Eliminate Benefits for Congress

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Statista asserts that 78% of the American people disapprove of Congress as of April 2023. Indeed, in recent years, disapproval ratings of all federal institutions have skyrocketed. The approval rating of the person occupying the oval office is less than 30%, prompting one to think about the incredible level of …

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The Law is Our Last Bulwark against Tyranny?

By Dan Davis and John R. “Buck” Surdu We all have witnessed the aggressive, “creative,” and putatively unethical behavior of a few of our prosecutors. At the same time, they have facilitated significant rises in violent crimes by creating novel excuses for releasing the most violent among us, all the while they were focused on …

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The Federal Government Has Become Organized Crime

By John R. “Buck” Surdu To many conservatives, deplorables, and patriots, the Federal government has become an organized crime junta, growing its reach and power like any cartel, stealing from the people they are supposed to be serving, and openly engaging in graft and corruption.  There was a time when graft and corruption were hidden, …

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Is a Parental Bill of Rights a Good Idea?

by John R. “Buck” Surdu Recently House Republicans passed the “Parental Bill of Rights” bill by a narrow 213-208 vote. The Hill reported, The measure would require schools to publish their curricula publicly, mandate that parents be allowed to meet with their children’s teachers and make schools give information to parents when violence occurs on school grounds. It …

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Citizen = Serf

By John R. “Buck” Surdu I have thought for a while that “citizen” has become synonymous with “serf” or “slave.”  Citizens do the producing and paying, yet the ruling class vilifies them.  They support the indolent through the forcible extraction of tax dollars while watching sheepishly as the fascists erode our freedoms.  Our ruling class has …

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The Academy Loses Its Way – Again

By John R. “Buck” Surdu This week ESPN reported that Army football player Andre Carter II was poised to be the first Army football player to be drafted in the NFL higher the seventh round in over fifty years. This sparked debate on some of the social media sites for Academy graduates. “In December, Congress passed …

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Will Ron DeSantis Run for President?

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Ron DeSantis, the current Governor of Florida, who won reelection by a landslide, will run for President. I think that he would be an excellent President in the same way he has been an excellent governor. I hope he does not run. I would rather he …

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Incompetence or Treason?

By John R. “Buck” Surdu I have often said that as a company commander I kicked people out of the Army who are better people and better citizens than more than half the people I meet every day in civilian life. I have seen commanders relieved for cause for a variety of purposes. Yet stories …

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Bed Bath and Beyond Goes Bust

John R. “Buck” Surdu Bed Bath and Beyond is contracting and closing stores. Their creditors stopped their line of credit. We never bought a lot from Bed Bath and Beyond, but we shopped there. Much of what is in our kitchen came from there. I don’t know if they have mismanaged their affairs, if they …

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Rant about Reparations

By John R. “Buck” Surdu San Francisco’s African American Reparations Committee recently recommended that the city give every black San Francisco resident $5M in reparations “not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent …

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The National Debt Ceiling

Richard Feynman famously said, “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” The monetary policies of those “experts” have driven up the national debt to astronomical levels buying votes from stupid and gullible voters. Any person with three brain cells to rub together knows that if your income is $X then you spend something …

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John Surdu: Thoughts on the Speaker Kerfuffle

John R. “Buck” Surdu In previous articles, I have been quite outspoken that there is little difference in my mind between the Demonic Democrats and the Repugnant Republicans. In particular, I predicted in at least two articles that the highly anticipated “red wave” was going to be a red trickle. Simply put, the midterms were …

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The US Does NOT Have a Taxation Problem

Leftists like to spout baseless drivel about how certain demographics do not pay their fair share of the tax burden. This is a typical tool of the Marxists and America haters to foment class and racial unrest. The US does not have a taxation problem. We have a spending problem. The Federal overlords spend way …

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Hooray Candace Cameron Bure

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Recently the Daily Wire called attention to an interview that Candace Cameron Bure made with the Wall Street Journal. Bure is one of several actresses and actors who have fled the increasingly woke Hallmark Channel to move to the Great American Family channel. According to the Daily Wire, When asked …

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The Red Trickle: I Told You So

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Several weeks ago, despite the growing euphoria over a predicted Red Wave, I predicted a Red Trickle. At the time, I said it was because the Republicans don’t stand for anything and weren’t offering voters anything other than more investigations and counter investigations and “those guys suck worse than us.” …

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