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Lake County Sheriff John Buncich was sentenced to 15-plus years in prison. Finally, an appropriate sentence. Hopefully this will make some of the other crooked politicians re-consider their ways.
We have a Hobart Township Board member that might lose his position due to several felony DUIs. But we have a Lake County board member still there after several domestic violence violations. Why the discrepancies?
Democracies don’t just die, people kill them. We have way too many apathetic people that just sit back and allow the corrupt people to take over. This is a dangerous practice.
Did the White House doctor check for bone spurs? Because I don’t think they have bothered him lately … I’m thinking in like 50 years or so.
White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee said if Trump is a racist “Why did NBC give him a show for a decade?” Probably the same reason they gave a show to sexual abusers Matt Lauer and Bill Cosby, I guess.
A Lake Station City Court Clerk has been ordered to repay $1,271 after she made unauthorized withdrawals. First, the office was wrong for only having one person in charge of banking. But most importantly, just repaying the missing money is not enough. Some jail time is in order, as this problem keeps happening.
A Quickly commenter said it was terrible to deport the man from Detroit back to Mexico. Please tell me why in 30 years he didn’t take the time to become legal? The news also said that he started the process in 2006. You tell me what stopped him from finishing that process.
Trump’s first year in office: 111 vacation days, 89 golfing trips and $90,000,000 of taxpayer money wasted.
Like I tell my kids “You can choose to do whatever you wish…However, you don’t get to choose the consequences of those choices. You don’t like the consequences …then change your words and actions.” Life lessons usually learned in kindergarten.
Finally, Senator Cory Booker told a liar that “Your silence and amnesia are complicity” when Kirstjen Nielsen feigned not remembering the president’s vile language.
I have a son that is 6’3″ and 235 pounds. I look at him every day, and trust me, the president in nowhere near that height and weight. He is dreaming.
In case anyone cares, a cognitive screen is not the same thing as a psychiatric evaluation.
Mayor Snedecor, keep your officers on a short leash or else I go to the feds. I am sick of tired of seeing your officers drive like maniacs. Tell them to knock it off with the gung-ho attitude.
Steve Bannon is going to be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. I wonder if Mueller will “crack him like an egg?”
DACA is a sensible program launched by President Obama. That’s why Trump is against it. Trump doesn’t like anything that makes sense or that has anything to do with Obama. It’s as simple as that.
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