The left: scared of kings. The right: glad we don’t have one.

October 21, 2025

Last Saturday’s “No Kings Day” activities were quite popular, and apparently were actually “mostly peaceful.” This is certainly something to be pleased about, as so many of the left’s past “protests” were actually riots, complete with violence, burning buildings, damaging police vehicles and buildings, etc.

For those who don’t know, the concept behind the “No Kings” protests is yet another criticism of President Donald Trump and his actions. Those actions are being described as authoritarian, thus king-like. Some examples include using ICE agents to deport people from the country who broke the law when they entered, and since. Many of these illegal millions, allowed in by the Biden administration, are not nice people. They are drug dealers, child and women traffickers, rapists, robbers and murderers.

But the “No Kings” crowd either does not understand this, or cares more about protecting the illegals than their fellow Americans. And, therefore, ICE and other law enforcement personnel, and anyone working on this needed task are labeled Nazis, Fascists, etc.

Although the left tries strongly to hide or deny it, many blue cities and states have serious problems with crime, much of which is at the hands of illegal aliens. When Trump seeks to help them by sending ICE and National Guard (NG) personnel to their city or state, they rebel, and the name-calling and exaggeration begins. This, despite the very obvious improvement of life in our nation’s capital, where Trump’s effort had very positive results.

Here are some examples of these comments: California Governor Gavin Newsom commented about Trump sending California NG members to Oregon that, “This isn’t about public safety, it’s about power. The commander-in-chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens. We will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.”

From capitalnewsillinois.com: “After weeks of threatening to do so, President Donald Trump is taking command of 300 Illinois National Guard troops and sending them to Chicago over Gov. JB Pritzker’s objections, the governor announced Saturday.

“’This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,’ Pritzker said in a statement. ‘It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.’”

“The promised deployment comes as federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, activity has ramped up in Chicago and its suburbs as part of ‘Operation Midway Blitz,’ which has so far resulted in more than 800 arrests, according to the Department of Homeland Security.”

Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson added this: “The problem with the President's approach is that it is uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound. Unlawfully deploying the National Guard to Chicago has the potential to inflame tensions between residents and law enforcement when we know that trust between police and residents is foundational to building safer communities. An unlawful deployment would be unsustainable and would threaten to undermine the historic progress we have made.”

However, data provided by whitehouse.gov tells a different story:

* “For 13 consecutive years, Chicago has had the most murders of any U.S. city.”

* “In 2024, Chicago’s murder rate per capita was three times higher than Los Angeles and nearly five times higher than New York City.”

* “Out of Chicago’s 147,899 reported crimes since January 1, arrests have been made in just 16.2% of them.”

* “Chicago has also come under scrutiny over discrepancies in its homicide data reporting.”

Incidentally, Trump is not the only president to employ federal troops in the country. Six presidents – four Republicans and two Democrats – have activated the National Guard 11 times since 1957. They are: John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, H.W. Bush, and now Trump.

On social media were several comments in opposition to the No Kings concept:

* “Congratulations on the ‘No Kings’ protest yesterday! It worked! No king tried to stop your protest. If you had a King …”

* “Lesson for Liberals: We have no Kings. Our government is not Fascist. Conservatives are not Nazis. Our president is not Hitler. If they were, you would be buried in an unmarked grave. Class dismissed!!!”

* “How could we expect a group of people who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman to know the difference between a King and a President?”

* “No Kings, but the left: Installed their candidate without a primary,
prosecuted political opponents, forced people to get an experimental drug or lose their job.”

* “Odd it is. Nazis were National Socialists that tore down statues. Banned free speech. Blamed economic hardships on one group of people. Instituted gun control. Put the state before God. Nationalized health care. Placed strict government regulations on industry … Ladies and Gentlemen, I give to you today’s … Democrats!”

As Trump continues to deport criminal illegals, blue cities and states — where most of the illegals live and commit crimes — continue to fight his efforts. They wouldn’t fight a Democrat president. But a Democrat president would not go after crime-committing illegals.

Crimes and criminals must be swiftly and effectively dealt with

October 14, 2025

Society is currently coping with many problems today. One that stands out quite a bit recently is how people react to a serious, or even a horrific event. It seems there is often an automatic effort to examine the situation to see if the perpetrator is involved in some situation that excuses what he or she did, and there is little or no compassion for the victim.

Here is an example: Brian Robert Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, was shot and killed as he was minding his own business walking down the street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on December 4, 2024.

Charged with the murder is 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. Authorities believe Mangione was motivated by a perception that United Healthcare and the entire industry are “parasitic,” along with a negative opinion about corporate greed.

Murder, as we should all know and believe, is a serious crime. It quite often ends the life of a person for no good reason, and creates havoc and misery among the victim’s family, friends, and associates. It has serious and wide-spread repercussions.

Yet, while opinion polls showed that a majority of American adults find the killing unacceptable, quite a large group of younger respondents think the killing was acceptable, as they agreed with Mangione’s view of the healthcare industry. Worse than that, the polls showed that left-leaning respondents actually sympathized with Mangione, the murderer.

Victor Davis Hanson, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a widely published conservative commentator, wrote an article published in the Daily Signal addressing this situation.

In this article, Hanson discusses two murders committed by two trans shooters, and the way many people attempted to excuse them for their actions, due to their “troubled” lives. He also provided examples of how homeless people have been wholly or partially excused for their crimes, due to their being homeless.

His description of the reactions to these horrible events, and how we must react to them, instead, is right on.

“And when people act out violence, then we have to condemn it. If we don’t condemn it, we can’t deter it. And it’s no excuse that a person is transgender. None at all.”

“And so, what are we to do about this? I think all we can do is restore sanity and say: We’re not going to worry about a person’s homeless status. Once he commits violence, we’re not going to worry about their race. There’s not going to be any exemption for that. We’re not going to worry about their sexual orientation or whether they’re transitioning from one sex to another.

“All we’re worried about, if you commit an act of violence and destroy an innocent person’s life, you’re going to face swift punishment — swift punishment if you are found guilty.

“And we’re not going to consider all of the mitigating circumstances that this therapeutic society has bombed us with, and which prohibits fast and severe punishment for the guilty, who do what? They commit evil. And that’s the thing we’re worried about.”

As bad, or worse than, the “forgiveness efforts” for crimes such as killing innocent people because someone doesn’t like something about the way they live their lives is the ease with which people indulge in criminal activity. 

As reported on Al.com, “Police in two small Mississippi towns are investigating shootings during their schools’ homecoming weekend that left six people dead. Four people were killed in Leland after a high school football homecoming game there.

“The shootings happened in the downtown area of the small town where people had gathered following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons told The Associated Press.

“In a separate incident, two people were killed in Heidelberg during homecoming weekend Friday night, according to AP. Both were victims killed on the school campus Friday night, Heidelberg Police Chief Cornell White told The Associated Press. He declined to say whether the victims were students or provide other information about the crimes.”

We also see people interfering with federal agents who are rounding up illegal aliens in the country, most of whom are being sought due having committed other crimes in addition to being in the country illegally. 

While peacefully protesting these activities is protected speech, physically interfering with ICE agents, damaging ICE property, and physically attacking ICE agents are criminal activities.

This backwards morality is likely a result of the cultural deterioration that America has been experiencing over the last 20 or so years. Or, if not a direct result of that, it is certainly a factor.

A lack of discipline for children because of changed family structure and a weakened sense of right and wrong, changes in the curriculum of public education from which a general sense that America needs substantial changes has evolved, and are negatively and seriously affecting our culture.

As Hanson said, swift and significant punishment for crimes is a must. And the people who are charged with the responsibility of identifying criminality and seriously working for appropriate punishment must do their jobs.

Prosecutors and judges who use their political and personal feelings instead of following the laws are a menace to society, and must be replaced. 

The U.S. military is no place for “woke” policies to exist

October 7, 2025

The U.S. military services have a very specific, narrow and critical duty: to protect the United States from its enemies. That requires the personnel in all of the individual services to be highly capable, well-trained, well-disciplined and laser-focused on and heavily devoted to their duties.

Those who served during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and in the years following know well how the military operated, and how the various branches were focused on their duties.

In recent years, particularly during the tenure of former-President Joe Biden, that attention to the critical and highly focused job of the military took a sharp turn away.

Some of the mis-focused elements came before Biden took office, but they reached a critical level during those horrible four years.

Two people in the highest military leadership positions during that time were Lloyd J. Austin, the Secretary of Defense, and General Mark A. Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and were guilty of pushing these ideas.

For many years the “woke” syndrome infected the military, replacing sensible ideals such as military capability and lethality, with foolishness like diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). This caused division among members of the military forces, and diverted needed funds away from the necessities of the military.

One important thing the military had been emphasizing for decades was discouraging racism. But in June of 2020, Mark Esper, the Defense Secretary at the time, employed a new idea: teaching service members about “implicit bias.” This is the idea that there is an unspoken bias favoring white male service members, to the disadvantage of female and non-white service members.

He also established a system of DEI, which expanded during the Biden administration. Spending on this system totaled $68 million in 2022, increased to $86.5 million in 2023, and in 2024 the Department of Defense requested $114.7 million for DEI. 

The DEI system included pushing critical race theory, which is a Marxist concept where everyone is either an oppressor or is oppressed. Ideas such as white privilege, and systemic racism even infected the military academies, accompanied by encouragement of academy students to report any private conversations that contradicted the DEI concept.

Instead of military personnel spending their time maintaining and improving their high levels of performance and their sharp focus on military readiness, much of their time and mental attitudes were sidetracked toward ideals that are not just non-military, but are anti-military.

So, a bad trend that began small quite a few years ago has been growing, and growing quite fast in the last few years. But blessedly, the newly elected Donald Trump administration has a much clearer view of how the military must function, and why.

A new day has dawned at the Department of Defense. And two things are now prevalent and have created much controversy. The second of those is the decision by Trump to return to the Department its original title: The Department of War. As with everything Trump does or says, this has brought criticism.

But not nearly so much as the first of those two things: his choice for the Secretary of the then-Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth. Prior to his nomination, Hegseth worked for Fox News as a co-host on the network’s Fox and Friends Weekend program. 

Needless to say, the left went wild with criticism of his background at Fox News, and other things that the critics found to complain about. A predictable and fair question was, what qualifies him for this job?

Hegseth does have a military background, although some say it isn’t deep enough and broad enough for him to be in charge of our military forces. Some think that a better choice would be a flag officer with 20 years of service.

However, before his work in TV, Hegseth completed Reserve Officers’ Training Corps training while attending Princeton University. He later served as an officer in the U.S. Army National Guard from 2003 to 2021. He attained the rank of captain, and was deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 with Army National Guard’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. 

He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011-2012. He served in Kandahar province with the Minnesota National Guard’s 1-194th Armor Battalion. And during his service he was awarded the Bronze Star.

Hegseth has offered a 10-point strategy to clean up the military branches, and to restore the military’s former and necessary discipline and focus. Those 10 points are:
1. Ending “politically correct leadership”
2. Imposing new physical fitness standards
3. Tackling ideological “garbage”
4. Eliminating anonymous complaints
5. Reinstating discipline and grooming standards
6. Focusing on military strength
7. Emphasizing merit
8. Redefining “toxic” leadership
9. Purging “woke” leadership
10. Revising personnel record retention

The hoopla over gender and ethnicity equality must be put aside. The gender and ethnicity of service members are irrelevant. What is relevant is each person’s ability to meet a set of standards designed to put the most qualified people in uniform. We want and need the most qualified people possible, and the mix of gender and ethnicity will be whatever it turns out to be, based upon choosing highly qualified people.

Radical language is dangerous and has no place in our politics

September 30, 2025

Some of those on the left are recklessly and incorrectly calling Donald Trump, everyone who works for him, and those who support him fascists and Nazis, and labeling the federal agents following his orders as the Gestapo.

Their goal, of course, is to fire up their followers and produce the most negative picture of Trump and his administration. 

And they are using language that is largely knowingly inaccurate and deliberately threatening. Why? Because more accurate, less radical language does not get the desired response from the chosen audience.

But these radical words may lead to violence and threats, and quite possibly already have. 

One example of this is that Delegate Kim Taylor, a Virginia Republican, recently received what she described as a politically motivated death threat. Taylor references a comment made by Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger that she feels is one of the things that raised political tensions, and that may have encouraged the threat she received. 

Spanberger used a rallying cry in a campaign speech earlier this year for her supporters to “let your rage fuel you!” Appealing to rage is not a sensible approach.

On the question of whether Trump is a fascist, that subject was addressed in an article in The Hill last December by opinion contributor Jeremy Etelson. 

He addresses things Trump has done that are clearly not fascist: “During an existential emergency like a global pandemic, a fascist would not delegate decision-making authority to the decentralized state governments. A fascist would not attempt to limit the scope of public-private censorship. A fascist would not appoint judges and justices who interpret the Constitution in an originalist way that minimizes the authority of the federal government and its executive branch,” he explained. 

“A fascist would not end nebulous wars and avoid starting new ones. A fascist would not embrace and empower a diverse coalition of dissenting members of the opposing party who retain their divergent ideological viewpoints. And a fascist certainly would not sit down for hours-long interviews with counterculture, nonconformist stand-up comedians like Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Andrew Schulz. In classic non-fascist fashion, Trump did each of these things.”

The things Trump is trying to accomplish may not be popular with some, but they are generally legal, constitutional and sensible.

For example, finding and removing from our land those “migrants” who have entered the country illegally. Many of them are wanted for crimes in their native country, and/or have committed crimes here. This is something every American should support.

Yet thousands of Americans protest I.C.E. agents doing their job when they attempt to arrest illegals, and even physically interfere with them, and damage cars and other equipment.

If there are people working in the federal government who have disregarded their oaths and duties, then they should resign, and if not, they should be fired. If they have committed crimes, they deserve to be prosecuted.

Yet, there is great wailing and gnashing of teeth about those persons being removed from the federal payroll.

Republicans/conservatives essentially want a country that adheres to the original concepts that our Founders established, and are working toward re-establishing them. Many Democrats/liberals/socialists, on the other hand, want to change some of those original ideals.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees each of us the right to free speech, meaning that we can say pretty much what we want, short of inciting violence or other dangerous things. So, those who do not support the ideals that the Republicans/conservatives support certainly are constitutionally permitted to think and speak about their ideals. But they should do that without using language that not only encourages anger and potential violence, but is demonstrably false, or excessively exaggerated.

Perhaps one reason so many people so readily accept the charge that Trump is a fascist, Nazi, or whatever, is that they were not presented with a true course of history, or the truth about the ideals of the formation and development of the United States of America. And that miseducation, like much of the current flood of false radical language, is a result of leftist political action.

While students are not responsible for an education system that failed them, as Americans, they have the responsibility to conduct themselves in an acceptable manner. This applies to those of all political philosophies.

Even if Trump actually is a fascist or a Nazi, and if his policies are actually tenets of fascism or Nazism, the way to get rid of him and his policies is at the ballot box, not through inciting anger, or violence, or misusing the legal system.

Violent speech or actions are tools of weakness, used by those who are unable to achieve their goals through proper and acceptable methods.

Violence is not an acceptable way for Americans to act, and is not even acceptable behavior for any human being to use to correct things he or she dislikes. 

Further, continued violent actions will eventually encourage more violence, perhaps in the form of responses from the side that has been the victim of the original violence.

The political rhetoric and behavior must be toned down. We must force ourselves to behave honorably, and work peacefully toward our political aims.