A twenty-four year old Wheaton, Illinois resident was arrested for making e-mail threats against the University of Illinois-Chicago campus. Mahtab Shirani was nabbed on Tuesday by members of the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), according to John W. Richardson, Chief of the University Police Department.
Shirani was charged in a criminal complaint filed in […]

Four years ago, I wrote a column titled, “Run, Ralph, Run!” It was in response to consumer advocate Ralph Nader running for president. At the time, no better information could have fallen upon the ears of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in 2004 than the news that Nader was running once again. Similarly, that same news […]