I can almost say that most of the people I’ve known who were murdered were lawyers. Do you recall the name Jay Given? How about Clarence Banning? And more recently we have William Enslen¹ murdered. These lawyers practiced in Hammond and East Chicago. For Jay Given and Clarence Banning, no one was ever charged with […]
Should there be an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip? What about the Israeli hostages held since October 7, 2023? Should a ceasefire be conditioned on their release? Since the murderous border incursions of October 7th and the concurrent torrent of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza City, it seems that Israel has been carrying […]
It was Saturday, March 9¹, 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 […]
We have all seen them, the pathetic old bastards in public life who have been getting away with bad (and criminal) behavior for most of their lives. Then at an age when they should be kicking back to enjoy a retirement funded with ill-gotten gains of earlier years, there comes (at last) a criminal charge […]
As of this frigid mid-January we are faced once again with the prospect of a federal government shutdown for want of a budget or another Continuing Resolution (“CR”) authorizing deficit spending. The CLB has already declared the theme of the 28th Amendment (which is not yet written or proposed officially). So this Article is about […]
During this early December time of remembrance of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbor some 82 years ago there comes to mind what is no more than a footnote in some out-of-print history book. The topic is coined “Back Door to War” by one Charles Beard. The theory of Mr. Beard has just a dash […]
Has chivalry risen from the grave? Has woman’s lib withered on the vine? The context here is the ongoing (as of this writing on 11/28/23) holding of hostages in Gaza by Hamas militants in the wake of their October 7th attack on Israel. As of this writing there are hostages being released by Hamas and […]
On this second day of November 2023 the SCOTSI handed a public reprimand to Attorney General Theodore (Todd) Rokita for intemperate and untrue extrajudicial statements made by him while trying to soak up publicity as a hero to the anti-choice crowd in the days following the 2022 SCOTUS reversal of Roe v. Wade. While Ohio […]