More than a few black political leaders, and a substantial number of their supporters, are calling for financial “Reparations” because their distant relatives were either brought to this country as slaves or were born here to slaves prior to the civil war.  In addition, they say, African-Americans have, and continue to be, victims of prejudicial behavior.

We can debate the validity of their claims until Hades is buried in ice, but if that indeed ever happens we will open up a “Pandora’s Box” of immense proportions.   As we look back in our history, virtually every wave of new immigrants to this nation have suffered under prejudice from those who came before them, and already had their “Piece of the Pie”.

Depending which part of the country they gravitated to on arrival, they were frequently scorned by local residents.  Swedes were outcasts in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Irish in Boston, Italians in New York City, Chinese in California and Poles whereever they went. They were referred to as “Polacks” and considered to be stupid.  “Bohunks” came from central or southeastern Europe, especially Hungary, and were thought to be fit only for menial manual labor.

Worst of all, in the eyes of many, were the Irish, who began a mass migration to the United States after the Great Potato Famine which started in 1845 and caused the deaths of over a million Irish from starvation.  Over a million more immigrated elsewhere, many to this country.  Though they were desperately poor, they weren’t universally dishonest and ignorant as their detractors portrayed them in newspaper cartoons of the time.  Shown as simian like Leprechauns, holding a glass of whisky in one hand, while picking an innocent bystanders pocket with the other, they certainly weren’t someone you wanted to move in next door or court your daughter.

Italians were depicted as cowards, a cartoon displayed an add for an Italian military rifle with a tag that said “Never fired and only dropped once!”   This about a people who were descended from the Romans, who had the longest existing empire in human history, and whose legions conquered a vast part of Europe and Northern Africa.  The French were equally defamed as cowards, the exploits of the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte conveniently forgotten. 

So, if African-Americans are entitled to any reparations, they will have to sue the few American citizens living who had ancestors who owned a slave.  Those folks are few and far between.  All of use should get down on our knees every night and thank God that our ancestors DID come to this nation, in whatever circumstances, and so gave us and future generations the opportunity to live in the finest nation that has ever existed on this globe.

What is happening to this country under the current administration is enough to make me literally sick to my stomach.  The fact that this is being aided and abetted by many members of the Republican Party just makes it worse.

If you aren’t watching Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News Channel, you are doing yourself a disservice.  Night after night, Monday through Friday, Carlson discusses the issues of the day from a conservative viewpoint.  Indeed, perhaps I should instead say from a factual viewpoint.  The commentators on his program, typified by people like Victor Davis Hansen, examine issues calmly and rationally, not relying on histrionics to make their point.

Alternately, you can watch CNN, MSNBC, PBS or any of the national news networks and listen to the talking point of the day.  They don’t even attempt to disguise that they are all singing from the same hymnal.

A case in point concerns the rape and impregnation of a ten year old girl in Ohio.  We are told by all the “Talking Heads” on the networks that the main story is that this child had to go to Indiana to receive an abortion because of Ohio’s strict anti-abortion laws. These were implemented after the Supreme Court struck down Roe vs.Wade.  The truth is completely different.

First, Ohio’s anti-abortion laws have exceptions.  One being if the life of the woman is threatened.  Obviously, a ten year old girl is much too young to carry to term, much less deliver a baby.  Is it even possible for a female of that age to conceive a child after she has intercourse?  The answer to that is yes.  I’ll explain.

When I was flying for an air ambulance company in Albuquerque after I retired from TWA, I witnessed cases where several very young girls, even as young as ten years old, gave birth. The babies were very small, and frequently didn’t survive. The mothers were equally at risk. As was explained to me, some Mestizo females, who had Mexican-indigenous ancestors, become sexually mature at a very early age, so it was possible for a nine year old girl to become pregnant, and carry a child to term.

What is not being mentioned by much of the mainstream media is that the man who raped and impregnated the girl who was nine years old at the time is Gerson Fuentes (shown above), an illegal alien from Guatemala.  How many more like him are streaming across our southern border?  Don’t ask. That’s Xenophobic!  How did Fuentes get to Ohio, by the way?  Was he flown there in the middle of the night courtesy of the Biden Administration?  It appears that the girl in question, a Mexican national, is also here illegally, as is her mother.  She, unbelievably, is now defending Fuentes, saying he is actually a good person. Continue reading Sick to my Stomach! →

I was watching Fox News the other day and they had a story about comments made by a black female politician who said the problem with America wasn’t the radical leftists on the east or west coasts, but instead lay with the “Middle”.  Middle what, I thought? 

Did she mean middle class Americans, that amorphous group of people no one seems to be able to accurately define?  As she continued to speak, I realized she was instead referring to anyone not living in the bi-coastal liberal enclaves, those of us out here in “Fly-over Country”.

To people like her, we’re just hot dog eating, cheap beer swilling, knuckle dragging, gun owning rednecks whose opinions don’t count.  Why, many of us even had the temerity to desert the Democratic Party and vote for the MAGA King Donald Trump, TWICE.  We are the “Deplorables” so described by Hillary Clinton in 2016!   Not worth listening or responding to on any level.  Shut up!  They’ll tell us what’s good for us.

Stop whining about the price of gas for your pickups and diesel for your tractors!  Buy electric powered ones!  The cost of groceries at the market are too high?   Haven’t you heard of “Uber Eats”?  What hicks, what rubes!

And then there’s all the other stuff.  You don’t believe George Floyd’s death justified the 2020 riots?  You don’t think Critical Race theory should be taught to our school children and members of the military?  You don’t believe in transgenderism and Drag Queens reading books to kindergarten children?  Worst yet, you don’t agree with de-funding our police, and not prosecuting felons?  You want prisons to be prisons and not training zones for criminals?  What a bunch of prejudiced bastards!                          

At that point, reeling from the verbal slings and arrows being thrown my way as she continued, I turned off the television.  As I sat there shaking my head, I realized one thing.  There is no possible chance of having a rational conversation with someone like her.  She is so steeped in her political jargon that no other opinions are possible, and she isn’t alone.

Whether you believe the 2020 election was fair and unbiased, or that it was criminal and, at least in several battleground states, conducted in a blatantly un-constitutional manner is immaterial at this juncture.  The fact is that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as our 46th President and Vice-President on January 21st of last year.  The result of that action is undeniably chaos.  Even the left is beginning to admit that, fearing a crushing defeat in the mid-term elections in November.  Only Biden, and a limited circle of toadies and sycophants are claiming otherwise. Continue reading Revenge of the “Middle” →

Another depraved individual has committed an atrocity.  I won’t use his name or show his picture in this piece.  It is my opinion that by doing so we allow these depraved individuals to have their few days of fame at the expense of others.  Most of the media, of course, will follow the old adage of “If it bleeds, it leads”.  We’ll get 24/7 coverage on CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the liberal outlets.  One must ask, WHY?

The “Copycat” phenomena is well known.  Sick people are inspired by the acts of other sick and deranged people to commit similar atrocities.  So why is the media allowed to be complicit in this process?  Rather than once again screaming for gun control measures, the politicians should propose legislation that would prohibit the freak show that follows every one of these awful events.

Once it becomes apparent that violent acts AREN”T going to get you your moments of fleeting fame, the copycat syndrome will basically cease to exist.  If the only way knowledge of these events is going to get out is by word of mouth, in the affected area, the crazies will lose the one thing they seem to so desperately crave, a sick form of immortality. Continue reading Shooting Back →