December 21, 2024

Donald Trump and the malice of ABC

In 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...

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...

December 15, 2024

Ketanji Brown-Jackson and judicial brilliance

Former 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...

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 ...

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...

December 8, 2024

Electric Vehicles: Cuba shows the way

Cuban 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 ...

December 8, 2024

Fani Willis: Judicial Watch wins one

With 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...

December 7, 2024

Democracy: the self-imagined elite don't understand

It 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...

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...

December 7, 2024

Suppressors: trust the science

Suppressors—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...

December 1, 2024

Harris/Biden attack more Christians than anyone knew

Harris/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...

December 1, 2024

COVID panic forces a Wyoming school girl to sue

COVID 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...

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...

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 ...

November 30, 2024

Trans women win by forfeiting

The 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...

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 ...

November 29, 2024

Letitia James loses a round on body armor

I 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...

November 29, 2024

The ICC insults Joe Biden and America

Imagine 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...

November 29, 2024

.357 Magnum arguments

Among 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...

November 29, 2024

The Pentagon betrayed America on January 6

I’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...

November 28, 2024

Thanksgiving devotions, 2024

On 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...

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...

November 28, 2024

Child-raising in rural Georgia with Atlanta sensibilities

My, 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....

November 28, 2024

Thanksgiving: the way forward

Our 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 ...

November 27, 2024

The electric vehicle doom loop is almost closed

What 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...

November 27, 2024

Denver bluffs; Trump will call it

With 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 ...

November 27, 2024

Never give government an inch

Among 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...

November 27, 2024

'Trust the science,' 'No way,' says the New York Times

DEI, 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...

November 26, 2024

North Carolina dumps on hurricane survivors and the Amish

After 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...

November 26, 2024

In Tennessee, restorative justice breaks real justice

I’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...

November 26, 2024

Terrorist threat: The FBI and DHS clam up

Shortly 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 ...

November 26, 2024

The 'trans genocide' provokes calls to violence

The 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...

November 25, 2024

Assault weapons: The public wises up

With 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...

November 25, 2024

The Tapper/CNN lawsuit and the decline of American media

CNN 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...

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...

November 25, 2024

What you don't know, and need to know, about Pam Bondi

Do 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 ...

November 24, 2024

Treason: text and intent

In 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...

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...

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...

November 23, 2024

Mazie Hirono mangles Heller and Bruen

Among 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 ...

November 17, 2024

The lie of DOJ independence

The 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...

November 17, 2024

The Illinois 'assault weapon' ban fails

The 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...

November 16, 2024

The new, not at all peaceful, resistance

Democrats/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...

November 16, 2024

Secrets

Would 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...

November 10, 2024

Lawfare fails

The 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...

November 10, 2024

Four years in the wilderness

Normal 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...

November 9, 2024

We're all racist and sexist

No 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 ...

November 9, 2024

With malice toward all

In 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...

November 4, 2024

Trump's America: I have a dream

They’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...

November 4, 2024

Mexico sues American gun makers; the Supreme Court grants cert

In 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/...

November 4, 2024

Peanut and Fred: public safety priorities

Why 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...

November 3, 2024

Scientifically covering for the trans superiority narrative

One 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...

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...

November 3, 2024

The Joe Rogan J.D. Vance interview

The 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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

November 2, 2024

Biden bites

Joe 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...

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...

October 27, 2024

Kamala Harris is an epic failure

Kamala 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...

October 27, 2024

Electric police cars: another Harris/Biden boondoggle

Among 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...

October 27, 2024

The Trump interview: strategic rambling

I 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...

October 26, 2024

Harris/Biden and putting America first

Among 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...

October 26, 2024

Harris/Biden deconstructing America: the Ferguson effect

The 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...

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 ...

October 20, 2024

The NYT: useful idiots for Hamas

Sapient 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

October 12, 2024

Tim Walz deconstructs Minnesota education

Any 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...

October 12, 2024

10-07-23: evil and civilization's thin veneer

October 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...

October 6, 2024

Helene and the totalitarian urge

The 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...

October 6, 2024

Mexico sues American gun makers

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 cartels making billions off child sex trafficking and drugs that are...

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...

October 5, 2024

The electric vehicle doom loop gets absurd

As 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...

October 5, 2024

Bongino: White House cocaine coverup

One 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 ...

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...

October 4, 2024

The FBI raids the wrong house

In 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...

October 4, 2024

War? Harris/Biden dither

On 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’...

October 4, 2024

The USAF goes woke

Who 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...

October 4, 2024

The Secret Service and election interference

What’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...

September 29, 2024

Trump: the January 6 narrative crumbles

January 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 ...

September 29, 2024

UPenn and Amy Wax: double standards

After 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 ...

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...

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...

September 22, 2024

Delta Airlines and the coming apocalypse

During 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...

September 22, 2024

ABC's Trump fact check blows up

Now 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...

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...

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...

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...

September 15, 2024

Our military: low on personnel, deterrence and ammo

A 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...

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...

September 14, 2024

Kamala owns guns, so surrender yours

During 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...

September 8, 2024

Aurora, Colorado: On the ballot in November

America 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...

September 8, 2024

Choosing a handgun for new shooters

I’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...

September 7, 2024

Remedial math at Harvard

Teaching 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: ...

September 7, 2024

Sony goes woke

Over 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 ...

September 1, 2024

Coach Walz, football and the danger of masculinity

On 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...

September 1, 2024

Kamala: saving illegals from our values

If 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...

August 31, 2024

Hamas's hostages: culture and upbringing matter

Among 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...

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 ...

August 25, 2024

The Gaza pier debacle: it's worse

On 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...

August 25, 2024

The Fourth Circuit ignores Bruen again

The 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...

August 24, 2024

Kamala's deeper, muscular patriotism

Political 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...

August 24, 2024

CNN: democrat men are weenies

One 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...

August 20, 2024

Climate Change and a science we can trust

The 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,...

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...

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...

August 20, 2024

Crime rate gaslighting

Were 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...

August 20, 2024

Dodge emasculates muscle cars

A 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...

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...

August 18, 2024

Don't mess with the West

Since 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...

August 17, 2024

The Second Circuit revokes qualified immunity

Imagine 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...

August 17, 2024

The Secret, sleepy, Service

In 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...

August 11, 2024

Maryland, AR-15s and the Fourth Circuit

Should 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...

August 11, 2024

Michael Brown: the birth of BLM

Ten 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...

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...

August 10, 2024

The stolen valor of Tim Walz

I 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 ...

August 5, 2024

New Secret Service Director: worse than the old one

They 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...

August 5, 2024

Kamala: disarming American women

If 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...

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. ...

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...

August 5, 2024

Kamala's marvelous election year conversions

Human 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...

August 5, 2024

The Trump Assassination attempt: knowing what should happen

Among 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...

August 5, 2024

Kamala: electric school bus bust

The 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...

August 4, 2024

The court-ordered border wall

A 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...

August 4, 2024

The coming terrorist attacks

Scarcely 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...

August 3, 2024

The Secret Service and due process

According 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,...

August 3, 2024

AR-15: the FBI's collapsing theory

The 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 ...

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...

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...

July 27, 2024

The Biden explanation that wasn't

Even 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. ...

July 27, 2024

Two visions of America

Progressives 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...

July 21, 2024

Gavin Newsom's self-drag on the ticket

Some 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 ...

July 21, 2024

Questions for the Secret Service Director

Secret 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...

July 20, 2024

Post-RNC tactics

The 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...

July 20, 2024

Secret Service threat standards

America 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...

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 ...

July 18, 2024

Secret Service Director: Oh my God

All 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...

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...

July 14, 2024

Chuck Schumer: immunity challenged

We 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...

July 14, 2024

The pier to nowhere is going away

We 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...

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...

July 13, 2024

The Biden Crime Family's Fisker Adventure

Remember 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...

July 7, 2024

Michelle! The one-half

Prior 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...

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...

July 6, 2024

Murthy: gun owners are a disease

Until 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...

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...

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...

June 30, 2024

Getting the police we deserve

Long 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. ...

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...

June 30, 2024

Tractor Supply wakes up

Tractor 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...

June 29, 2024

Perverse military

When 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...

June 29, 2024

Biden: Realization and Betrayal

The 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...

June 29, 2024

Lies, damned lies and statistics

Mark 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...

June 29, 2024

Taser lessons for everyone

During 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 ...

June 23, 2024

The microstamping scam

Among 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...

June 23, 2024

The trans superiority narrative

The 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...

June 22, 2024

'Our democracy' a tyranny of the majority

Words 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...

June 22, 2024

Defensive gun use and reality

How 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...

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 ...

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...

June 15, 2024

Black self-defense and civilization in Connecticut

One 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...

June 15, 2024

Biden and gun bans; there he goes again

Joe 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...

June 13, 2024

Another Uvalde outrage

2005: 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...

June 13, 2024

FBI housecleaning

Imagine 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...

June 9, 2024

Manufacturing electric vehicle reality

The 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...

June 9, 2024

The new Minutemen buy guns

As 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...

June 8, 2024

A bullet resistant vest primer

We 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...

June 8, 2024

The Biden deep fakery of Merrick Garland

Following 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...

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...

June 2, 2024

The missing element in Bragg's case

There 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...

June 1, 2024

Crashing a pier and America's credibility

On 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...

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...

May 26, 2024

The pier to nowhere

At 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...

May 26, 2024

A terrorist dry run

Among 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....

May 25, 2024

Why I carry a handgun, 2024

No 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...

May 25, 2024

The FBI, Donald Trump, and deadly force

Journalist 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...

May 19, 2024

Importing terror

Just 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

May 12, 2024

Marilyn Mosby: finally, justice comes to Baltimore

Freddie 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...

May 12, 2024

U.S. gymnastics and pedophilia: Make the bastards pay

Imagine 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...

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...

May 11, 2024

How to lose billions on EVs

Senator 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...

May 5, 2024

Trans: middle school girls lead the way

What 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...

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...

May 4, 2024

Illegals fly Florida

On 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...

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...

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...

April 30, 2024

The Pope: wars and rumors of war

In 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...

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...

April 29, 2024

Men, hypermasculinity and car culture

It’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...

April 29, 2024

You're on your own: what to do about it

Let 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...

April 29, 2024

A justice delayed is justice denied

Do 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...

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...

April 29, 2024

Kristi Noem v. Joe Biden in the indecency sweepstakes

Democrats/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...

April 28, 2024

Banning American gun exports

The 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...

April 28, 2024

Hamas mortars the UN at the Gaza

It 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...

April 27, 2024

Go west, young student

News 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...

April 27, 2024

The Supreme Court and ghost guns

The 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...

April 21, 2024

Nashville stonewalling continues

March 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...

April 21, 2024

We need 'high capacity' magazines

Unintended 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...

April 20, 2024

The newest 'smart gun' has arrived

I 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 ...

April 20, 2024

Our self-imagined elite EV future

The 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 “...

April 14, 2024

Of academic bondage

According 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...

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...

April 13, 2024

Queer Carribean Fruit

Everyone 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...

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, ...

April 7, 2024

Electric vehicles: the dogs don't like it

There’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...

April 7, 2024

Yes, chambered semi autos are safe

Should 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...

April 6, 2024

Revolvers for women aren't such a great idea

All 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...

April 6, 2024

The trans revolution has a long history

There 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...

March 31, 2024

A terrible accident provides an essential lesson

This story is heartbreaking, but it illustrates a firearm safety essential: avoiding negligent discharges.                      A Tennessee ...

March 31, 2024

The Bible recommends

Reading 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 ...

March 30, 2024

Stephen Breyer wants to kill the Constitution

Stephen 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 ...

March 30, 2024

Blue state gun grabbers go after Glock

Minnesota’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...

March 24, 2024

Sacramento City Council: America's enemy is their friend

Graphic: 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)....

March 24, 2024

Trans Sports, where the women are women, and so are the men

Graphic: 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...

March 23, 2024

Attorney General Garland promises election lawfare

Who 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: ...

March 23, 2024

Terrorists enter America; the FBI worries

Back 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....

March 17, 2024

Art: deconstructing the future

At 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...

March 17, 2024

Mortgage inflation and The Stupid Party

Bidenomics 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

March 16, 2024

California's high speed rail to nowhere

California, 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...

March 16, 2024

Riley Gaines: teaching the NCAA how to lose

Democrats/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...

March 16, 2024

January 6: The CIA got in on the fun

Americans 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 ...

March 16, 2024

Bidenomics: waiting for progress on the core inflation number

There 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 ...

March 16, 2024

Universal background checks: backdoor, illegal gun registration

President 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...

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...

March 15, 2024

Accelerating the electric vehicle doom loop

I’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...

March 15, 2024

Washington State gun control fails again--still

Washington 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 ...

March 15, 2024

The truth about disinformation

What’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 ...

March 15, 2024

Joe Biden: fighting back against America

The 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...

March 15, 2024

Our failing, emotional, criminal justice system

Anyone 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...

March 15, 2024

Fani Willis: unethical, corrupt, but prosecutors will be prosecutors

In 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...

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...

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...

March 14, 2024

How to provoke a real insurrection

What’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...

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...

March 14, 2024

Washington State goes full Animal Farm

We’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...

March 10, 2024

Devolving to a 3S society

Normal 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...

March 10, 2024

Joe Biden: inventing new ways to kill Americans

The 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...

March 9, 2024

The great Hamas airdrop

America 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...

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...

March 3, 2024

Denver loves it some

It 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...

March 3, 2024

Biden to Israel: absolutely again

On 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 ...

March 2, 2024

Ketanji Brown Jackson don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no Second Amendment

Supreme 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...

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...

March 1, 2024

Lloyd Austin and McDonald's-level responsibility

Remember 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’...

February 25, 2024

James Biden shills for the Biden Crime Family

Democrat/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...

February 25, 2024

Austin: Where 'weird' turns dangerous

Austin, 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, ...

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...

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...

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...

February 21, 2024

Remington flees to a free state

The 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...

February 18, 2024

The Mummified Meat Puppet administration betrays Israel and America

There’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 ...

February 18, 2024

The Trans Genocide comes to Florida

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 allies are doing their best to impose. This one is indigenous to America, and is far, far ...

February 17, 2024

A brief Glock apologetics

On 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...

February 17, 2024

Joe Biden: rare earths, rarer leadership

When 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...

February 13, 2024

China prepares for war--from inside America

On 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...

February 11, 2024

A basic, brief, semiautomatic pistol primer

You’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...

February 11, 2024

Rape in Seattle: just another defund-the-police consequence

Some 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...

February 10, 2024

A brief revolver primer

You’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...

February 10, 2024

Hawaii and the spirit of Aloha

Did 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:...

February 8, 2024

Sen. Chris Murphy: the people we care about most

A 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...

February 5, 2024

The FBI and Fourth Amendment follies

Most 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 ...

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...

February 4, 2024

Book review: Kurt Schlichter's The Attack

Kurt 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...

February 3, 2024

Walgreens: getting out while they still can

Thomas 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 ...

February 3, 2024

COVID: the vaccine that wasn't, and the truth

Americans 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...

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 ...

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...

January 28, 2024

Don't Mess With Texas

Could 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...

January 25, 2024

The AR-15: a common and usual American choice

The 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...

January 25, 2024

DEI: making college unaffordable

I 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...

January 25, 2024

Trans shooters: suppressing the facts

Did 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...

January 24, 2024

A brief history of Assault Weapons

And 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 ...

January 24, 2024

Police recruiting: California self-destructs

Americans 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: ...

January 24, 2024

Houthi terrorism: Joe threatens to say don't again

Terrorists, 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 ...

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...

January 24, 2024

Donald Trump: a dictatorship Americans can support

We 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....

January 24, 2024

We're on our own

It’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...

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...

January 24, 2024

The U.S. Army: baffled about white flight

There 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...

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...

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...

January 9, 2024

Jan. 6: the DOJ plans to arrest everybody in the zip code

Les 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, ...

January 9, 2024

The Mummified Meat Puppet's handlers consider debates

Among 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...

January 9, 2024

Electric buses: another bankrupt green boondoggle

Electric 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...

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...

January 8, 2024

Less-lethal weapons and the ultimate women's issue

During 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...

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 ...

January 8, 2024

Race and punishment: truth over facts

It’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...

January 7, 2024

Sally Kornbluth and MIT: doubling down on DEI

Sally 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...

January 7, 2024

DEI on campus: students are waking--not woking--up

Incredible! 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...

January 7, 2024

College and politics: the smart thing to do is shut up

The 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...

January 7, 2024

Immigration: broken Congress, broken law

Congressional 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...

January 7, 2024

Joe Biden: the medications and vacations aren't working

Poor 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:...

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 ...

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 ...

January 6, 2024

White rage in the military: the report is out

Remember 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...

January 6, 2024

Joe Biden at Valley Forge: triumph of the shill II

Well, 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...

January 6, 2024

Ashli Babbitt: Judicial Watch files a J6 wrongful death lawsuit

Karine 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...

January 6, 2024

J6: where non-disorderly conduct was disorderly conduct

During 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 ...

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...

January 5, 2024

Personal responsibility and pouncing Republicans

Perhaps 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 ...

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...

January 5, 2024

The Iowa attack: guns and trans

Despite 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...

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...

January 4, 2024

The Harvard debacle: tracing recent academic history

The 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...

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 ...

January 4, 2024

PBS: Citizen investigators pursue J6 insurrectionists

During 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...

January 4, 2024

The electric vehicle doom loop

The 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...

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...

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...

January 3, 2024

Joe Biden and an old retail trick

As 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...

January 3, 2024

Edison, NJ narrowly averts a health and security risk

That 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...

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...

January 2, 2024

Sure he'll debate: Joe Biden tells us his accomplishments

It’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...

January 2, 2024

Impending political divorce: irreconcilable differences

Among 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...

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...

January 1, 2024

Sincere thanks for our grammar guardians

I’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. ...

January 1, 2024

Disease is diverse and inclusive too

The 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...

January 1, 2024

Joe Biden cares so very much

It 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...

January 1, 2024

Lost tradition: when fencing didn't involve cedar planks

The 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 ...

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...

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...

December 31, 2023

Recumbent tricycles for adults Depends optional

You 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 ...

December 31, 2023

Hopeful American musings for the new year

For 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...

December 31, 2023

October 7, 2023: Israel rediscovers ancient realities

There are some understandings universal to human nature. Perhaps the most ingrained is the will to live, which can prevail only if individuals have the ability, and means, of self-defense. Innumerable traditions around the world w...

December 31, 2023

All cultures are equally valuable: a deadly delusion

The October 7, 2023 Islamist massacre of Israeli men, women, children and even animals, has had a sobering effect on some possessed of the conceit that all cultures are equally valuable, and none have the moral standing to criticize another. Seeing w...

December 30, 2023

In Pete Buttigieg's reality, EVs dominate

Real 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 ...

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...

December 30, 2023

The Swiss Army Knife of Climate Change

Remember 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...

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...

December 30, 2023

Salvation! New appliance regulations from the government that loves you

Let 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...

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 ...

December 29, 2023

The brokest nation in the world abandons its veterans

In 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...

December 29, 2023

In these chaotic times, a brief AR-15 primer

The 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 ...

December 29, 2023

Persecutor Jack Smith fears presidential immunity

Persecutor 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...

December 28, 2023

Gun safety and the legacy of Gaston Glock

Gaston 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...

December 28, 2023

Another tragic victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump 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...

December 28, 2023

Mark Twain, statistics, and the FBI

Normal 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...

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...

December 27, 2023

Joe Biden and our empty deterrence and credibility accounts

Mark 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 ...

December 27, 2023

Gen Z: they're more fragile and neurotic than anyone imagined

We’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...

December 27, 2023

The ultimate women's issue: fighting the war on women

My 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,...

December 26, 2023

The Ivy League: A Modern Panglossian Ethic

Voltaire’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...

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...

December 15, 2023

The electric vehicle fire is extinguishing itself

Onerous 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...

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...

December 15, 2023

Restorative justice deconstructs Portland schools

Readers 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...

December 13, 2023

The police won't protect you; you're on your own

Reality 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 ...

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...