackers are dead today. They proved once again that Darwin rules. The off duty cop followed his training and was thankfully uninjured. Perhaps it’s time for the politicians to rethink their Mugger Protection Act and allow the law-abid...

You’re a cop and you have the tools to investigate people and know how to use them. But now you want to find out about your strange neighbor, the person that cares for your children or that scumbag that made false allegations about you or your partner. What do you do? If you access the department computers you may find yourself in real trouble like Phoenix police detective, Juan H. Rivera . There is a solution that won’t get you in trouble. You simply find a retired officer who has a second career as a private detective who can access the motor vehicle records and get you what you need. You can always get the public information about someone’s criminal background from the courts and never face criticism from anyone.

I have to give a hat tip here to The Liberty zone and John Lott for this little gem.

The 1950s and 60s brought us a new era of music called Rock and Roll. A true icon of that time was then a young man of considerable talent, Gene Pitney. Pitney released a string of unforgettable hits that I grew up with. I always lamented that I never got to see him in person. That is until about two years ago when he put on a marvelous show in Las Vegas. Needless to say I did not miss that opportunity. Pitney was fit, fabulous and looked like he had another 20 years left to tour before he would retire. I got to meet him and shake his hand afterwards. Pitney also produced a DVD of that show that I own. When the Beatles hit our shores Rock and Roll was pushed to the side. Later, Disco would rule American tastes. Too many artists like Pitney found themselves in forced retirement. Instead of retirement, Pitney explored and found new audiences in Europe and Australia and New Zealand. Pitney spent his time where the money was instead of brooding at home. Gene died while touring in the UK . ...