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The weekend before President Obama’s planned farewell address was a good one by Chicago’s violent standards — only one person was killed by gunfire and eight others were wounded. As Mr. Obama returns home Tuesday to deliver his final speech as president, Chicago is in the grips of a soaring homicide rate and reeling from a horrific black-on-white torture hate crime that was captured on video. Over Christmas weekend, 12 Chicagoans were killed in a total of 27 shootings. Amid criticism that the president and his former chief of staff, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have failed for eight years to address...

LLM's Truth Truck was impounded yesterday by the Detroit City Police, and Dennis Green, director of Life and Liberty Ministries, was arrested, cuffed and taken to jail. LLM's Truth Truck arrived in town on Friday and met with immediate opposition from the Detroit Police Department. On Friday evening, Dennis Green was issued a ticket for having no vehicle registration even as the ticketing officer held the reistration in his hand. Even though a supervisior was on the scene and was made aware of the bogus ticket, he refused to intervene and chose rather to let the injustice occur. On Saturday,...

http://204.228.236.37/Opinion/columnists/story.asp?ID=9958 Popkey: Libertarian wants to serve in D.C. — if he can take his machine gun Forget Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” A newcomer to Idaho politics has another plot in mind. Should Steve Gothard become the first Libertarian ever elected to Congress, his biopic would be called, “Mr. Smith & Wesson goes to Washington.” Gothard is challenging GOP Rep. Butch Otter and former U.S. Attorney Betty Richardson, a Democrat. But he says he won´t serve unless he gets a waiver of the District of Columbia´s tough gun-control laws, allowing him to carry his Smith & Wesson...