Though Doc Brown, Marty McFly and that wonderful DeLorean are not readily available to take us back to Chicago again, there are more than a few similarities between our nation, the Windy City today and that bloody DNC Convention of 1968.

Among the highest prizes in Presidential electoral politics is having your term or terms of office coincide with the opportunity to make U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointments.

The night of his visit to the Ford Theatre, to see a play which would not finish, second-term President Abraham Lincoln was working on a plan to establish a Secret Service, not for the purpose of Executive Protection, but to protect and ensure against the circulation of fraudulent currency.

The energetic New Castle County Councilman was only 29, when he decided to challenge Republican two-term U.S. Senator and former two-term Governor, J. Caleb Boggs for his Senate seat.

Our father, my sisters and I spent the better part of three-years with our mother during that slow, halting walk into her sunset.

"Abit Massey was the very best Governor that Georgia never had," said close friend and longtime Gainesville, Georgia neighbor, former Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.

As a gun owner, and someone who has been the victim of violent crime, I am well aware that our police, sheriff deputies and law enforcement personnel cannot be everywhere at once.

Near universal infrastructure, among the envy of much of the developed and developing countries of the world, remains a strong American calling card, particularly as we moved ‘the peaceful transition of power’ out of the way.