A Clockwork Canada

Canada gets a lot of things right. One thing it inherently gets wrong on a consistently mind-blowing basis is criminal justice. It’s as though Canada believes itself so civilized that when it comes to dealing with criminals, the Crown acts as though it doesn’t even know what crime is.

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Caxton FX currency cards: Safeguard your travel money

No one wants the misfortune of being a victim of crime, especially when on holiday. So it’s important to plan things, like travel money.

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To Err Is Human, Except When It’s A Crime

Catastrophic accidents often are the product of an “error chain.” There are many intervening points at which disaster can be averted if someone makes a different decision. Of course, we do not hear about disasters that never happen, so we only become aware of error chains when they proceed to their awful conclusions.

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400 Prospect Park Residents Killed

Mass killing in Brooklyn: “It’s like a crime scene that they forgot to clean up."

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How The City of New York Screws You (And Then Makes You Pay)

Today I fell victim to a crime by my own city government. A little background: I own a big blue cargo van. It costs about a million dollars a day to park in Manhattan, so I usually end up fighting for a spot on some side street where it’s free.

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Suing Arizona

The federal government is suing Arizona for attempting to do what the federal government, by law, is supposed to do but won’t do. This is like a bad joke, but it’s deadly serious. The illegal alien problem with all its attendant crime and leeching of public money is horrendous in the United States, and Arizona is part of ground zero with Mexican dr

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The Blago Trial: Corruption and Crime for Primetime

Grab your popcorn and take a chair. No, it’s not an old episode of The Sopranos; it’s the all new Rod Blagovich Show. First, you’ve got a superstar cast with all the usual names involved, like Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, Andy Stern, Valerie Jarrett, Jesse Jackson Jr., and even Oprah Winfrey , Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Now, that has to be ra

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De-Stressing on the Big Day | Endless Beauty

In a matter of weeks, I’ll be celebrating my own nuptials and I’m already freaking out. It has nothing to do with marrying my partner in crime or whether the buttercream frosting on that four-tier cake might droop under the sweltering Kansas heat—no, it’s pretty much all the other ridiculous details that have me waking up in cold sweats at night.

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