FERGUSON: PART I

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Why did I title this “Ferguson, Part I”? Because we all KNOW there’s going to be more than “one part” to whatever happens when the Grand Jury announces their determination of the facts based on...

FERGUSON PART III: THE FIRE THIS TIME

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“No good ever came of mass emotion. The audience that’s easily moved to tears is as easily moved to sadistic dementia.”  -- P.J. O’Rourke   We’d have to be hermits not to know what happened in...

WHY WE CARRY GUNS

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A pleasant senior citizen couple living out the remainder of their golden years in a quiet, bucolic place. A madman. Bad combination. See the link below, sent to me this morning by a nationally respected police...

THREE WEEKS LATER…

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Three weeks ago today, on Sunday June 8, I was in the fourth day of a MAG-40 class in Kankakee, Illinois. Among other topics of the day, I warned the students that one of...

FERGUSON PART II: THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG

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As I watched the prosecutor live, announcing the grand jury’s verdict, I watched the ripple of rage go through the crowd outside, seen on the CNN split-screen.  Soon, the rocks and bottles were flying,...