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Democratizing Work: How a City Can Help More People Be Gainfully Employed

January 14, 2022May 23, 2021 Guest Contributor

What do you see when you encounter a person on the street begging for money? Do you see a homeless person, a con artist, a grifter, a nuisance, a danger, an untouchable to be ignored? Adjust your focus a little and what you will see is an unemployed person who has fallen through the rather … Read more

It’s a Revolution … What Kind Does not Matter

November 19, 2025September 28, 2020 The Editors

Lee Edwards is the fellow in conservative thought at The Heritage Foundation. Working at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics he wrote an article recently. In it, Mr. Edwards observes “…there are revolutions and there are revolutions.” ICYMI: Enforcing The Little Known “Illegal Gatherings” Clause of the US Constitution What that seems … Read more

14.8 Billion Federal Dollars Went to 5 Cities

August 12, 2020 Percy Blakeney

14.8 Billion Federal Dollars Went to 5 Cities. Doubt it? Check out the analysis by OpenTheBooks.com. There have been numerous protests across major U.S. cities. Many mayors and police chiefs did issue stand-down orders to their police officers.

“Autonomous zones” sprung up in Marxist enclaves. The media description was a nostalgic tour through a “summer of love.” Mayors are pushing to defund local police departments. Centrist politicians call these cities “lawless.” They are refusing to protect the life, liberty, and property of their residents.

What do you expect in cities run by Democrats forever?

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Steve Earle

Ms. Burke (July 17, The Daily Sun) is apparently laboring under the delusion that regular citizens, who chose to attend the Laconia rally while armed, somehow are siphoning funds from Wu-Flu testing. What can one say to that? I’ve got nothing.

Black Lives Matter Doesn’t Care about Most Black Lives

June 28, 2020June 27, 2020 Don

Of course black lives matter; all lives matter. So why are people condemned and fired for saying, “All Lives Matter”? Because “Black Lives Matter” is a term used to advance the far left “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) political movement.

Irony Alert: House Democrats Wear Slave-Trader Kente Cloth to Honor “Black Lives”

June 19, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one. In yet another show of political street theater (this one indoors), House Democrats knelt in honor of George Floyd or something, each wearing a scarf made of Kente cloth. The royal fabric of the Ruling Asante, who sold thousands of black slaves to Dutch and English.

Illegal aliens are always welcome in sanctuary cities. Right?

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 Peter Lemiska

It was only a matter of time. Even President Trump’s most bitter critics have to admit that he has a unique ability to express, usually with unvarnished candor, the innermost thoughts and concerns weighing on the minds of middle-class Americans. His recent suggestion to send the masses of illegal immigrants flooding across our borders to … Read more

Filthy, Crime-Ridden, Democrat-Run Cities Take Next Obvious Step in Their Decline

January 30, 2023February 16, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The majority of crime in the U.S. occurs in a handful of cities. Urban plantations run (into the ground) by decades of Democrat ‘leadership.’ Laboratories of modern liberalism that are the Democrat Party promise to the rest of America.

Violent Crime Survey – Democrat Cities Are Murder

September 26, 2018July 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Truth About Guns (H/T to Susan Olsen) is reporting on the most recent Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) report on violent crime in major US cities. And unless you are a liberal water-carrier not a lot of explanation for this is needed.

And when we break down the top 20 cities at the top of the list, a few illuminating (although not-so-surprising) facts emerge:

80% of the top 20 Deadliest American Cities are run by Democrats
100% of the top 10 Deadliest Cities in America are… you guessed it: run by Democrats

Municipal Outsourcing Works…

September 26, 2018April 14, 2011 Steve MacDonald

There is a city in Georgia that outsourced just about everything. The result? Better services, low taxes, no pension bombs, and money to spare.

Spoiled Brat Unions Don’t Want Parity – Again.

September 26, 2018March 24, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The measure states–if I understand it correctly–that if the union contract expires and has not been renewed, and no new contract is yet negotiated, those employees become at-will workers who can be treated (wait for it) like everyone else.