Milwaukee’s City Council Shows How Worthless It Is

An example from a formerly great city on how politicians and the bureaucracy are not staffed with the “best and the brightest” but the dimmest and the worst. “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” ~President Ronald Reagan As I’ve gotten older, my …

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How Far Can We Fall?

LEDE: The General Milley years were a disaster. But things are about to get much worse. I’m in the middle of an excellent biography of General of the Army George Marshall, volume three of four, George C Marshall: Organizer of Victory 1943-1945 by Forrest C. Pogue. While I’ve read multiple books on Eisenhower, Bradley, and …

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A Too Common Threat

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A quick introduction to the deterioration of our once great cities. The Precarious, Terrifying Hours After a Woman Was Shoved Into a Train Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy has been partially paralyzed and is in critical condition…Her story embodies New York’s post-pandemic fears and challenges. For days after Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was shoved against a speeding subway …

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How Our Adversaries Think.

Americans need to see what our adversaries read, watch and absorb so we can best understand how to best engage them. A factory worker in Moscow is reading this morning’s Pravda. A Harvard professor is reading the same newspaper. The difference? The man in Moscow knows he’s getting lied to. A cartoon published circa 1990, …

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Couldn’t Have Happened More Deserving People  

Liberals want you to pay your “fair share”, but not them. My greatest annoyance with liberals is the purebred hypocrisy of them. How many flies’ a private jet or always first class, but lecture middle/lower class people about using gas- or diesel-powered cars to work or vacation. Or complain about “the rich” not paying their …

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The Police Are Short-The Politicians Are Not Helping

Between the micromanagement, the 20/20 hindsight judgements and the “help,” from the politicians, people don’t want to be cops anymore. In an earlier post on AFNN I made the point that Body Worn Cameras (BWC) have, for the most part, been a positive for policing. More times than not, when an alleged infraction occurs, it …

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