Watch show host Jeff Berkowitz interview IL S CT Nominee Mark Curran (R-Libertyville), the GOP nominee in the November 8, 2022, election contest for the 2nd District Supreme Court seat.

The show starts airing around the State with it’s initial cable airing in Chicago on Cable Ch 21 (CAN TV) this Monday night, 8:30 pm and midnight and Tuesday night (as the lead segment of the Illinois Channel’s 2 hour package) at 9:03 pm.

If the GOP wins both the 2nd and 3rd District Supreme Court seats on November 8, 2022 (the seats are both purple), the IL GOP will have a majority (4-3) on the IL Supreme Court for the first time in 60 years.

The IL Supreme Court’s 2nd District consists of Lake, McHenry, Kendall, Kane, and DeKalb counties. Only IL registered voters who reside in those districts can vote in the IL 2nd District election.

Berkowitz and former Constitutional Law Professor Mark Curran discussed in Part 1 of the interview: abortion and Curran’s background, experience, and professional qualifications for the IL Supreme Court.

In Part 2, the discussion turned to Curran’s gut views and gestalt and the host’s perspective on detention by the courts of defendants prior to their trial, skyrocketing crime, guns, the July 4th Highland Park, IL tragic shooting, the IL Firearms Restraining Order Act, and the run-up to that awful July 4th massacre (which apparently could have been avoided by a more proactive IL STATE POLICE agency and STATE’S ATTORNEY OF LAKE COUNTY) in terms of the shooter’s and his family’s history in the prior three years, or so, in dealing with the Highland Park and Illinois State police (“ISP”).

Berkowitz and Curran discuss what law enforcement like the Lake County State’s attorney, the ISP and it’s Director, Mr. Kelly, did and did not do during the run-up to July 4th and raise the issue of whether they dropped the ball in terms of their handling of matters involving the July 4th shooter and his family.

During the show, Curran explains what he looks to for guidance in his interpretation of the U. S. Constitution and Constitutional Law doctrine regarding gun owner rights and related issues. Curran said he is not a “Textualist” or “Originalist.” Instead, he looks to natural law as his framework for understanding the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

IL Supreme Court GOP nominee (2nd District) Mark Curran said the issue of guns and mental health should be a priority of local and state law enforcement and prosecutors, but they apparently have not done that in the past. Curran said someone “Dropped the ball” on that issue.

Curran seems skeptical of the efficacy of assault weapon bans. He said: “They consider anything that is not a revolver an assault weapon and that is just an absurdity.”

IL S CT GOP nominee Mark Curran said, “I am not somebody who believes police can’t get better,” but he has never been a supporter of the “Black Lives Matter [Movement], so to speak.” Curran said those are “Just his general thoughts, not how he would rule on any case.”

Former Lake County Sheriff, Assistant IL Attorney General and Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Curran said some of those prosecutors who have “Taken Soros’ money and are letting everybody out [of prison and jail] and not prosecuting violent crimes the way they should- they are a danger to America.”

But, on the other hand, “The Judiciary doesn’t get to tell the Executive Branch [like prosecutors] how to run their offices,” Curran said.

You can learn more about Mark Curran by going to https://curranforcourt.com/

Follow Jeff @JeffBerkowitzPA

Keep up with Jeff Berkowitz: https://www.facebook.com/publicaffair…

Watch other recent and archived (for last 5 years) Public Affairs shows, e.g. GOP GOV nominee Darren Bailey, by looking around: https://www.youtube.com/illinoischann…

After a successful launch and six months of on-orbit testing and calibration, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is fully operational. A report published July 12, 2022, states that “JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built.”

During the six months of testing JWST made approximately 2,300 observations with its four science instruments NIRCam, NIRSpec, MIRI, and NIRISS, detecting spectra of transiting exoplanets, tracking solar system objects with high precision, detected faint galaxies, and observed objects as bright as Jupiter.

To celebrate this achievement and to show the public the capabilities of JWST, a group of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI selected four images and a set of spectroscopic data. The images and data were released during a live presentation on July 12 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The photos and descriptions below are courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

SMACS 0723: Webb has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far – and in only 12.5 hours. For a person standing on Earth looking up, the field of view for this new image, a color composite of multiple exposures each about two hours long, is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. This deep field uses a lensing galaxy cluster to find some of the most distant galaxies ever detected and only scratches the surface of Webb’s capabilities in studying deep fields and tracing galaxies back to the beginning of cosmic time.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

WASP-96b (spectrum): Webb’s detailed observation of this hot, puffy planet outside our solar system reveals a clear signature of water along with evidence of haze and clouds that previous studies of this planet did not detect. With Webb’s first detection of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, it will now set out to study hundreds of other systems to understand what other planetary atmospheres are made of.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Southern Ring Nebula: This planetary nebula, an expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star, is approximately 2,000 light-years away. Here, Webb’s powerful infrared eyes bring a second dying star into full view for the first time. From birth to death as a planetary nebula, Webb can explore the expelling shells of dust and gas of aging stars that may one day become a new star or planet.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Stephan’s Quintet: Webb’s view of this compact group of galaxies, located in the constellation Pegasus, pierced through the shroud of dust surrounding the center of one galaxy to reveal the velocity and composition of the gas near its supermassive black hole. Now, scientists can get a rare look, in unprecedented detail, at how interacting galaxies are triggering star formation in each other and how the gas in these galaxies is being disturbed.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Carina Nebula: Webb’s look at the ‘Cosmic Cliffs’ in the Carina Nebula unveils the earliest, rapid phases of star formation previously hidden. Looking at this star-forming region in the southern constellation Carina, and others like it, Webb can see newly forming stars and study the gas and dust that made them.

Josh Hawley ran when the mob broke in;

He didn’t raise his fist.

When his yang broke down and became his yin,

Self-preservation he couldn’t resist.

‘To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.’ Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I

Watch show host Jeff Berkowitz interview IL S CT Nominee Mark Curran (R-Libertyville), the GOP nominee in the November 8, 2022, election contest for the 2nd District Supreme Court seat.

The show starts airing around the State with it’s initial cable airing in Chicago on Cable Ch 21 (CAN TV) this Monday night, 8:30 pm and midnight and Tuesday night (as the lead segment of the Illinois Channel’s 2 hour package) at 9:03 pm.

If the GOP wins both the 2nd and 3rd District Supreme Court seats on November 8, 2022 (the seats are both purple), the IL GOP will have a majority (4-3) on the IL Supreme Court for the first time in 60 years.

The IL Supreme Court’s 2nd District consists of Lake, McHenry, Kendall, Kane, and DeKalb counties. Only IL registered voters who reside in those districts can vote in the IL 2nd District election.

Berkowitz and former Constitutional Law Professor Mark Curran discussed in Part 1 of the interview: abortion and Curran’s background, experience, and professional qualifications for the IL Supreme Court.

In Part 2, the discussion turned to Curran’s gut views and gestalt and the host’s perspective on detention by the courts of defendants prior to their trial, skyrocketing crime, guns, the July 4th Highland Park, IL tragic shooting, the IL Firearms Restraining Order Act, and the run-up to that awful July 4th massacre (which apparently could have been avoided by a more proactive IL STATE POLICE agency and STATE’S ATTORNEY OF LAKE COUNTY) in terms of the shooter’s and his family’s history in the prior three years, or so, in dealing with the Highland Park and Illinois State police (“ISP”).

Berkowitz and Curran discuss what law enforcement like the Lake County State’s attorney, the ISP and it’s Director, Mr. Kelly, did and did not do during the run-up to July 4th and raise the issue of whether they dropped the ball in terms of their handling of matters involving the July 4th shooter and his family.

During the show, Curran explains what he looks to for guidance in his interpretation of the U. S. Constitution and Constitutional Law doctrine regarding gun owner rights and related issues. Curran said he is not a “Textualist” or “Originalist.” Instead, he looks to natural law as his framework for understanding the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

IL Supreme Court GOP nominee (2nd District) Mark Curran said the issue of guns and mental health should be a priority of local and state law enforcement and prosecutors, but they apparently have not done that in the past. Curran said someone “Dropped the ball” on that issue.

Curran seems skeptical of the efficacy of assault weapon bans. He said: “They consider anything that is not a revolver an assault weapon and that is just an absurdity.”

IL S CT GOP nominee Mark Curran said, “I am not somebody who believes police can’t get better,” but he has never been a supporter of the “Black Lives Matter [Movement], so to speak.” Curran said those are “Just his general thoughts, not how he would rule on any case.”

Former Lake County Sheriff, Assistant IL Attorney General and Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Curran said some of those prosecutors who have “Taken Soros’ money and are letting everybody out [of prison and jail] and not prosecuting violent crimes the way they should- they are a danger to America.”

But, on the other hand, “The Judiciary doesn’t get to tell the Executive Branch [like prosecutors] how to run their offices,” Curran said.

You can learn more about Mark Curran by going to https://curranforcourt.com/

Follow Jeff @JeffBerkowitzPA

Keep up with Jeff Berkowitz: https://www.facebook.com/publicaffair…

Watch other recent and archived (for last 5 years) Public Affairs shows, e.g. GOP GOV nominee Darren Bailey, by looking around: https://www.youtube.com/illinoischann…

After a successful launch and six months of on-orbit testing and calibration, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is fully operational. A report published July 12, 2022, states that “JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built.”

During the six months of testing JWST made approximately 2,300 observations with its four science instruments NIRCam, NIRSpec, MIRI, and NIRISS, detecting spectra of transiting exoplanets, tracking solar system objects with high precision, detected faint galaxies, and observed objects as bright as Jupiter.

To celebrate this achievement and to show the public the capabilities of JWST, a group of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI selected four images and a set of spectroscopic data. The images and data were released during a live presentation on July 12 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The photos and descriptions below are courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

SMACS 0723: Webb has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far – and in only 12.5 hours. For a person standing on Earth looking up, the field of view for this new image, a color composite of multiple exposures each about two hours long, is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. This deep field uses a lensing galaxy cluster to find some of the most distant galaxies ever detected and only scratches the surface of Webb’s capabilities in studying deep fields and tracing galaxies back to the beginning of cosmic time.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

WASP-96b (spectrum): Webb’s detailed observation of this hot, puffy planet outside our solar system reveals a clear signature of water along with evidence of haze and clouds that previous studies of this planet did not detect. With Webb’s first detection of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, it will now set out to study hundreds of other systems to understand what other planetary atmospheres are made of.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Southern Ring Nebula: This planetary nebula, an expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star, is approximately 2,000 light-years away. Here, Webb’s powerful infrared eyes bring a second dying star into full view for the first time. From birth to death as a planetary nebula, Webb can explore the expelling shells of dust and gas of aging stars that may one day become a new star or planet.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Stephan’s Quintet: Webb’s view of this compact group of galaxies, located in the constellation Pegasus, pierced through the shroud of dust surrounding the center of one galaxy to reveal the velocity and composition of the gas near its supermassive black hole. Now, scientists can get a rare look, in unprecedented detail, at how interacting galaxies are triggering star formation in each other and how the gas in these galaxies is being disturbed.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Carina Nebula: Webb’s look at the ‘Cosmic Cliffs’ in the Carina Nebula unveils the earliest, rapid phases of star formation previously hidden. Looking at this star-forming region in the southern constellation Carina, and others like it, Webb can see newly forming stars and study the gas and dust that made them.

Josh Hawley ran when the mob broke in;

He didn’t raise his fist.

When his yang broke down and became his yin,

Self-preservation he couldn’t resist.

‘To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.’ Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I

Watch show host Jeff Berkowitz interview IL S CT Nominee Mark Curran (R-Libertyville), the GOP nominee in the November 8, 2022, election contest for the 2nd District Supreme Court seat.

The show starts airing around the State with it’s initial cable airing in Chicago on Cable Ch 21 (CAN TV) this Monday night, 8:30 pm and midnight and Tuesday night (as the lead segment of the Illinois Channel’s 2 hour package) at 9:03 pm.

If the GOP wins both the 2nd and 3rd District Supreme Court seats on November 8, 2022 (the seats are both purple), the IL GOP will have a majority (4-3) on the IL Supreme Court for the first time in 60 years.

The IL Supreme Court’s 2nd District consists of Lake, McHenry, Kendall, Kane, and DeKalb counties. Only IL registered voters who reside in those districts can vote in the IL 2nd District election.

Berkowitz and former Constitutional Law Professor Mark Curran discussed in Part 1 of the interview: abortion and Curran’s background, experience, and professional qualifications for the IL Supreme Court.

In Part 2, the discussion turned to Curran’s gut views and gestalt and the host’s perspective on detention by the courts of defendants prior to their trial, skyrocketing crime, guns, the July 4th Highland Park, IL tragic shooting, the IL Firearms Restraining Order Act, and the run-up to that awful July 4th massacre (which apparently could have been avoided by a more proactive IL STATE POLICE agency and STATE’S ATTORNEY OF LAKE COUNTY) in terms of the shooter’s and his family’s history in the prior three years, or so, in dealing with the Highland Park and Illinois State police (“ISP”).

Berkowitz and Curran discuss what law enforcement like the Lake County State’s attorney, the ISP and it’s Director, Mr. Kelly, did and did not do during the run-up to July 4th and raise the issue of whether they dropped the ball in terms of their handling of matters involving the July 4th shooter and his family.

During the show, Curran explains what he looks to for guidance in his interpretation of the U. S. Constitution and Constitutional Law doctrine regarding gun owner rights and related issues. Curran said he is not a “Textualist” or “Originalist.” Instead, he looks to natural law as his framework for understanding the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

IL Supreme Court GOP nominee (2nd District) Mark Curran said the issue of guns and mental health should be a priority of local and state law enforcement and prosecutors, but they apparently have not done that in the past. Curran said someone “Dropped the ball” on that issue.

Curran seems skeptical of the efficacy of assault weapon bans. He said: “They consider anything that is not a revolver an assault weapon and that is just an absurdity.”

IL S CT GOP nominee Mark Curran said, “I am not somebody who believes police can’t get better,” but he has never been a supporter of the “Black Lives Matter [Movement], so to speak.” Curran said those are “Just his general thoughts, not how he would rule on any case.”

Former Lake County Sheriff, Assistant IL Attorney General and Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Curran said some of those prosecutors who have “Taken Soros’ money and are letting everybody out [of prison and jail] and not prosecuting violent crimes the way they should- they are a danger to America.”

But, on the other hand, “The Judiciary doesn’t get to tell the Executive Branch [like prosecutors] how to run their offices,” Curran said.

You can learn more about Mark Curran by going to https://curranforcourt.com/

Follow Jeff @JeffBerkowitzPA

Keep up with Jeff Berkowitz: https://www.facebook.com/publicaffair…

Watch other recent and archived (for last 5 years) Public Affairs shows, e.g. GOP GOV nominee Darren Bailey, by looking around: https://www.youtube.com/illinoischann…

After a successful launch and six months of on-orbit testing and calibration, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is fully operational. A report published July 12, 2022, states that “JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built.”

During the six months of testing JWST made approximately 2,300 observations with its four science instruments NIRCam, NIRSpec, MIRI, and NIRISS, detecting spectra of transiting exoplanets, tracking solar system objects with high precision, detected faint galaxies, and observed objects as bright as Jupiter.

To celebrate this achievement and to show the public the capabilities of JWST, a group of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI selected four images and a set of spectroscopic data. The images and data were released during a live presentation on July 12 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The photos and descriptions below are courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

SMACS 0723: Webb has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far – and in only 12.5 hours. For a person standing on Earth looking up, the field of view for this new image, a color composite of multiple exposures each about two hours long, is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. This deep field uses a lensing galaxy cluster to find some of the most distant galaxies ever detected and only scratches the surface of Webb’s capabilities in studying deep fields and tracing galaxies back to the beginning of cosmic time.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

WASP-96b (spectrum): Webb’s detailed observation of this hot, puffy planet outside our solar system reveals a clear signature of water along with evidence of haze and clouds that previous studies of this planet did not detect. With Webb’s first detection of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, it will now set out to study hundreds of other systems to understand what other planetary atmospheres are made of.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Southern Ring Nebula: This planetary nebula, an expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star, is approximately 2,000 light-years away. Here, Webb’s powerful infrared eyes bring a second dying star into full view for the first time. From birth to death as a planetary nebula, Webb can explore the expelling shells of dust and gas of aging stars that may one day become a new star or planet.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Stephan’s Quintet: Webb’s view of this compact group of galaxies, located in the constellation Pegasus, pierced through the shroud of dust surrounding the center of one galaxy to reveal the velocity and composition of the gas near its supermassive black hole. Now, scientists can get a rare look, in unprecedented detail, at how interacting galaxies are triggering star formation in each other and how the gas in these galaxies is being disturbed.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Carina Nebula: Webb’s look at the ‘Cosmic Cliffs’ in the Carina Nebula unveils the earliest, rapid phases of star formation previously hidden. Looking at this star-forming region in the southern constellation Carina, and others like it, Webb can see newly forming stars and study the gas and dust that made them.

Josh Hawley ran when the mob broke in;

He didn’t raise his fist.

When his yang broke down and became his yin,

Self-preservation he couldn’t resist.

‘To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.’ Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I

After a successful launch and six months of on-orbit testing and calibration, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is fully operational. A report published July 12, 2022, states that “JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built.”

During the six months of testing JWST made approximately 2,300 observations with its four science instruments NIRCam, NIRSpec, MIRI, and NIRISS, detecting spectra of transiting exoplanets, tracking solar system objects with high precision, detected faint galaxies, and observed objects as bright as Jupiter.

To celebrate this achievement and to show the public the capabilities of JWST, a group of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI selected four images and a set of spectroscopic data. The images and data were released during a live presentation on July 12 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The photos and descriptions below are courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

SMACS 0723: Webb has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far – and in only 12.5 hours. For a person standing on Earth looking up, the field of view for this new image, a color composite of multiple exposures each about two hours long, is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. This deep field uses a lensing galaxy cluster to find some of the most distant galaxies ever detected and only scratches the surface of Webb’s capabilities in studying deep fields and tracing galaxies back to the beginning of cosmic time.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

WASP-96b (spectrum): Webb’s detailed observation of this hot, puffy planet outside our solar system reveals a clear signature of water along with evidence of haze and clouds that previous studies of this planet did not detect. With Webb’s first detection of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, it will now set out to study hundreds of other systems to understand what other planetary atmospheres are made of.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Southern Ring Nebula: This planetary nebula, an expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star, is approximately 2,000 light-years away. Here, Webb’s powerful infrared eyes bring a second dying star into full view for the first time. From birth to death as a planetary nebula, Webb can explore the expelling shells of dust and gas of aging stars that may one day become a new star or planet.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Stephan’s Quintet: Webb’s view of this compact group of galaxies, located in the constellation Pegasus, pierced through the shroud of dust surrounding the center of one galaxy to reveal the velocity and composition of the gas near its supermassive black hole. Now, scientists can get a rare look, in unprecedented detail, at how interacting galaxies are triggering star formation in each other and how the gas in these galaxies is being disturbed.

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Carina Nebula: Webb’s look at the ‘Cosmic Cliffs’ in the Carina Nebula unveils the earliest, rapid phases of star formation previously hidden. Looking at this star-forming region in the southern constellation Carina, and others like it, Webb can see newly forming stars and study the gas and dust that made them.