We’ve spent decades hopping from one armed conflict to the next, yet somehow we’re supposed to believe danger politely waits overseas. It doesn’t. It rides the subway, boards the plane, walks into the grocery store. Terror isn’t a foreign concept. It’s a daily risk, and pretending otherwise is how people get killed. So here’s a thought the political class hates: stop disarming the very people who can stop it. Off duty police officers and trained military veterans are treated like liabilities instead of assets. That’s backwards. Those are the people you want in the room when something goes sideways. They should be empowered, not sidelined, especially when traveling. An armed, trained citizen is not the problem. He’s the solution politicians refuse to admit exists. And let’s talk about the Second Amendment. Not the watered down, bureaucrat approved version. The real one. The one that doesn’t come with fine print written by career politicians who move with armed security while telling ...

Decades ago, New York’s Madison Avenue advertising agencies discovered a powerful truth: repetition in messaging has a profound and lasting effect on the human mind. The more frequently a message is shared, the more likely people are to believe it, eventually accepting the products being promoted as the best. This perception is often an illusion, yet people spend their money on these products, sometimes even if they have no need for them. Children are especially vulnerable to advertising. They quickly develop loyalty to brand names they hear repeatedly on television, even requesting medications they see advertised, believing these products will solve their imagined problems. Adults, often without realizing it, also start favoring whatever brands or ideas they’re exposed to through propaganda or advertising. One of the masterminds behind the use of propaganda was Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, who famously said, “If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the tr...