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Where is BLM When You Need Them?

April 13, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Where is the pushback on Dem mayors moaning about having their federal police funding cut? Who can be anything but amused by local Democrats complaining about federal funding cuts that affect local police departments? DOGE is digging through the Federal Government’s fiscal backyard and uncovering a lot of old bones. There is waste, fraud, money … Read more

State’s Attorneys Trying to Push Back the Rising Tide of Crime with a Broom

March 7, 2025 Rob Roper

No doubt the defund the police movement has been devastating for Burlington and other communities throughout Vermont, as our once safest-in-the-nation state has seen an unprecedented and undesirable rise in crime. But while “Defund the Police!” has gotten all the headlines and protest placards (cue Law & Order theme music), “In the criminal justice system, … Read more

Police Forces Finally See a Post-Floyd Rebound

May 22, 2024 John Klar

A recent survey shows police departments hired more new officers in 2023 than in the previous four years. This news is particularly encouraging for major cities suffering upheaval and increased crime. Americans are concerned about upholding law and order, an issue that will doubtlessly feature prominently in the 2024 elections.

“Defund the Police” Chickens … Come Home to Roost in Pittsburgh

March 17, 2024March 17, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright was more or less unknown before Barry Obama ran for President. One of Wright’s more famous idioms, perhaps due to the frequently shared recording of him saying it, was that after 9/11, America’s chickens were coming home to roost. Much like Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, it still has legs.

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Defund Was Never About Fewer Cops It was About Nationalizing Local Police

August 31, 2022 Steve MacDonald

If you nod your head after reading that headline, you are probably a regular reader of these pages. We’ve discussed the Left’s mission to nationalize local police for nearly a decade. So, will BLM be pissed, or are they in on it?

Burlington Police Chief Lacks Manpower to Investigate Murder Suicide Because BLM-Appeasing City Council Defunded Them

July 28, 2022 Steve MacDonald

We’ve been charting the Democrat decline of Burlington, Vermont, for a few years, and it is swirling the bowl as predicted. Property crime has been rising, and now gun crime is becoming a problem, but the local PD lacks resources. Can you guess why?

Minneapolis Residents Who Sued City for Defunding the Police Win in State Supreme Court

June 23, 2022 Steve MacDonald

In October 2020, a group of concerned residents sued the City of Minneapolis. Their gripe? They actively defunded the police department and that caused the number of officers to fall below that required by the city charter. Oh, and an exponential rise in crime.

Biden Is An Absolute Fraud For Saying It, But The Core Issue Is Still Not Funding Or Defunding The Police

March 2, 2022 Op-Ed

In his State of the Union speech, Joe Biden made the jaw-dropping statement that he supported funding the police. He told a lot of big lies – his concern for national unity chief among them – but this police flip-flop represents the second-deadliest nonchalant course reversal (after Covid policies) and it simply can’t be ignored.

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Every time Democrats Bring Up J6 You Need to Do This …

February 15, 2022February 15, 2022 Steve MacDonald

As we roll inexorably toward the midterm elections the Left has gotten a free pass on their fake J6 outrage and that has to end.

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Opposite Day: Seattle’s Dem Mayor Jenny Durkan Says They Need to Hire More Police

August 13, 2021July 30, 2021 Steve MacDonald

The Seattle Department of Tourism has a tough job. Sure those scenic vistas with that needle-thing in them are great, but the smoke from the riots clouds the picture. Visit Seattle today and get great discounts on flak jackets and black-block. Molotovs 50% off!

North Carolina Town Issues List of Crimes It’s Okay to Commit (What Could Go Wrong?)

June 4, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Crime in Liberal cities was bad before George Floyd Overdosed on Fentanyl in 2020. They’ve been dystopian hellholes since—all the result of Left-Wing policy and their commitment to revolution before all else.

After Hubby Cut Cop-Budget by a Billion Mayor’s Wife Wants Disarmed Citizens To Stop Crimes?

June 21, 2021March 12, 2021 Steve MacDonald

You live in a city with an anti-gun mayor. In the heat of the summer, after locking down your life, he accepts rioters (who did not honor lockdowns and destroyed your job or business) demands to defund the police. In response to skyrocketing crime, the mayor’s wife announces, that’s your job.

Ruling: Minneapolis Residents Don’t Have to Get Shot to Sue City for Lack of Policing

June 22, 2022November 28, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Remember that time, at band camp, in Minneapolis, when a criminal who overdosed on Fentanyl died in Police custody? Democrats applauded the response. Riots, looting, assault, and murder were met with calls of defunding cops. Minneapolis is a mess, but Democrats appear to have abandoned it.

“Defund-Democrats” Who Destroyed Minneapolis Need to Borrow Officers to Address Spike in Crime

July 18, 2021November 11, 2020 Steve MacDonald

I’d like to hear from New Hampshire Democrats who embraced the BLM Defund movement on Minneapolis’s recent developments. They were all in on fast-tracking New Way and Defunded ‘Policing,’ but the ideological center for the movement is a crime-riddled war-zone begging cops to help.

Doh! – Minneapolis Residents Sue City, Not Enough Cops Patrolling the Streets

December 22, 2024October 21, 2020 Steve MacDonald

If you want to know why conservatives are right about Democrats, look at Minneapolis. After George Floyd overdosed on Fentanyl Antifa decided to align with BLM and unleash the war they’d promised while the Dems were quick to demand change.

Minneapolis Council “Defund Police” Promise Has Collapsed Under the Weight of Politics and Reality

September 27, 2020September 26, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Minneapolis, where George Floyd couldn’t breathe because of a self-administered Fentanyl overdose, exploded when he died. Anger, violence, looting, and riots, destroyed minority neighborhoods. Democrats immediately blamed the police and pushed an otherwise unknown priority – no police, branded as ‘Defund the Police.’

Portland Spends 200% More on ‘Policing’ Since it Defunded the Police

September 9, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Add this new act to the list of stupid Democrat tricks. Portland, the city that can’t sleep because of the rioting, got #woke, and now they’ll go broke. Defunding the police has cost them 7 million more year-over-year, a 200% increase in law enforcement spending.

FEAR SHOULD MAKE VOTING IMPERATIVE! NIGHTMARES SOMETIMES DO COME TRUE!

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Norm Silber

There is much to fear depending on the outcome of our elections in November, both at the federal and state level.

Yo!, Dumbass – If You Cancel the Police You Can’t Call Them When People Won’t Wear Masks

August 3, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Liberal college campuses are demanding that the police, including the campus police, be defunded, disbanded, canceled. At the same time, at other colleges, people are calling “the police” on the Students who are not masking or distancing properly.

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Blogline of the Day – Giving the Babylon Bee a Run for its Money

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Skip

Satire is starting to be a losing gig – the events of the day are often “worse” or at least outdo anything that the Babylon Bee or The Onion (two widely known satire sites dealing with politics and culture). Don’t think that either one of them can beat this.