Tim Trott’s Blog

I was sitting watching CNN tonight when I saw a fascinating statistic. In 2001, Afghanistan produced 12% of the world’s poppy crop. The poppy, as we all know, is the lovely flower that produces the key ingredient in heroin, opium. Today, our allies in the “war on terror” produce 93% of the world’s poppy crop. [...]

A few weeks back, United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald held a high and mighty press conference with every law enforcement agency present except the Chicago School Safety Patrol. He promised that serious charges were to be brought against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. No doubt still fresh from his conquest of Scooter Libby (when perhaps he [...]

Joe Carroll, Chester County District Attorney , has issued a press release about the unacceptable state of affairs in Coatesville, Chester County’s largest city. Plagued by violence, drugs, unemployment, poverty, an ineffective city government and a general neglect from the rest of our affluent county, Coatesville has, according to Carroll, reached a crisis point. To [...]