Justice Department Announces First Federal Arrests in Chicago Under ‘Operation Legend’
BY JANITA KAN The Justice Department (DOJ) announced that three people had been federally charged this week for offenses related to illegally possessing guns or ammunition in Chicago, Illinois—the first federal arrests made in the city in connection to the department’s “Operation Legend.” The three arrests come after the Trump administration announced on Wednesday the expansion of the department’s […]
Radical Activists Plan Weekend Protest Outside Chad Wolf’s House Over Portland DHS Deployment
ANDREW KERR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER A radical climate activist group announced Friday it will hold a march and rally outside the Virginia home of Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf on Sunday in retaliation to the recent deployment of DHS officers to Portland. “The Department of Homeland Security, under the leadership of Acting Secretary Chad […]
Ventura and Chicago linked by the removal of statues in the middle of the night
By Michael Hernandez In Ventura: City officials chose to remove the Junipero Serra statue in the middle of the night reportedly at 3 a.m. on Wednesday (July 22). Nothing but the pedestal remains along with the chain link fence and three signs: An Official City Sign: “Closed by order of City Manager: No Trespassing.” An […]
Trump Announces Surge of Federal Agents to Chicago, Albuquerque to Combat Rise in Violent Crime
BY JANITA KAN President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday a surge of federal law enforcement will be sent into Chicago, Illinois, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of efforts to combat a recent surge in violent crime in those cities and restore public safety. The announcement represents an expansion of a Justice Department (DOJ) program—known as “Operation Legend”—to […]
Trump Vows to Send Federal Agents Into Cities Facing Violence
BY JACK PHILLIPS President names Chicago, Detroit, New York, Baltimore, Oakland, and Philadelphia President Donald Trump on Monday said his administration will send more federal law enforcement personnel to major cities facing a surge in violence. “New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore … we’re not going to let this happen in our country,” Trump told reporters in […]
Police Chief ‘Furious’ At Smollett Case Dismissal
Grace Carr | Reporter . The Chicago police department is reportedly furious after the state dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who allegedly staged a fake hate crime against his person. “Empire” actor Smollett, 36, was arrested and charged in February for allegedly filing a false police report which claimed he was attacked, splattered with a chemical substance and put […]
Jussie Smollett Has All Charges Dropped Against Him
By JOSHUA CAPLAN Attorneys for Empire actor Jussie Smollett announced Tuesday morning that charges alleging he filed a false report with Chicago police regarding a hate crime against himself have been dropped. Smollett attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said in a statement that the actor’s record “has been wiped clean.” Smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts […]
Starbucks thinks virtue signaling can “save the planet”
By Paul Driessen I’d just passed the local Starbucks in Chicago, when my cell phone buzzed to say the Washington, DC City Council had unanimously agreed “in a preliminary vote” to require that 100% of the District’s electricity must come from renewable sources by 2032. How can they put hundreds of wind turbines and solar […]
Blacks vs. Police
By Walter Williams Let’s throw out a few numbers so we can put in perspective the NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Many say they are protesting against police treatment of blacks and racial discrimination. We might ask just how much sense their protest makes. According to The […]
L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE — Life and Death in Today’s Chicago
. By L. Neil Smith It is long past time that somebody _sane_ considered the problem of violent crime in the nation’s “Second City”. This is not brain science; it is not rocket surgery. The unfortunate metropolis’s 762 shooting deaths in 2016 alone, its 4378 shootings (not very good shots in Chicago, are they?), are […]
