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The Faces of Immigration

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Originally posted on May 18, 2018. Welcome to “open” immigration, American style. Here is what our disastrous sieve of a border policy has dumped on America’s shores. The blight of MS-13 has spread across the country like toxic waste sludge. Has MS-13 infiltrated your city and who is to blame for the blight of this […]

The Armed American Family: Part I

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Originally posted on March 19, 2015. The Second Amendment protects our right to bear arms. There is no downside risk in protecting the security of your family. The first rule of safety is a firearms safety course sponsored by the NRA. Firearms safety is all about education. Organizations like National Shooting Sports Foundation are dedicated […]

Trump 15 Clinton 0

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Originally posted November 3, 2016. Pre the presidential election, Debbie and I will spend five days driving between Newport, Rhode Island, and Key West, Florida. Unscientific for sure, but an amusing activity is to measure popular voter sentiment by keeping a count of lawn signs. Yesterday through three heavily Democrat states and swing state Pennsylvania, […]

Here is How Lawn Signs Forecasted the Trump Victory

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In the days before Election 2016 Debbie and I drove down the eastern seaboard surveying the support, or lack thereof, for the candidates for president. We made this trip a number of times throughout the campaign, but our final journey coincided perfectly with the last week of the race. (Read our final five posts on […]

Get Your Guns and Your Training—NOW

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Originally posted February 4, 2013. Are you aware of New York State’s new gun laws? Big city New Yorkers voted in Governor Cuomo and deserve what they got. Away from NYC and surrounds, many local law enforcement officers have no intention of implementing a shred of Cuomo’s insanity. New Yorkers now have both the opportunity […]

David Lebovitz Redux —Shop Like a Parisian

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Dick and I are heading back to Paris late in April. A good part of the fun of our planning is the reading, studying, and dreaming of all things francaise. David Lebovitz’s video of a visit to one of Paris’s wonderful open markets always inspires. We’ve stayed often at the Hotel Lutetia on Blvd. Raspail […]

Democracy & Diversity: Not In the Constitution

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Originally posted July 16, 2014 Nope, neither concept was on the minds of the Founders. And neither concept shared a place in the Constitution. Pat Buchanan writes here that in Federalist No. 2., John Jay wrote, “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, […]

751 “No-Go” Zones in France

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Originally posted February 24, 2015.  In a recent Washington Post interview, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo was asked, “You said you were going to sue Fox News over its allegations that there are “no-go” zones in France—areas where only Muslims can go. Aren’t there places in Paris where people are afraid to go?” Mayor Hidalgo responded, […]