Texas Terror

The news from Uvalde, Texas last week was horrific. A deranged man broke into a school and gunned down 19 children and two teachers. Eleven other people were wounded. Most Americans were just saddened by the cruelty and cravenness of the attack on innocent and harmless children, while an abjectly disgusting few used the deaths of innocents to push their political agenda.

Here’s the Real Reason Why Democrats Refuse to Harden Schools

  Democrats pounced on the opportunity provided by last week’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead. In their haste to enact a nationwide gun-grab, Democrats have repeatedly dismissed the common sense approach of hardening the schools. In his primetime address to Americans on Thursday night, as candles burned …

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Will We Keep Our Republic?

Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin. Image via Pixabay Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it. America was founded on …

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The Attack on Qualified Immunity Part IV

  In Parts I and II, the concept of qualified immunity was discussed, as was the origin of the doctrine. Also noted was the fact that those who wished to remove this “good faith” protection for police officers in the legislative and judicial branches of government were making no efforts to eliminate the immunity that …

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The Fight to End Qualified Immunity- Part I

“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress…”.

Police and Force

We’ve just had another horrific mass shooting…the murder of 19 elementary school students and two of their teachers, coupled with the background of a rising violence rate that has 9.5 Mass Shooting equivalents taking place in Chicago every week of the year. Yet the usual suspects are screaming for police “reform.” Among the issues these …

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