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 »
By Doug Wyllie On Christmas Eve 1987, a 10-year-old girl was savagely sexually assaulted and then stabbed to death—left lying naked in a second-floor bedroom of her family’s home the South Jamaica section of Queens, New York. The brutal rape and murder of little Vanessa Broughton shocked a population ostensibly desensitized to incidences of violence Read more »
By Doug Wyllie The names Kevin Walls and David Kohls can now be added to an inauspicious list of individuals walking free due—in part, at least—to so-called “progressive reforms” of the American criminal justice system. In the span of just a few days in April, the Ohio Parole Board granted freedom to those two violent Read more »
By Steve Pomper Disgraced former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Racheal Rollins Woo Hoo! I enjoy it any time I get to use the German word Schadenfreude because that’s what I am feeling. It means taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune. I know that sounds despicable and perhaps would be if it didn’t involve someone, well…, so despicable. Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Late last month, a career criminal with a history of violence—including incidents resulting in charges of assault, assault with a deadly weapon, and attempted murder—was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a 40-year-old father of two named Dennis Banner. Banner’s family contends that the accused killer should have never been Read more »
By Doug Wyllie When the average American thinks of Utah, things that may come to mind typically include the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Great Salt Lake. The sports fan will recall Merlin Olsen, Stockton-to-Malone, and the Winter Olympics. The “foodie” will dream of Pastrami Burgers, Funeral Potatoes, and Fry Sauce. Read more »
By Doug Wyllie In August 2021, the New York State Board of Parole terminated at six years the 10-year prison term of a man convicted of attempted robbery. The Board had apparently determined that Benjamin Abrams—known also by aliases Marty Freeman and/or Conrad Hilton—had served enough time behind bars, and should instead be placed on Read more »