If Chicago had been run by Republicans for decades, and its mayor were George W. Bush’s former chief of staff, the city’s horrendous level of carnage would be the top domestic story of last year, this year, and every year.  It would become a symbol of our national shame.  Every shooting death would gain national coverage. But hey, it’s the Dems who have ruled a one-party system there for as long as anyone alive can remember.  So never mind. Still, the fact that it took less than five hours for the city to record two deaths in a dramatic fashion is telling.  But much more telling is that 14 other people were shot in Chicago but didn’t die (yet) before the two fatal shootings just a few hours into the New Year. Crime in Wrigleyville and Boystown reports: Chicago’s first two homicide victims of 2017 were shot to death in an Uptown “restaurant,” less than five hours into the new year. The two “shot...(Read Full Post)