By Doug Wyllie Standing at a distance—and not even a particularly great distance at that—an objective outside observer might surmise that the political “powers that be” in San Francisco are intentionally trying to drive their city and its citizens off the edge of a tall cliff. San Francisco’s current descent into the abyss began nearly Read more »
By Doug Wyllie It reads like a plot from a “crime drama” on Amazon or Hulu or Netflix—except it was a real plot, in the real world, with a real victim, real perpetrators, and real consequences. In the small hours of the morning in early March 2018, police responded to a “shots fired” 911 call Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Late last week, police in Nevada ended a weeks-long search for a man who had fled after he reportedly raped a 16-year-old girl. Court documents indicate that the rape allegedly occurred—in a place called Bountiful, Utah—”while the victim was asleep and was forceful.” Almost immediately after committing the sexual attack, 36-year-old Christopher Read more »
By Doug Wyllie In the early hours of the day on an early day in July, an innocent 31-year-old husband and father of four was gunned down in a senseless and seemingly random violent crime in our Nation’s Capital city. Nasrat Ahmad Yar had spent much of his adult life working in service to the Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Larry Krasner is in the news again. This makes Larry Krasner happy. Larry Krasner will tell you he’s not happy—he’ll appear stern and serious and surly, act incensed and irate and ill-tempered—but when he’s in the news, Larry Krasner is happy. This is because with only rare exceptions, Larry Krasner is all Read more »
By Doug Wyllie There’s something in the air in Chicago and—like the poor air quality from the Canadian wildfires—it isn’t good for the health of its residents. It’s bullets—lots and lots and lots of bullets. According to the Chicago Sun Times, as of the last day in June there have been 289 victims of homicide Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Photo by De an Sun on Unsplash Sitting astride the DuPage River about 30 miles west of Chicago, the City of Naperville is a pretty prototypical semi-affluent suburb. For the nearly 150,000 residents, it’s close enough to the Windy City for a reasonable daily commute to work, and far enough away to Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Serious philosophers, theologians, and scholars rightly have wrestled with the serious questions of government power, justifiable war, the death penalty, and killing another in self-defense. None of these deep thinkers include Associate Justice Troy K Webber of New York State’s Appellate Court. When NYPD Sgt. Patrick Marsteller sued for Read more »
By Doug Wyllie In early June, a series of more than 200 wildfires began to break out in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Ever since then, the air quality index (AQI) over a massive swath of the United States has been something akin to ancient Pompeii the day after Vesuvius popped. In New Read more »
By Doug Wyllie It’s no longer evening but it’s not yet nighttime in the very northwestern corner of the Vermont Knolls section of South Los Angeles. The atmosphere isn’t out of the ordinary. In fact, as the time approaches for the local ten-o’clock news broadcast on this Tuesday in late May, most of the adults Read more »