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The conviction of former Chicago gang member José Padilla on August 16, 2007, has stirred up great controversy. Even some who understand the threat that radical Islam poses to the security of the American people have argued that the treatment of a U.S. citizen as an “enemy combatant” was a legally dubious action on the part of the federal government, and Padilla’s conviction of “conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim persons in a foreign country,” when no such murders, kidnappings, or maimings have taken place, moves federal law into uncharted legal territory.

From the beginning, however, the true significance of Padilla’s arrest at O’Hare International Airport on May 8, 2002, has been lost in the debates about civil liberties and the extent (if any) of Padilla’s connections to Al Qaeda. If, as many counterterrorism experts are arguing, the case of Derrick Shareef—who planned to wage “violent jihad” on the largest ... Read More...

Please forgive the clumsy pun in the title. You should know something of this remarkable man. Duncan Hunter was born on May 31, 1948, in Riverside, Calif., where his father was a real estate developer. He and his wife, Lynne, have two sons–one a Marine artillery officer who served two tours in Iraq–and several grandchildren. He left college to join the army, and served in Vietnam as a paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne bigade from 1969–1971. He received the Air Medal with clusters for participating in 24 airmobile assaults with that outfit. Gen. Chuck Yeager said this about Duncan Hunter. “Duncan is the best candidate for President that I know of- he has integrity, tenacity, courage, and diplomacy. I have known Congressman Duncan Hunter for over 35 years. Duncan served his country in the Army and is a Vietnam vet. In Vietnam, he served in one of the most dangerous ... Read More...

Each time I walk toward the Loop from the rail station, I’m hit by panhandlers including Larry, saying they’re hungry and homeless.

With the abundance of social services in this city, why are they reduced to begging on the street?

. I submit that the loosening of morals, the break up of the family and the rising tide of divorce after 1960 is the root of the problem. The liberal acceptance of drugs, and the “do it if it feels good” attitude emerging from the “Beat” culture of the 1950s and the hippy generation that followed made the world what it is today. When I see a grainy film clip of 1960s “love-ins,” “be-ins” and images of communal living, I wonder how many of those “Haight-Asbury utopians” who dropped out of society to live in a hippy-dippy drug-haze in 1967 where no rules or regs applied, are today part of ... Read More...

The Chicago Tribune, posted a list of Frank Lloyd Wright sites lifted from a1996 Era Website.

Here is another list of Wright Architectural, this time with a map of where these sites are located.

Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Insitute of the Arts
Dana Thomas House, Springfield, IL
Westcott House Springfield, Ohio

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