Chicago, IL —Make no mistake liberty, privacy and freedom died here decades ago.   Most people just don’t have a clue freedom is dead until they experience government tyranny first hand.   Apparently hearing about some neighbor’s troubles does not raise enough red flags. Despite that our Bill of Rights and Constitution never provided politicians a simple method to make amendments they’ve taken the law and our formerly guaranteed liberty into their own hands.   Americans have been brainwashed through constant media propaganda into believing their rights somehow must be balanced against the collective safety and security needs.   There is no lawful way to trade liberty for security outside of properly amending the Constitution for restricting rights.   Even if there were a legitimate way this concept simply won’t work.    Government cannot guarantee safety even in maximum-security prisons.   How can this be accomplished in a fr...

Washington, DC —No, don’t confuse me with the so-called Tea Party movement. That group has done far too little and much too late. The real Tea Party forcibly boarded the King’s ships and destroyed property to get their point across. Waving flags and standing around watching tyranny is a meaningless exercise that did not even get a single acknowledgment from the Whitehouse. Perhaps if the Tea Party folks sent in a few high explosive mortar rounds to the Rose Garden, Barack Obama might have noticed people were intolerant of his Socialist agenda. Perhaps calling today’s Tea Party people Astroturf was a good description because it was a movement of pretenders instead of true patriots. Our politicians have decreed that American taxpayers must provide free education and medical care to all of Central America as we feed our own existing entitlement monster. This is a bottomless pit that swallows cash from every working family’s food budget. We have no choice but to reverse the tsunami of...

The criminal backlash we all saw coming has finally erupted in the streets of Los Angeles. Fueled by entitlement and lawlessness, thousands of illegal aliens and their radical supporters turned the city into a war zone. They didn’t just protest they seized control. Innocent motorists on the 101 Freeway were taken hostage, trapped by an unruly mob that had no regard for human life or public order. This wasn’t some peaceful First Amendment rally. It was an outright criminal insurrection, a declaration of war against the rule of law. Cars and city busses were vandalized. Chaos reigned. Graffiti was sprayed like a battle cry, marking the city with the scars of a society spiraling into anarchy. And where was Mayor Karen Bass? Nowhere to be found. She had an obligation to demand order, to stand up for the rights of law-abiding citizens, but she chose silence. No surprise there, Bass has spent her entire career aligning herself with the most ruthless leftist revolutionaries. Her admiration f...

In mid October I was treated to a screening of the Clint Eastwood, Steven Speilberg first offering, Flags of Our Fathers . I had no clue they made a second film to tell the other side of this story. Today I saw this screening in Hollywood. In every war as the bodies of the dead are collected it’s those personal effects found that tell the story behind the life that was snuffed out by the horrors of combat. They are the photographs of the families and those heartbreaking letters. War is dehumanizing and too often motions pictures never show the other side of the conflict. The World War II films from Hollywood used ethnic slurs like kraut or Jap to describe hateful and faceless enemy soldiers. The truth is that it’s always the conscripts who fight to maintain their way of life in their own country. These lads are sent fight all wars started by politicians and dictators. For the Japanese soldiers there was no glory in their shameful defeat. Unimaginable hardship, fear and loneliness...

When I saw, Saving Private Ryan, I thought no World War II picture could top that. I was wrong. The biggest difference in this film was waiting for those familiar handsome major stars to show up but they never arrived. What I got were well established but lesser known actors who were probably cast in the best roles so far in their careers. Ordinary faces were cast to play ordinary young men This is not so much a story about heroes but about American politician’s use and abuse of symbols and showmanship to lead the country in their desired direction. Such was the case for three of six ordinary young men who had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. That place of course was Iwo Jima and their deed was being in Joe Rosenthal’s famous flag raising photograph taken Feb. 23, 1945. Rosenthal was an Associated Press photographer who took that Pulitzer Prize-winning picture. The three surviving boys' reward was being recruited help sell war bonds through an elabora...

Washington, DC —So far the Obama Administration chose the road of despotism over democracy. The massive destruction of our currency and economy was intentional so Obama could rebuild in a Socialist model. Free speech by Internet bloggers, and the likes of Glen Beck has rung an alarm that has obstructed Obama’s Socialist revolutionary goals. The problem for Obama now is that too many Americans are refusing to surrender the form of government our founding fathers sacrificed so much to give us. The Socialist flags and the wake of holocausts that always follow, threaten peace and prosperity. Obama’s Hope and Change is no different than that offered by Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Castro . Obama has to deal with Armed Americans and elections he can’t control. The consequences of Obama’s continued efforts to destroy our representative republic may destroy well Obama first. Obama’s State of The Union Address will be interesting. Will this President be a lame duck for the remainder of his term...