Does "feeling" secure translate into "being" secure? Hardly. That doesn't stop some folks from blurring the line between the two to confuse people, including one movie theater owner in Woodridge, IL from selling snake-oil as effective medicine. "We have 40-plus cameras throughout the perimeter of the building...  We have alarm…

[caption id="attachment_17594" align="alignnone" width="546"] A screen capture of the News-Gazette online headline about protests at the Champaign County Fair.[/caption]   It was a public relations migraine headache for a county fair board in the middle of Middle America. Earlier this year, the Champaign County (IL) Fair Board tossed out the…

[caption id="attachment_17588" align="alignnone" width="658"] Marty Poling, the commander of the local DAV chapter, locked out of the beer garden at the Champaign County Fairgrounds that the DAV members built using volunteer labor and materials.  Note the weeds growing and general lack of upkeep since the veterans have been locked out. …

A 58-year-old social misfit went on a killing spree last night, attacking people at random inside a showing of the new movie "The Trainwreck" in Lafayette, LA. The theater has a "NO GUNS" policy, even for card-carrying good guys.  It made those law-abiding innocents sitting in that theater sitting ducks…

Illinois mandated reporting system isn't perfect, by a long shot. Here's one example where a mandated reporter perhaps overstepped her bounds in reporting Art Lovi for expressing his bitterness against doctors who misdiagnosed his wife's cancer almost ten years earlier.  From a story in the Daily Herald: After the session,…

by John Boch God bless America and the volunteers who have been stepping up to fill the void left by Obama's steadfast refusal to let America's armed forces defend themselves at home. While some guys standing outside a recruiting station are of questionable value to stopping a potential threat (and…

KIRO has a great report of a 70-year-old homeowner who used his 9mm pistola to shoot a man in his fifties Sunday afternoon in King County, Washington.  The recipient of the hot lead (three hits of five shots fired) had broken into the home and was pummeling the homeowner's 65-year-old…

How unsurprising: Obama seems law-abiding American gun owners as a security threat. WASHINGTON (Stars and Stripes) — The Army has warned its recruiters to treat the gun-toting civilians gathering at centers across the country in the wake of the Chattanooga, Tenn., shooting as a security threat. Soldiers should avoid anyone…

As if being a good Samaritan saving innocent life isn't already rife with risks for good guys, the Target store would like to add another:  Getting sued by Target for endangering customers. It would seem that Target would rather you let a lunatic with a knife hack a teen girl…

Volunteers across the nation are taking "Support our Troops" to a whole new level, standing guard outside recruiting offices nationwide to deter any copycats of the Islamic terror attack in Chattanooga last week. Why are they these gun owning Americans there? Because Barack Obama's administration steadfastly refuses to let our…