Eradicating Robocalls Once and For All

April 8, 2019

Say, here’s an idea for something Congress can do while they anxiously await release of the Mueller report. How about doing something to directly – and positively – help countless millions of Americans every single day? Stop all those %&*#@!* robocalls that plague us once and for all! No one on the planet welcomes a…

The Stark Lessons After Mueller

April 1, 2019

We are just emerging from a traumatic nearly two-year-long poltiical drama that will surely be written about in history books. It has created a national schism that’s left permanent scars including between disagreeing family members, political parties and the public’s trust of the media. While the so-called Russian collusion scandal has not yet played out entirely,…

 Mugshots Live on – Even For the Not Guilty

March 25, 2019

When the mass shooting suspect was led into a Christchurch, New Zealand courtroom photographers captured his shackled image.  The judge then ordered that the face of Brenton Harris Tarrant, accused of the worst mass murder in New Zealand history, be blurred from public view to insure he gets a fair trial. What a quaint judicial…

Immigration:  Crisis or Not – It is a Problem

March 18, 2019

So, what is the reality about immigration into the United States? Is it the “humanitarian crisis at the border” some speak about or is it, as others maintain, nothing much to worry about since apprehensions along the Southwestern border are now at an all time low? Both statements are correct – to a point. Border…

A Primer on Pedophiles

March 11, 2019

People worldwide have now watched the HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland” featuring two men who said, as children, they were repeatedly sexually abused by Michael Jackson.  The documentary delved into how such abuse can occur, a predator’s methods and the lifelong damage it can do to a child victim.  I’m not convinced most Americans truly understand…

The State of Hate in the U.S.

March 4, 2019

Is America really full of hate? Are we truly a nation teeming with victims? Outsiders could certainly come to that conclusion after digesting the steady stream of agitated comments from activists and politicians and media reports about the divisive state of our interpersonal relationships. Hate speech, hate crimes, violence perpetrated by hate groups – all…

Gun Owners Have Rights – and Responsibilities

February 25, 2019

Guess how many stolen guns are out there floating around America? (Hint: its in the millions!) These are guns that most frequently make their way to the criminal element and are used with impunity because the shooter knows it will be difficult to tie to them to the weapon. Imagine the trouble this causes law…

His Name Was Bobby

February 18, 2019

Now we have a name.  After two agonizing decades, the ‘Boy Under the Billboard’ case I wrote about last year has finally been solved.  But in determining the identity of the strangled 10-year-old boy, abandoned under a highway billboard, sheriff’s detectives also unraveled a dark family mystery. His name was Robert “Bobby” Whitt, a boy…

Time to Retire the Perp Walk

February 11, 2019

Let’s talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. It’s the walk of shame for a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case that’s top of the headlines or soon will be. As police move the handcuffed prisoner from place to place both the public and the media are allowed to be…

How Many More Might Accuse Michael Jackson?

February 4, 2019

The landscape has now changed on a story I first began reporting some two decades ago and newly released details demand an update to the sad saga. Two men have come forward to discuss, in graphic detail, what they say was their years-long sexual abuse at the hands of entertainer Michael Jackson. Their claims spill…