All Eyes on GOP Front Runners

All eyes are on GOP Front Runners to see what silly new trick might they pull off on each other next.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich are not only fighting over who's the better GOP candidate, they're fighting over pretty much everything, starting with immigration.

It's still the same old dirty politics: Find all the mud you can on the guy who's running against you and on a nice sunny day throw it on him in an attempt to make him look bad. Seriously guys, do you think that is how you're going to win the office of the president?

Apparently, these two candidates can't stop fighting each other long enough to agree on any of the issues that they're supposed to be getting together to defeat the incumbent President, Barack Obama on.

Against Each Other...

Romney and Gingrich are so busy fighting each other over issues that few American people care about that they are missing the whole purpose for wanting to be the president.

This type of foolishness only shows how far removed from the problems of the average American citizen these guys are.

Let's do a little polling of our own: Do you think Romney and Gingrich have the issues of the American people on their agenda?

50-year-old woman chases, corners, lectures robber

Thou shall not steal. And one Chicago woman went to great lengths Friday to impart it.

A 50-year-old woman gave a robber a religious lecture early Friday after chasing him for almost a mile and cornering him in an alley, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The woman was riding a Chicago Transit Authority bus in the Loop just after midnight when police said Jenar Sanders, 18, swiped her wallet from her purse, jumped off the bus at Huron and State streets and made a run for it.

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Trailing Sanders, the woman alerted others as she ran down the street, according to the Tribune. A hotel staff member at the Omni Hotel and the CTA bus driver notified police, officers said.

The race came to a quick halt when police said Sanders ended up cornered in an alley off Superior Street between Wabash Avenue and Rush Street, surrounded by the victim and others who had joined the chase.

“She kept telling him God didn’t want him to steal her wallet,” a police source told the Tribune.
Sanders, who is 6-foot-3 and weighs 270 pounds, was arrested by two officers at 12:35 a.m. The woman is 5-foot-8 and a little more than half his weight.

“The woman’s lucky," a police officer told the Tribune. "She grabbed him. She was lucky this guy wasn’t a violent guy. They had him in an alley without an exit. He’s a fairly substantial man.”

Authorities say Sanders admitted to the crime and was charged with theft.

NBCChicago.com's Shawna Hendrix and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

No Respect

Rodney Dangerfield was one of America's funniest comedians. Dangerfield was known for the phrase, "I don't get no respect." It seems as though the then popular phrase has impacted the lives of Americans as respect has literally become a thing of the past.

Not so very long ago most Americans would have considered it a shameful act to disrespect another person. That was a time when people felt that the elderly were citizens worthy of respect just because they were older. In those days everyone had great respect for school teachers, because we believed the future of our children, and the future of our nation was in their hands.

Back then people had respect for the church because it represented the one place where we were sure to find good, and God. Even the church building was held in high regard to even the lowest of vandals; it was a holy place in the community so to speak. Today, people break into church buildings and pilfer them as though they were nothing more than corner liquor stores; some robbers will even interrupt a church service and rob the people who have come to worship at gunpoint.

Although Christ never forced anyone to do anything against their will, we brand ourselves as a Christian Nation, following the letter of the law of God zealously, all the while doing the complete opposite of what Christ did, by forcing others to conform to our views, all in the name of God.

We create laws that make abortion a crime, and banning gay marriages as if to say that God is in need of our help to run the planet. Should we demand that all people think alike, and be alike forcing them to adhere to a so called "Christian" standard of moral living? While we demand respect, should we not also be willing to respect the differences in culture, sexual preferences, race, and the spiritual beliefs and preferences of others?

As for our leadership, how can they, pretending to be blind, justify their ability to lead an entire nation who can see their corrupt hearts?

The office of the Presidency is the most noblest position in America, but most Americans no longer respect the office nor the authority of the President. Many men have occupied this office, many of whom the majority of the nation have totally disagreed with, but never before in the history of this great nation have citizens disrespected the office of the Presidency of President Barack Obama with such hatred and malice as to equate our leader with an ape.

When will we realize that respect demands respect? We are truly living the real life tragedy of Rodney Dangerfield's joke line, "I can't get no respect."