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Reimagining our police forces: what is it we need?

Bill Bratton has been the police commissioner of three major cities: Boston, Los Angeles and New York. When asked recently about the value of cops, Bratton, 73, said: “They are the glue that literally holds society together. They are an essential element of a successful democracy.” I agree. But we have come to a place now where we need to decide if police are our guardians or our warriors. The latter is defined as “a person engaged or experienced in warfare, a solider.” In 1990, Congress allowed the Department of Defense to pass on surplus military equipment, including ...

To stop critical race theory, fight to control school boards

The battle to win control of school boards from the grip of racial indoctrinators is like Normandy Beach. Everything hangs on the outcome. Lose and a generation is lost. The outcome will determine whether your children learn to see themselves and other people as individuals, instead of merely members of a racial group. Parents of all ethnicities who never dreamed of getting involved in politics need to step up now. Parents are already outraged by the indoctrination their kids are getting in school. White kids are shamed as racists and oppressors. Black kids are taught to think of ...

Destroying Black babies and families with federal dollars

If there is one reason why problems associated with race in America persist, it is because we pretend to address problems caused by one sin by exchanging them with other sins. President Joe Biden has just issued a proclamation recognizing 100 years since the race massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Greenwood was a wealthy Black neighborhood, a center of Black business, known as Black Wall Street, that was ravaged in two days of rioting by white racists. It resulted in the death of hundreds and the loss of property of thousands. It is indeed ...

Fraudsters go where the COVID money is

Last June, eight guys in Brooklyn put their heads together, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and came up with a scheme to steal strangers’ identities and take what didn’t belong to them. Just a couple months before that — in the earliest days of the COVID-19 scare — Congress passed a $2.2 trillion bill called the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. The money was supposed to go to the millions of isolated Americans who had their paychecks interrupted during the pandemic. The mooks in Brooklyn had other plans. This gang of eight, ranging in age from ...

What Memorial Day is all about

Memorial Day weekend traditionally marks an important holiday that often brings with it a renewed sense of hope, pride in our country, and determination for the future. While many of us think of this weekend as the traditional kickoff to summer as we enjoy family, friends, and a burger or dog on the grill, this is in reality a time set aside for us to solemnly remember the men and women in uniform who have died in the service to our country. Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address that those who lose their lives in service to their country give “the last full measure of ...

On Memorial Day, honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Attend a parade. Listen to a speech. Go to a special service. Take time out of the family and friends gathering to remember the country you live in and how you are so free. Just do something this Memorial Day to acknowledge with love and respect those who have made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of these United States of America and the cause of freedom and peace worldwide. We can say with total confidence that no country in the world has stood taller and more prominently for the cause of freedom and peace within its boundaries and around the globe than these United States of ...