Reparations and Systemic or Institutional Racism

By John R. “Buck” Surdu As reported in Axios, Senior White House Advisor Cedric Richmond said the white house is considering moving forward with reparations for slavery without waiting on the legislature. One Chicago suburb has voted to steal money from taxpayers for reparations to people who were never slaves, even though the black community …

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Secession is Occurring: Part 4: Censorship and Political Indoctrination

By John R. “Buck” Surdu In Part 1 of this multi-part article, I asserted that we are becoming two distinctly different Dis-United States. One is an America based on our Constitution, institutions, law and order, freedoms, common view of civics, commonly interpreted history, and shared culture. The other is an America transformed into a Leftist, …

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Secession is Occurring: Part 3: Breakdown of Law and Order and Weaponizing Once-Trusted Institutions

By John R. “Buck” Surdu In Part 1 of this multi-part article, I asserted that we are becoming two distinctly different Dis-United States. One is an America based on our Constitution, institutions, law and order, freedoms, common view of civics, commonly interpreted history, and common culture. The other is an America transformed into a Leftist, …

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Secession is Occurring Part 2: A Clash of Cultures and Government Oppression

By John R. “Buck” Surdu In Part 1 of this multi-part article, I asserted that we are becoming two distinctly different Dis-United States. One is an America based on our Constitution, institutions, law and order, freedoms, a common view of civics, commonly interpreted history, and shared culture. The other is an America transformed into a …

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Secession is Occurring, Part 1

By John R. “Buck” Surdu I wrote this series of articles in 2021, when AFNN was hosted on a different platform. With the midterms on the horizon, I have decided to blow the dust off these articles, updated them, and present them again. Please share widely. Part 1: Redrawing Boundaries, Refugee Migration, and Disunity This …

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What Was Lindsey Graham Thinking?

John R. “Buck” Surdu This week Lindsey Graham introduced a bill to create a nationwide ban on abortion after 15 weeks. This plays right into the hands of the Democrats, who are whipping up their base for the mid-term elections. It provides them with talking points to say, “See, we told you Republicans are trying …

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Who are the Fascists?

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Last week I was listening to the token Leftist on The Five argue that calling Trump and DeSantis voters “semi-fascist” is equivalent to accusing Democrats of being “socialists,” implying that the “socialist” label is an unfair insult. This is not the case. It is objectively provable that many Democrats embrace …

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Holier Than Thou

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Whether its pretentiousness, virtue signaling, or overdeveloped self-importance, many people manifest a holier-than-thou attitude that has become both endemic and irritating. I read an article some years ago, with a title like “’Tis the Season to Not Make Anyone Happy.” I thought I had saved a copy of that article, …

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The Republicans are Blowing It — Again

The Republicans Are Blowing It – AGAIN John R. “Buck” Surdu Biden’s poll numbers continue to plummet. It still amazes me that as many as 38% of the population still supports him. Destroying energy independence, the embarrassing flight from Afghanistan, creating runaway inflation with reckless spending, proposing another spending bill to combat the spending-induced inflation …

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Using Proven Military Veterans to Address a Shortage of Teachers

Addressing a Shortage of Teachers John R. “Buck” Surdu The Free State of Florida, being short approximately 4,300 teachers for the upcoming school year, has hit upon an interesting plan: policies that promote and fast track veterans into teachers’ ranks. Years ago, many states, suffering from a dearth of math and science teachers offered to …

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Regulating the Internet as a Utility

Breitbart reported on 27 July in an article entitled, Big Tech’s Blueprint to Stop a Red Wave in 2022, that, Republicans think a “red wave” is inevitable in November. But the Democrats still have one big advantage: the ever-tightening grip of Big Tech censorship, which will be used to prevent undecided voters from encountering even …

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The Left is Winning: Trust is Gone

The Left is Winning; Trust is Gone by John R. “Buck” Surdu It is clear to see that the goal of Soros, the Marxists, the Leftists, the Woke, academicians, school boards, teachers’ unions, race baiters, and other assorted America Haters has been to erode all trust, confidence, and respect for the Constitution, our institutions, our …

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Brittney Griner Can Rot in Russia for All I Care

Brittney Griner Can Rot in Russia for All I Care by John R. “Buck” Surdu Brittney Griner represented the United States in Olympic basketball, winning two gold medals. The woke America hater bought into the lies that America and all our institutions are irreparably and systemically racist. As reported here and elsewhere, in 2020 Griner …

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Congress Has Too Much Time on Its Hands

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A friend once joked that, “it’s a good think we don’t get all the government we pay for.” It is a canard to talk about “serving” in Congress. It’s not “service” when you make much more than the median income, are legally allowed to partake in insider trading, and have better healthcare and retirement than …

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Don’t Celebrate Too Soon! (Reprise), part 2

Conservatives are celebrating the recent primaries. Most of the winners are Trump-backed candidates. In Texas a Republican won an election in a district that has been owned by Democrats for forty years. I argue, however, that the celebrations are overly optimistic and premature. Last November’s election results have been greeted with great glee by conservative …

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Don’t Celebrate Too Soon! (Reprise), Part 1

Congratulations, President Biden. You have broken so many records they are hard to count. As someone I am intentionally not citing recently shared on Facsistbook, Biden has so far presided over historically high inflation, record oil and gas prices, a disastrous pullout from Afghanistan costing 13 American lives and 169 allies lives, a deepening migrant …

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“Hate Speech” as a Weapon of the Left

John R. Surdu   Last week I posted an article, called “What is Hate Speech?” In that article, I asserted that social media tech tyrants, media talking heads, members of every perpetual victim class, Leftist, and woke politicians define “hate speech” as “anything I don’t like.” The Left uses many weapons to divide us, create …

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