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The college football season finally ends on January 20 with a national championship game. Finally. Recall that college football games used to cease after the New Year’s Day Bowl extravaganzas featuring Rose, Cotton, Sugar, and Orange. Then, there’d be a poll to determine the national champion. Times have changed. Inevitably, there was controversy over those polls. Sometimes, … Read more
I watched the news and read the alerts as they hit my iPad throughout the day, and I sensed disappointment when the terrorist in New Orleans turned out to be a U.S. citizen. It is much easier to get angry at these senseless incidents when the villain is an outsider. When the person who pulls … Read more
On New Year’s Day in New Orleans, on a famous stretch of road known as Bourbon Street, a US citizen used a rented pickup truck to kill twenty people and wound many more. This mass casualty event – we can’t say mass shooting because the only individual to die from gunfire was the perp when … Read more
As we turn the page on 2024 and look ahead to 2025, we see two diametrically opposed plans on the left and right. The Left made a mockery of the act of turning the page during the campaign, and they are getting what they asked for but were in the wrong book. They believed in … Read more
A federal asset forfeiture program known as equitable sharing provides law enforcement agencies with a major loophole, allowing them to continue seizing property almost unabated – even when state laws seek to limit such practices. WHAT IS ASSET FORFEITURE? Civil asset forfeiture is the process by which governments seize cash or property that was allegedly … Read more
The Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution brought a decisive end to slavery in the United States in 1865. The amendment enshrines important principles of justice—self-ownership, individual liberty, and equality before the law. The amendment declares that, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been … Read more
When the end of another year rolls around, it is not a bad idea to think about how we might improve ourselves and perhaps even improve the lives of others, given the clean slate of a New Year. Many people resolve to exercise more, eat better, and spend more time with their families. These are … Read more
Another ‘Reporter’ has come out publicly to acknowledge that the watchdog media was too busy chewing on the bones fed to them by ‘The Feds’ to accurately report the mental state of the Commander in Chief. [CBS News legal correspondent Jan] Crawford admitted that Biden’s handlers lied about the outgoing president’s mental fitness to the … Read more
At approximately 3 AM in New Orleans, a vehicle drove into a New Year’s Eve Crowd on Bourbon Street. The New Orleans Police Department said in a statement reported by NBC affiliate WDSU that “mass casualties are reported on Bourbon and Iberville Streets” and that a vehicle may have plowed into people. WDSU NBC 6 New Orleans … Read more
Controversy always surrounds Alexandria “Sandy” Cortez, whether it concerns her socialist ideals, her creation of the Far-Left force, The Squad, her skirting of campaign finance laws, or if she is the future of the Democrat Party. There is much negativity in her wake and so few accomplishments. Undeniably, Cortez is a master of social networking … Read more
For the past 40 years, American politicians have argued how wars in far-flung third-world countries are in the United States’ vital strategic interests. From Iraq to Kosovo, American leaders of both parties squandered trillions of dollars and thousands of lives chasing phantom threats around the world. The rationale behind these interventions has often been based … Read more
Sandy Cortez’s squad has had some attrition issues lately. Ironically, they fell off Team Marx via the same tactic Cotezz had tried to get them there in the first place. Sandy’s plan has been to primary old school Dems with young commies, but a few of the citizens seem to have lost interest in that. … Read more
Minnesota governor and former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said: Once I had my own children, it became so clear to me. And I think it made me a really good teacher, that that child who came through the door was somebody’s most special thing in their life. Thinking of a parent dressing their little … Read more
New Year’s Eve is the premier alcoholic consumption holiday on the planet (even where it is banned or prohibited). I’ve consumed a few myself in years past, but I declared two things tied to this holiday long ago. First, I don’t like how I feel when tipsy, so I don’t drink enough to get there … Read more
Political analyst Mark Halperin warned Friday that as President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, efforts to block him from assuming office will intensify. In a Thursday column for The Hill, liberal attorneys Evan Davis and David Schulte argued that Congress can still prevent Trump from taking office on Jan. 20 by rejecting electoral votes on Jan. 6, claiming Trump is disqualified under … Read more
Finally, after the Christmas rush, my barber shop returned to its natural pace. The wait was even gratifying for listening and then partaking in the back and forths, which renewed my faith in Americanism. This should have been expected since a picture of Trump was hanging on a wall that faced a “Go Brandon” sign on … Read more
Andy Kessler writes in his latest Wall Street Journal column that the U.S. “is strong precisely because we don’t all think the same way. New ideas come from new ways of thinking.” Kessler puts it so well. We individuals generally see the present and future very differently, and it’s this very division praised by Kessler that powers so … Read more
My headline quotes Nicolas Barry. He’s America First Legal Senior Counsel, and he points out the problem the Trump administration will need to wrestle with if it intends to ‘Shatter the left-wing censorship machine.’ You can fire public employees (it is not always easy, but it can be done), investigate them for suppressing protected speech, … Read more
The Bill of Rights was born from intense battles between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over delegated and reserved powers. This clash not only shaped its contested origins but also left its true purpose misunderstood to this day. 1. Initial Efforts Rejected During the Philadelphia Convention on Sept. 12, 1787, George Mason proposed adding a declaration of … Read more
It’s almost Inauguration Day 2025, and liberals are still proving they haven’t learned a single lesson from Donald Trump’s election victory in November. Democrats are currently rudderless and jostling for power ahead of their Feb. 1 vote to elect a new chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), a job that will prove crucial in … Read more