Classified Means Duty
The latest utterance from former Attorney General Eric Holder just demonstrates that this administration really doesn't have a clue, or worse, any respect for the sanctity of classified information. Holder, speaking of Edward Snowden, characterized Snowden as performing a "public service" in stoking a debate about secret domestic surveillance programs. These remarks, combined with the blatant disregard of security protocol by Hillary Clinton in using a private server, after s
American Prisoners of War-WWII
On this Memorial Day, I would like to remember the thousands of Americans who were tortured, beaten and killed as prisoners of the Japanese in WWII. Just one small account of Marine PFC. Glen McDole focuses on the horrors they endured. McDole was captured and sent to a Japanese prison camp. There he suffered appendicitis and if you couldn't work in the camps you were beaten and killed. So other Americans hid him and another prisoner who was a doctor, did an appendectomy on Mc
Sad- But Necessary
Unfortunately, a Silverback Gorilla was shot to death at the Cincinnati zoo. A four-year old boy had somehow entered the gorilla compound and the gorilla took hold of the boy after an original non-threatening encounter and began to swiftly drag the boy around the compound. The gorilla was an extremely powerful animal weighing over four hundred pounds. All the while, the child's mother kept yelling "mommy loves you" to the boy. There have been these encounters before and in s


Chicago Blue
As you celebrate this Memorial Day weekend please remember those in our Armed Forces who have paid the ultimate price. They lie in peace on sacred ground all over the world. Especially remember those who died alone, sick at heart, many captured, tortured, starved and murdered. Through their sacrifice we sit in peace with our loved ones on this beautiful weekend. Be they never forgotten. Also please keep in mind the hundreds of thousands of police officers on every level of La