It was Saturday, March 9ยน, 2024 when I made it outdoors for a progress check on construction of what they call the Westlake Extension of the Southshore commuter rail line. My home in the Edison Elementary neighborhood is less than a mile from the point where new rails meet the Little Calumet River. It is […]
One of the most frequent misquotes of the U.S. Constitution is that the familiar annual State of the Union speech is a constitutional requirement. While the topic is mentioned in Article II, there is absolutely no requirement of annual activity nor any requirement of a speech or a broadcast of the event. Here is the […]
The unkept promise of the bipartisan Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986 is that its amnesty for millions of undocumented (a/k/a illegal) immigrants arriving in the U.S. prior to January 1982 was supposed to be a one-time thing, a resolution to an immigration crisis so bad that it would never be allowed to occur again in the […]