The White House wants to archive user comments on their Facebook, MySpace, etc. pages. CNSnews reports that some people seem to think this is a threat to privacy...but others don't agree.

Rio Di Janeiro will be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. I am relieved that it won't be Chicago. I am amused that Chicago was the first city eliminated from the running. Perhaps the IOC (International Olympic Committee) saw some of what I saw?

Read this article if you'd like to know about a another boy beaten in a Chicago neighborhood last night. To be honest, I think this is only making the news because of the pending Olympic question. It happens here all the time.

Chicago's culture breaks people up into two categories -- criminals and victims. There is a culture that associates strength and accomplishment with victimizing others. It exists in some form everywhere, but here in Chicago it is dangerously wide-spread because of the other culture -- the apologists, the victims.

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The following is an open letter to my fellow Americans, and to our representatives in both houses of the legislature. I have sent this to my congresspersons and senators individually, and I post it here for the benefit of my readers. It is distributed under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to use it or pass it on with attribution.

The rallying cry for so-called health care "reform" goes something like this: Think of the uninsured! Think of the small businesses! Think of the single mothers! Think of the children! Anything must be better than what we have. This is effective only as long as we blindly accept that anything is better, making it pointless to evaluate what is really being offered.

As an uninsured, small business employed, single mother concerned for the health and well-being of her six-year-old child, I feel compelled to tell the side of the story being most ignored -- that of the people this legislation promises to help.