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Meet Brent Larkin, the old-school radical newspaper editor who rose through the ranks to become the editorial director at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer for almost 20 years.  The Plain-Dealer, barely a shadow of its former self, has Brent Larkin to thank in part for its market decline. Back in the day,…

Back in January, a brazen thug in Chicago thought he was going to disarm an off-duty female cop physically much smaller than him. Surveillance video of the incident has now been released. The brazen bad guy thought he was going to easily disarm the off-duty young female. “Bitch, give me…

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall does a really good job playing the female version of Sgt. Schultz.  "I know nothing!  I see nothing!"  And upon reading her decision carefully, it's clear she's trying to overturn the Bruen decision from last summer.     The slow-witted federal jurist is about to feel…

Illinois State University's Gamma Phi Circus will take place on Friday, April 21st and Saturday, April 22nd at Redbird Arena in Normal.  This is the oldest collegiate circus in the nation and it's a breathtaking, fun-filled time for the entire family.  How good is it?  It's easily worth the trip…

Today we bring some gritty combat footage from Ukraine, as a single courageous Ukrainian soldier defends a trench from Russian invaders.  In the span of 38 seconds, the Ukrainian soldier probably dispatches five or six Russians, minimum. There is no sound, but it's not exactly safe for work or kid…

Bzzt! Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul lost yet again Thursday when US District Court Judge Stephen McGlynn rejected the AG's motion for more time to prepare a response to our motion for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the new Illinois Firearms Ban Act. We shared just recently that the…

There's stupid and there's weapons-grade stupid. And then there's Keith Olbermann.  The guy almost made it from reporting on grade school and high school football games to the bigtime with his own prime-time news and commentary show. Then he lost it - both the show and his grasp of reality.…

This Saturday, Feb. 18th, the HOOAH Deer Hunt For Heroes organization will hold their 2023 kickoff at the Bloomington, IL VFW (1006 E. Lincoln, Bloomington).  The organization helps veterans with service-related disabilities in so many ways, including providing them a network of friends and a sense of purpose. Guns Save…

Our old buddy Lil' Dick Durbin called for a federal ban on America's favorite rifle, the AR-15 and millions more like it, in the aftermath of a mass murder spree committed with a handgun by a career felon prohibited from legal gun ownership. Once again, gun control like that proposed…

For a long time, a lot of people in Chicago grew into adulthood thinking that only cops and criminals had guns. After all, we all see police with their openly-worn sidearms on a regular basis and we constantly hear from the media about the criminal misuse of firearms in news…