During the last two decades, local journalism has devolved in pay, benefits, staffing, and working conditions in a brutal way. There was a time when a television reporter actually had a team. The reporter gathered the information, interviewed the witnesses, developed sources, and told the story. Photographers shot the video. Editors edited it. Producers helped write and shape the finished product. Today, many reporters are expected to do damn near everything themselves. They research the story, shoot the video, conduct the interviews, write the script, edit the video, prepare material for the web and social media, and sometimes even set up their own live shots. The corporations discovered they could eliminate jobs and simply dump the work on whoever remained. Newspapers may be in even worse shape. Almost nobody wants to buy a newspaper anymore. The public has become accustomed to getting information instantly and, preferably, free on the Internet. Convincing people to pay for yes...

I begin with an important disclosure: I am one of Massad Ayoob’s “Ayoob Files” survivors. Ayoob wrote about my own self-defense shooting case in the July/August 1991 issue of American Handgunner. I have considerable respect for Ayoob as a firearms tactician and trainer. My disagreement concerns something very different: his advice about what an armed citizen should say to police and 911 immediately after a defensive shooting. In my view, some of that advice can be extraordinarily dangerous. No two shootings are identical, and there is no universal script that safely fits every case. A statement that appears helpful in one investigation can become devastating evidence in another. A traumatized citizen standing over a wounded or dead person should be extraordinarily cautious about making statements before consulting counsel. The 911 Call Is Evidence A 911 call is not merely a request for help. It is recorded evidence. The caller may believe he is simply summoning assistance, but saying, ...

California gave birth to the motion-picture industry. Hollywood became synonymous with American movies, American entertainment and American culture around the world. What an accomplishment. So naturally, California’s current Communist politicians have spent years figuring out how to screw it up. The once-Golden State has embraced an increasingly government-heavy political and economic model, piling regulation upon regulation, taxes upon taxes, mandates upon mandates, and then acting absolutely astonished when businesses start looking for the exits. Now Warner Bros., Paramount, and even Universal Studios are looking for ways to move their business outside California. Think about that. These aren’t some three-man production companies operating out of a rented bungalow. These are names practically carved into the cornerstone of Hollywood itself. California managed to create the American film industry, dominate it for a century, and then make doing business sufficiently unattractive ...

  The first and only lesson that should have been burned into the national skull is this: no airline hijacking involving Muslim fanatics has ever ended with the passengers walking off the plane. Not once. Criminals after money or attention sometimes negotiate, land, and walk away. Islamist suicide squads do not. With them, the only rational response is immediate, total, and violent resistance. Hesitate and you die. All of you. Nineteen scrawny Islamic death-cultists seized four airliners. Two hundred forty-six passengers and crew outnumbered them more than twelve to one. Their arsenal? Box cutters and theatrical “bombs.” None of the hijackers stood taller than 5’8”. Most weighed less than the average American woman. I know because I pulled their driving records and photographs myself for the media. These were not Navy SEALs. They were mid-sized fanatics with hardware-store weapons. The arithmetic is insultingly simple. Had the passengers risen as one and treated the cockpit door li...

  Oh, please. Call the (Alternative für Deutschland) AfD “far-right” one more time and the ghost of every actual fascist in history might rise up just to laugh in your face. They are not fascists. They are not Nazis. They are not the second coming of the Reich. They are the only major party in Germany still willing to notice that the emperor has no clothes, and that the clothes were stolen, set on fire, and replaced with a keffiyeh while the legacy media clapped like trained seals. The far-left and their obedient press lapdogs have spent years screaming “Nazi!” at anyone who dares prefer German streets to look German, German schools to teach German, and German women to walk home without calculating escape routes. It was the purest form of political gaslighting: smear the opposition into silence, then act shocked when the opposition refuses to die. Germany finally woke up. The election results didn’t just send “shockwaves.” They sent a tidal wave of pure electoral contempt crashin...

It took a bold conservative party called Alternative for Deutschland to dramatically and decisively unseat the left wing Christian Democratic Party after years of smug complacency. The popularity of the AfD surged primarily in the eastern sections of Germany that endured a brutal and soul crushing communist regime. They thoroughly and clearly understand what the Globalists running the EU in Brussels and the Christian Democratic Party were cynically and greedily doing to tightly keep their hands on power and government corruption. The Christian Democratic Party has relentlessly and shamelessly done nothing but a vicious disinformation campaign to smear the AfD claiming they are Nazis and ultra right wing fanatics. The AfD is far more like a party of George Orwell in its clear eyed truth telling. The Christian Democratic Party has finally and humiliatingly been exposed for what it truly is.  The German people have utterly and completely had enough of illegal immigration by Third W...