I turned on Fox News and watched Laura Ingraham interviewing a State Senator from Illinois.  The State Senator wants to call out the National Guard to patrol the streets of Chicago, which has been enduring a running gun fight for months now in the city’s toughest neighborhoods.  Laura asked a simple question:  Why can’t the cops handle it?  The answer:  They are out-gunned and out-manned.

In Arizona, the news lately has been focused on the new law, aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants.  Lost in the spotlight has been the plaintive cry for help from those who live near the border:  Call out the national guard and help us patrol our streets.  Our police force is outgunned and outmanned.

In Afghanistan, the National Guard is only part of the elements that are in theater, fighting the Taliban.  But as they fight the Taliban, they are also fighting those who make a lot of money from heroin production.

In Washington, the Attorney General says that he won’t prosecute those who use marijuana.  The President says little about the carnage in his home town of Chicago, and blames the people of Arizona for passing a tough law that he calls “misguided.”  Read more...