As I have grown older, I have grown angrier. I don’t like it, but it’s true.  I didn’t have an easy life as a child.  My parents divorced when I was four years old, and I was taken from the security of a home environment in Jackson Heights, NY to Denver, where my mother was from.  As a divorced woman who was not receiving the promised child support from my father, who had immediately remarried, she was forced to take multiple jobs.  I rarely saw her except on weekends.  1946-1950 Denver had a big time housing shortage, as did most of the country.  As a result, we lived in rented rooms in peoples houses, and even for a time in a converted garage.  By any measure we were poor, but I wasn’t aware of it.

I had  a grandmother and grandfather, aunts and uncles, and numerous cousins.  I started working at age 10, cutting lawns and bagging groceries at a local market.  No one considered that child abuse or illegal in any way.  I graduated to paper routes, first the Rocky Mountain News, a morning paper, which had to be folded and delivered starting at 5:00 AM, completely dark for much of the fall, winter and spring months.  Later, I got a coveted Denver Post route which was delivered in the late afternoon, after school got out at 3:00 PM.

1950s Denver was a patriotic, western town with plenty of history.  We said the Pledge of Allegiance standing, facing the flag in our home rooms first class of the day.  We respected the uniformed WW-II and Korean War veterans who marched in parades on Memorial Day and July 4th.  Our fathers and uncles were among them.  We all felt proud to be an American Citizen.

Then, something strange happened.  The “Cold War” created a class of educators who began to corrupt the students in their care.  Drugs like marijuana, formerly only smoked by the dregs of our society suddenly became popular on some college campuses.  Professors like Timothy Leary advised their students to “tune in, turn on and drop out” by taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs.  The age of the “Hippie” had arrived.  It was better to “Be Red Than Dead”, according to them.  They burned our flag and spit on our Constitution.

The disastrous Viet Nam War produced nothing but over 50,000 names on a stark black wall, and the broken bodies and minds of tens of thousands of other young men and women who had honorably served their country.  They came home to no welcome from many in this country.  In fact, they frequently were vilified and harangued by long haired left wing college students. Two of those would end up in the White House as President and First Lady.  A Commander in Chief who had dogged the draft would now be in charge of committing an all volunteer military to conflicts around the globe.  Just as he would abandon his soldiers to their fate in Somalia, his wife, with the concurrence of another Democratic President would abandon another group of young men in Benghazi. Continue reading Tweet On! →

The goal of virtually all the Democratic candidates for President in the 2020 elections is POWER.  One way they plan to achieve that goal is to bring in more and more migrants from third world countries, who will become dependent on government handouts and so, if the Dems have their way, become reliable voters for that party.  However, as the debate over how to deal with the “migrants, aka immigrants, aka illegal immigrants, aka undocumented immigrants” goes on and on, the real Bear in the Back Room is being ignored by both sides of the aisle. 

Who, or what is that critter?  Simple, it is our totally archaic Birthright Citizenship law.  While bringing a child along when you cross our border illegally may get you into the country, and keep you here temporarily, the act of giving birth to a child here, even if it is conceived elsewhere, is a virtual guarantee that you will be allowed to stay, and eventually bring other family members here through “chain migration”.  It is ironic that the amendments to our Constitution which were intended to grant citizenship to the children and grandchildren of Africans who had been brought to this country involuntarily as slaves, is now cheapening the value of that citizenship by granting it to everyone born in our nation, even though both parents are non-citizens who knowingly violated our laws to come here. Virtually all other First World countries, as well as others farther down on the economic scale, have long since done away with birthright citizenship.

It is vital that legislation be introduced to eliminate the practice here as well.  Until that is accomplished, it will remain the magnet which lures so many people to come here in violation of our laws and sovereignty as a nation.  However, no politician in Washington appears to have the will to do so for fear of being labeled a xenophobe. This is insanity of the first magnitude. Time to put the bear back in it’s cave.

After the horrible events of September 11, 2001,  I was willing to accept the concepts put forth by President Bush to form yet another government agency to bring all our intelligence agencies together and allow them to more easily “connect the dots” in matters of national security.  Out of that came the so-called “Patriot Act” and the Department of Homeland Security, that quickly spawned the Transportation Security Administration, and more layers of government bureaucracy and non-accountability.  Like many areas of life, especially where governments are concerned, the devil is always in the details.

Now, in the wake of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton last weekend, politicians on both sides of the aisle are calling for stricter “Gun Control” measures to protect us from further such heinous acts.  They will bluff and bluster, huff and puff, demagogue and pontificate.  All to make their constituents believe that they are doing something to make America safer. But as always the devil IS in the details. You can demonize AR-15 type weapons all you want, calling them “assault weapons” or “automatic rifles” or “military hardware”.  However, those who have been in the military know that they are none of these things. They are semi-automatic weapons, and can fire as many rounds as the magazine they are equipped with carries.  So, it is logical to ban them, right?  Also, it is logical to pass so-called “Red Flag” laws that will identify individuals who potentially might be a danger to themselves, or the public at large.  As proposed, if someone is reported to have said something that an individual felt was threatening, law enforcement could confiscate any firearms they owned until a judge could determine whether the accusations and subsequent confiscations were justified.  There’s a devil for you! Continue reading Devil in the Details. →

Ted Bundy was one of Americas most prolific serial killers.  Prior to his arrest for these heinous murders he probably would have passed a background check to buy a firearm.  Bundy was a handsome young man, by all accounts friendly and personable.  He was also, unknown to friends, family and acquaintances, a savage, brutal murderer.  He was the personification of evil.

Nikolas Cruz and Connor Betts are, or in the case of Betts were, evil, and the authorities knew it.  However, because of laws passed by “well meaning” liberal politicians.  Their youthful “transgressions” and records of anti-social and violent behavior didn’t follow them into adulthood as a matter of record.

The latest mass shootings, in El Paso and Dayton are horrific.  However, they are trivial in numbers compared with the ever mounting death toll in Chicago or Baltimore.  The image of an “Assault Style” weapon is once again being used to push for draconian gun control methods.  The Democrats, led by Senator Chuck Schumer, are demanding that President Trump call the Congress back into session to deal with this “National Emergency”.  Could the situation on our southern border be brought into the mix if he does so?

Fox News commentator Dan Bongino brought the whole matter into focus when he said this morning that politicizing these tragedies to gain a few votes in the upcoming primaries is a disgrace.  President Trump is no more responsible for these killings that Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, and passing feel good gun laws will not make Americans safer.  The criminals, crazies and terrorists won’t obey those laws anymore than they respect those already on the books.

What needs to be addressed is what has happened to our society.  Why are parents allowing their children to play violent video games?  Why are some parents playing them as well?  What is the attraction of playing a “game” who’s whole purpose is to kill and mutilate human beings?  We are desensitizing generations of people who have no concept of right and wrong, good and evil, or responsibilities as opposed to “rights”.

Just as the end game for “Universal Healthcare” is government controlled socialized medicine, the ultimate goal of “reasonable gun control laws” is prohibition of gun ownership and confiscation of firearms, Australian style.  Make no mistake about that.  If the Democrats succeed in bamboozling the American Public into passing such insanity, then I propose that all law enforcement designed to protect politicians, such as the Capitol Police and the Secret Service be disbanded.  Our politicians have no more right to protection from harm than the average citizen.  Over the years, we have foolishly allowed them to pass laws, but exempt themselves from their edicts in the process.  That applies to their salaries and retirement benefits, medical insurance, etc.  This political elite must be brought under control, and the sooner the better. 

Twenty dead, twenty-six wounded in El Paso.  The shooter apparently a twenty-one year old man who was reportedly living at home with his parents while playing violent video games and fantasizing about being a mass shooter.

Immediately, politicians start the anti-gun diatribe.  Texas Rep. Cesar Blanco, a Democrat, said he planned to work with Governor Abbott and other Republicans “To make sure these type of tragedies don’t happen again.”

What?  How was he going to do that?  Want to guess?  Ban guns of course.  How about banning violent video games, and requiring that all copies of same be turned in and destroyed?  How about banning all the violent movies produced by Hollywood?  At least require that all gun free zones be abolished. The Cielo Vista Mall apparently is a posted “Weapon Free Zone” aka: “Free Fire Zone” for mentally disturbed shooters, criminals or terrorists. Was the shooter headed there, and for some reason diverted to the Wal Mart next to the mall?  We don’t know the answer to that question.

I have a suggestion for the American Bar Association.  Encourage your members to solicit clients who have been affected by the violence which seems to be drawn (for obvious reasons) to these supposedly safe areas.  Airport style security should be required in all areas advertised as “Gun Free or Weapon Free”, with metal detectors and armed guards policing the facility one hundred percent of the time that it is open for business.  In a broad sense, that could mean hundreds of millions of people, including anyone who feels a sense of anxiety being told that their Second Amendment right doesn’t exist there.

The policies of the Democratic Party, which is actively promoting ignoring laws which they don’t agree with, has created an environment where people make up their own rules as they go along.  Speed LIMITS, for instance, become merely suggestions, to be observed or ignored at will.  However, God help a Concealed Weapon Permit holder who knowingly violates any of the posted restricted areas.  They are subject to arrest and their CWP suspended on the spot.  We are rapidly reaching a point where ALL our laws are becoming merely suggestions, to a certain segment of society, and that is a very dangerous place indeed.

Charles Krauthammer, possibly the greatest conservative thinker of his generation, said something so profound that it sticks like a burr under my mental horse blanket.  I will paraphrase a bit.  He said that the difference between conservatives and liberals was that conservatives thought liberals were simply misinformed in their viewpoints, but liberals viewed conservatives as mean spirited and evil.  Ponder that thought for a moment. When you view an opponent as EVIL, then any action you take against them is in your mind morally justified. This concept is how a large majority of otherwise moral people in 1930s Germany could be persuaded by the Nazis that exterminating millions of Jews, Gypsies and others was legally and morally justified.

This is how an ever growing group of far left liberal “Progressives” can justify tacitly supporting a group of people who call themselves “Antifa”, which is an abbreviation of “anti-fascist”.  These cowardly thugs, who cover their faces with ski-masks and bandanas,  are portrayed by many on the left as just exercising their First Amendment right of free speech.  If that is so, why do they have to hide their identity while doing so?  Why do they commit violent acts in the process, and why are government officials in some cities allowing them to do so? Continue reading Who Will They Arrest? →