Month: November 2015

  • What a relief!

    Earlier I read that ISIS publicly praised a Muslim man who went on a California stabbing spree. A student who ‘smiled’ as he stabbed four people inside a classroom at the University of California, Merced, before he was killed by police has been identified. Faisal Mohammad, a freshman from Santa Clara who majored in computer…

  • A Hero In Blue

    Fox Lake Police Officer Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz had a hero’s funeral. In a final tribute punctuated with military tradition and pageantry, police from across the country on Monday honored a fallen Fox Lake officer who was shot on the job as he neared retirement. Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was laid to rest with full…

  • It Is Always A Mistake

    And now some news from the former East Germany. Former East German bureaucrat Guenter Schabowski, who died Sunday aged 86, went down in history for a slip of the tongue in 1989 that inadvertently brought down the Berlin Wall. He had this to say about socialism (take note Bernie Sanders). Schabowski, who was married to…