A Good Year for the Outlaw

About a mile south of Kewanee, a friend of mine has a nice little used car lot. Every once in awhile, heading South on my commute, I glance over to check his inventory and see, way in the back, darn near 100% hidden from the view of passing traffic, a Henry Co. deputy, backed into [...]

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So I’m heading North on an Illinois State Route last night (that shall remain nameless as to not get me harassed) and the vehicle – an SUV as judging by the height of the headlights – coming towards me has what appear to be very bright headlights shining at me. So I flick the oncoming [...]

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View Sheriff Mike Scott in action
It’s been five days now since a Florida Sheriff appeared onstage, while in uniform and on duty, and violated U.S. Law (The Hatch Act) in publicly endorsing a political candidate.
Is he still on the job? Has he been properly suspended while under investigation? Inquiring minds, and people who aren’t [...]

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Let me first state I think Phil Luciano is a great columnist, and I am always entertained by his writing style, and “get it” when it comes to Phil’s sense of humor. He’s damn good at what he does in the paper.  But I take, shall we say, significant umbrage at yesterday’s baloney-filled column about speeding [...]

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This morning, I was offered “court supervision” instead of having my recent traffic ticket show up on my MVR for my insurance agent to see. What is “court supervision”? It sounds serious. Do I have to come to class? Well, no. Do I have to call in and report my whereabouts? Nope. Do I have [...]

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Good. State Police officers are going to be running a DUI Crackdown over the holidays, as they usually do. I’m glad. Of course, I wish they would crack down diligently like this ALL the time, and not just around the Holidays, but they only get so much Federal grant money to help them pay for the [...]

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Another white guy, another legally obtained gun (he was a police officer!), another six senseless deaths. When you count the gunman, the total rises to 7.
Wisconsin horror.
When is it going to stop? When are we, as a society, going to open our eyes and grow up? Amazing. Sickening. But “don’t take away my gun”, right? Whatever.

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You decide.
Is this normal?

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So a man in Farmington gets stopped on a riding mower and gets arrested for driving on revoked license. Driving what?
Then,  in the comments section, there’s a bunch of “hang ‘im”-type responses, calling the man a drunk and a menace. He may be those things, (his license was revoked for DUI), but on this day he [...]

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Yet another tragic loss in Tazewell County, and yet another report by law enforcement that it was a “speed related” accident. First, that’s a copout (pardon the pun). For two vehicles to collide, at least one must be moving, therefore, traveling at a “speed”…2 MPH is technically a “speed”. So, all accidents could be called [...]

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