So much for delegate deal-making.

Barack Obama moments ago resigned his membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Jeremiah Wright was formerly pastor and a Catholic priest mocked Hillary Clinton. The Democratic Primary fight has been so much fun! Mrs. Clinton’s forces has done so much to help us all know more about Barak Obama then anyone wanted. As Obama’s friends and associates have come out to help him he’s disavowed them one by one. Far too many radicals, bombers, racists and assorted crooks have fallen all over themselves trying to get their friend and confidant elected. The more help Obama gets the more his amazing campaign flounders over redundant gaffes. Obama has not yet seen how he will be tarred with the brush of the criminal Chicago political organization that he was spawned from. That will come from both Republicans along with Obama’s disowned and now disgruntled pals.

Los Angeles—L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley’s office has declined prosecution of retired Chicago police burglary detective, turned actor, Dennis Farina on that felony gun charge. The case was referred for review to the Los Angeles City Attorney, Rocky Delgadillo for review of any potential misdemeanor prosecution against Farina. The requirement of intent for such a gun possession charge must be present in any misdemeanor violation prosecution. Perhaps Farina will be cleared altogether very soon. Let’s hope that happens. Read earlier stories here.

Joliet IL — Drew Peterson’s lawyer, Joel Brodsky has filed a motion on simple, plain English grounds to dismiss the complaint filed over a gun seized last November by Bolingbrook police. When the gun was seized Peterson was a police sergeant and member of the department’s SWAT team. The rifle was equipment that was used in connection with that assignment. Unlike many police departments across the country, Bolingbrook requires their officers to find and purchase their own duty weapons. The officers are reimbursed through their police uniform allowance. That includes any weapons used by the SWAT team. The complexities of department technicalities about issues of barrel length are just that, departmental issues. The weapons themselves are covered under a federal law preemption that immunizes the officers from criminal prosecution under any state law. Peterson was charged under Illinois law that cannot be used against him. Frustrated state police investigators have no evidence of m...

According to the Travel Industry Association, 41 million airplane trips were avoided last year by fellow Americans. That in turn dealt a $67 Billion cumulative cost to our economy. A landmark survey revealed shocking information that points directly at the TSA and the misery they pile on to travelers with mindless security screening games and indignities that do nothing more that provide an illusion of security. Flying today is a truly miserable experience. This well researched report reveales the devastating impact the TSA's pretend security is having on our entire economy. Add to this prohibitive fuel costs and you more airlines will soon be asking for bankruptcy protection along with restaurants, hotels and other tourism generated businesses. The tax man has been suffering too but don’t worry they will be given new tools to raid our wallets soon. Read the survey: Air Travel Survey Summary - Upload a doc Read this doc on Scribd: Air Travel Survey Summary

New York--Meet young Internet broadcaster and journalist, Samantha Henig who visits Manhattan’s only gun range. Henig is a natural for television presentations. This lass puts most seasoned medium and large market TV reporters to shame. I predict a bright and wonderful future for the talented Henig who went into unfamiliar territory and turned a great story!

Westwood, Los Angeles --Just in case nobody noticed we are in trouble. Perhaps some of us are smug that we can afford the extortionate amount at the gas pump but all costs are about to follow suit. The poor and muddle-income folks are facing a depression. Jobs will start disappearing soon too. I’m not sure just what will follow but this country is too spoiled to cope with deprivation. The far Left will have their disastrous answers that too many Americans are ready to embrace. Our economy can’t take all the phony Congressional, stop-gap, artificial fixes they’ve unloaded on us. Our Arab oil suppliers are working against us and want to see turmoil and civil war here. How soon will it be before the food supply is interrupted?

Like so many of my readers I’m waiting for the Washington D.C. handgun ban case, D.C. vs. Heller to be decided. Checking their calendar I know they must publish their opinion before the summer recess. June 23rd is the last Monday they will release opinions and I will go out on a limb and predict that hot potato, Heller case to be their parting shot. The best informed guesses are a 7-2 win for The Bill Of Rights and against Liberty haters like the Mayors of New York, D.C., Chicago and L.A. I hope to hear their whining soon along with dire predictions of blood in the streets. Whatever the decision it will be historic and an all day news event. My chances of being right about the date of release are only one out of four. Vegas should be taking bets on this one…

Washington D.C.-- Retired Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk is 88 years-old now living in a quiet Cleveland suburb. This morning our nation’s highest court cleared the way for his deportation. Demjanjuk’s life has been quite an adventure since the newly formed United States Office of Special Investigations (OSI), an obscure outfit entrusted to locate and bring to justice Nazi war criminals focused on him in 1977. They falsely got his citizenship revoked and extradited him to Israel as, Ivan the Terrible. That was a moniker for a sadistic Treblinka guard named Ivan Marchenko. Decades later, in an incredibly suggestive photo line-up Holocaust survivors picked out Demjanjuk as the fugitive war criminal. OSI investigators produced a NAZI identity card that proved its position as to Demjanjuk’s identity as the Treblinka sadist. That ID card was later examined by Bill Flynn a noted forensic document examiner with the Arizona Department of Public Safety . Flynn was able to conclusivel...

The people of The UK are beyond help and hope. They’ve handed their streets over to robbers, rapists, killers and even terrorists. With traditional snobbery the Brits have rejected use of force to avoid violent crime. People who dare hurt a criminal in the course of a deadly crime face years in prison as well as civil actions by the predators. I guess the pacifists rule the UK with an insane idea that laying down playing dead and total cooperation with criminals is somehow good public policy. I’m sure the UK’s most hardened criminals love Merry Old England for its kind of misplaced benevolence. I remember the case of an American woman who used a Swiss Army knife many years ago to fend off an attacker in the Tube. The woman’s attacker was not injured and the woman faced serious time in prison. That incident took the UK off of my tourism list but for an occasional stopover at Heathrow Airport. Actor Rob Knox, 18 who will be seen in the November opening of the latest film in the Harry...

About 14 years ago it was time to get a dog. My wife and I wanted one because we knew just how God’s animals enrich our lives. As for me, I wanted a little mutt and I trusted my wife to go to the critter shelter and pick one out. I expected her to get some castoff dog hours away from a lethal injection and that was okay with me. My wife arrived just before the shelter was opened and there was a mom with a little boy crying their eyes out because they had to give up Gypsy . Their tale of woe was heartbreaking as they were just part of a Phoenix TV news story. This family had recently moved into a Peoria home and the dad was a carpenter who made a dream kitchen for his family out of oak. This family’s home was destroyed by a raging fire that caused a fireman’s helmet to actually melt onto his head. The family and their really sweet dog Gypsy, a 1 ½ year-old German Sheppard were thankfully all safe.. Aside from losing all they owned they had to give up Gypsy who was suffering fro...

Garmin will sell you a basic $200.00 gizmo that will save you gas if you travel in unfamiliar territory. I have wasted thousands of miles over the years driving to various locations. I will never get back the wasted time or money. Not anymore, I don’t go anywhere with GPS guidance now. Wondering what to give as a gift these days? There is nothing more important in a time of soaring fuel prices. Yes, check the air in your tires and try to remember we are not in NASCAR races when we travel on our streets. Careful trip planning will do a lot more for America than bringing back the 55 MPH speed limit. Watch out as Democrats and insurance company lobbyists with campaign donations everywhere look for the 55 limit to boost government coffers through onerous fines. If they really gave a rat’s ass about fuel consumption they’d mandate GPS for every motor vehicle in America. They’d rather fine us for going 60 in a 55 zone.

Another year has gone by as Americans traded more hard won freedom for the illusion of security. We have taxed ourselves beyond anything our founding fathers could ever imagine. It’s time to honor those Americans who sacrificed their lives for an ungrateful nation.

Obama can be counted upon to bring the very worst of Chicago’s political corruption and the ability to scam members of his own race supporting him for his never to be fulfilled promises may not be a god idea. Just look and see what he has done for his own people in Chicago…

Today one would be president seemed to make a veiled threat against another contender for the Whitehouse. A nasty Democratic Primary campaign reached new levels when Mrs. Clinton suggested she should stay in the race like Robert Kennedy’s opponents did in 1968. Mrs. Clinton’s remark makes the old time theater saying, “Break a leg” pale by comparison. Is this going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy? On this blog I made a similar prediction because of the grim statistics that American presidents have more than a 10% chance of being assassinated while in office. I also pointed out that perhaps such an event is due because nearly 50 years has elapsed since Oswald killed JFK. Of course there were two attempts on Gerald Ford, one nearly killed Reagan. Then there were the candidate attacks, one crippling George Wallace and the killing of Robert Kennedy Being a president or candidate is definitely dangerous despite the best efforts of the Secret Service. . I think that a Black man with a...

I’m convinced that Peterson’s Colt rifle left the factory with the barrel that’s presently on the gun. Measuring barrel length is somewhat tricky and cops are really not trained to do that. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of similar cases have been thrown out of various federal and state courts after the defense could show the weapons were measured incorrectly. Colt will provide official documentation of any firearm they’ve ever produced as to the exact specifications including barrel length when it left the factory. Sometimes gunsmiths will shorten a barrel but there is no reason to make it 3/8” too short. If they want to make it short they will remove a lot more than 3/8”. Simply put, cutting the barrel only 3/8" shorter than the legal length is really pointless. I have a request for information into the Colt factory as of today on the actual Peterson rifle. I already know what they will tell me. Stay tuned!

Los Angeles --Preparations by Spector’s defense team for yet another trial on the Lana Clarkson death inquiry are in high gear. The trial is expended to take place despite a serious defense effort to derail Spector’s indictment. The odds against heading off the second trial are astronomically poor but efforts must be made to protect defense assertions during appeal should there be a conviction. The trial won’t happen until the stars align for judicial, prosecution and defense calendars. Another part of the equation is the health, career issues of the judge and lawyers involved. At least one prosecutor and the judge are under consideration for elevation within the system and that would require substitutions and a substantial delay. I suspect Judge Larry Paul Fidler brought too much attention onto himself during Spector’s first trial to be getting any serious consideration for an appellate position these days. Judges that become media or entertainment personalities are never welco...

Chicago --Yes, Alderman Richard Mell wanted a new window to register his guns including the one he can carry because of the office he holds. Daley normally fought this idea for over two decades. There can only be an ulterior motive for his change of heart. Chicago’s politicians know they will lose their gun ban because of that D.C. Vs. Heller to be decided any time by the U.S. Supreme Court. Daley also knows that if gun ownership is a right he can’t charge to register guns. I fully expect Daley to jack up the fees to fill the city’s coffers at the expense of lawful gun owners. If Chicago invites gun registration they will be able to misuse the gun owner data for future plans to harass gun owners.

Booking Photo From Will County Jail May 21, 2008 Bolingbrook, IL-- Drew Peterson just surrendered to Illinois State Police officers on an arrest warrant. He’s now charged with a highly technical gun law violation. Police now allege that one of Peterson’s rifles they took from him months ago is 3/8th of an inch too short. At the time the weapon was seized Peterson was a sworn member of the Bolingbrook Police Department and used the rifle as a member of the SWAT team. I don’t think they rounded up the other members of SWAT team that have identical weapons yet. Measuring barrel length is complicated and outside the training and ability of most cops. BATF agents and local cops have lost hundreds of cases against the people they’ve arrested because they measured improperly. This arrest was made for the sole purpose of making Peterson a person prohibited from owning firearms so they don’t have to return his seized weapons. They will succeed at least until he is cleared of the charge. Wi...

No, it’s not really new, I just discovered it. The title is misleading and is less about guns and more about those things we don’t understand like the Twilight Zone brought us so long ago. Mystical justice, poetic justice and the human element are showcased in the series with superb changing cast members. THE GUN This 1997 series is woven around a 19th Century Smith & Wesson, Schofield .44 Russian revolver. The gun is indeed rare and refreshing to see in films when the Colt Single Action Army stole the show long ago in Hollywood. The Schofield was remade in the 1990s by Smith & Wesson and copied well by gun makers, Uberti and Navy Arms. I suspect the one used in the show is a lightly engraved and gold inlayed Navy Arms offering. It’s really quite pretty. The Ed and Howard Speilman creation somehow was buried away at least from me until it resurfaced on SHOWTIME . At least I enjoy it now when I watch very little TV, that’s thanks to my trusty TV DVR. Kris Kristofferson narra...