Clueless Jurors

It has been evident since the OJ trial that jurors are not up to the task. They do not understand the concept of reasonable doubt-specifically the definition of reasonable.  It is sad but prosecutors need to dumb down their arguments to the lowest common denominator and judges need to make clear to jurors what their obligations entail.

It was evident to most of us that Blago was a crook without the benefit of tape recordings. I am left to wonder where we’d be if party power brokers hadn’t thrown Paul Vallas under the bus years ago. Illinois has such a long way to go.

Pat Duggan

More Mosque

With September 11 fast approaching and so-called “leaders” not getting the core issues the Ground Zero mosque debate is not going to die down any time soon. Good. Let’s hope that it helps shed a little light about the downside of radical Islam and it’s 100 million adherents.

Mike Lupica has a great point here about the pompous hypocrite posing as mayor of New York City:

“Michael Bloomberg tells people where to smoke and where to walk in Times Square, how much fat they can have in their food, bullies anybody who gets in his way. Now anybody who disagrees with him on the building of this mosque is against freedom of religion and the First Amendment. Why? Because Bloomberg stamps his foot and says so, that’s why.”

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