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“The gangs have their guns; we want ours, too.” That sentiment, voiced by Otis McDonald — the plaintiff in the lawsuit that reversed Chicago’s ban on handguns — is now echoed in a new analysis of data revealing where holders of concealed-carry permits in the city are most densely concentrated. The Chicago Sun-Times studied the occurrence of CC permits within each of Illinois’ ZIP codes, and found that the heaviest concentration of permitted gun owners resided in some of the Chicago’s most racially diverse neighborhoods. “Chicago’s highest concentration of permits is in the 60617 ZIP code — in the East Side neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side — with 538 permits,” The Times found. “According to the census, about 55 percent of the residents in 60617 are black, 34 percent are Hispanic and 7 percent white.” That finding appears to confirm what McDonald (who died last year at age 80) had been saying all along. “This is what Otis McDonald was telling us before ...

North Carolina single mother Marie Holmes, who won the $188 million Powerball lottery in February, was arrested on July 23 for marijuana possession. Officers also arrested three other people from her home in Shallotte, North Carolina, reports WBTW. Holmes took home a lump sum $88 million after taxes in February, according to WWAYTV3. When she won, the 26-year-old single mother reportedly quit both of her jobs at Wal-Mart and McDonald's to care for her four young children, one of whom has cerebral palsy, notes WBTW. Although three children were at the house at the time of her arrest, Child Protective Services was not involved. Public Information Officer Emily Flax with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office stated that Lamar Andre McDow, 31, who lives with Holmes, broke his curfew in violation of his pre-trial release agreement for heroin trafficking and possession charges. When police arrived at Holmes’ residence to arrest McDow, they smelled marijuana, so they obtai...

by Tanya L Green "…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing’ therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live." --Deuteronomy 30:19 (NKJV) On the crisp, sunny, fall Columbus Day in 1999, organizers of the "Say So" march approached the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. The marchers, who were predominantly black pastors and lay persons, concluded their three-day protest at the site of two monumental cases: the school desegregation Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade "rights" in t he latter–converged in the declaration of Rev. Johnny M. Hunter, the march’s sponsor and national director of Life, Education and Resource Network (LEARN), the largest black pro-life organization. ‘"Civil rights’ doesn’t mean anything without a right to life!" declared Hunter. He and the other marchers were protesting the disproportionately high number of abortions in the bl...

If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they're wrong -- plain and simple. That's because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly 75 years ago. Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened. Searching under the heading of "riots," "Oklahoma" and "Tulsa" in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone and accurate accounting of it, in any other "scholarly" reference or American history book. That's precisely the point that noted author, publisher and orator Ron Wallace, a Tulsa...

David Ben-Gurion ( Hebrew : דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן ‎; pronounced  [daˈvɪd ben gurˈjo:n]  ( listen ) , born David Grün ; 16 October 1886, Płońsk – 1 December 1973, Tel Aviv , Israel ) was the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel . Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism , which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was the de facto leader of the Jewish community in Palestine , and largely led its struggle for an independent Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine . On 14 May 1948, he formally proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel , and was the first to sign the Israeli Declaration of Independence , which he had helped to write. Ben-Gurion led Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and united the various Jewish militias into the Israel De...