Yesterday before my LA criminal trial I’m working resumed, there was a violation of probation hearing for a black 19 year-old offender who was represented by the public defender.  He  was out of jail on his own recognizance     He was 6 foot four 260 pounds of failure and violence.     I don’t know what his original crime was other than it was violent.     He had a long rap sheet for other crimes.     He had failed recent drug test after drug test.     His appearance was that of a big bully. The judge read from social service and psychiatric reports that disclosed the following.     He had graduated from a Los Angeles public high school.     However, actual testing revealed that he only had a reading comprehension at a third grade level.     What’s the shocking?     No, it was another solid indictment of our teachers union and the public schools in Los Angeles.     Adding...

I  have to admit, it’s almost entertaining watching today’s Democrats twist themselves into knots trying to condemn Trump for finally taking out Iran’s ruling regime. For 47 years that government has trafficked in threats, proxies, bombings, kidnappings, and never ending open chants of “Death to America.” And what did we do? Press conferences. Negotiations. Pallets of cash. Diplomatic yoga. Since every administration since Jimmy Carter’s treated Tehran like a misunderstood exchange student instead of a regime that seized our embassy brutalized and held American embassy workers hostage for 444 days. 444 days.  That was an act of war. Yet instead of responding with force, decade after decade we tried to bribe, flatter, and “engage” people who murdered our citizens and burned our flag for sport. We wasted years in diplomatic circles while they funded terror networks, expanded influence, and played the long game. Meanwhile, their sympathizers our Democrats and apologists found...

Watch Iran. Really watch it. Millions are in the streets begging for basic liberty. Facing them is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with rifles loaded and consciences unplugged. They have already killed thousands of protesters. They will do it again tomorrow if ordered. That is what regimes do when cornered. Gun control did not begin as a public safety seminar. It was a tool. The Nazis used it. Communist regimes used it.  Fascist governments everywhere understood one thing very clearly. Disarmed citizens are much easier to rule. The American Bill of Rights is not self executing. It is not magic parchment. It works because there is a final check behind it. The Second Amendment is that check. Remove it and the rest becomes decorative. Iran’s protesters can chant all night, but unless the Revolutionary Guard splinters or refuses orders, the math does not change. The side with the guns writes the ending. Here in the United States, we are told that more restrictions are common ...

  The current war against Iran was totally unnecessary. WAS. Past tense. This disaster was born in 1979 when the so called Islamic Revolution rolled in and the mullahs decided kidnapping American diplomats was a smart opening move. They terrorized and held our embassy staff hostage for 444 days.  They turned the United States into a global punchline. President Jimmy Carter had a choice. Crush a fragile regime that had just shown its fangs, or sit at a table and beg for cooperation. He chose the table. Endless negotiations. A rescue attempt that collapsed in the desert. The message to Tehran was simple. America hesitates. America negotiates. America bleeds slowly. Tehran learned the lesson. For nearly five decades the regime metastasized. Terror proxies. Assassination plots. Missiles. “Death to America” as a slogan repeated like a national anthem. Then along comes Joe Biden, who decided that handing billions to the same regime was somehow strategic genius. I lot of the ...

It is a command to government: you will not disarm the people. You will not control their arms. You will not regulate them into submission. The right was not written for hunting. It was not written for sport. It was written so citizens could defend themselves, not only from criminals, but from the very government under which they live. History is clear. Governments drift. Governments expand. Governments corrupt. The Founders studied that history. They had lived it. They refused to build a nation where the people would be helpless in the face of superior force. They did not intend for citizens to be armed with symbolic tools while the state held overwhelming power. They understood that a free people must never be reduced to inferiority in their own defense. The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is a structural safeguard against tyranny.

  Gun control. The gift that keeps on giving — mostly to criminals. Ignorance must be bliss when you are a politician rubber-stamping every gun restriction that crosses your desk. Ban this. Ban that. Ban anything that sounds scary in a thirty-second sound bite. Take handgun shoulder stabilizing devices. Take laser sights. Tools designed for one simple purpose: accuracy. Stability. Control. But apparently accuracy is the problem. When lawmakers outlaw devices that help a lawful gun owner hit what they aim at, they are not reducing danger. They are increasing it. Missed shots do not disappear. They land somewhere. Into a wall. Into a car. Into someone’s grandmother who just happened to be standing in the wrong place. The irony is thick. These laws are inspired by street gang chaos. Yet the very people driving that chaos are the least disciplined shooters on the planet. They spray and pray. They target each other. And when they miss, innocent people pay. Meanwhile, an elderly cit...