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March 31, 2025
Astronauts carefully tell the truthButch Wilmore and Suni Williams set out on an eight-day mission to the International Space Station and ended up stranded there for nearly a year. Biden’s Handler’s Administration, and its media propaganda arm, went to great lengths, even ...
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March 30, 2025
The 9th Circuit prepares to be reversed againWhat is a “high-capacity magazine?” Circa 2025, it’s a firearm magazine anti-liberty/gun cracktivists think they can get away with banning. At the moment, they're limiting capacity to ten rounds and the usual blue...
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March 30, 2025
Tim Walz really is a knuckleheadOh dear, did we dodge a bullet when Tim Walz wasn’t elected. For a reminder, go to my home blog and enter “Tim Walz” in the home page search bar. Walz, a serial liar and self-described “knucklehead,” addressed a townhall...
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March 29, 2025
Newsom and Walz struggle to appear normalThe political makeover of Gavin Newsom proceeds apace. He recently seemed to agree that Trans boys beating the hell, figuratively and actually, out of girls in sports wasn’t exactly fair. Talk, of course, is cheap, and to date, Newsom hasn...
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March 29, 2025
Criminal attack? You're on your own.My first article for American Thinker, on 12-13-23, was The police won’t protect you; you’re on your own. It was about Castle Rock v. Gonzales (US Supreme Court, 2005). On June 22, 1999 at 5:00 PM in Castle Rock, Co...
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March 29, 2025
Anti-Trump lawfare: yes, it's a conspiracyFederal judges across the country are being cherry picked in a jurisdiction shopping scheme in furtherance of Democrat’s lawfare campaign against President Trump. Its goal is to use Democrat judges who can be relied upon to ignore the Constitut...
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March 28, 2025
Snow White: a bomb for the agesYears ago, I was watching Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. Then playing Magnum PI, Tom Selleck was featured and Carson asked him a political question. Selleck replied his job was to play people he wasn’t as well as he could, s...
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March 28, 2025
Mass shootings: we're all survivors!Remember the “missing children” craze of decades past? Photos of moppets appeared on milk cartons, and the numbers of supposedly “missing” kids were so high cooler heads eventually began asking questions and it was quickly dis...
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March 28, 2025
Tesla and a secondDo you remember the 2020 “Summer of Love?” Early in that glorious summer, as America’s blue cities, beginning with Minneapolis, exploded in colorful reds and yellows, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, responded to various loving “oc...
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March 28, 2025
A visit to DOGEAt DOGE.gov, the merry elves of DOGE regularly post what they’ve been doing. The actual, rather than rhetorical, transparency is shocking. In its volume and breadth, the outright fraud, theft, incompetence and arrogance is as jaw-dropping ...
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March 28, 2025
Bill Maher goes civilAmong the many beliefs necessary for membership in the contemporary Democrat Party is the Party’s political enemies must never be “normalized.” How could it be otherwise with a Party that claims a brief, minor riot at the Capit...
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March 28, 2025
Katherine Maher shoots herself, and NPR, in the footI used to regularly listen to NPR. And then Car Talk went off the air. I loved those guys. Not only did they know their stuff, they took their work but not themselves seriously, laughed uproariously and unlike much of what NPR put on the ai...
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March 23, 2025
The FBI flees the FBII’ve been writing about the amazingly corrupt and illegal practices of the FBI for years, including recently in The FBI hides evidence of being the FBI, a cautionary tale about FBI agents destroying incriminating evidence of their misdeeds: ...
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March 23, 2025
Think USAID was bad? You ain't seen nothin' yet.Have you heard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)? If not, that’s unsurprising. It is a 230-employee agency that supposedly mediates disputes between unions and businesses, but that mediation is “voluntary.” It...
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March 22, 2025
Judges: to impeach or not to impeach?A few days ago, District Judge James Boasberg, one of nearly 700 local judges, ordered several plane loads of violent, murderous gangbangers, already in the air on their way to El Salvador, to be returned to America. Boasberg had no idea where t...
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March 22, 2025
Gangs or judges: perhaps they can both lose?President Trump has ejected several plane loads of some of the worst gangbangers on the planet. They’re currently residing in a real prison, one without the protection of the ACLU. They FAFOd and aren’t enjoying the experience....
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March 16, 2025
ActBlue smurfs its way to oblivionActBlue is very much in the news these days. The invaluable Discover the Networks explains: Inspired by the grassroots fundraising network that Howard Dean assembled during his 2004 presidential bid, ActBlue (AB) is an ...
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March 16, 2025
Why aren't Johnny and Suzie reading?We are constantly subjected to reports indicating only X% of 4th grade students in X blue city are reading at grade level. Let’s say that number is 18%, which is easily within the normal range of such reports, which probably means the numb...
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March 15, 2025
Dem violence and manhoodThe Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) Party is playing with fire and they’re too deranged and dimwitted to realize it burns everyone. Take the case of Vice President J.D. Vance and his three-year-old daughter: Graphic: X Screens...
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March 15, 2025
A track attackI remember sportsmanship. I’m a lifelong athlete, and during my high school days was among the top handful of sprinters in my state. I ran relays, passing batons among three other sprinters. The idea that we would come into contact with other r...
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March 9, 2025
Rescuing astronauts who aren't stranded in spaceIn June of 2024, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing’s Starliner. This was unfortunate, but unlike some of Boeing’s atmospheric products, not quite deadly. The Starliner d...
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March 9, 2025
A trans compromiseThe democratic process is supposedly based on compromise. Everyone gets something, no one gets everything, and most Americans are reasonably satisfied. I’m paraphrasing, but Ronald Reagan observed that getting 80% of what you want is a win. Unl...
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March 9, 2025
Was Biden aware of anything?What if everything a POTUS signed while in office wasn’t actually signed by that POTUS? What if somebody else signed all those executive orders, all those laws, all those proclamations, all that stuff? What if someone just had an auto...
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March 8, 2025
Michelle Wu sets a new criminal-enabling standardImagine you’re the mayor of any big city. How can you, with as little effort as possible, make your city a crime-ridden hellhole? What else, after all, is the primary function of a big city mayor in America circa 2025? Always, defund th...
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March 8, 2025
California tries to tear down the Castle DoctrineA few decades ago the movement for concealed carry began. Anti-liberty/gun cracktivists were outraged. There would be wild west gunfights everywhere! The streets would run with blood! Of course, none of that happened. More recently, the Con...
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March 2, 2025
DOJ: who really runs the Executive Branch?Attorney General Pam Bondi has already begun cleaning house at the DOJ. "On her first day in office, [Attorney General Pam Bondi] announced the creation of a 'Weaponization Working Group,' purportedly intended to root out ...
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March 2, 2025
Leave guns to the professionalsIn December of 2024, in Secret Service Secret Marksmanship, I took to task the unnamed Secret Service Agent who fired at least six shots at the second Trump wannabe assassin from a distance of only a few feet and missed every shot. One woul...
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March 1, 2025
Cartels are daring Trump to go ISIS on themMexican cartels have been operating in America for decades. Their operatives, smuggling people and drugs over the border, have long trespassed on American rancher’s lands, cutting fences, littering, raping women, shooting livestock and pets and...
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March 1, 2025
Patel and Bongino: will the FBI survive?The FBI is a subordinate agency of the DOJ, hence, both are under the head of the Executive Branch, the POTUS. History.com explains: On July 26, 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is born when U.S. Attorney General C...
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February 28, 2025
Our crashing, rusty NavyNormal Americans have noticed many of the inestimable benefits of the Harris/Biden DEI years. To be fair, Barack Obama gave Biden’s handlers a real leg up on DEI, but the handlers really ran with it. Among the most noticeable of those "ben...
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February 28, 2025
Women's college volleyball: trans strike backIn January, in Trans college volleyball: the season ends, the lawsuits begin, I wrote: The college women’s/trans volleyball season has ended, but the trans wars continue. San Jose State University’s (SJSU) trans player, Blaire F...
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February 28, 2025
Military merit: Hegseth doubles downI remember the first day of basic training in the USAF in the early 70s. We were shuffled into a room where a long line of barbers unceremoniously and rapidly shaved everyone’s hair. Scalp showing, hair not and layer upon layer of mul...
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February 28, 2025
Washington Post staff reject liberty and free marketsSo, A POTUS—excuse me, a Republican POTUS--is prohibited from running the executive branch of the federal government and is an unconstitutional dictator if he tries. And now we learn the owner of a newspaper is violating th...
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February 27, 2025
The FBI hides evidence of being the FBIImagine you’re an operative for a government law enforcement agency gone Stasi. Your power over the lives of others is near-absolute. You can destroy anyone who even thinks of opposing you or your political masters. You no longer expose yoursel...
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February 27, 2025
Hamas is sorry--they're getting hammeredA recent Harvard/Harris Poll had disturbing, if not surprising, results. A group of 2443 Americans were asked whether they supported Israel or Hamas. Of that number, 77% supported Israel—that’s encouraging—while 23% supported H...
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February 27, 2025
Train robbery in the age of Biden's handlersFile this one under the “and this surprises you because…?” Department. It’s long been known criminals have gone wild in Los Angeles and California in particular. During the years of Joe Biden’s handlers, photo...
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February 26, 2025
Citizens stop armed attackers; the FBI liesIn October of 2024 in FBI Credibility? I wrote, in part: John R. Lott, the President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, drives Democrats/socialists/communist (D/s/cs) crazy. He does it the old-fashioned way: he does factual, hone...
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February 26, 2025
The DC mid-air crash: DEI everywhereMuch has been written about the mid-air collision of an airliner and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac off Reagan Washington National Airport. This is among the most congested airspaces in America, yet the Army has, for decades, routed he...
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February 26, 2025
Democrats swear to swearMuch has been written about the coarsening of our society. Actions and images that would once have been thought beyond the pale are now so ubiquitous as to be unremarkable. The tastefully rendered airbrushed breasts of Playboy eventually ga...
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February 26, 2025
The Trump Cabinet meets; Elon Musk makes senseThe second Trump Cabinet had its first meeting on February 26, 2025. Unlike the Biden Handler’s Administration, this is expected to be a regular event, and the First Lady wasn’t in charge, not that a woman of Melania Trump’s abiliti...
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February 25, 2025
Hollywood, Donald Trump doesn't make you stinkFrom what I can see out here in Flyover Country, not many Americans are terribly interested in Hollywood’s latest fare. Tom Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible offering wasn’t up to its preceding chapters. The Star War...
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February 25, 2025
Yosemite: the public isn't going to like that Mr. RangerYosemite National Park is roughly in the middle of California near its eastern border, closer to Nevada than it is to San Francisco. It’s one of America’s many natural wonders, lovingly and iconically photographed by Ansel Adams. Yosem...
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February 25, 2025
Higher education behind enemy linesAll too often at American Thinker we focus on exposing what’s wrong. That’s necessary to be sure, but in so doing we tend to overlook all the good that’s being done out there. It’s particularly easy to ignore the good in educa...
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February 25, 2025
DC swamp dwellers panic and flee the swampThere are several pithy phrases that well describe the ignoble actions of people with guilty consciences: “rats leaving a sinking ship,” and “cockroaches scurrying under the fridge when the kitchen lights come on,” among ...
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February 25, 2025
Susan Rice misleads Americans againSusan Rice was the UN Ambassador and behind the scenes Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) whisperer who blatantly lied about the Benghazi attack. She claimed the murder of multiple Americans was just a protest over a video that got out of hand. Ric...
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February 24, 2025
The Democrats' Failed Anti-DOGE NarrativesAmerican Thinker subscribers will have already read this essay in the American Thinker Digest, the subscribers-only, weekly email filled with essays from American Thinker editors. To read more essays like this, subscribe here. Democrats/...
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February 24, 2025
Did DEI contribute to the Delta/Endeavor crash?On February 17, 2025 Delta Airlines/Endeavor Air flight 4819 crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport. Its right wing slammed into the ground flipping the aircraft upside down. Miraculously, no one died. Of the 80 on board at least 21 we...
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February 24, 2025
Media fails; NBC settlesIn 2020, MSNBC talking heads had a story too good to check. It combined advocacy for illegal immigration and allegations of horrendous governmental abuse of illegal immigrant women, a Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) twofer, until it blew up in N...
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February 24, 2025
The People's Republic of Colorado wants to ban them allAmong the decades old semi-jokes told around Colorado was labeling Boulder “the People’s Republic,” for its Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) tendencies. The joke became less funny as those tendencies became holy writ and spread ...
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February 24, 2025
Donald Trump takes down Maine's GovernorDonald Trump is unlike any previous politician. He’s certainly unlike any previous President. Politicians, particularly at the highest levels, normally keep hard realities and words behind closed doors. Quizzed later, they characterize such con...
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February 23, 2025
Jesus Christ Superstar goes queerJesus Christ Superstar hit the world of theater and music in 1971 when I was in high school. It was among the first rock operas. Among my many musical pursuits back then was singing and playing guitar and bass in a sort of Christian Up With...
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February 23, 2025
DOGE alert: our troops are being robbed and starvedOn January 8 of this year, I wrote Does DEI require starving our troops? It was a report on the shameful and evil starving of our troops at multiple military installations around the nation. Most chow halls were closed, and those few that wer...
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February 23, 2025
The Ivanpah death ray dies with a whimper--and our cash“Renewable,” “sustainable” energy was supposed to be the salvation of mankind. It promised cheap, unlimited energy more than sufficient to meet all mankind’s present and future needs, and to successfully address the existential threat of global cooli...
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February 23, 2025
The Glock switch distractionOn January 1 of 2024, AT posted Glock switches: let the buyer beware. In that article I wrote: A “Glock Switch” is a small device that replaces the slide-in plate at the back of a Glock’s slide. It supposedly allows slide-in, f...
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February 23, 2025
Islamist terror: coming to a town near you?This falls into the “you really couldn’t see this coming?” department: Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was shot and killed in South Africa over the weekend, as authorities investigate whether the murder was a hate c...
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February 23, 2025
The AP's feelings get hurt; it's a First Amendment crisis!The Associated Press (AP) makes its money selling stories to other media outlets. It pays “stringers”—reporters and photographers—around the world to submit stories, which it makes available to its subscriber outlets who can...
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February 22, 2025
Guns: preempting the preemptorsPreemption, in the world of firearm law, is a rational necessity. State preemption laws reserve the full scope of gun regulation for state legislatures. No city or county within a state may regulate firearms. This keeps Democrat/socialist/communis...
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February 22, 2025
In the case of Hamas v. HumanityThe Bible says: “thou shalt not kill,” doesn’t it? Actually, it doesn’t. The correct translation is “thou shalt not murder.” Our criminal law, the law of all civilized nations, flows from this understanding. It...
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February 16, 2025
New Jersey bans safe, effective ammunitionAmong the things at once hilarious and alarming to those who understand and support the Bill of Rights—all of it—are the efforts of anti-liberty/gun cracktivists. This includes not only the operatives of anti-gun groups whose normal disco...
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February 16, 2025
False claims: universities can't make them anymorePresident Trump’s team is not only overtly overturning the lunatic wokeness of Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) they’re being deceptively subtle. Trump’s executive orders have banned DEI and other forms of wokeness in the fe...
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February 15, 2025
A warrior's Secretary of DefenseThe argument Pete Hegseth wasn’t qualified to be Secretary of Defense was always nonsense. There are no statutory qualifications. The SecDef serves at the president’s pleasure and is expected to implement his agenda. But he lacks exp...
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February 15, 2025
Changes: the President and the pop starBarack Obama once smugly intoned: “elections have consequences.” He, like all Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs)--and Thanos--thought themselves inevitable, invulnerable, intellectually and morally superior beings destined to rule o...
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February 9, 2025
Is Trump criminalizing 'trans identity'?It was one of Donald Trump’s campaign promises, one of many that got him elected. As Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are discovering to their horror, he keeps his promises, promises like this executive order: It is the polic...
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February 9, 2025
Kristi Noem: not all hat and no cattleRemember the Border Patrol whipping controversy back in 2021? Mounted Border Patrol agents were photographed “whipping” poor illegal immigrants at the southern border. Photographs of the agents corralling Haitian illegals, their “wh...
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February 9, 2025
Trump imposes sanity on a green EV marketThe Electric Vehicle (EV) doom loop has been closing for several years. As I noted in California: electric vehicles are on fire!, California’s most recent wildfires exposed, yet again, EVs manifold weaknesses. Among them are: *1000-pound bat...
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February 9, 2025
Ibram X. Kendi: last of the race hustlers?The Civil Rights Movement has been a historic American success, and Americans of good will have always been glad for it. But playing the race card has, for many, been a ticket to money and infamy. Jesse Jackson perfected the tactic of extort...
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February 9, 2025
The Second Amendment: new Trumpian opportunitiesAs Barack Obama sneered, elections have consequences. Among them, with Donald Trump’s reelection, is a new respect for the Second Amendment, the part of the Bill of Rights that secures the rest. For the first time in many years, there is real p...
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February 9, 2025
Rathergate at 21Among the self-imagined elite of the media “too good to check” denotes a story they know is almost certainly a lie, but so neatly matches their prejudices and preconceptions, and so beautifully supports whatever narrative they’re cu...
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February 8, 2025
Tone deaf, anonymous FBI agents sueJust when you think the FBI couldn’t be any more public relations tone deaf, they toss out another, even more, discordant composition. One would think FBI agents would be soooo proud of their January 6 work. After all, the DOJ and FBI bragged J...
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February 8, 2025
The radioactive Mark MilleyPoor retired General Mark Milley. In Mark Milley: pardons and mutiny and in General Milley may face consequences after all, I noted Milley appears to have violated multiple articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). One—mutiny...
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February 8, 2025
We know who was in charge of America...or do we?Mark Twain said: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Among the things honest, normal Americans want to learn is who, exactly, has been running the coun...
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February 8, 2025
Late stage Trump Derangement Syndrome and reverse psychologyOne of the apparent symptoms of late-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is susceptibility to blatantly obvious reverse psychology. Even the Communist Chinese eventually came to realize their “one child” policy wasn’t such a grea...
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February 2, 2025
The uncivil service objects to TrumpThe President of the United States is the head of the executive branch. Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution says: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. Section 2 speaks more specifically t...
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February 2, 2025
A college dean's plagiarism excused?Like all Americans, I have the utmost trust in the integrity and honesty of University Administrators. OK, you got me. Like most Americans, I think whenever their lips are moving they’re lying. I think they lie in their sleep. The invaluab...
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February 2, 2025
Elon Musk to the rescue!When there’s no NASA ship, In the neighborhood, Who you gonna call? ELON MUSK! Graphic: Ghostbustermobile. Wiwkimedia Commons.org. CCASA 2.0 Generic. OK, so it doesn’t have quite the rhythmic/poeti...
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February 1, 2025
Eighteen blue state attorneys general betray AmericaIn October of 2024, in Mexico sues American gunmakers, I wrote: Did you know Mexico is suing American gun manufacturers? Mexico, the country laughing at Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for their immigration fecklessness? The failed state run by drug...
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February 1, 2025
Biden leaves spies for Trump to ferret outIt was Ann Coulter that helped rehabilitate Senator Joseph McCarthy. Among others, she proved McCarthy was right: our government really was shot through with communist spies and sympathizing useful idiots. They were particularly thick and effective i...
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February 1, 2025
Reforming the FBI the smart wayI last wrote about the FBI on January 19, 2025 in The FBI sweeps DEI under the rug. An excerpt: It would seem since 2012, that was not the way things worked with the FBI, the agency that would have us believe it is the world’s pr...
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January 31, 2025
New Jersey declares war on the State PoliceDefunding the police is not the only way to degrade, demoralize, and hamstring a police force. Politicians have the power to regulate them into ineffectiveness, to prevent them from using entirely constitutional investigative tools. To convince offic...
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January 31, 2025
General Milley may face consequences after allOn January 22, in Mark Milley: pardons and mutiny, I argued a case against General Mark Milly for mutiny, which carries a penalty up to death. Of course, the argument was academic as Milley was given a blanket, preemptive pardon by Joe Biden’s ...
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January 31, 2025
Newsom negligence and the California fires: it's worseJust when you thought Gavin Newsom’s fecklessness and malice in the most recent California wildfires was as bad as it could get, there’s always more and worse. This time, there’s confirmation that in 2024 Newsom disbanded a highly t...
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January 31, 2025
The FBI raids the wrong house, updatedI’ve been rather hard on the FBI in recent years, but only in response to such grossly unprofessional, and arguably illegal conduct I’ve had no choice. As I’ve so often written, I’d like to believe the majority of field agents...
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January 30, 2025
Amy Wax: Penn's antisemitism is going to cost themI wrote about Amy Wax in September of 2024 in UPenn and Amy Wax: double standards. Graphic: Amy Wax, C-Span Screenshot As the September AT post notes, Penn has been harassing Wax for years. Her offense? She’s Jewish, conservative...
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January 30, 2025
Will California succeed in secession?Kurt Schlichter has a series of novels—eight thus far—based on the premise America has split into blue and red countries. In his first book—People’s Republic--his protagonist Kelly Turnbull, formerly Army Special Ops, makes a ...
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January 30, 2025
A whistleblower beats the Garland DOJAmong the features, not bugs, of the Harris/Biden maladministration was putting the full force of the federal government behind every LGBTQ issue, with a double helping of trans. Biden’s handlers were determined that the overwhelming majority o...
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January 30, 2025
Larry Krasner: the lawfare is strong in this oneTrump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a debilitating disease. Among its most pathetic sufferers is DC Judge Tanya Chutkan who presided over Donald Trump’s election interference trial. Her anti-Trump bias was no less fiery than that of prosecutor ...
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January 29, 2025
A Schlichter prescription for military reformKurt Schlichter is a retired US Army Infantry Colonel, a LA trial attorney and a prolific writer, producing not only Monday and Thursday articles at Townhall.com, but is seemingly everywhere else on the Internet. He’s also the author of the pop...
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January 29, 2025
J6 pardons: it's the brownshirts!Totally ignoring Joe Biden’s crime family pardons, Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are shocked and alarmed: It’s the end of “our democracy!” Trump has freed an army of violent brown shirts to do his bidding!...
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January 29, 2025
Antioch: a school shooting fades fastAmong the many things most Americans don’t know is how rare armed attacks on schools really are. Considering the sheer number of public and private K-12 schools—115,171 circa January, 2025--how could it be otherwise? But we keep hearin...
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January 29, 2025
Trump on Mt. Rushmore? Yuuuuge!Mt. Rushmore, the Shrine of Democracy. It’s perhaps America’s most iconic monument, a “statue” of such scale Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) thugs can’t tear it down, and since it’s at the top of a mounta...
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January 26, 2025
Black feminist math equals lowered IQsIt is often observed that students across the nation, but particularly in the schools of large cities and blue states, are learning little. It’s not uncommon to discover huge portions of kids in those cities can’t read, write or do math and many grad...
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January 26, 2025
Maryland goes full crazy in chasing out policeAmericans paying attention are aware of last-minute, desperate, pre-Trump, Biden DOJ attempts to force consent decrees on the Minneapolis and Louisville police Departments. Thus far, those efforts to emasculate the police have not been successfu...
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January 25, 2025
The ATF tries to save DEI and gets caughtI’ll not take any credit for predicting federal agencies would do anything to retain their DEI bureaucracies. And why wouldn’t they? Even if their administrators weren’t DEI true believers, and most probably were, DEI gave them unpr...
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January 25, 2025
The Biden Forest Service corrals fencing terroristsThe facts of the Heather and Charles Maude case are as simple as they are enraging. The Maudes are generational ranchers. Their land, bordering federal land, has been in the family since the 1910s. In March of 2024 the Maudes posted a ...
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January 23, 2025
We're always fighting the last warIn military circles a frequent complaint is our military is always fighting the last war, not thinking far enough ahead to see how warfare is changing, and making necessary corrections only when it’s almost too late. Such failures are always at...
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January 23, 2025
Bye, bye DEIEven before Donald Trump took office, legislatures, universities and businesses could see the way the wind was blowing. DEI and every vestige of wokeness had their chance and conclusively proved diversity isn’t our strength but a sure path to o...
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January 23, 2025
De-weaponizing the federal governmentWe’re going to be seeing a lot more swamp creatures quickly exiting their positions at the DOJ and throughout our intelligence apparatus. Donald Trump, from his first day in office, has served notice he isn’t kidding. He’s taking na...
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January 23, 2025
A late hit on Pete Hegseth misses the targetThe flak is always heaviest when you’re directly over the target. Americans paying attention have noticed the Borking and Kavanaughing of Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth. Thus far, everything Democrats/socialists/comm...
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January 22, 2025
Biden's pardons: getting away with murderSome have sagely observed that with the pardons Joe Biden’s handlers issued, someone could get away with murder. That’s true. In one infamous case, it’s at least partially true, and in another, apparently not. Leonard Peletier has l...
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January 22, 2025
Revoking the Lying 51's security clearances: Trump was more than justifiedAmong Donald Trump’s day one executive orders was revoking the security clearances of 51 former “intelligence experts” who signed a letter ginned up by Antony Blinken, claiming The New York Post expose of Hunter Biden’s laptop...
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January 22, 2025
Mark Milley: pardons and mutinyWhile it’s true pardoned members of Joe Biden’s crime family can be interviewed by the FBI, and lying to an agent is a crime, they don’t have to speak with federal agents. It’s equally true they can be subpoenaed by Congress a...
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January 22, 2025
Donald Trump and alternate realityDonald Trump’s inauguration has revealed the existence of two realities inhabiting the same plane of existence. Normal Americans—largely but not exclusively Republicans—inhabit actual, objective, scientifically examined reality....
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January 21, 2025
Trump II: initial observations of a new realityJanuary 20 was one of the most extraordinary days in American history. Donald Trump’s inauguration was like no other, even with unusually cold weather putting a damper on things. Some initial observations: Graphic: X Screenshot *Trump...
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January 21, 2025
Bill Maher: goin' off the leftist reservationAmong the more interesting rhetorical questions raised by the most recent California wildfires is “can Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) confronted with blazing reality they can’t ignore or explain away, change?” It’s a...
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January 21, 2025
Trump's here, and the ATF backpedalsMichael Cargill is an Austin, TX gun store owner. Under the Harris/Biden ATF, he was one of many Federal Firearm License (FFL) holders targeted by the ATF for license revocation. What did Cargill do? Illegally traffic in guns? Give them to Mexic...
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January 21, 2025
Getting to know you: LA Mayor Karen BassMany Americans only heard of Karen Bass in connection with California’s recent and current wildfires. All they know is she’s the mayor of Los Angeles, so they assume she’s a leftist, likely a radical leftist. They have no idea. ...
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January 21, 2025
The Resistance: a third Trump impeachment?Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States. Even many Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) have admitted this is not like 2020. Many are talking about supporting him in at least some things in an attempt to win back demographics...
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January 21, 2025
Hoo boy, does Trump need to shake up the Pentagon!When I began basic training in the USAF back in the early 1970s, just like every young man or woman in every military branch, I was taught our military was controlled by the President of the United States. It was a brief lesson. He is the Commander-i...
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January 20, 2025
California: electric vehicles are on fire!Gavin Newsom, possibly the soon-to-be recalled Governor of California, banned internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in California by 20235, ostensibly to reduce pollution. That pipe dream went up in smoke with the wildfires that are still consumi...
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January 20, 2025
Will the Hearing Protection Act finally pass?I last wrote about suppressors in December of 2024 in Suppressors: trust the science. The point, then and now, is suppressors are essential to preserving hearing. Without her hearing aids, my wife is essentially deaf, so I’ve had a lifetime to ...
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January 20, 2025
Caitlin Clark: can jealousy kill the WNBA?Jealousy, the green-eyed monster, is a defining characteristic of humanity. It lurks within us all, and when we fail to control it overwhelms us. It is fed by self-doubt, insecurity and envy of those more capable, better looking, smarter, faster, str...
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January 20, 2025
Terrorism: hybrid warfare in AmericaI’ve been writing about the coming mass terror attacks in America for some time, a recent example being Terrorist attacks in America: just a matter of time? in July, 2024. The answer, I fear, is “yes.” In that article, and others, I suggested the tho...
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January 20, 2025
A wife's smile illuminates the InaugurationAs I watched JD Vance take the oath of office behind him stood his wife, Usha, her smile, genuine, warm, full of thanks and grace, not the rictus tooth flashing so often seen in DC. It was the honest smile every man covets and cherishes from his wife...
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January 20, 2025
Restore the rule of law: pardon them allSo. Biden pardoned the treasonous Mark Milley, pretty much everyone involved with the corrupt J6 Committee, the Biden Crime Family and notably, Capitol Police Officers who testified before that committee. Why would pardons for police officers be nece...
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January 19, 2025
The FBI sweeps DEI under the rugDuring my police career, there was no such thing as DEI. We were happy to hire police officers of either gender and of any race so long as they were well qualified. Nobody got or kept their job because of their gender, pretend gender or race. In...
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January 19, 2025
Lloyd Austin: rank has its privilegesIt’s long been known that in the military, rank has its privileges, and none are more privileged than flag officers—generals and admirals. As it turns out, the most privileged of all is the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, a former gen...
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January 18, 2025
Joe Biden: last-minute sabotage failsAmericans have been waiting to see what, and how much, sabotage of Donald Trump and America Joe Biden’s handlers can wreak in the few days remaining to them. Unsatisfied with trying to sell off border wall materials for pennies on the dollar, a...
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January 18, 2025
The last gasp of 'our democracy'Joe Biden’s farewell address was sad. Perhaps the last gasp of a man slipping into terminal dementia, defensive, underlaid with anger and resentment, it was yet another attempt at gaslighting Americans, telling outrageous lies with the implicat...
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January 15, 2025
Nevada threatens genuinely female volleyball playersThe hot war over trans—men pretending to be women—players in college volleyball ended when the season ended but as I recently noted, the lawsuits go on. One of the pieces of evidence that will surely come up in those suits is the unc...
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January 14, 2025
CA private firefighters: let the rich burn!Los Angeles residents have been bombarded not only by wildfires, but by unintended and unnecessary evacuation orders which added to the chaos and further reduced—if such was possible--their trust in government. As they began to understand the L...
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January 14, 2025
Minnesota: the law is what Dems say it isMinnesota. Land of a thousand lakes. Land of tampon dispensers in boy’s bathrooms. Land of a suddenly—and thankfully--invisible Tim Walz. Land of hating police and siccing the DOJ on them. Land of a violent, drug-addicted, felonious marty...
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January 13, 2025
Minnesota weirdAmerica really dodged a bullet when Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were defeated. Minnesota didn’t. Walz returned to national obscurity in Minnesota, but sane Minnesotans are certainly aware of him and his works. Among them are new teacher licensin...
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January 13, 2025
Concealed carry reciprocity: is the time finally right?Republicans have had a long history of earning, over and over, the title: “The Stupid Party.” Democrats/socialists/communist (D/s/cs), for all their anti-liberty/gun/America faults, are with few exceptions able to march in lockstep to ena...
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January 13, 2025
Like the debate, an interview reveals the best BidenSince the palace coup, Joe Biden has been the lamest of lame ducks. His handlers no longer perceive the need to keep him out of the public eye and are letting him “just be Joe” to the general disgust and horror of the public. Some of them...
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January 13, 2025
Gun sales: lies, damned lies and statisticsWith Donald Trump about to regain the White House and Republicans in control—barely—of both houses of Congress, gun owners and Americans who think they might want to be gun owners someday can relax, right? Right? Beginning January 20...
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January 12, 2025
Wait, there's no such thing as a Snail Darter?Species are becoming extinct! It’s a crisis competing for all manner of other crises, though at the moment the “Climate Crisis,” AKA “Climate Change,” is winning the publicity and funding war. Keeping in mind much of...
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January 12, 2025
George Floyd: did a police administrator commit perjury?I’ve been covering the George Floyd case since its inception. Floyd was a drug-addicted violent felon. Among his arrests/convictions were three armed robberies, six burglaries, three car thefts, and holding a gun to the belly of a very pregnant...
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January 12, 2025
CNN sued for a billion: the trial beginsHow often have Americans screamed obscenities at their TV sets when they’ve seen, yet again, media lies, smears and obfuscation? How often have they fervently wished the media paid for their malicious manipulation of the public? In a defa...
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January 12, 2025
California: aren't oceans water?Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to pump. As the California wildfires continue to reduce substantial portions of the Los Angeles area to ash, Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, LA’s possibly or possibly not fired lesbian Fire Chief and vario...
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January 11, 2025
Trump lawfare: it's far from overAs is now widely known, Judge Juan Merchan denied Donald Trump’s motion to delay sentencing in the most corrupt and nonsensical of all the lawfare cases against him. Trump’s appeal to New York’s appellate divis...
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January 11, 2025
Defund the Police: we are the enemyThe “Defund the Police” movement, which really took off with the 2020 “Summer of Love” and its two billion+ in damages, seems to have peaked and with the second advent of Donald Trump is on the downslope to sanity, but the dam...
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January 11, 2025
Second Amendment outlook for 2025With Donald Trump taking office on January 20, what’s the outlook for the Second Amendment and American citizens' gun rights? The Second Amendment is, after all, an express, unalienable, natural right. It’s not an emanation of a ...
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January 11, 2025
Trans college volleyball: the season ends, the lawsuits beginThe college women’s/trans volleyball season has ended, but the trans wars continue. San Jose State University’s (SJSU) trans player, Blaire Fleming played his last game as a senior at the NCAA tournament. SJSU quickly lost to Colorad...
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January 10, 2025
Fact checkers upset fact checkers checkedCovid hysteria introduced many themes that badly crash landed. Among them: “trust the science,” “if you take the Covid vaccine you won’t get covid or transmit it,” “masks protect you and others,” “socia...
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January 10, 2025
The reality of Stand Your Ground“Stand Your Ground” (SYG) laws let people get away with murder! They let white supremacists get away with the slaughter of black people! They’re racist, they’re worse than WWII and the Holocaust and slavery…ooops. Sorry...
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January 9, 2025
Minneapolis helps Biden sabotage MinneapolisIn many respects, Minneapolis was ground zero of the “Summer of Love” and the Antifa/BLM riots that roiled the nation. That’s where George Floyd committed suicide by cop. At least 700 buildings were damaged or destroyed and mor...
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January 9, 2025
Can California's fires change woke to MAGA?There’s a venerable aphorism: “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged (a victim of armed robbery).” Now we find out if grotesque governmental incompetence and malice are enough to mug Californians to sanity. Not just a...
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January 8, 2025
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE rides again!When Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, I was worried. Not that he’d try to sabotage Donald Trump. Not that he’d do everything he could to spit in the eye of Americans. Not that he’d try to save Hamas and damage Israel....
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January 8, 2025
Does DEI require starving our troops?Wokeness is clearly causing much of the military’s recruiting problems, despite Pentagon true woke believer’s protestations to the contrary. But suppose, just suppose the military wasn’t feeding troops? Might that also di...
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January 8, 2025
Global Engagement Center: rebranding anti-American maliceSane, normal Americans frequently find themselves perplexed by the antics of the State Department. “Why the hell would they do that?” is a common refrain. That’s largely because Normal Americans expect the United States Department o...
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January 8, 2025
DOJ leaks may be losing their stingWith a bit less than two weeks of the Harris/Biden Administration remaining, several trends have become obvious. Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) government operatives are threatening to resign. Others are resigning to avoid being fired, likely i...
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January 7, 2025
Who is Matthew Graves?Who is Matthew Graves? He’s the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, until January 16 anyway: Matthew M. Graves announced today that he is resigning as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, effective January...
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January 7, 2025
Another DOGE priority: Sue and SettleSuppose you’re part of a special interest group. You’re the president of the “Save The Gurgenschimer’s Banded Earthworm Foundation.” It’s a small group with little real influence, but its members are ardent greenie...
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January 7, 2025
Taking the DEI out of the FBIDuring my law enforcement career—I haven’t worn a badge for a quarter century—every cop knew the FBI required a college degree for entry level agents, and not just any degree. They were looking for accountants, lawyers, people with ...
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January 7, 2025
Antony Blinken's inadvertent true confessionAntony Blinken was the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) fixer who rounded up the 51 “intelligence experts” who branded Hunter Biden’s laptop Russian disinformation. He, and they, knew better. The FBI had that laptop long before ...
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January 5, 2025
Hamas tries to call Trump's bluffFortunately, for its own survival and the survival of western civilization, Israel has recognized certain pressing realities: Israel can’t exist with terror states on its borders bent on its destruction. Terrorists have no better ally than Demo...
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January 5, 2025
A DEI FBI covers for terrorists and BidenFrom the beginning of the Harris/Biden administration, the focus of the FBI and every other organ of government has been not protecting America from criminals, terrorists, or hostile foreign states like China but pursuing and punishing poli...
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January 4, 2025
New Orleans and government patternsPatterns matter in the investigation of any crime, but particularly in identifying, deterring and capturing terrorist operations. They also matter in understanding the motivations and actions of governments. Throughout the Harris/Biden Administrat...
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January 4, 2025
J.D. Vance and a bucket of warm spitDo you remember John Nance Garner? No? He was the 32nd vice president, serving from 1933 to 1941 under FDR. Before that, he served in the US House for 30 years and two terms in the Texas “Lege,” as Texans call it, before that. I...
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January 1, 2025
An alarming lack of citizenshipA common joke among college professors teaching freshmen is: “I know the first name of your high school history teacher: ‘coach.’” I discovered that reality independently during my high school days. Every one of my history tea...
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December 31, 2024
Hate crime hoaxes of 2024Legislators at all levels tend to think they were elected to legislate. Actually, they were elected to do the opposite, to slow, even halt the grinding of the gears of big government. They were elected to do that by sane, normal Americans, people who...
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December 31, 2024
A New Year's reflectionAt the end of each year, as a new year is about to be born, we take a moment to reflect on the past and on what the new year might bring. According to the CDC—if anything they say can be believed—current American life expectancy for men i...
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December 31, 2024
Uncovering Congress' sexual secretsI’m curious: where in the Constitution or its amendments is the “taxpayers have to cough up the money to pay for congress critter’s sexual harassment of aides and interns” clause? In the many times I’ve read the Constitu...
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December 30, 2024
Is justice coming for lawfare prosecutors?Generally, prosecutors enjoy nearly complete immunity for their legitimate actions. That’s a recognition of the fact that many are not happy with what prosecutors do, even if prosecutors are careful to remain well within the limits of the ...
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December 30, 2024
Our woke militaryHarris/Biden military officials have denied their addiction to DEI, CRT and wokeness in general has had anything to do with the alarming decline in enlistments. Only the Marine Corps has been largely immune to a dearth of enlistees. It seems they...
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December 30, 2024
Constitutional carry for all Americans?Among the most significant advances in upholding the Second Amendment has been the spread of Constitutional Carry (CC). Circa January 2024, 29 states allow CC: Louisiana and South Carolina have joined 27 other states in recognizing Co...
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December 30, 2024
Communist lights out!A favorite American axiom asserts if our government took charge of the Sahara Desert there would soon be a shortage of sand. While there’s more than a little truth to that, a manifestly demonstrated truth is that socialism and communism are eve...
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December 30, 2024
A political safari to self-delusionFrom time to time, a Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) social anthropologist will be motivated to venture out into deepest, darkest Flyover Country—you know, places like South Dakota or Kansas--to live for a time among the unfathomable nativ...
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December 30, 2024
H-1B visas and career delusionsIt was expected: any and every opportunity to attack Donald Trump and divide panicky Republicans who continually re-earn the title “the stupid party.” At Real Clear Politics Sasha Stone discourses on the H-1B controversy. St...
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December 29, 2024
A woke encyclopedia?Wikipedia. The online, crowd-sourced encyclopedia. It may have begun with noble goals. Who can argue that advancing human knowledge and making it even more widely available than ever before is a bad thing? But who owns Wikipedia? ...
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December 29, 2024
The Pope and spiritual authorityBack in November of 2023, Pope Francis provided a preview of where he would eventually arrive: Pope Francis has called for a “paradigm shift” in Catholic theology that takes widespread engagement with contemporary science...
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December 28, 2024
Evil is as evil doesEvil. Normal Americans know it exists and walks among them. Like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, they know it when they see it. They know Satan is evil’s father and acts that violate God’s law, and many that violate man’s law,...
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December 28, 2024
The rhetoric of gun violenceFor some years now we’ve been told words are violence. It’s a jarring assertion for Americans brought up on the axiom that sticks and stone may break their bones, but words can never hurt them. So, sticks, stones and words can break our b...
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December 22, 2024
The non-existent 'trans-genocide'Until recently, few Americans “identified” as trans. This could be at least in part because few Americans wanted to be so known, so they remained in the closet. “Cross dressers” were known and drag queens were, if not common, ...
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December 22, 2024
Secret Service secret marksmanshipUntil the House Task Force on the assassination attempts on Donald Trump released its report—available here--much was unknown and unknowable. Due to concealment by the Secret Service (SS) and other agencies much still is, however at least one i...
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December 21, 2024
Donald Trump and the malice of ABCIn 1964 the Supreme Court decided New York Times v. Sullivan. Public figures could not recover defamation damages without proving actual media malice. As one might suspect, this essentially immunized the media, allowing them to say whatever they...
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December 21, 2024
Ghost guns and hunky assassinsIn The Brian Thompson killer: which gun did he use? I pointed out the killer—Luigi Mangione—did not use a B&T Station Six, but a common semiautomatic pistol with an aftermarket suppressor. It turns out that was correct with one c...
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December 15, 2024
NBC and crime: who you gonna believe, them or Trump?Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance did their best to tell the truth about crime: during the Harris/Biden years it has skyrocketed, and illegal alien criminals have made a substantial contribution. Simultaneously, J...
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December 15, 2024
Ketanji Brown-Jackson and judicial brillianceFormer Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, tasked with defining obscenity, said: “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” Current Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson can’t manage even that. A...
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December 14, 2024
California threatens police; what else is new?“Defund the Police” hysteria has resulted in societal disruption as many officers that can retire, have. Those young enough to go where they’re allowed to do their jobs have already gone. Those that remain are officers close to a pension, those with ...
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December 14, 2024
Daniel Penny: power on loan“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”—C.S. Lewis: The Abolition of Man Daniel P...
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December 8, 2024
Electric Vehicles: Cuba shows the wayCuban Americans have long been among America’s most fervent patriots. They’ve had the very great advantage of life under Communism, and they have no doubt life in America is leaps and bounds better. Still, in some ways, Cuba is very like ...
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December 8, 2024
Fani Willis: Judicial Watch wins oneWith the exception of the surely unconstitutional, nearly half a billion-dollar, civil judgement against Donald Trump—that one’s sure to be massively reduced, perhaps even overturned on appeal—the only criminal case remaining standi...
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December 7, 2024
Democracy: the self-imagined elite don't understandIt has been obvious for a long, long time that Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) reflexively engage in projection. Whatever they accuse Normal Americans of doing, or intending to do, they’re doing themselves, or planning to do if only th...
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December 7, 2024
The Brian Thompson killer: which gun did he use?The assassination Of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson in New York City is, by now, common knowledge. With relatively clear photos of the killer’s face out there, I’ll focus this brief article on the killer’s handgun. A relat...
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December 7, 2024
Suppressors: trust the scienceSuppressors—there is no such thing as a “silencer”—have gained new popularity during the Harris/Biden Administration, no doubt as part of American’s recognition for the need to buy more than a million guns a month for mo...
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December 1, 2024
Harris/Biden attack more Christians than anyone knewHarris/Biden Administration attacks on Normal Americans, and particularly Christians, have long been in the alternative news. As an inevitable consequence of the weaponization of the DOJ, FBI and pretty much the entire federal government against Norm...
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December 1, 2024
COVID panic forces a Wyoming school girl to sueCOVID hysteria brought out the worst in bureaucrats already prone to overbearing abuse of authority. People were arrested for paddleboarding alone on the ocean, for taking walks, for taking their children to parks, even for trying to p...
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December 1, 2024
The revenge of P'nut?The sad saga of P'nut the Squirrel is far from over. P'nut’s owner, Mark Longo is threatening legal—or other--action: An Upstate New York man who took in an orphaned squirrel and made it a social media star vowed Saturday tha...
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November 30, 2024
Where's Antifa?Soon, we’ll hear little or nothing about Joe Biden. Since he dropped out of the race and annointed Kamala Harris, he has been rapidly fading until he’s nearly transparent. After January 20, expect the media to completely lose interest in ...
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November 30, 2024
Trans women win by forfeitingThe trans war against women’s sports continues apace. The current high-profile battleground is women’s college volleyball, where a man pretending to be a woman on the San Jose State University (SJSU) team has caused even members of his te...
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November 30, 2024
Gun fights: is the 'three threes' rule accurate?A common teaching tool among professional firearms instructors is the “three threes:” gunfights take place within three yards, take three seconds, and no more than three rounds are fired. As a means of focusing student’s minds ...
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November 29, 2024
Letitia James loses a round on body armorI wore body armor during my police career. In those days of yore, it was heavier and more expensive than armor is now, but armor threat protection levels really haven’t changed. The armor police officers wear on duty protects against handgun an...
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November 29, 2024
The ICC insults Joe Biden and AmericaImagine what the world would look like if after WWII foreign judges took it upon themselves to issue arrest warrants for Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman? For what crimes? Why, they killed untold numbers of civilians in Germany and Japan! Sure, the...
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November 29, 2024
.357 Magnum argumentsAmong the perennial arguments in the firearm community is whether this or that gun is good for this or that application, or whether this or that caliber is best for this or that application. Arguments range from highly technical to attacks on other...
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November 29, 2024
The Pentagon betrayed America on January 6I’ve long been writing about the most insurrectionary insurrection to ever have been insurrected by domestic terrorist, white supremacist, racist, Deplorable insurrectionists. I speak, of course, of January 6, the only insurrection in history t...
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November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving devotions, 2024On this Thanksgiving day Anno Domini 2024, I have much for which to be thankful: *Being born in America. Like all Americans, I began life with a winning lottery ticket. *The opportunity to serve in the USAF. *The opportunity to serve as a ci...
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November 28, 2024
Is the church dying?Feminists who shave their heads, wail, gnash their teeth, rend their garments and swear to withhold sex from men who don’t want to have sex with them also tend to be dismissive of religion. For such people there can be no higher power than thei...
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November 28, 2024
Child-raising in rural Georgia with Atlanta sensibilitiesMy, have times changed. It’s hard to imagine how kids grow up at all these days, or how, attaining chronological adulthood, they know anything. In my South Dakota neighborhood, kids were outside, unsupervised, every minute they could manage....
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November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving: the way forwardOur yearly Thanksgiving tradition is widely based on an idyllic image of happy Pilgrims and Indians sharing a great feast. While Indians and Pilgrims did share meals, including wild turkey, upon occasion, and the survival of the Pilgrims can be ...
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November 27, 2024
The electric vehicle doom loop is almost closedWhat a difference a few weeks make. As Barack Obama so dismissively said, elections have consequences. Since Nov. 5, a wide variety of individuals, media personalities, businesses, even nations have been trying to make nice with Donald Trump. Even...
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November 27, 2024
Denver bluffs; Trump will call itWith Donald Trump soon to be back in office, and Tom Homan in charge of border enforcement, Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are screaming like stuck pigs. Since Texas Governor Greg Abbott began sending illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities ...
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November 27, 2024
Never give government an inchAmong the parental aphorisms that most annoyed us as children was “give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.” It was so frustrating because we knew our parents had our number; they were absolutely right. If they let us ge...
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November 27, 2024
'Trust the science,' 'No way,' says the New York TimesDEI, CRT, wokeness in general, are last refuges of scoundrels, racists and Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs). Not only do they waste billions, displace actual learning in education, indoctrinate the young and push wildly insane and false claim...
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November 26, 2024
North Carolina dumps on hurricane survivors and the AmishAfter the horrific hurricane damage that destroyed or damaged as many as 100,000 homes in Western North Carolina, one would think FEMA and local officials would move heaven and earth to get those affected out of flimsy tents and trailers and into sol...
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November 26, 2024
In Tennessee, restorative justice breaks real justiceI’m glad I left police work behind decades ago. Not because I didn’t enjoy the work or think it noble and vital, but because of the fallout of the “defund the police” insanity and its offspring: no bail, even for violent crimi...
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November 26, 2024
Terrorist threat: The FBI and DHS clam upShortly after the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before Congress and issued a general warning that the threat of terrorist attacks in America has never been so high. He has since repeatedly issued the ...
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November 26, 2024
The 'trans genocide' provokes calls to violenceThe Trans Genocide is a national, humanitarian disgrace, an act of coordinated evil that rivals the Holocaust. Who could have imagined that the Trump Administration would allow such a thing to occur? Who could have imagined the horror of helpless tra...
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November 25, 2024
Assault weapons: The public wises upWith the election of Donald Trump, never-ending attempts by anti-liberty/gun cracktivists to disarm law-abiding Americans, to deprive them of their unalienable rights and to make them easy prey for the criminals they support will likely find even les...
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November 25, 2024
The Tapper/CNN lawsuit and the decline of American mediaCNN talking head Jake Tapper has done at least one good thing: his book “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor” was made into a movie. Both are compelling examples of American bravery against military/political stupidity and...
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November 25, 2024
Can public sentiment force politicians to back DOGE?Donald Trump has appointed Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to ramrod the Department of Government Efficiency—DOGE—which will recommend ways to cut governmental inefficiency. The good news is they’re not going to be official government...
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November 25, 2024
What you don't know, and need to know, about Pam BondiDo you remember the Trayvon Martin hoax? Trayvon Martin, the pot smoking, thug wannabe and burglar who one rainy night in Florida ambushed and tried to kill George Zimmerman? Trayvon Martin, the holy social justice martyr? The thug whom Barack Obama ...
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November 24, 2024
Treason: text and intentIn the days ahead we’re going to hear a great deal of talk about treason. While those speaking of the illegal and un-American activities of so many in the Harris/Biden Administration are correct in spirit and application, they’re not corr...
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November 24, 2024
Hope and change for suppressor reform?In the movies, silenced pistols produce a muted “phut,” that instantly drops terrorists without other terrorists standing next to them hearing a thing. Very dramatic, but not remotely realistic. There is no such thing as a “silen...
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November 23, 2024
The Trans Superiority Narrative comes to Congress“It’s not all about you.” How many times have we, from childhood to adulthood, heard that pithy aphorism? When we were more self-centered, when we, in youth, ignorance or arrogance, believed it was all about us we were for...
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November 23, 2024
Mazie Hirono mangles Heller and BruenAmong our elected representatives are far too many willing to lie, cheat and steal to enrich themselves and further anti-American interests. There are also others who are historical illiterates, who know little or nothing about American history, the ...
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November 17, 2024
The lie of DOJ independenceThe election of Donald Trump has set off panic in the Harris/Biden government. Denizens of the FBI and DOJ, particularly upper-level apparatchiks, are reportedly seeking fast, pre-January 20, exits. Why would powerful, selfless public servants, pe...
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November 17, 2024
The Illinois 'assault weapon' ban failsThe Heller, McDonald and Bruen decisions made clear the Second Amendment acknowledges-- does not grant--an individual right to keep and bear arms, a right that does not end at one’s property line, and encompasses weapons—no...
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November 16, 2024
The new, not at all peaceful, resistanceDemocrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are intellectually and morally superior beings. Their policies—and candidates--the product of superior minds, are non-falsifiable. They cannot possibly be wrong; they cannot fail. When they in...
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November 16, 2024
SecretsWould you like to know what the Deep State knows? Every dirty little secret? The details of their campaigns against parents concerned about the political and sexual indoctrination of their kids in public schools? Want to know wh...
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November 10, 2024
Lawfare failsThe purpose of the lawfare against Donald Trump, federal, local, criminal and civil, was to so damage him Americans would not vote him into office. The rest was sheer Trump Derangement Syndrome—TDS. It allowed Democrats/socialists/communists (D...
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November 10, 2024
Four years in the wildernessNormal Americans, along with Donald Trump, spent four years in the political wilderness. There, the shifting political winds scoured, burnished and hardened them. The weak were destroyed, but those that emerged were wiser, stronger and mor...
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November 9, 2024
We're all racist and sexistNo less an authority than Rev. Al Sharpton has informed us anyone, and particularly black and Hispanic men, who did not vote for Kamala Harris is racist and misogynistic. Barack and Michelle Obama also informed us women, particularly black ...
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November 9, 2024
With malice toward allIn his second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln told Americans they must have malice toward none and charity toward all. At least 620,000 died in the Civil War. It was unimaginably personal. Without that generosity of spirit the repu...
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November 4, 2024
Trump's America: I have a dreamThey’re right, you know--the Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs). Donald Trump really is going do to them what they’ve been doing to America. He’s going to be their worst nightmare: he’s going to—as a general princi...
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November 4, 2024
Mexico sues American gun makers; the Supreme Court grants certIn 2005, the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which for the first time in American history acknowledged the Second Amendment recognizes the unalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms, was three years into the future. Anti-Liberty/...
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November 4, 2024
Peanut and Fred: public safety prioritiesWhy is America so worked up about the death of Peanuts the squirrel and his racoon pal, Fred? They’re just animals, right? Their owner was in violation of New York law or something, right? They were just animals! Years ago, as a po...
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November 3, 2024
Scientifically covering for the trans superiority narrativeOne of the likely and salutary benefits of a second Trump presidential term will be relegating the trans superiority narrative to the ash heap of history. It will take some doing, but the assertion of “trans rights” as superior to and ove...
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November 3, 2024
Celebrities and musicians: could you just shut up, please?Many years ago, I was watching Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. A young Tom Selleck, riding the high of Magnum PI, was on. It was a collegial and funny interview, and Carson eventually asked Selleck his view on a political ques...
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November 3, 2024
The Joe Rogan J.D. Vance interviewThe Joe Rogan interview of J.D. Vance lasted more than three hours. From the start, it was relaxed and comfortable, like two old friends telling stories and having a great time. Overall? Donald Trump made one of the best VP choices of all time. ...
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November 3, 2024
Trump wants to assassinate Liz Cheney?!So, Liz Cheney is the innocent, fainting victim of an assassination threat from Donald Trump?! I live in Wyoming, and Wyomingites find the very idea hilarious. We politically assassinated her in 2022 by rejecting her primary bid by electing ...
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November 2, 2024
Ford's CEO loves a Chinese EV?!Imagine you manufacture a product, an expensive product, a product Americans need. You have plenty of domestic competition, but listening to your customers you’re making a good profit producing an affordable product and employin...
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November 2, 2024
Will 'our democracy' prevail?With the election only days away, it may be helpful to revisit one of the primary issues separating Democrats/socialist/communists (D/s/cs) and Normal Americans, which term encompasses not only Republicans but all Americans who revere the Constitutio...
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November 2, 2024
Biden bitesJoe Biden is the fading president. He’s been fading for years, even before his election, but now he’s nearly transparent, a shell of the shell he’s been for so long. Kamala Harris can’t admit that of course. How can you a...
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November 2, 2024
Is Trump the one?American Thinker is a conservative publication, one I’m honored to serve, yet I consider myself first and foremost a constitutionalist. Our Constitution is the most divinely inspired governing document ever written, yet it is only fading i...
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October 27, 2024
Kamala Harris is an epic failureKamala Harris is the Border Czar. Her handlers and she vehemently deny it, and the media, including Google, have done their best to hide it, but prior to Google scrubbing, there were thousands of hits giving Harris that title, and there is video of J...
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October 27, 2024
Electric police cars: another Harris/Biden boondoggleAmong the spectacularly bad ideas politicians foist on Normal Americans are Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates. Worse is mandating electric vehicles for police vehicles. As one might expect, early adopters of this idiocy are California police departments...
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October 27, 2024
The Trump interview: strategic ramblingI watched the Joe Rogan interview of Donald Trump (available here). The whole thing, all three hours, and came away with two immediate, and relatively obvious, observations: (1) There is no way Kamala Harris could do that, and (2) Trump’s rambl...
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October 26, 2024
Harris/Biden and putting America firstAmong the many reasons Donald Trump may well be the 47th president is he demonstrably puts America—and Americans—first. That should go without saying. That should be the guiding principle of all American public servants, beginning wi...
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October 26, 2024
Harris/Biden deconstructing America: the Ferguson effectThe Ferguson Effect. It’s a term that entered common American usage after the August 09, 2014 death of Michael Brown, according to the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) narrative, an unarmed black man, an 18 year old recent h...
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October 20, 2024
FBI credibility?John R. Lott, the President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, drives Democrats/socialists/communist (D/s/cs) crazy. He does it the old-fashioned way: he does factual, honest, reproducible research about crime, guns and related issues and ...
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October 20, 2024
The NYT: useful idiots for HamasSapient human beings know two true things: (1) Whatever Palestinians say about Israel, particularly the casualties inflicted by Israeli strikes on Hamas terrorists, is a blatant lie, and (2) the American media will gladly, blindly and maliciously pri...
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October 19, 2024
Biden: rhetoric and acts of war“Don’t.” That threat issued by a senile man, our current sort-of president, hasn’t worked terribly well thus far. Our enemies, particularly Islamist enemies, paid it no heed. It didn’t work any better when Kamala Harris ...
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October 19, 2024
The drones are coming, the drones are coming!If you think you’re disgusted with our military and political “leaders,” you aren’t nearly disgusted enough. It turns out the Chinese balloon overflight of some of our most sensitive military installations was only the tip of ...
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October 13, 2024
Ghost guns and liberty“Ghost guns” are very much like “assault weapons” in several significant ways. They don’t exist in firearm nomenclature. They’re the invention of anti-liberty/gun Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs), and they describe any gun, or in the case of ...
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October 13, 2024
Can Kamala Harris' pro-gun transformation be trusted?Kamala Harris has recently, and repeatedly, told the American public she’s just like us. She worked at McDonalds. She did the fries, and sometimes the cash register, so obviously, we can trust her on the economy. Unsurprisingly, intensive media...
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October 12, 2024
Tim Walz deconstructs Minnesota educationAny professional, competent teacher will affirm their most precious commodity is class time. Circa October, 2024, there are innumerable drains on that commodity. Mandatory, high stakes testing consumes an enormous amount of each school yea...
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October 12, 2024
10-07-23: evil and civilization's thin veneerOctober 07, 2023; a day that will live—to borrow from FDR—in infamy. We live in a very different time than the 1940s. It’s a time when a minor riot at the Capitol, likely provoked by government operatives, a riot that ended peaceful...
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October 6, 2024
Helene and the totalitarian urgeThe totalitarian urge is strong. Our Founders knew this. Before Hurricane Helene hit, the Chief of the Okeechobee. FL Police Department, Donald Hagan, issued a declaration which, among other things, banned the sale of guns and ammo, and restricted gu...
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October 6, 2024
Mexico sues American gun makersDid you know Mexico is suing American gun manufacturers? Mexico, the country laughing at Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for their immigration fecklessness? The failed state run by drug cartels making billions off child sex trafficking and drugs that are...
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October 6, 2024
Who will guard the guardians?Americans paying attention have been horrified to learn just how inept and malicious our federal law enforcement agencies have become under the Harris/Biden cabal. Institutions necessary for the preservation of our representative republic have not on...
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October 5, 2024
The electric vehicle doom loop gets absurdAs the electric vehicle (EV) market continues to collapse into a smoking pile of melted metal and plastic politicians, and EV makers, are finally, belatedly, taking notice. How could they do otherwise? Government hasn’t yet taken upo...
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October 5, 2024
Bongino: White House cocaine coverupOne would hope the Secret Service would be nobly, selflessly protective about those they protect. They’re trained to take a bullet for them, to give their lives that they might live. As the Bible says in John 15:13: “Greater love hath no ...
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October 5, 2024
Tim Walz: Minnesota educational excellence?Those watching Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s self-immolation during the vice- presidential debate noted he, as often as possible, patted himself on the back for his accomplishments in turning Minnesota into a socialist wonderland. By his tellin...
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October 4, 2024
The FBI raids the wrong houseIn April of 2024, I posted You’re on you own: what to do about it. The point of that article was we really are on our own. Government is not able to protect us, and when government wrongs us, it’s going to move heaven and earth to av...
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October 4, 2024
War? Harris/Biden ditherOn October 1, 2024, Iran fired ballistic missiles into Israel. Israel’s Army Radio said that Iran had announced that its attack was a response to the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July; to Israel’...
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October 4, 2024
The USAF goes wokeWho is General Charles “CQ” Brown? He’s the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So what? What does that have to do with anything? He’s also arguably more woke and dangerous to America’s national security than thankful...
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October 4, 2024
The Secret Service and election interferenceWhat’s the venerable saying? Once is happenstance, twice, coincidence, but three times is enemy action? Where the Secret Service (SS) is concerned, once just might be enough to qualify as enemy action. The only real question is not th...
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September 29, 2024
Trump: the January 6 narrative crumblesJanuary 6. To hear those suffering from terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome, it was an insurrection—caused by Trump--worse than the Civil War, worse than Pearl Harbor, a horrendous, nation-shattering event. Poor Kamala Harris barely ...
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September 29, 2024
UPenn and Amy Wax: double standardsAfter years of woke harassment, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has finally issued sanctions against law professor Amy Wax. Her crimes? Making unquestionably accurate statements and constitutionally protected opinions, which happen to be what ...
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September 28, 2024
Is the My Pillow guy a Nazi?Life is hard, but it’s not yet hard enough. Democrats/socialists/communists (D/S/Cs) insist on making it harder by suddenly declaring innocuous, innocent cultural expressions evil. Remember when, circa 2019, the ubiquitous OK gesture was sudden...
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September 28, 2024
John Kirby: living in Hamas' reality?Happily endorsing Kamala Harris, 741 former “military and national security officials” have exposed their hindquarters and loyalties. Among them were some of the same class that lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop, calling it Russ...
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September 22, 2024
Delta Airlines and the coming apocalypseDuring my police career, I often sat on interview boards for police applicants. I was amazed at how many applying for a job requiring great personal integrity, common sense and understanding of human nature had no apparent idea of personal hygiene. S...
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September 22, 2024
ABC's Trump fact check blows upNow infamously, ABC’s David Muir, during the Trump/Harris debate, “fact checked” Donald Trump’s assertion that crime rates had increased under the Harris/Biden Administration, arrogantly sniffing they were decreasing. That was...
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September 21, 2024
Kamala Harris: coming to your home to check your underwear?In Woody Allen’s Bananas (1971) the new dictator, Esposito, issues this decree: “All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check.” Si...
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September 21, 2024
Donald Trump and the Secret Service's 'protective methodologies'Let’s take a moment to explore a few questions you may not have heard elsewhere: Which is it? Is the Secret Service (SS) grossly, dangerously incompetent, or are its personnel creating, or merely ignoring, security vulnerabilities even the d...
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September 15, 2024
Revolvers: is leaving an empty chamber necessary?During my first civilian police job, revolvers were the only authorized handguns, not only for local law enforcement, but state and federal agencies as well. It was the late 1970s, and while a few semiautos were available such as the Model...
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September 15, 2024
Our military: low on personnel, deterrence and ammoA venerable military axiom is: amateurs discuss tactics; professionals discuss logistics. Not only is it essential a military safely gets troops where they need to be, rested and on time with the right weapons, but more importantly, there must a supp...
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September 14, 2024
Shotguns for home defense?Writing about firearm issues is fraught with peril. One’s experience, ability and knowledge matter little to at least some portion of the gun-interested public. No matter what an author writes, even if it’s non-controversial, someone will...
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September 14, 2024
Kamala owns guns, so surrender yoursDuring the September 10 debate with Donald Trump, Kamala Harris said she’s not taking anyone’s guns, and she and Tim Walz, her vice-presidential pick, are gun owners. Well. That certainly settles things, doesn’t it? Not so m...
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September 8, 2024
Aurora, Colorado: On the ballot in NovemberAmerica is a trust society. We trust our elected representatives will work in our interests. We trust the police will honestly and apolitically enforce the law. We trust criminals will be prosecuted and if convicted, sentences commensurate...
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September 8, 2024
Choosing a handgun for new shootersI’m often asked which handgun a new gun owner should buy. It’s a more complex question that most imagine. I’ve been carrying handguns daily, with a badge and without, for half a century. I began that journey in a time when semiautom...
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September 7, 2024
Remedial math at HarvardTeaching was my second career. I enjoyed teaching high school and college English, but there were frustrations. Among them were college teachers and administrators complaining about how unprepared incoming freshmen were. I know what you’re thinking: ...
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September 7, 2024
Sony goes wokeOver the years I’ve bought quite a few Sony electronic products. I’ve always found them reliable, reasonably priced and functional. The Japanese focus on excellence made Sony a worldwide brand, a brand that dramatically expanded with its ...
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September 1, 2024
Coach Walz, football and the danger of masculinityOn August 24 I wrote CNN: democrat men are weenies. It was all about how Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are trying to convince America Tim Walz is the very model of modern masculinity. Apparently they’re ambivalent about that, be...
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September 1, 2024
Kamala: saving illegals from our valuesIf we’re to believe Kamala Harris, she’s the most immigration hawkish immigration hawk that ever lived. Sure, she denies she was ever the Border Czar, though googling the term—if Google hasn’t scrubbed it—yields more tha...
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August 31, 2024
Hamas's hostages: culture and upbringing matterAmong the most common misconceptions of Americans is foreigners are just like us. They wear American jeans and t-shirts with American logos. They wear American athletic shoes, and many long to visit or live in America. Sure, their religion...
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August 31, 2024
Zuckerberg confession: why, and why now?On August 27, my American Thinker colleague Monica Showalter posted Zuckerberg admits he was muscled by Democrats. She asked: Did a light bulb go on for Mark Zuckerberg about government censorship? Zuckerberg’s admission, a sort ...
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August 25, 2024
The Gaza pier debacle: it's worseOn July 14th, in The pier to nowhere is going away, I wrote: When what’s left of the pier is finally removed and probably, scrapped, we can be certain, just as with the withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan, the MMPA will declare it a bri...
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August 25, 2024
The Fourth Circuit ignores Bruen againThe Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision held, with crystal clarity, the Second Amendment is an individual right, which extends to keeping and bearing arms not only in one’s home or on one’s property, but in public, with some li...
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August 24, 2024
Kamala's deeper, muscular patriotismPolitical conversions are common, and virtually always insincere, in election years. Kamala Harris is undergoing a dazzling number of conversions. Actually, no one is sure about that. All of her conversions are being asserted by members of her campai...
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August 24, 2024
CNN: democrat men are weeniesOne of the current Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) narratives is Tim Walz is an all-American, manly, former Command Sgt. Major/coach/role model whose joyous, overwhelming masculinity frightens Normal Americans. J.D. Vance, a former Marine who ac...
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August 20, 2024
Climate Change and a science we can trustThe American left occasionally professes to have some investment in Christianity, but those are words, and as the Scripture teaches, by their fruits shall you know them. By their words, actions and boondoggles, the inevitable conclusion is their one,...
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August 20, 2024
Tim Walz lights 'em up!Police officers don’t draw their weapons unless they have a reasonable belief they could be in imminent danger. They absolutely don’t point their weapons at anyone unless they’re facing an imminent threat of serious bodily injury or...
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August 20, 2024
The Ninth Circuit upholds the Second Amendment?!The Ninth Circuit court is infamous as the circuit most overturned by the Supreme Court. It has been notoriously leftist in its decisions, often ignoring the law and Constitution in favor of progressive ideology. It has been particularly fervent in i...
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August 20, 2024
Crime rate gaslightingWere one to listen to the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) media, one would rejoice at the dramatic drop in crime in America’s blue, D/s/c ruled cities under the enlightened Harris/Biden Administration. However, residents of those cities, a...
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August 20, 2024
Dodge emasculates muscle carsA long-profitable niche for American car makers has been the all-American muscle car. Low-slung, two door sedans with enormous horsepower, wide tires, aggressive styling and the low rumble of those powerful V-8 engines. There’s nothi...
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August 18, 2024
Harley Davidson goes woke?!There are some brands strongly identified with America, with American values and ideals and with American design and quality. They’re known and coveted around the world, prestige symbols here and abroad. That’s why it’s so dumbfound...
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August 18, 2024
Don't mess with the WestSince December of 2018, at my home blog, I’ve been writing The Second Civil War series. It’s not a series that hopes for civil strife, but warns against it, and asks what would be the last straw, the final provocation that would forc...
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August 17, 2024
The Second Circuit revokes qualified immunityImagine you’re a police officer. You see a vehicle committing a minor traffic violation, or maybe you don’t, but you just want to pull them over anyway. You approach the driver, who tells you he has a concealed carry permit, hands you the...
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August 17, 2024
The Secret, sleepy, ServiceIn A Secret Service agent’s breastfeeding emergency took her away from guarding Trump, my colleague Andrea Widburg brilliantly exposed yet another case of Secret Service (SS) incompetence so egregious it leaves the SS wide open to the accusation they...
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August 11, 2024
Maryland, AR-15s and the Fourth CircuitShould you be so unfortunate as to live in Maryland, and more unfortunate as to own an AR-15, you’re a criminal, as the Fourth Circuit Court recently affirmed. This despite the Supreme Court’s Heller, McDonald an...
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August 11, 2024
Michael Brown: the birth of BLMTen years ago, on August 9, 2014, Black Lives Matter was born in Ferguson, Missouri. On that day, Michael Brown became a holy social justice martyr, and “hands up; don’t shoot” became a rallying cry. Brown was no martyr, he never ha...
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August 10, 2024
Tulsi Gabbard: domestic terrorist?How many domestic flights are covered by Federal Air Marshalls (FAM)? Far fewer than you’d imagine. According to Simple Flying.com, there are about 45,000 daily flights. Estimates place the chance you’ll have a FAM onboard your fligh...
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August 10, 2024
The stolen valor of Tim WalzI was an enlisted Airman, serving as a Security Police Officer during the Cold War. I did not reach high rank. I served stateside and experienced no combat. I didn’t make a career of it, nor was I festooned with medals, though I did get some ...
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August 5, 2024
New Secret Service Director: worse than the old oneThey really do think we’re stupid. Just when you think they couldn’t be any more arrogant, any more condescending, Acting Secret Service (SS) Director Ronald Rowe Jr. comes along. The contemporary standard was set by former SS Director...
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August 5, 2024
Kamala: disarming American womenIf you’re a woman you have an obligation to vote for Kamala Harris because she’s a woman too. Her party has no idea what a woman is, but in a stunning election year conversion they’ve suddenly discovered Kamala is one, and othe...
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August 5, 2024
9-11 terrorist's plea deal: Whoa Nellie!It’s easy to forget Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and several others principally responsible for the slaughter of nearly 3000 Americans on 9-11 have been jailed for some 24 years, awaiting trial, while multiple presidential administrations dithered. ...
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August 5, 2024
The Party of Science: Curses! Foiled again!Mt. Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is rightly known as “The Shrine of Democracy.” Between 1927 and 1941, led by sculptor Gutzon Borglum, some 400 local workers carved the monument. Amazingly, considering the technology of t...
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August 5, 2024
Kamala's marvelous election year conversionsHuman beings are contrary creatures. Decisions made yesterday—or four years ago—might be changed today in light of new, compelling information or fundamental revisions of belief. That’s human beings. Politicians are entirely differe...
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August 5, 2024
The Trump Assassination attempt: knowing what should happenAmong the best advice any writer can take is: “write what you know.” Properly applied, this axiom can keep writers of fiction from inventing semiautomatic, lever action revolvers, or writing female characters with the sensibilities of Hul...
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August 5, 2024
Kamala: electric school bus bustThe electric vehicle (EV) doom loop is accelerating. Even in its fading days, surrounded by the stench of EV demise, the Harris/Biden Administration continues to cheerlead for EVs. The head cheerleader: Kamala Harris: One of Kamala Harris...
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August 4, 2024
The court-ordered border wallA primary reason the media holds such power over what Americans believe is not what they report. Their lies and distortions, their leftist opinions masquerading as factual reporting, their willing, enthusiastic service as the propaganda arm of the De...
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August 4, 2024
The coming terrorist attacksScarcely a week goes by we don’t hear about more known terrorists caught—most are never caught--at the border, like these: Border Patrol agents took three suspected Palestinian terrorists into custody earlier this month after they ille...
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August 3, 2024
The Secret Service and due processAccording to Fox News, the Secret Service (SS) is lacking some 1000 personnel. This is an agency whose 2023 budget was some $3 billion dollars. It’s also an agency hampered by its former Director’s DEI lunacy. Any organization that embraces DEI must,...
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August 3, 2024
AR-15: the FBI's collapsing theoryThe attempted assassination of Donald Trump was reportedly carried out with an AR-15 variant. When the type of rifle became known, the usual suspects immediately began screaming for banning “assault weapons,” a class of firearm that does ...
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July 28, 2024
Plausible deniability?On July 18, in Trump attempt: why didn’t they shoot?, I suggested the government, in its Secret Service (SS) pseudo-protection of Donald Trump, was creating security vulnerabilities with plausible deniability. Were those vulnerabilities du...
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July 28, 2024
Who is Kamala Harris?Kamala Harris is remarkable. She’s the most incredible, qualified, brilliant, accomplished, mostly Asian but sort-of-black woman ever to run for President. I know because suddenly, the media can’t stop praising her. Yesterday she was as i...
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July 27, 2024
The Biden explanation that wasn'tEven a double layer of spray-on tan couldn’t hide Joe Biden’s deterioration. His skin is stretched as far as plastic surgery can manage. His voice was gravely, rough, hushed, exhausted, without his usual angry shouts or bizarre whispers. ...
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July 27, 2024
Two visions of AmericaProgressives were once content to be known as “liberals,” until Americans understood that political leaning had nothing to do with the traditional meaning of liberalism. Too many Americans had their number, so they rebranded as “pro...
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July 21, 2024
Gavin Newsom's self-drag on the ticketSome are saying Gavin Newsom is too smart to try to be POTUS now. With the disaster that is the Democrat party, it would be foolish to get involved. On the other hand, Newsom’s arrogance, sense of entitlement and narcissism know no bounds. Why ...
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July 21, 2024
Questions for the Secret Service DirectorSecret Service director Kim Cheatle, who by all accounts got the job because she’s Jill Biden’s pal, will reportedly appear before Congress this week. Here are a few questions Senators and Congresspersons might want to ask: *Should Sec...
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July 20, 2024
Post-RNC tacticsThe attempted assassination of Donald Trump is forcing a reevaluation of political tactics. Even Donald Trump, in his Republican National Convention speech, was a more humble, less bombastic, man. Coming within an inch of death tends to have that eff...
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July 20, 2024
Secret Service threat standardsAmerica has been wondering how it’s possible the vaunted Secret Service (SS), the self-billed greatest protective agency on the planet managed to be utterly defeated by a 20-year-old apparent nerd with no known tactical training or skills, a ki...
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July 19, 2024
Trump: conspiracy!Conspiracy theories are like navels: everybody has one. I’ve suggested, here and at my home blog (enter “trump” in the SMM home page search bar to find the related, detailed, articles) two primary possibilities: (1) The Secret ...
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July 18, 2024
Secret Service Director: Oh my GodAll roofs are sloped. It’s necessary for water run off. Even roofs that aren’t peaked are sloped. While it’s possible some adults might not be consciously aware of this simple fact of building construction, one might expe...
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July 18, 2024
Trump attempt: why didn't they shoot?Much has been written about the Secret Service’s failure to secure the rooftop of the most obvious sniper hide in the area of Donald Trump. There are two possible conclusions: (1) From the lowest ranking agent present, to present supervisors, t...
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July 14, 2024
Chuck Schumer: immunity challengedWe are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. Have you ever noticed that virtually every photo of Chuck Schumer looks like a medieval rendering of a demon? That evil, smug grin is at once repellent and chilli...
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July 14, 2024
The pier to nowhere is going awayWe are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. It has been only about four months since Joe Biden’s pier to nowhere debacle began. As I noted in The pier to nowhere on May 26, Hamas mortared it at t...
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July 13, 2024
Terrorist attacks in America: just a matter of time?Back in January of 2024 I wrote Terrorist attacks in America: for what are they waiting? It was an article about the thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of terrorists Biden’s handler’s open border policies have invited into the...
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July 13, 2024
The Biden Crime Family's Fisker AdventureRemember the Solyndra debacle? In March of 2009, then Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the man who wanted to raise American’s gasoline prices to European levels--$10.00+--announced a $535 million loan to Solyndra, a maker of solar cells. By Au...
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July 7, 2024
Michelle! The one-halfPrior to the 2020 race, I predicted Michelle Obama would be the Democrat/Socialist/Communist (D/S/C) Party nominee. I was sort of wrong. “Sort of” only if one assumed the Obamas have not been enjoying a third term and angling for a fourth...
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July 7, 2024
FBI: fidelity, bravery, integrity?Our wide open but “secure” borders have allowed innumerable terrorists and spies into the country. “innumerable” because we have no idea how many, who they are or where they are—that is until they turn up trying to infil...
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July 6, 2024
Murthy: gun owners are a diseaseUntil 1996, one of the primary tactics of anti-liberty/gun cracktivists was to treat criminal misuse of guns, as well as accidents and suicides as public health matters. There was, of course, no disease vector, no virus, bacteria or parasite. There c...
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July 6, 2024
Electric vehicles: the magical unibattery!I’ve been writing about electric vehicles since 2011, the heady days of the Chevy Volt, as Chevy’s ads then proclaimed it: “The car we had to build.” What they meant was the Obamites were forking over taxpayer cash for electri...
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June 30, 2024
Experts identify domestic terrorists“Where the people fear the government, you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.” Attributed to John Basil Barnhill In early September of 2022, Joe Biden delivered his “Triumph of the Shill...
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June 30, 2024
Getting the police we deserveLong before the “defund, harass and prosecute the police” madness, there was trouble aplenty in law enforcement at every level. Police administrators across the country were purposely hiring only people below average in intelligence. ...
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June 30, 2024
Renaming Devil's Tower?Among the wrongs Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) delight in inflicting on Normal Americans is renaming all manner of things: military installations, schools, national monuments and landmarks, and anything else to comport with their contempor...
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June 30, 2024
Tractor Supply wakes upTractor Supply is as American a company as companies get. With 2,250 stores nationwide, and tens of thousands of employees, the 85-year-old company is something of a cross between a farm and ranch equipment store, Home Depot and WalMart, with somethi...
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June 29, 2024
Perverse militaryWhen I served in the US Air Force During the Cold War, uniforms, and the badges of authority, service and honor that adorned them meant something. One never wore an award they had not legitimately earned, and one surely never wore anything non-milita...
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June 29, 2024
Biden: Realization and BetrayalThe primary reason civil wars are so brutal is the overwhelming sense of betrayal. Betrayal not only of family, but of nation, of what were formerly shared values and ideals. But the betrayal runs more deeply. People who wa...
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June 29, 2024
Lies, damned lies and statisticsMark Twain said: “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” Nowhere is this truer than with the statistics the Biden/Garland Department of Justice inflicts on us. Were we to believe what Joe Biden said during the recent debate, the Tru...
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June 29, 2024
Taser lessons for everyoneDuring my police days in the 90s, an evolution took place in the application of the use of force. Earlier, police weapons were divided into “nonlethal” and “lethal” categories. Firearms, obviously, were lethal, but everything ...
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June 23, 2024
The microstamping scamAmong the never-ending attempts of anti-liberty/gun cracktivists to deprive Americans of their unalienable Second Amendment rights are various microstamping schemes. Microstamping requires leaving a unique imprint on the primer of a cartridge case. T...
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June 23, 2024
The trans superiority narrativeThe trans superiority narrative is a declaration of separation, in essence, of war. In order to accept it, one must reject objective reality, as George Orwell wrote in 1984: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eye...
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June 22, 2024
'Our democracy' a tyranny of the majorityWords matter. They reflect and define our thoughts, our self-image, our collective beliefs, our government and our laws. That’s why legislators, lawyers and judges argue interminably over the presence or absence of single words in statutes, and...
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June 22, 2024
Defensive gun use and realityHow often do Americans use guns in lawful self-defense? It’s a difficult question to answer, in part because many who send a criminal to flight by merely demonstrating they are armed, never report the incident. The same is true for many who bra...
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June 16, 2024
Just ban 'em all--er, most...There are several primary firearm action types: Lever action: the traditional rifles of western movies. Pump action: more common to shotguns than rifles. Semiautomatic: actions operated primarily by recoil or gas and used in pistols, rifles ...
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June 16, 2024
Is an electric vehicle collapse inevitable?Were one to listen to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, or Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, one might come away with the impression that electric vehicles (EVs) are so popular, the government’s intention of mostly replacing internal c...
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June 15, 2024
Black self-defense and civilization in ConnecticutOne of my friends, a lovely, smart woman, moved from Connecticut to South Dakota in the 90s. She remained convinced Connecticut was a bastion of civilization, particularly compared to backward, provincial South Dakotans. Now, easterners ar...
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June 15, 2024
Biden and gun bans; there he goes againJoe Biden’s handlers never rest in their attempts to disarm Americans. That they would have to ignore or obliterate the Second Amendment to succeed is, for them, a feature not a bug. To that end, Biden recently made another in his handler...
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June 13, 2024
Another Uvalde outrage2005: anti-liberty/gun cracktivists have hit on a new strategy for depriving Americans of arms: sue gun makers for the third-party criminal acts of others misusing their legal products about who they have no knowledge and over who they have no contro...
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June 13, 2024
FBI housecleaningImagine you’re an FBI agent assigned to interview other FBI agents to determine whether they’re a risk to national security. What kinds of questions would you ask? How would you investigate their answers and backgrou...
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June 9, 2024
Manufacturing electric vehicle realityThe state of electric vehicles is caught between two opposing forces: economic reality and manufactured reality, and only the upcoming presidential election has the potential to resolve those opposed realms. On the side of economic reality are Nor...
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June 9, 2024
The new Minutemen buy gunsAs we approach 60 consecutive months of more than a million gun sales, it’s time to review the state of gun ownership in America, and enjoy the tears of anti-liberty/gun cracktivists. According to a report by the National Sports Shoot...
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June 8, 2024
A bullet resistant vest primerWe often hear about “bullet proof” vests. TV/movie good guys shot while wearing one immediately fall to the ground, breathless and momentarily incapacitated, even though the bullet did not penetrate the vest. Dramatic, but mostly nonsensi...
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June 8, 2024
The Biden deep fakery of Merrick GarlandFollowing an investigation by special counsel Robert Hur, Americans learned Joe Biden, who Hur characterized as a sympathetic, elderly man with a poor memory, is so mentally impaired he cannot be prosecuted for serial violations of classified documen...
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June 2, 2024
The cult of Trump?Remember when Newsweek editor Evan Thomas tongue-bathed Barack Obama back in 2009? Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama's had, really, a different task We're s...
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June 2, 2024
The missing element in Bragg's caseThere is something vital and profoundly disturbing missing from Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump: police involvement. It’s possible some police officers were assigned to the prosecutor’s office, but if so, t...
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June 1, 2024
Crashing a pier and America's credibilityOn May 26, AT posted A pier to nowhere, a then up-to-date account of Biden’s handler’s attempt to force our military to build a pier to supply Hamas, our intractable enemy not at all shy about its goal of murdering every Jew and Amer...
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June 1, 2024
Surely Merchan wouldn't“Surely,” pundits are solemnly intoning, “Judge Juan Merchan would never jail Donald Trump. He must know that would provoke civil strife, perhaps even a second civil war!” As this is written, Trump’s sente...
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May 26, 2024
The pier to nowhereAt the end of April, Hamas mortared Joe Biden’s pier under construction in Gaza. Supposedly, no one was injured, though there was much “running for cover.” But on May 23, three US troops were injured, one...
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May 26, 2024
A terrorist dry runAmong the realities of military life on Continental United States (CONUS) military installations is the disarmament of military members. The only service members allowed to carry arms are those whose Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) requires it....
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May 25, 2024
Why I carry a handgun, 2024No one really knows how many Americans regularly carry handguns, concealed or openly. The number of concealed carry licenses doesn’t tell the tale, particularly since 29 states are now “constitutional carry states.” Unles...
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May 25, 2024
The FBI, Donald Trump, and deadly forceJournalist Julie Kelly recently stirred up considerable outrage at her newest revelation in the Trump/Mar-A-Lago document case: An exhibit filed today by Donald Trump in a motion to suppress evidence seized during the FBI’s Aug...
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May 19, 2024
Importing terrorJust who are the “Palestinians?” Who are the people living in Gaza? Ethnically, they’re from a variety of local tribes, many from Jordan, and virtually all are Muslim, George W. Bush’s “religion of peace.” Most, at...
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May 19, 2024
Losing 'our democracy'Were one foolish enough to believe the self-imagined elite (SIE), we would be convinced we’re about to lose “our democracy.” January 6, the insurrection that wasn’t, came within an inch of doing the job, so the nobl...
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May 18, 2024
Kamala writes!Did you know I’m in heady company? Kamala Harris and I are published authors! OK, so we’re not literary pen pals, nor have I ghost-written anything for her, but I am one up on her, because I can reliably pronounce my first name and I had ...
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May 18, 2024
Terror alert!Back in January, AT posted Terrorist attacks in America: for what are they waiting? I noted: The FBI has admitted they’re watching at least 300 people on the Terrorist Watch List (TWL). Never mind why people on the TWL were allowed in...
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May 12, 2024
Marilyn Mosby: finally, justice comes to BaltimoreFreddie Gray was a small-time petty criminal and drug dealer, who back in April of 2015 was arrested for possession of a knife illegal under Baltimore law. Richly ironic was Gray was hanging out, likely making drug connections, in a Baltimore neig...
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May 12, 2024
U.S. gymnastics and pedophilia: Make the bastards payImagine you’re a rapist pedophile. How can you get access to the nubile, young, female bodies you crave without drawing attention to yourself and ruining things? Fortunately, you’re a medical doctor. Even more fortunately, you manage to g...
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May 11, 2024
Open or concealed carry?Among the perennial controversies in the firearm world is whether concealed or open carry is best. Circa 2024, open carry is widely allowed: State laws regarding open carry fall into several categories: permissive, permissive with restrict...
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May 11, 2024
How to lose billions on EVsSenator Everett Dirksen said: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Our federal government has been talking trillions for some time now, but the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration...
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May 5, 2024
Trans: middle school girls lead the wayWhat can you do if you’re a mediocre male athlete, a sad sack who has no chance of coming within a mile of a medal stand? Work harder? Nah. You know you don’t have the right stuff, and more work and sweat won’t make a difference. In...
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May 5, 2024
Will protesting students face consequences?It will come to no surprise to sane Americans that the “kill the Jews,” mostly peaceful, protests at our nation’s Ivy League/blue universities have turned violent. It will surely not be surprising to learn around 50% of “stude...
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May 4, 2024
Illegals fly FloridaOn April 30, Illegals fly free—and secretly, was posted at American Thinker. It’s the tale of the Biden Administration flying unvetted illegals directly across our “secure” and “closed” borders into America at...
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May 4, 2024
So you want a suppressor?Most Americans know of suppressors—usually misgendered as “silencers”—from the movies. In that medium, suppressors produce no more sound than a dainty sneeze, and are used only by assassins and tier 1 special operators. I...
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April 30, 2024
How popular is the AR-15?On April 13, American Thinker posted Should I Buy An AR-15? That article generated 99 comments, and suggested there are some 30 million ARs in private hands in America. I also suggested one of the best reasons to buy an AR-15 is the Mummifi...
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April 30, 2024
The Pope: wars and rumors of warIn the 1960s former Beatle John Lennon wrote the repetitive Give Peace A Chance. It expresses an eternal sentiment, a longing for an end to war and the unity of all mankind. It was naïve, overly sentimental, and a rejection of human na...
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April 30, 2024
Illegals fly free--and secretly *UPDATED*By the time Joe Biden’s term ends, if it ends, no fewer than 10 million illegal aliens, many of them criminals and the insane, hundreds of thousands of terrorists and spies, even members of China’s military, will be within America...
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April 29, 2024
Men, hypermasculinity and car cultureIt’s easy to make a reasonable argument that America is a car culture. It’s equally easy to observe the sheer size of America makes it inevitable and necessary. One might even argue that “culture” is largely driven by male sen...
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April 29, 2024
You're on your own: what to do about itLet us say, just for the purposes of this discussion, you’ve come to recognize you really are on your own. Even if you live in a red state where crime isn’t exploding, but is humming along at its normal, bit-by-bit destructive pace, you u...
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April 29, 2024
A justice delayed is justice deniedDo you remember the glorious days after the leak of the Supreme Court’s abortion decision in Dobbs? Oh, the conjecture! Who was the leaker? One of the court’s leftists? Breyer, who was about to retire? A leftist court clerk? And the prote...
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April 29, 2024
The Trump document case: a set-up?Among the many bizarre features of the Trump documents case is the relationship between former presidents and the National Archives. The Presidential Records Act (1978) is the defining statute. It’s entirely civil, not criminal, in nature. Disa...
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April 29, 2024
Kristi Noem v. Joe Biden in the indecency sweepstakesDemocrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are up arms about a brief passage in South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s new book. Said passage relates the long ago, sad tale of putting down a dog whose behavior proved inappropriate and dangerous to f...
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April 28, 2024
Banning American gun exportsThe Biden Administration has become quickly and justly infamous for damaging American industry in every way possible. If there’s a way to make it difficult or impossible for Americans to make lawful products or provide lawful services, if there...
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April 28, 2024
Hamas mortars the UN at the GazaIt was in his 2024 State of the Disunion teleprompter slurring that President Biden shouted “the threat to democracy must be defended.” It went downhill from there, as when he announced he is going to build a pier in Gaza to ensure H...
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April 27, 2024
Go west, young studentNews coverage of the “protests” at our “elite” universities is focused mainly on downplaying, even justifying, rallies for terrorists and antisemitism, the DNA of such events. It would appear elitism now consists of academic a...
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April 27, 2024
The Supreme Court and ghost gunsThe Biden’s Handler’s DOJ has done it again. Actually, they did it in 2022, but the Supreme Court has granted cert. The issue is so-called “ghost guns,” guns without a unique serial number. This stems from the Gun Control A...
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April 21, 2024
Nashville stonewalling continuesMarch 27, 2023, at the Covenant School in Nashville, TN, Audrey Hale killed three elementary-aged students and three staff, before Nashville police officers, not as hampered as were the Uvalde responders, killed her, ending her rampage. It’s an...
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April 21, 2024
We need 'high capacity' magazinesUnintended consequences are often delicious. Among the provisions of the 1994 Clinton “assault weapon” ban was limiting magazines to 10 rounds. That provision was no more effective than the rest of the ban, which was allowed to sunset aft...
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April 20, 2024
The newest 'smart gun' has arrivedI have long followed every abortive attempt to develop “smart guns,” handguns that can only be fired by a designated user. Early attempts used magnetic locks, requiring rings on both hands. Obviously, anyone with a magnet could fire ...
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April 20, 2024
Our self-imagined elite EV futureThe minions of the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA), like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, just know electric vehicles are the future: “…the automotive sector is moving towards EVs”…but “...
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April 14, 2024
Of academic bondageAccording to Psychology Today, 34% of adults have admitted to engaging in “bondage play.” The survey respondents were apparently Norwegians, so I’m not sure precisely how those results would translate to Americans, but the...
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April 14, 2024
Is MAGA sucker punching NYC?News from the Big Apple these days is as discouraging as it is unsurprising. Who could have imagined that when America’s largest city decriminalized crime, defunded its police, harassed and prosecuted police officers, praised criminals and decl...
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April 13, 2024
Queer Carribean FruitEveryone knows the queer are stunning and brave…and morally and intellectually superior…and a higher plane of existence…and…and… and they’re afraid of people eating fruit, which doesn’t seem all that bra...
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April 13, 2024
Should I buy an AR-15?Should I buy an AR-15? Yes. Next question? But why? There are many good reasons, including the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration doesn’t want you to have one and they’re willing to lie about it and threaten to bomb, ...
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April 7, 2024
Electric vehicles: the dogs don't like itThere’s a famous story in American marketing circles about a pet food company that spent a fortune on a new dog food, but were horrified to find sales tanking. They’d done everything right! What could possibly have gone wrong? As the stor...
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April 7, 2024
Yes, chambered semi autos are safeShould a semiautomatic handgun be carried with a round in the chamber? Yes. Next question? It’s an issue much on the minds of many, because Americans have been buying guns at the rate of more than a million a month for more than 50 mo...
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April 6, 2024
Revolvers for women aren't such a great ideaAll too often I see well-intentioned men decide the women in their lives are too weak to cycle the slides of contemporary semiautomatic handguns. Their solution is inevitably to guide them into revolvers, and almost always, small, concealable revolve...
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April 6, 2024
The trans revolution has a long historyThere is a connection, a history, of Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) loosing the mentally ill on America that dates back to the 60s. It was a revolution — such people are prone to those — in mental health ca...
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March 31, 2024
A terrible accident provides an essential lessonThis story is heartbreaking, but it illustrates a firearm safety essential: avoiding negligent discharges. A Tennessee ...
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March 31, 2024
The Bible recommendsReading scripture can be a daunting exercise. Whether the Old or New Testaments, absent study of history, archeology and practice in reading and interpreting complex texts, it’s easy to come to false conclusions, to make mistakes of ...
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March 30, 2024
Stephen Breyer wants to kill the ConstitutionStephen Breyer, when on the Supreme Court, was a “living Constitution” advocate. The letter of the Constitution, the clear historic record and Founder’s intent, meant little to him. He was a reliable vote for ...
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March 30, 2024
Blue state gun grabbers go after GlockMinnesota’s Islamist/Communist Attorney General Keith Ellison is now “investigating” and will almost certain sue several auto makers because his black constituents find their cars “easy to steal.” He’s not pro...
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March 24, 2024
Sacramento City Council: America's enemy is their friendGraphic: X screenshot The Israeli-Hamas war has served a useful service here in America. It has exposed, once and for all, just how obscenely dim-witted and demonically evil are so many of our domestic Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs)....
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March 24, 2024
Trans Sports, where the women are women, and so are the menGraphic: Fox News screenshot The issues on which the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) Party is running for 2024 are, to say the least, historically unusual: Bidenomics, marijuana legalization, abortion, destroying the American automobile i...
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March 23, 2024
Attorney General Garland promises election lawfareWho can forget October of 2020, when Joe Biden committed a gaffe? He certainly does that more or less constantly, but this one was a classic, because a gaffe is properly defined as what happens when a politician accidently tells the truth: ...
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March 23, 2024
Terrorists enter America; the FBI worriesBack in October, 2023 I wrote about internal government documents, not for public view, which leaked. They warned of terrorists streaming across the border and how that might pose a terrorism problem…or something....
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March 17, 2024
Art: deconstructing the futureAt Powerline, John Hinderaker stirred memories and frustrations from my teaching days: Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum has an excellent collection that includes, among others, paintings by John Constable, one of my favorite artis...
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March 17, 2024
Mortgage inflation and The Stupid PartyBidenomics tells us don’t worry; be happy. We live in the best of all possible economies, just as Joe Scarborough recently told Americans the “truth” that we are experiencing the best of all possible Joe Bidens. The economy is fanta...
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March 17, 2024
Illegal aliens: of course they have Second Amendment rights!“The undocumented.” “Newcomers.” We’re now told illegal aliens aren’t illegal, and it’s wrong to refer to people who break the law the moment they step onto American soil and remain as anything other than ...
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March 17, 2024
Trump documents case: a judge wonders“Novel legal theory,” a term applied in whole or part to every case, criminal and civil, lodged against Donald Trump. That term is best understood as using the law in ways it was never intended to be used, and/or never has been used, most...
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March 17, 2024
Haiti: can't we put America first?Haiti is coming apart, and as always, the US government is making it worse. In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated the island, the Clintons grabbed on and never let go: Mrs Clinton was Secretary of State and Mr Clint...
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March 16, 2024
California's high speed rail to nowhereCalifornia, one of the brokest states, is facing a $68 billion dollar budget deficit for 2024. As Senator Everette Dirksen said: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Chase away a hu...
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March 16, 2024
Riley Gaines: teaching the NCAA how to loseDemocrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) live in a reality of their own making. That used to be universally understood as mental illness, though so long as the afflicted were harmless, was tolerated. Unfortunately, contemporary D/s/cs demand others l...
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March 16, 2024
January 6: The CIA got in on the funAmericans are slowly learning just how much of the truth about January 6 the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) and the January 6 Committee (J6C) have hidden from them. The FBI has grudgingly admitted it had operatives present that day, but ...
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March 16, 2024
Bidenomics: waiting for progress on the core inflation numberThere are two ways to understand the economy: (1) Merely by trying to live in it. (2) Listening to the purveyors of Bidenomics. The former is a direct way to experience economic reality, watching prices for the necessities of life rise to levels not ...
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March 16, 2024
Universal background checks: backdoor, illegal gun registrationPresident Biden, actually his handlers, and not a few Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) politicians, continually advocate for gun control. Their currently favored narrative demands bans on “assault weapons,” “high-capacity magazi...
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March 16, 2024
Is China using electric vehicles to spy on us?There’s a famous story in American marketing circles about the pet food company that spent a fortune on a new dog food, but were horrified to find sales tanking. They’d done everything right! What could possibly have gone wrong? As the st...
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March 15, 2024
Accelerating the electric vehicle doom loopI’ve been writing about electric vehicles since 2011. EV cheerleading never stops. They’re inevitable! We’ll have 500,000 chargers coast to coast any minute now (the federal government has built approximately two)! By 203...
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March 15, 2024
Washington State gun control fails again--stillWashington State appears to be competing with California for “looniest state government in America” honors. Governor Inslee is about to sign a blatantly unconstitutional anti-free speech bill that pays up to $2000 for accusing others of ...
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March 15, 2024
The truth about disinformationWhat’s the difference between misinformation, disinformation or any other sort of bad information? There is none. All are merely propagandistic ways of labeling free speech Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) don’t like as ...
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March 15, 2024
Joe Biden: fighting back against AmericaThe issue is currently being ignored, but the attacks on our troops in the Middle East continue, unabated. Our warships in the Red Sea are under constant attack by the Houthis, and America’s response to those attacks has been as ineffective and...
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March 15, 2024
Our failing, emotional, criminal justice systemAnyone paying even minimal attention knows how far our criminal justice system has fallen, and how fast that fall is accelerating, particularly in blue states and cities. The focus is no longer on preventing crime and catching criminals. I...
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March 15, 2024
Fani Willis: unethical, corrupt, but prosecutors will be prosecutorsIn all my years in law enforcement, I never saw anything like the bizarrely contradictory and extra-legal behavior of judges in the Donald Trump affair. One can only conclude every judge involved has decided Donald Trump must be destroyed at all cost...
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March 14, 2024
Utopian lies, and honest perspective“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana (also attributed to others). Our universities and streets are filled with the doomed who think socialism/Marxism, even Islamism, are the i...
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March 14, 2024
Shrinkflation or economic reality: who you gonna believe?“Shrinkflation” like “Bidenomics,” is a term invented for political advantage. In this case, it’s aimed at convincing Americans crushing inflation is a good thing and not at all the fault of the Mummified Meat Puppet Adm...
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March 14, 2024
How to provoke a real insurrectionWhat’s the best way to provoke an insurrection, a second civil war? Try to disarm Americans. Lawmakers should pass gun restrictions in order to prevent an “insurrection,” an academic paper argues. This sor...
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March 14, 2024
Christian Nationalism? What's that?Remember Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority? It was a political movement that sought to use political means to achieve Christian ends. It lasted from 1979 to 1989. After its demise, its second-in-command, Cal Thomas confessed trying to use politics...
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March 14, 2024
Washington State goes full Animal FarmWe’re bombarded with cries of this or that being “under attack,” but few American institutions are under greater and more frequent actual attack during the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) than free speech. The latest bea...
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March 10, 2024
Devolving to a 3S societyNormal Americans seeing mobs of mostly masked “youth” wantonly stealing from stores and pharmacies are surely thinking: “why don’t the police just shoot them?” That’s a very good question, and one increasingly on t...
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March 10, 2024
Joe Biden: inventing new ways to kill AmericansThe Great Biden Hamas Airdrop is not off to an auspicious beginning. The problem is cargo planes must fly low and slow for such missions, and even then, they can’t drop their cargo with any real precision. Flying that mission profile, they...
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March 9, 2024
The great Hamas airdropAmerica has a long history of aiding allies by a variety of means. Perhaps the most famous is the Berlin Airlift. In June of 1948 the Soviets blocked West Berlin as prelude to seizing it. America delivered, by air, about 5000 tons of cargo a day...
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March 9, 2024
Oklahoma: the toe-sucking state?Licking and sucking feet and toes is a sexual act, an act designed to give erotic pleasure. For some it’s a fetish. They can’t experience sexual gratification without it, but whether a fetish or simply passion-inspired inspiration, it...
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March 3, 2024
Denver loves it someIt has taken about three years, but the consequences of ten million or so illegal “immigrants” inundating American cities have become glaringly apparent. We largely have Texas Governor Gregg Abbott to thank for that reality slap in the fa...
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March 3, 2024
Biden to Israel: absolutely againOn October 7, 2023, Americans were surprised to learn Israelis were all but completely disarmed by their government. For years, Americans had been exposed to photos of Israeli soldiers, including women, carrying their issued rifles, usually American ...
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March 2, 2024
Ketanji Brown Jackson don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no Second AmendmentSupreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson don’t know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ no women. I refer to the classic Hattie McDaniel line in Gone With The Wind. Brown Jackson, during her confirma...
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March 2, 2024
The immolation of our military?I served as a military police officer, a “security police officer,” in the USAF during the Cold War. I served stateside, and was an actual police officer, not a “rivet counter” as we termed the SPs that carried M-16s and guard...
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March 1, 2024
Lloyd Austin and McDonald's-level responsibilityRemember how our corpulent, oh-so-woke Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin went AWOL, reposing in the hospital for an undetermined period after failing to inform anyone, even his own deputy, he was undergoing surgery? Remember how Joe Biden wasn’...
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February 25, 2024
James Biden shills for the Biden Crime FamilyDemocrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) apologists would have us believe the Biden Crime Family is entirely innocent, the victim of evil MAGA persecution. That normal Americans and Republicans have no power to prosecute under the weaponized, politicized...
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February 25, 2024
Austin: Where 'weird' turns dangerousAustin, capitol of Texas, an island of blue in a sea of red. When I taught in Texas, I avoided Austin as much as possible. I had to visit for the occasional class, or to speak at a conference, but other than that, Austin was far more big, ...
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February 24, 2024
The Florida 'trans genocide'Among the horrors of the modern age is the ongoing “Trans Genocide.” It’s not like the ongoing genocide of the Jews Hamas and its Iran-backed proxies are doing their best to impose. This one is indigenous to America, and is far...
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February 24, 2024
Ford: can DEI, merit and profit coexist?Back in 2023, our 2016 Ford F150 4X4 needed a new oil pan. Things didn’t go as I hoped: It was in early January that I began to find increasing amounts of oil on the floor of my garage under the truck, which until that point, had been unfa...
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February 22, 2024
Joe Biden: everything he touches...In the same galaxy, a long time ago, my police division commander duties included supervising an animal control section. The law in our community, which was common across the country, was simple. When a dog bit someone, if the skin was broken, the an...
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February 21, 2024
Remington flees to a free stateThe recent judgement for fraud against Donald Trump in a New York City Court, in a dollar amount higher than the GNP of some countries despite no one being defrauded, has revealed something many Americans didn’t know: New York State is dri...
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February 18, 2024
The Mummified Meat Puppet administration betrays Israel and AmericaThere’s an old aphorism in foreign policy to the effect that there is nothing more dangerous than being an ally of America. The Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) seems determined that no one ever forget it. Normal Americans have been ...
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February 18, 2024
The Trans Genocide comes to FloridaAmong the horrors of the modern age is the ongoing “Trans Genocide.” It’s not like the ongoing genocide of the Jews Hamas and its Iran-backed allies are doing their best to impose. This one is indigenous to America, and is far, far ...
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February 17, 2024
A brief Glock apologeticsOn 02-11-24 I published A basic, brief semiautomatic pistol primer here at American Thinker. As my every day carry and duty handgun is a Glock 43X, I used that, and other Glocks, as rhetorical and photographic examples. By way of di...
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February 17, 2024
Joe Biden: rare earths, rarer leadershipWhen Joe Biden became president America was energy independent, an exporter of energy. He ended that enviable state of affairs “on day one.” Biden’s anti-American no-reliable energy policies have badly damaged America, while encoura...
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February 13, 2024
China prepares for war--from inside AmericaOn January 8, I posted Terrorist Attacks In America: For What Are They Waiting? An excerpt: The FBI has admitted they’re watching at least 300 people on the Terrorist Watch List (TWL). Never mind why people on the TWL were allowed int...
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February 11, 2024
A basic, brief, semiautomatic pistol primerYou’ve noticed tens of thousands of terrorists and members of the Chinese Army are skipping across the border. The Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) is delighted, and doing everything it can to keep them coming. Texans have known this...
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February 11, 2024
Rape in Seattle: just another defund-the-police consequenceSome of the steam has escaped from the “defund the police” movement. Those continuing to push it tend to be a bit less strident, but no less irrational. Many Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are content to harass and prosecute the...
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February 10, 2024
A brief revolver primerYou’ve finally decided the police can’t protect you. Even if you live in a red state where the police are allowed to do their job, when seconds count, they’re minutes away at best. It’s time to exercise your God-given right to...
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February 10, 2024
Hawaii and the spirit of AlohaDid you know there is a heretofore unknown legal principle known as “the spirit of Aloha,” which for Hawaii--at last check a part of the United States—takes precedence over the Bill of Rights? Hawaii’s Supreme Court thinks so:...
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February 8, 2024
Sen. Chris Murphy: the people we care about mostA gaffe is commonly defined as when a politician inadvertently tells the truth and/or reveals his true intentions. During this election season, we’re seeing a bumper crop of gaffes, and not all by Joe Biden. Sen. Chris Murphy, among the most ra...
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February 5, 2024
The FBI and Fourth Amendment folliesMost Americans don’t know how much police officers rely on the Constitution, and particularly the Bill of Rights, in their daily work. This is particularly true of the Fourth Amendment, which regulates search and seizure: The right of the ...
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February 4, 2024
Biden and Iran: retaliation, appeasement or betrayal?There are three possibilities: (1) Joe Biden’s handlers are bought and paid for by the Iranians. (2) They’re incredibly stupid (3) They hate America. On second thought, there are four: all of the above. Benjamin Weingarten explain...
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February 4, 2024
Book review: Kurt Schlichter's The AttackKurt Schlichter’s People’s Republic series—eight thus far—has been tremendously popular. Its fictional hero, Army Captain Kelly Turnbull, operates in an America split apart into The People’s Republic—toda...
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February 3, 2024
Walgreens: getting out while they still canThomas Lifson recently wrote about In-N-Out Burger and Denny’s fleeing Oakland, California. Crime became so constant and blatant it was too dangerous for employees and customers. At the In-N-Out, criminals were going from car to ...
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February 3, 2024
COVID: the vaccine that wasn't, and the truthAmericans have lost faith in our health establishment. They’re now absolutely science deniers, if the “science” is being mandated by the CDC, NIH, or people like Anthony Fauci, who recently admitted that six foot social distancing j...
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January 31, 2024
Should we defenestrate the UN over a few bad apples?There now arises a new hue and cry for not only defunding UNRWA but also defunding the UN itself and kicking the whole basket of international Deplorables out of America. As one might suspect, Donald Trump defunded the UNRWA: Then there is ...
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January 29, 2024
Warning Iran; committing treason?I can’t say I’m particularly fond of John Bolton, but the Iranians want to kill him, so he can’t be all bad. That Iran has been fighting a declared war against America since 1979 always goes unmentioned by our appallingly anti-Ameri...
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January 28, 2024
Don't Mess With TexasCould the potential constitutional crisis brewing in Texas spark a second civil war? It should be no surprise Texas could be the flashpoint. “Don’t Mess With Texas” means far more to Texans than a casual taunt. I know; I’m a f...
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January 25, 2024
The AR-15: a common and usual American choiceThe Supreme Court has made clear firearms in common and usual use are constitutional. That has not, however, stopped blue state legislatures, and some courts, from violating the Second Amendment: On Friday 11-03-23], a three-judge panel of the U...
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January 25, 2024
DEI: making college unaffordableI graduated from college in the 1980s. I took my bachelor’s degree in 2.5 years by taking overloads—up to 22 credits--every semester, and full loads every summer and interim session, as well as a number of correspondence courses from anot...
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January 25, 2024
Trans shooters: suppressing the factsDid you know there’s credible evidence the Uvalde killer was trans? The media scrupulously avoided reporting on that aspect of the attack. There’s no doubt the Nashville Covenant School killer was also trans, but that aspect of the attack...
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January 24, 2024
A brief history of Assault WeaponsAnd now, a brief history of “Assault Weapons…” There. Did you enjoy it? That’s all the history required. There is no such thing and never was. ATF Director Steve Dettelbach was recently asked by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ...
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January 24, 2024
Police recruiting: California self-destructsAmericans are used to calling their local police and receiving a rapid response. Or at least they were—in some places—some of the time. A case in point is Alameda, California, which like the rest of California, is self-destructing: ...
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January 24, 2024
Houthi terrorism: Joe threatens to say don't againTerrorists, not terrorists, absolutely not terrorists, and now, sort of terrorists-lite. Among the first things Biden’s handlers did was remove the Houthis of Yemen from the terrorist list. This was a supposedly humanitarian imperative. If the ...
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January 24, 2024
The tyranny of "our democracy"Hardly a day goes by that does not produce hyperbolic pleas for the salvation of “our democracy” by the least democratic elements of our political establishment. Joe Biden’s handlers, through their presidential meat puppet, constant...
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January 24, 2024
Donald Trump: a dictatorship Americans can supportWe are told by such luminaries as Eric Holder, who ensured Mexican drug cartels were fully armed, at least one of those weapons being used to murder a Border Patrol officer, Donald Trump will be a dictator who will destroy “our democracy....
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January 24, 2024
We're on our ownIt’s 0300 on a hot, summer Saturday morning. You jolt awake to an abrasive scratching at your front door, a scratching that quickly becomes a repeated banging. Someone is trying to break in, and it’s not the Girls Scouts hawking cook...
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January 24, 2024
Is a fourth Obama term on the way?I’ve been forecasting a Michelle Obama presidential run since October of 2019: Michelle Obama, would, in many respects, be a Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) dream candidate. She’s female and she’s black, a...
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January 24, 2024
The U.S. Army: baffled about white flightThere has been a dramatic decrease in white soldiers in the US Army in the last five years, and “Army leadership” and “Capitol Hill” are “increasingly concerned,” even “baffled.” This is particularly ir...
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January 24, 2024
January 6: the bombs that weren't?On January 21, my colleague Andrea Widburg posted TUCKER CARLSON VIDEO: Did the government plant the pipe bomb at the DNC? Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s channel, Revolver News’ Darren Beattie presented just that case, analyzing video...
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January 9, 2024
Academic hoaxes: is academia beyond redemption?The Claudine Gay/Harvard revelations lead the thoughtful person to wonder if much, if not all, of contemporary academia is a scam, a hoax without a knowing wink. Let’s take a trip back in time to 1996 and the Sokal Hoax: In 1996, Ala...
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January 9, 2024
Jan. 6: the DOJ plans to arrest everybody in the zip codeLes Miserables is Victor Hugo’s morality tale of Inspector Javert and his Ahab-like pursuit of Jean Valjean. One of the great novels of all time, its message holds true in our amoral time: U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, ...
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January 9, 2024
The Mummified Meat Puppet's handlers consider debatesAmong the more anticipated events of any presidential campaign are debates. In recent years, leftist media moderators like Candy Crowley and Chris Wallace have all but debated the Republican candidate themselves. In Joe Biden’s case, Walla...
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January 9, 2024
Electric buses: another bankrupt green boondoggleElectric buses are just like electric passenger vehicles: they’re not ready for prime time, only more so. Proterra buses are a case in point. Cities that wasted money on them found they had far less range then advertised. They commonly couldn...
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January 8, 2024
Plagiarism: will the circle be unbroken?Plagiarism. The Claudine Gay/Harvard debacle has once again raised the issue. Joe Biden’s single plagiarism scuttled an early presidential run, but it took at least 50 separate instances to remove Gay from the Harvard presidency, though sh...
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January 8, 2024
Less-lethal weapons and the ultimate women's issueDuring my police career, we had two categories for the weapons we used: lethal and non-lethal. Our firearms—in those days .357 Magnum revolvers,12 Gauge shotguns, and pepper spray and batons. It gradually dawned on the police pepper spray somet...
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January 8, 2024
Terrorist attacks in America: for what are they waiting?We somehow managed to get through Christmas and New Year’s Eve without terrorist attacks. For what are they waiting? The FBI has admitted they’re watching at least 300 people on the Terrorist Watch List (TWL). Never mind why people on ...
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January 8, 2024
Race and punishment: truth over factsIt’s an article of faith among Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) that minorities, particularly black people, are far more harshly treated by the Criminal Justice System than whites. The “evidence” usually cited for this, apar...
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January 7, 2024
Sally Kornbluth and MIT: doubling down on DEISally Kornbluth is the last woman standing. the last of the three university presidents who appeared before Congress and could not say that calls for genocide and rampant antisemitism in any way violated the rules of their schools. They wer...
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January 7, 2024
DEI on campus: students are waking--not woking--upIncredible! A sociology professor(?!) who doesn’t buy into DEI? He won’t last long: One of the seldom discussed aspects of the ongoing revolution in contemporary higher education is the problem institutions are having filling courses...
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January 7, 2024
College and politics: the smart thing to do is shut upThe smartest thing to do is probably nothing. Colleges would be wisest to simply shut up about political issues. Focus on education, let individual professors stick their secondary sexual characteristics into the defamation and reputation meat grinde...
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January 7, 2024
Immigration: broken Congress, broken lawCongressional Republicans are fond of loudly complaining about the border invasion and its effect on our citizens, economy and national security. They’re less fond about doing anything about it, though they recently made a small gesture they ma...
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January 7, 2024
Joe Biden: the medications and vacations aren't workingPoor Joe Biden. He had a hard day at Valley Forge telling us “democracy is on the ballot,” and “I understand power.” No one knows what he meant by that. It was a day so hard he was badly confused thereafter as Fox New reports:...
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January 7, 2024
Dr. Francis Collins, Covid, and the public health mindset“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” A telling observation attributed to Lord Acton, it appeared in the first episode of Star Trek, which I’m old enough to have watched during its first TV broadcast on ...
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January 6, 2024
In "defund the police" times, who are the police?America’s police are much in the news, and its seldom good news. Part of the problem is few of the public know much about them, who they are, what they think and the limitations we impose on them. To partially rectify that knowledge deficit, a ...
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January 6, 2024
White rage in the military: the report is outRemember General Mark “Thoroughly Modern” Milley? As Chairman as the Joint Chiefs of Staff he called his Chinese counterpart and told him should America plan action against China, he’d let them know in advance. He pushed our militar...
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January 6, 2024
Joe Biden at Valley Forge: triumph of the shill IIWell, he did it again. Speaking near Valley Forge, PA, President Joe Biden delivered a follow up to his red-tinged “Triumph of the Shill” speech. The New York Post explains: President Biden kicked off his bid for re-electi...
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January 6, 2024
Ashli Babbitt: Judicial Watch files a J6 wrongful death lawsuitKarine Jean-Pierre (KJP) was recently at it again, claiming police officers were killed on January 6. If “fact checkers” bothered to fact check her, they’d discover no officers died, but USAF veteran Ashli Babbi...
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January 6, 2024
J6: where non-disorderly conduct was disorderly conductDuring the 2020 “Summer of Love,” Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa mostly-peaceful but fiery protestors were given, as a former Baltimore mayor put it, “space to destroy.” A handful were arrested, fewer were prosecuted and ...
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January 6, 2024
Granholm: peak Gasoline! It's an EV future!The Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) might reasonably be labeled the “Who You Gonna Believe? Us Or Your Own Lyin’ Eyes And Bank Accounts?” Administration. No Bidenite makes that label change more convincing than Secr...
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January 5, 2024
Personal responsibility and pouncing RepublicansPerhaps the most telling commentary on Claudine Gay’s plagiarism came from a particularly clueless Matt Egan of CNN: “We should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone’s ideas in any ...
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January 5, 2024
The Houston taqueria shooting: reason or emotion?On January 5, 2023 an armed robbery occurred in a Taqueria in Houston, TX. The robber, 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington, picked the wrong taco stand and ended up seriously dead when a legally armed customer ended the robbery, shooting Washingt...
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January 5, 2024
The Iowa attack: guns and transDespite what the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) media would have us believe, school attacks remain, thankfully, rare. Also despite what they would have us believe, not every attack is committed with an AR-15 wielded by a white male Republi...
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January 5, 2024
The EPA arms up to protect "our democracy"Under the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA), our military is prepared to fight the trans/pronoun wars, not the real thing. But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is getting ready to go to actual war. It appears the environment n...
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January 4, 2024
The Harvard debacle: tracing recent academic historyThe Harvard/gay debacle provides an opportunity to reflect upon how we arrived at this ignominious point in academic history in such a short time. As prelude, a story I taught in Wyoming’s community college system: A Wyoming rancher, who str...
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January 4, 2024
From where is all the hate coming?I’m confused. Claudine Gay, in her resignation letter, which is absolutely not an apology, tells us she’s shocked--shocked!--anyone could question her commitment to opposing hate. This commitment is a common attribute of the contemporary ...
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January 4, 2024
PBS: Citizen investigators pursue J6 insurrectionistsDuring my police career, I usually appreciated citizen help. “Usually,” because sometimes people use the police to settle personal scores. In these chaotic times, it appears they’re using the police to settle political scores as wel...
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January 4, 2024
The electric vehicle doom loopThe inevitable, planet-saving, path to universal electric vehicle (EV) ownership is becoming increasingly cratered. Some 4000 dealers recently begged President Biden to stop pushing EVs. They can’t give them away. About half of all F...
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January 3, 2024
The Democrat party: who are they?Just who are the members of the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) Party? How do their beliefs differ from those of normal Americans? I write “D/s/c” as an umbrella acronym for the Democrat Party, which is largely devoured and direct...
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January 3, 2024
If it all goes wrong, with whom will the police side?Should our government decide “our democracy” is in imminent danger and it’s necessary to suppress dangerous insurrectionists like Catholics and soccer moms, would America’s federal, state and local police play along? It has...
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January 3, 2024
Joe Biden and an old retail trickAs a young man I worked in retail, men’s clothing and accessories, mostly. A venerable retail tactic was, and is, to subtly raise prices over time, then suddenly announce a sale, dropping prices back down to what they were, or perhaps just a bi...
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January 3, 2024
Edison, NJ narrowly averts a health and security riskThat illegal immigrants are the best of us is an article of faith among the Self-Imagined Elite (SIE). The more the merrier, the more diverse, inclusive and equitable, until, that is, those devious Texans and Floridians began sending them to sanctuar...
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January 2, 2024
Will our military fight for Joe Biden?It’s late 2024, and Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) are getting desperate. Maybe it’s clear Trump is going to win beyond any imaginable margin of election fraud. Maybe they realize when 140% of registered voters cast ballots nati...
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January 2, 2024
Sure he'll debate: Joe Biden tells us his accomplishmentsIt’s becoming increasingly apparent the meds aren’t working anymore. At all. Our Mummified Meat Puppet President is fading fast, and his handlers, his media propagandists, the democrat/Socialist/Communist Party and assorted hangers o...
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January 2, 2024
Impending political divorce: irreconcilable differencesAmong the most compelling drivers of our impending, national, “irreconcilable differences” divorce is the way we view politicians. Nowhere is this chasm wider than in considerations of Donald Trump, whose mere existence has spawned a dead...
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January 2, 2024
Illegal immigrants voting: "no illegal immigration without representation!"Governor Greg Abbott recently passed a law allowing Texas Law Enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants. A first offense is a misdemeanor, subsequent offenses are felonies. Judges can drop charges for those willing to be deported. As one might imagine...
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January 1, 2024
Sincere thanks for our grammar guardiansI’m new at American Thinker, a “Deputy Editor.” They didn’t even give me a badge or a computer. When I was a police officer I got a badge and a gun, but they say the pen is mightier than the sword, so maybe it’s a wash. ...
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January 1, 2024
Disease is diverse and inclusive tooThe flood of illegal immigrants has brought with it human trafficking, rampant crime, known terrorists, sexual slavery, pedophilia, the drug deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, has enriched cartels beyond their wildest dreams and oh-so-much...
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January 1, 2024
Joe Biden cares so very muchIt has long been known there is a two-tiered system of justice in the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration’s America, tiers extended to the canine justice system. I’ve taken an interest because in my police days, my division commanding du...
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January 1, 2024
Lost tradition: when fencing didn't involve cedar planksThe cultural differences between America and the British and European nations from which we largely sprang have long been apparent—and often jarring. A quote usually attributed to Winston Churchill, though George Bernard Shaw—and several ...
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January 1, 2024
Glock Switches: let the buyer beware“Glock switches” have been much in the news in the last few years, and while most Americans have never heard of them, the ATF is kicking up quite a fuss, as Tom Knighton at Bearing Arms reports: The difference this time is that we...
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December 31, 2023
Flashpoints of a second civil war?The fuse is burning ever closer to a catastrophic detonation in 2024: President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that the agency is developing a program that will provide border crossers and illegal aliens re...
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December 31, 2023
Recumbent tricycles for adults Depends optionalYou can tell I’ve never been a totally serious bicyclist: I’ve never shaved my legs. It was a neck injury at a domestic violence call that forced me to sell my fast street bike. I could no longer get on the drops, so we bought ...
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December 31, 2023
Hopeful American musings for the new yearFor editors at American Thinker it’s easy to develop a pessimistic outlook. We read the news every day; it’s seldom encouraging. All that’s necessary for Americans to live in relative harmony is to accept and live our common, nation...
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December 31, 2023
Recumbent tricycles for adults Depends optionalYou can tell I’ve never been a totally serious bicyclist: I’ve never shaved my legs. It was a neck injury at a domestic violence call that forced me to sell my fast street bike. I could no longer get on the drops, so we bought ...
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December 31, 2023
Flashpoints of a second civil war?The fuse is burning ever closer to a catastrophic detonation in 2024: President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that the agency is developing a program that will provide border crossers and illegal aliens re...
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December 30, 2023
The Chinese spy balloon: what's a little national security breach between enemies?Remember the Chinese spy balloon? The one that flew the length of America while somehow mysteriously hovering over many sensitive military installations? The one that could not be shot down over Alaska, Montana or Wyoming, because it ...
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December 30, 2023
Salvation! New appliance regulations from the government that loves youLet me see if I have this right: carbon dioxide, which we exhale with every breath, and which is essentially plant food, without which all life on Earth--you know--dies, is also causing Climate Change, which is absolutely going to kill the entire pla...
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December 30, 2023
It should be easy to encourage recruitment, but noooooo!Recruitment for our armed forces is badly failing. We are so short of personnel in every branch, save the Marine Corps, national security is actually, not merely rhetorically, threatened. Our allies know they can’t trust our Mum...
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December 30, 2023
The Swiss Army Knife of Climate ChangeRemember the good old days when Global Warming was going to doom us all? I’m so old I remember it was the imminent, any day now, new ice age that would popsicle humanity. Good times. Good times. But w...
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December 30, 2023
Normal Americans are trying to destroy "our democracy!"Among the most common and glaring linguistic affectations among contemporary democrats/Socialists/Communists is calling America “our democracy.” This is not merely rhetorical laziness, but a very specific, and revealing, gaffe. A gaffe ma...
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December 30, 2023
In Pete Buttigieg's reality, EVs dominateReal reality-based Americans have been watching the increasingly downward spiral of electric vehicles and their associated PR machine with relief and pleasure. The venerable axiom “what cannot go on, won’t” applies. However, one of ...
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December 29, 2023
Persecutor Jack Smith fears presidential immunityPersecutor Jack Smith is rightly worried. Even with a Trump Hanging Judge, and an all-but-certain DC hanging jury, things aren’t going his way. He’s moving Trump be denied the right to bring up anything about January 6 in a January 6...
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December 29, 2023
In these chaotic times, a brief AR-15 primerThe Seventh Circuit has recently ruled AR-15 pattern rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment. The lawless ruling ignores the Heller and Bruen decisions. Leading the list of long guns sold, the ubiquitous AR-15 is the ...
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December 29, 2023
The brokest nation in the world abandons its veteransIn his second inaugural address, only weeks before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln was as brief, profound and grounded as ever. He ended that magnanimous speech thus: "With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the rig...
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December 28, 2023
Mark Twain, statistics, and the FBINormal Americans paying attention have long appreciated Mark Twain, who said: “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Where government is concerned, they know government’s statistics must be taken not with a pinch, but w...
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December 28, 2023
Another tragic victim of Trump Derangement SyndromeTrump Derangement Syndrome. Many types of cancer may be cured, but not TDS. Those contracting the progressive disease suffer years of misery as Trump lives rent-free in their heads before their inevitable, gruesome, end. The disease drives its victim...
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December 28, 2023
Gun safety and the legacy of Gaston GlockGaston Glock, the inventor of Glock pistols, died this week at 94. Before responding to an Austrian military service pistol competition his company had never produced a firearm. Hiring some firearm professionals, he started with a cle...
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December 27, 2023
The ultimate women's issue: fighting the war on womenMy knees wore out long ago. Too many mountain trail runs. Too many marathons. These days I bike, or more specifically, trike. On those long, semi-rural and rural rides, I invariably come upon women. Many young and athletic, resplendent in the latest,...
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December 27, 2023
Gen Z: they're more fragile and neurotic than anyone imaginedWe’re not going to make it, are we? Lincoln Brown at PJ Media explains why not: Ordering from a menu is not an essential life skill. It just involves looking at said menu, deciding what you want, and then telling your waiter or waitress ab...
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December 27, 2023
Joe Biden and our empty deterrence and credibility accountsMark Twain said: “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Joe Biden doesn’t mind, but it does matter: Joe Biden is currently 81 years old and will turn 86 in office if he wins ...
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December 27, 2023
Is America really the most gun violent nation?December 21, 2023. A 24-year-old man murdered his father, then shot up a university, killing 14 and wounding 25 before killing himself. Just another horror story from gun violent America? Not quite. It happened in Prague, the Czech Republic. How...
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December 26, 2023
So you want a machine-gun?You’ve been watching action movies for like forever, and you have some spare cash. It’s time to cowboy up and buy…wait for it…a machinegun! Except you can’t. You sort of can, but not really. But I don’t want a...
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December 26, 2023
The Ivy League: A Modern Panglossian EthicVoltaire’s Dr. Pangloss was the eternal, unhinged, optimist, living in the best of all possible worlds. One might think Jon Haidt also a bit Panglossian: The good news is that the academy’s free fall is now over. American highe...
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December 15, 2023
Just in time for Christmas: terrorism is comin' to town!Just in time for Christmas, the FBI and Homeland Security are announcing a greatly elevated risk of “lone wolf” terrorism. Happy Holidays! They’re a little late in contributing to the holiday spirit. Hapless FBI Director Christop...
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December 15, 2023
The electric vehicle fire is extinguishing itselfOnerous electric vehicle mandates have threatened to crash not only the economy, but our electric grid. Joe Biden’s handlers want X% of all vehicles to be electric by X year, which is always an impossibly few years in the future. Gavin Newsom w...
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December 15, 2023
Restorative justice deconstructs Portland schoolsReaders of classic Superman comics recall the Bizarro World, where everything was backwards. Many consider comics art, and art reflects life. The Bizarro World lives again in Portland’s schools, as The Free Beacon reports: A new...
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December 13, 2023
Can the self-imaged elite feel shame?Having taught college English in my younger days, I have some sense of the arrogance, isolation and entitlement of those tenured pseudo doyens, particularly college administrators. They’re making the big bucks and have many letters following th...
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December 13, 2023
The police won't protect you; you're on your ownReality has a way of asserting itself. Post-October 7, American Jews have begun to realize the democrat/Socialist/Communist Party really isn’t their friend, won’t protect them, and is actually allied with monsters that want to kill every ...