You think everything is fine. You believe your hearing is normal. But people speak to you from the next room with their back turned and you miss it completely. Your spouse accuses you of selective hearing. You swear they never said that. The truth is harsher. Your brain has been quietly lying to you. You are not hearing entire words or sentences, and your brain fills in the gaps without asking permission. You feel normal. You are not. For me, it happened fast. After a short airplane flight, my hearing collapsed. Within days, I was stone deaf. Panic set in. I ran to doctors. An ear, nose, and throat specialist told me it was Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. Temporary, he said. Give it a month. You will be fine. I believed him and exhaled. A month passed. Nothing. I tested my hearing every day. Clapping. Voices. Telephones. Silence. I could not even use the phone. One month became seven. Seven months of isolation, fear, and professional damage. When sound finally returned, it was a cruel tri...

Government loves a good fairy tale, and the 911 system is their crown jewel. They never shut up about it. Slick brochures, patriotic commercials, smiling dispatchers wearing headsets. “Just call 911,” they tell you, as if that phrase itself were some sacred incantation that bends time and space. Here is the harsh truth. 911 is not a force field. It is a phone call. The best it can do is send people who are not there yet and will not be there when you actually need them. By the time they arrive, the stabbing is over, the fire is roaring, and the body is cooling. There is exactly one person guaranteed to be on-scene at the critical moment. You. Government hates that reality, because it ruins their favorite fantasy where you are a helpless dependent and they are the noble saviors. People call 911 because they need men with guns to stop monsters, and men with training to keep people alive and put out fires. That is fine, as long as you understand those men are incoming, not present. You ar...

Please stop pretending. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) is the law of the land. Not a suggestion. Not a political theory. Actual constitutional law. Meanwhile, in every big blue city, criminals roam like VIPs with lifetime memberships to the court system. Page after page of arrests. Case after case dismissed. Crime stacked on crime like frequent flyer miles. Accountability has left the building. So normal people finally wake up and say, “Maybe I should defend myself.” And what do they buy? Tiny, cheap pistols because that is what the culture told them to do. Then reality hits. Pistols are hard. They demand discipline, training, and real skill. Without those, a handgun becomes a noisemaker with anxiety attached. And that is when the political class starts shaking at the knees over the AR-15. Never forget the lives of you and your loved ones are much more important than the dictates of rogue politicians in the blue states. Here is the truth...

It is long past time for another federal amnesty for machine guns, suppressors, and all other items swept under the suffocating weight of the National Firearms Act. For nearly a century, our government has trampled on the Second Amendment, treating a constitutional right as a privilege to be taxed, restricted, and endlessly regulated. The plain truth is that the National Firearms Act was, and remains, an open violation of the right to keep and bear arms. Yet our courts have repeatedly turned their backs on this constitutional assault, refusing to restrain federal power or strike down the unlawful taxes and prohibitions that have smothered the freedoms of law-abiding Americans. In 1968, even Washington briefly acknowledged the injustice. During that rare moment, the government offered an amnesty, allowing the lawful registration of tens of thousands of NFA firearms, nearly 100,000 in all. But that mercy was fleeting; in the decades since, no administration has dared to extend such relie...

If you don’t have a dog, you’re cheating yourself out of the one companion on this planet who won’t stab you in the back. Nothing lifts the human spirit faster than a dog who thinks you’re a hero just for walking through the door. Look around and you’ll notice it. People with dogs tend to be calmer, happier, and a lot less wrapped around the axle. I’m so glad hospitals, hotels, transit systems, grocery stores, and half the civilized world finally woke up and allowed dogs inside. They slap up signs about service animals being welcome, then conveniently forget to enforce anything. And guess what. Society hasn’t collapsed. No wave of dog bites. No plague. Just happier people with their four legged therapists. Sure, having a dog means dragging yourself outside at dawn and again after dark. And if you travel, you’ll either board the dog or trust a responsible friend. The one rule is simple. Don’t leave your dog alone to rot. They’re loyal to the bone, and they deserve the same back. There i...

Let’s stop pretending the world is safer than it is. We have all seen what happened to those young women on public transportation. They were torn apart by human garbage who should never have been roaming free. The cruelty was not accidental. It was deliberate, vicious, and absolutely preventable if those women had been armed and trained. American women have been conditioned like lab rats. They have been told guns are evil and that they should never touch one. The brainwashing is so deep that they ignore the God-given instinct to survive and instead rely on police that only arrive promptly in scripted television fantasies. In the real world, cops show up just in time to take photos of your body and sweep up the shell casings. Women are also fed the lie that guns are a man’s tool. That is pure nonsense. As a firearms instructor, I have watched women routinely outshoot men simply because they pay attention. Women run compact pistols like the SIG P365 and the Springfield Hellcat with unden...

Sig P365 XL It is time to talk about defensive guns and tactics again. Frankly, this conversation is so overdue it should be paying late fees. People cling to this fantasy that they are perfectly safe at home as long as the doors are locked. Cute theory. The real trouble starts when they leave their little castles to pump gas, buy groceries or walk back to a dimly lit parking lot where predators watch people who are glued to their phones instead of their surroundings. Training ought to take place in low light, no light and especially outdoors. Civilians never get enough night fire training, while cops get it because they actually have to stay alive. Now for the fun part. Revolvers have crawled back into fashion like the Phoenix clawing its way out of the grave. Suddenly everyone is falling in love with these gorgeous heavy caliber wheel guns. They are simple, reliable and they look damn good doing their job. Not that the semi autos have gone anywhere. In fact, the tiny 9 millimeter pis...

Driving while intoxicated is not just stupid. It is Olympic-level stupid. It is the kind of stupid that comes with a price tag big enough to make your wallet curl up and die. A DUI will bleed you between nine grand and twenty-five grand before you can even say, “But officer, I’m fine.” Insurance spikes, legal fees, towing, storage, DUI school, and the privilege of walking everywhere like some medieval peasant. And yes, it can cost you your job. Employers love reliability, not “Sorry, boss, my license is in jail.” Here is how it happens. The more booze you pour down your throat, the more convinced you become that you are Mario Andretti with a cape. After enough drinks you are basically Superman without the x-ray vision, the flying, or the common sense. Back in my early police days in the late 60s and early 70s, DUI enforcement was about as common as a snowstorm in Phoenix. Unless someone was dead or mangled, nobody bothered. The arrest process was a bureaucratic nightmare and bosses ...

It was bound to happen because the corporations have actually all but destroyed local news reporting.  There is no more investigative journalism.  And God forbid the professional journalist expose the corruption of local politicians.   Slowly, but surely these Internet reporters are learning their craft and how to use and abuse public records.  The real issue is will their audience financially support them?   They are beginning to succeed with advertisers.  CWB in Chicago.  Cash Jordan likes to go anywhere the action is happening.  Many live streamers are out there. Their failures are in not getting interviews from witnesses and bureaucrats.  That may work self out.  Most of the larger jurisdictions offer educational tours of court houses where court procedures are explained.  I suspected community colleges have programs where people can learn how to dig and tell their stories.  Newspapers have all been disappeared and loca...