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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This Morning’s Rant

At length I remembered the last resort of a great princess who, when told that the peasants had no bread, replied: “Then let them eat brioches.“ — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions My good friend and sometimes blog pinch-hitter William Teach pointed me to this article from Nicholas Goldberg in The Los Angeles Times, which can also be …

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Is Putin’s ‘Partial Mobilization’ a Feint? Something Big Is Happening in Russia

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There is no doubt the Ukrainian military has made some spectacular gains in recent weeks. But predictions of a Ukrainian victory in this conflict are premature and may even be a bit naive. After watching Putin operate over the past couple of decades, it’s pretty clear that unless he is removed from power by his …

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FBI 2016 mission to destroy Trump has metastasized into the Democratic Party’s open war against him

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While politics has always been a scrappy arena, the arrival of Donald Trump radicalized Democrats and brought them to a level of derangement few could have predicted. Though it may have begun as a top-secret project involving only a handful of officials at the loftiest levels of the Obama administration, the 2016 mission of the …

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A Lack of Options

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton In a previous article, I discussed the concept of “field tagging” of narcotics. An officer, needing to handle a higher priority issue, takes an illegal narcotic (e.g. a crack rock) and destroys …

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Do ‘Progressive’ Prosecutors Equal Bloody Streets?

While we have previously noted that while Philadelphia’s homicide rate increased after Jim Kenney replaced Michael Nutter as Mayor, things really began to take off after Larry Krasner became District Attorney. Now my good friend Robert Stacy McCain has noted how homicides took off in Baltimore after another George Soros-sponsored wokester, Marilyn Mosby, became Charm …

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Biden Appeared Dazed and Confused After Global Fund Speech

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President Joe Biden appeared dazed and confused as he left the podium following remarks at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York City on Wednesday. I don’t claim to be a neurologist, but the president seemed to experience a moment of complete disorientation. In the clip below, the crowd is applauding his speech …

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Founding Principle – Assimilation

Wait, how can assimilation be a Founding Principle?  Did the earliest British subjects assimilate in the Colonies?  They did indeed.  Immigrants came to this country for the promise of self-determination, freedom and property.  The Colonies pulled together for over 150-years before becoming an independent Nation, solving issues that could not wait for the King or his ministers.   This Nation …

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