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The nasty words we, the police, get called all the time have now turned into rocks, bottles and gunfire. It’s over, America: we are leaving. This is the hardest thing I have written. I grew up in a law enforcement family. My father worked his way up to the rank …

“Woke” white people, I’d like to ask you a favor: Please stop asking for forgiveness for your “white privilege.” You’re not fooling anybody. You’re not helping black people—or any other minority. And your public confessions don’t make you look virtuous. They make you look disingenuous, which is a really nice way of saying …

I am a third-generation American—my parents and my maternal grandmother were born in Brooklyn, New York. But I didn’t know I loved America until my early twenties. In my third year of college, I studied in England and began a life of travel that eventually took me to one hundred …

Have you asked yourself “Who are these evil people who’ve engineered this chaos? Are they trying to destroy America”? The draconian pandemic policies, riots and race wars are obviously being coordinated – so obvious everyone has taken notice, even grandma! Let’s get down to the root of this cancer: the …

Does the truth matter? Not to groups like Black Lives Matter. That’s tragic for many reasons, not the least of which is that black lives are being lost as a result. When it comes to the subject of American police, blacks, and the deadly use of force, here is what …

We are living in a unique time. You are therefore a unique graduating class. You may well be known forever as “the Covid Class.”  For the first time in history, billions of people, including healthy people and people living in free societies, have been confined to their homes. So let …

“One of the reasons I believe in the resurrection,” Mike Huckabee once joked, “is because we see dead people vote every year!” Well, he’s about to make a lot of converts in California, where liberal Governor Gavin Newsom (D) just ordered a vote-by-mail system through November – a decision that’s …

The motto from the underground training session was simple: “Get out there and do dangerous things as safely as possible.” Caught on video by Project Veritas, the advice from the Antifa organizers was jarring. “Gouge their eyes.” “If you get a good liver or kidney shot, it’s pretty much crippling.” …

“We are about to witness one of the greatest events in human history. The world as we know it is crumbling before our very eyes, and the world population is, largely, not aware of it. Structures that have been in place for thousands of years are being taken down as …

There’s federalism, and then there’s overreach. In a crisis like this one, there’s a fine line between the two — but the Trump administration is intent on making officials walk it. As some Americans lose patience with the stay-at-home orders, the Justice Department wants the country to know it’s paying …