Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
De-escalation training is not for people in mental crisis, and unless a suspect is willing to de-escalate, it won’t work. Again, according to our political betters, we need to teach the cops to de-escalate. Not the civilians. While on patrol last week I found this interesting article on what our great leaders (excuse me, just …
According to a new filing in the bankruptcy case of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, it was an insider who spilled the beans on the company’s disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. CNBC reported that Wednesday’s filing contained a letter from the Bahama’s Securities Commission to the commissioner of police which said they’d been informed of potential fraudulent activity within FTX …
There’s only one game in town for those who break the law in the Bahamas – the notorious Fox Hill detention center. Unfortunately for disgraced FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, he may be calling this facility home for the next two months. Considering Bankman-Fried to be a flight risk, a Nassau judge denied his …
Having been arrested the previous day in the Bahamas, the star of the show, Sam Bankman-Fried, was unable to attend Tuesday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on the stunning collapse of FTX. But as they say, the show, presided over by the petulant and uber entitled committee chair, Rep. Maxine Waters, went on. The congresswoman from California …
Whether you use one of many starting points, where we were warned by people who lived through some of the most horrific examples of tyranny and terror, like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s life in Gulag Archipelago, or the Bible, where so many examples of wickedness and evil subjected the Jews of those times horrific pain, suffering and …
We have already noted that there are questions concerning the homicide numbers in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page reported that there had been 488 murders as of 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, December 11th. At 9:21 AM EST on Monday, December 12th, Stevee Keeley of Fox 29 News tweeted: Identity & …
Following the unfortunate death of methamphetamine-and-fentanyl crazed drug addict and previously convicted felon George Floyd while he was resisting a legitimate arrest in Minneapolis, the left went wild, and “Defund the Police“, as though the problem wasn’t crime, but people being arrested for committing crimes. This stupid notion was popular with the street agitators, and …
We have previously noted the change from the 502 homicides originally reported for 2020, down to 499. Now, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas noted someone that many expected to be on the list of 499, but who wasn’t there. This one seems legitimate: A 22-year-old was killed just over the city line in Upper Darby. …
Firearms. When you want to talk about a contentious subject, with a lefty, that’s my go to topic. If that isn’t enough, it’s that pro-abortion topic. But since the left tries so hard to make the tool illegal, and I just love my collection of tools, that’s where I will argue until they want …
Humanity, Humility and Humiliation; The PM/Restocking Manager at the Chesapeake, VA Walmart store, killed six of his co-workers…and then himself. All of us on the outside of the story are shocked. Maybe…for a day or two. But then we move on to the next shooting, the next liar on Wall Street, the next political battle in …
Observations and Lamentations; I have been doing more stuff around my home, but still taking time to see what has been happening, around here and there, and what absurdities are piled on top of previous absurdities. Sometimes, you just have to take a break, and go and clear your head, by moving dirt, fixing …
According to the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page, there have been 473 people murdered in the City of Brotherly Love as of 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, December 1st. So, about what was District Attorney Larry Krasner worried on Thursday? Advocates sound alarm on murders of transgender women in Philadelphia Fox 29 News …
The effort to reduce violence of all kinds, including gun violence, needs to be led by the states. Here’s how.
Six Ongoing Cataclysms in America, Part I; Foundational threats to the American Republic from the US political class
Good writers know that they need to have good opening paragraphs to entice the reader to continue on, and Washington Post reviewer Peter Marks sure nailed that one! Take a deep breath and try to ruminate calmly on the position playwright Bruce Norris takes in his scintillating new play, “Downstate”: that the punishments inflicted on …
No, there was not a drop in “mass shooting deaths” because of an “assault weapons ban” in the 1990s. And banning these rifles again will not stop shootings.
I’d bet he isn’t thinking, “Hey, I sure got around those gun control laws, didn’t I?” Meet Stephon Henderson. Mr Henderson, 59, allegedly shot and killed Talina Henderson, 47, his wife, at a residence in the 2800 block of Bay Colony Lane. Mrs Henderson was shot “multiple times,” which tells us that this was no …
Five people were killed and another 18 wounded, some critically, allegedly by Anderson Lee Aldrich. As Robert Stacy McCain reported, Mr Aldrich, in June of 2021: was in an armed standoff with police at his mother’s home in Colorado Springs. He was charged with multiple felonies, but for reasons as yet unknown, the charges were …
Five people were murdered, with another 18 wounded, in a mass shooting in a Colorado Springs nightclub which catered primarily to homosexuals, and it’s a crisis unlike any we’ve ever seen before! Horrors! A mass shooting! “LGBTQI+ people are under attack! They’re not safe!” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is a homosexual male, so naturally …
Gun violence and crime is a crisis. But taking firearms away from law abiding citizens will not change the behavior of criminals, nor will it solve America’s real societal issue, the destruction of the family. violence behaviour violence, an act of physical force that causes or is intended to cause harm. The damage inflicted by …