Three Fundamental Questions

1   Do we send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine?  I truly believe that Donald Trump is instinctively a non-interventionist president; he is wary of involving American boots on the ground in foreign combat theatres.  At the same time, he is acutely aware that America is the supreme military power on the planet and is in the unique position of influencing global conflicts in a fashion that no other nation is capable of wielding.  Further, I think that Trump’s arrogance and supreme self-confidence leads him to see possibilities that may or may not be feasible and that other leaders simply do not consider.  All of these factors weigh into the decision as to how our nation might become further involved in the Russia/Ukraine War.

 

Just as it is nigh on impossible to negotiate with terrorists such as Hamas, it is equally difficult to negotiate with power-hungry zealots such as Putin.  He clearly is exclusively motivated by his desire to restore the old USSR to its former status of Russia and its myriad of satellite/puppet states.  Primary among these desirable, geographical acquisitions is Ukraine.  Try as he might, with and without the support of our ally NATO, Trump has been unable to speak reason to Putin’s unbridled ambition.  It certainly appears that this conflict is headed to a decision point that will certainly have global implications.

 

Putin has lied, cheated, cajoled, deceived, and brutally taken great advantage over any nation or leader of nations that is willing to give him a benefit of a doubt.  Trump may be slow to that game…or…Trump may be insuring that Putin is presented every chance to change before pursuing a strategy of maximum pain towards Russia.  It is patently ridiculous for anyone…of any station…to put forth the proposition that in a full state of war, one nation (Russia) should have the right and capability to strike military and civilian targets inside its opponent’s (Ukraine) borders while the other nation (Ukraine) should not have either the right or the capability to equally strike military and civilian targets inside it’s aggressor’s (Russia) borders.  This is WAR we are talking about here, not opera.

 

If America supplies tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, they will also have to supply the support to use those missiles.  There will be no question that America will have become quite complicit in that war on the side of Ukraine.  If America takes this action, it is quite likely that England and Germany would also supply new offensive missile capabilities to Ukraine.  This would be nothing less than an appropriate and united NATO reaction to a belligerent and unlawful invasion of one nation against another.  It would also be a stressful, risky, and bold step towards a defense of Europe against a determined and deadly foe that has done little to mask its bald ambitions. 

 

Continued dalliance with Putin and his patient, long-term strategy of obfuscation and delay runs perhaps an even greater risk.  It takes little imagination to consider the heightened Russian threat not only to Europe, but to England and other free nations of this world, if Russia were to prevail in their conquest of Ukraine.  Can any sentient being doubt the rabid, global ambitions of a Russia fresh off a consummate victory over Ukraine?  Especially when viewing that in the context of their new and close relationship with China? 

 

https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/ap-ahead-of-zelenskyy-meeting-trump-shows-signs-he-might-not-be-ready-to-send-kyiv-tomahawk-missiles/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/launching-tomahawks/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/tomahawk-missiles-for-ukraine-should-be-on-the-table/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/17/this-is-not-the-time-to-give-tomahawks-to-ukraine/

 

https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/opinion/with-putin-digging-in-its-time-for-trump-to-send-kyiv-some-tomahawks/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tomahawks-russia-ukraine/2025/10/18/id/1230893/

 

2.    Do we finally get honest about discrimination?  The inhuman cruelty and immorality of America’s slavery past is undeniable.  However, the actions taken by this nation and its government in reaction to that past are wide open to legitimate debate. 

 

Decades of government programs have attempted, in a legal and civic sense, to mitigate and rectify many of the scars left from this shameful part of our country’s past.  Most of these efforts have been abject failures.  While some positive results may have arisen from them, the condescending and politically-tinged attempts at recompense for America’s black citizenry has resulted not in a lessening of discrimination, but in a heightened and broadened form of wider discrimination. 

 

Reverse discrimination is no less a stain than was the discrimination being addressed.  A multitude of wrongs, no matter how well intentioned, will not repair the original sin of slavery.  The only honest, sustaining, and equitable solution to discrimination is the removal of discrimination by its roots.  We must become a colorblind society and culture; we must legally guarantee equal justice for all regardless of race, creed, or religion; and we must eternally seek equal opportunity for those same citizens in every aspect of life.  We cannot become a color-blind people if we continue to obsess with color. 

 

The Supreme Court of the United States will be addressing a pillar of these futile, bureaucratic efforts towards erasing this blight.  There ruling on this matter might go a long ways towards a nation beginning to look forward to a better day…or…continuing to look obsessively backward towards a regrettable era of pain, suffering, shame, and human loss.

 

https://freebeacon.com/courts/will-the-supreme-court-finally-ban-racial-preferences-in-voting-justices-to-hear-challenge-to-strangely-shaped-majority-black-congressional-district/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/louisiana-v-callais-overdue-reckoning-with-race-based-redistricting/

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-bad-day-for-racial-gerrymandering-at-the-supreme-court/ar-AA1OEmc0?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=68f2ded0dde64f12a626c6bdf8f39ac4&ei=35

 

3.   Can a lasting peace be found between Israel and Palestine?  I continue to believe that there is no two-state solution to ending the Israel/Palestinian War that is reasonable, achievable, nor durable in any sense of the word.  The Palestinian people have proven incapable of removing themselves from the domination and persuasion of the terrorist organization Hamas.  In a very real sense, this should not be surprising…and it should not be viewed as a failsafe condemnation of Palestine’s hatred for Israel and its people.  The barbaric brutality of Hamas was showcased by their October 7 attack on Israel and given that level of evil, is it any surprise that they might dominate a small group of people in a small area of land and force them into abject submission? 

 

No doubt, there is some blame to be placed on the people who are intimidated and led by immoral and unethical leaders.  But it is far easier to demand a revolt from a remote and safe haven than it is to risk one’s life, the lives of one’s loved ones, and all that might be precious to one for the sake of freedom.  Refer to the prior topic above to illustrate this point in our own nation’s history.  The Palestinian people may only be properly judged once the boot of Hamas is removed from their necks.  That cannot happen as long as Hamas continues to exist.  Hamas must be excised from Palestine.

 

The only rational future for Palestine that can provide a safe and free environment allowing the Palestinian people to enjoy the dignity, freedom, and respect that all humans deserve is for them to exist as a protected and satellite state within the nation of Israel.  You can call this what you wish…United Nations supervision, multi-lateral administration, demilitarized zones of co-existence.  But at the end of the day, only Israel is in a position to both insure their own peace and stability while simultaneously insuring peace, stability, and autonomy for the Palestinian people.  I fear that any peace plan that ignores this reality is doomed to failure. 

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/hamas-is-already-violating-the-peace-deal/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/20/who-or-what-will-finally-end-hamas/

 

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21998/hamas-public-executions

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/eyeless-in-gaza-5.php

 

More news and current events to consider….

 

America’s great re-examination of our national education system continues in a series of fits and starts.  It “feels like” we are moving in the right direction…back towards the fundamentals of a good education; but it is unfolding in a painfully slow fashion… “Two steps forward and one step back”.

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/teachers-union-faces-backlash-after-sending-out-email-map-omitting-israel

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/questioning-one-of-those-progressive-education-cliches/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/10/visa-students-non-citizens-are-guests-and-should-not-have-the-same-rights-as-americans/

 

https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-harvard-dean-defended-death-threats-against-trump-the-university-has-said-nothing/

 

As with education, our mainstream media is showing signs of restoring some common sense and reason to their operations.  The liberal/progressive stranglehold that has been present on the mainstream media is showing signs of release…but not total submission.  We can only hope that the end result will be some semblance of a balance between the right and the left…the conservative and the liberal, with a healthy dose of “right down the middle” carefully blended in.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-medias-narrative-serving-redefinition-of-illegal-immigrant/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/reform-at-cbs-news.php

 

As was the case not too many years back with the Republicans, the Democrats are now lost in a leaderless wilderness after having lost the White House and both houses of Congress.  As crazy as it may sound, I do believe there are some moderates (Fetterman, Shapiro, Whitmer) in the Democrat Party that are not part and parcel of the lunacy we are witnessing from their organization.  They are simply keeping their heads down, biding their time, and waiting for their members to sober up and look for a more rational form of leadership.  That time will hopefully arrive with a wake-up call in November of 2026 (Resounding Defeat!).  You might ask…What type of lunacy?

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/shutdown-fatigue.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/19/to-my-fellow-democrats-a-third-way-to-reopen-the-government/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/08/the-democrats-affordability-agenda-is-a-fraud/

 

https://reason.com/2025/10/11/californias-minimum-wage-law-cost-18000-jobs/?nab=1

 

https://reason.com/2025/10/08/tsa-watchlists-were-used-as-tools-of-political-warfare/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-activist-and-leisure-class-whines-and-dines-for-no-kings-day/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/23/who-are-the-real-kings/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/no-trump-isnt-destroying-the-white-house/

 

“This” is what true insurrection looks like: https://www.city-journal.org/article/minneapolis-george-floyd-square

 

The New York City mayoral race is a tragic comedy.  As crazy as it is to realize that they are the verge of electing the Democrat Party nominee Zohran Mamdani as mayor is the fact that many people from both sides of the political aisle are calling for the Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa to withdraw from the race in order to improve Independent (hah!) candidate Andrew Cuomo’s chances of winning.  Asking the Republican candidate to withdraw from the race in order to save the Democrat Party from its own madness is like the murderer running through the police station with a blasting machine gun and screaming…Stop me before I kill again!

 

https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/opinion/swallow-the-bitter-pill-curtis-sliwa-quit-the-race-to-stop-mamdani/

 

Here are three notes of optimism to close this piece….

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/trumps-argentina-gamble/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/cutting-down-the-administrative-state/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/18/the-american-republic-is-the-last-bastion-of-true-tolerance/

 

 

Donald Trump’s Moment is at Hand

For those of us who lead normal, routine, mundane lives…drama is typically confined to family and workplace matters.  There might be the occasional and distasteful church disagreement or some manner of upheaval in an organization we work with, but those are usually passing dramas that come and go like the rain showers.  For each of us, there are people in our lives of whom we wish to earn respect.  These are the ones for whom we are on our best behavior and actually stop and think about how they might view our words and actions.  This group would typically include our spouse, our children, our peers, and our parents/grandparents.  It matters to us what these folks think about us.  Our sphere of influence is somewhat limited and the reach of that bubble does not cover a lot of territory.  We make mistakes…saying and doing stupid things, and are forgiven for it by those who love us and respect us.  We try hard not to stumble too often, but being the imperfect creatures that we are…it is going to happen more than we want. 

 

There is, and should be, a different set of rules for the public officials and leaders among us.  They have been placed in positions of power and authority with the expectation that they are of high moral and ethical character.  They know this when they accept their positions because they crow about it loudly when seeking those positions.  But all too often, once those positions are obtained, they slide back to the content of character yardstick that regular people live by.  They claim to be saints when they are climbing the career ladder, but they demand a sinner’s forgiveness when they reach the upper echelons of that ladder.  This blatant and shameless form of hypocrisy is rampant in America today.  If our society, culture, and government are going to revert back to a semblance of civility, we must have some accountability dished out to those folks on the top rungs of leadership and authority.

 

Our Constitution is a marvelous blueprint for governing that envisions three co-equal branches of government.  It is designed through a division of responsibilities and powers to lay the groundwork for an effective and representative government.  The co-equal standard requires constant diligence and debate; it is not a static proposition.  It is a living, thriving plant that must be nourished.  The Constitution can grant these authorities and even lay out the broad parameters under which they are to be plied; but it cannot assure us that the people conducting the business of this government are of high integrity.  That is up to the citizenry.

 

It does however provide us with the mechanisms to help insure the maintenance of these check and balances and a method to replace the bad actors that periodically end up in the mix.  This is why we have elections.  This is why we have confirmation hearings.  This is why we have impeachments.  This is why we have the Hatch Act and administer oaths of office.  The general corrupted and dysfunctional state of our nation is not a result of our Constitution; it is a result of the people we have selected to implement that Constitution and the insufficient character content of those people.  These are the people that should be held to the higher standards mentioned in the opening paragraphs and who today commonly fall far short of those behavioral standards.

 

Our Senators and our Representatives, whether they be state or national, campaign on the premise that they are special people who are somehow uniquely qualified to represent us in the halls of government.  But once that position is acquired, they want to bill themselves as the common man, as one of us, and they conveniently slip those character standards down a notch or two…or three…and demand understanding for taking a less judicious approach to how they conduct their public and personal affairs.  The most obvious illustration of this chameleon-like shift is the increasing coarseness and vulgarity in political rhetoric that has become commonplace.  The language we now see on a daily basis in the halls of Congress and the White House is the type of language that not too long ago was confined to bars, men-only sporting events, and good old boy adventures to the woods or the workshop. 

 

Not only has the rhetorical level of sophistication slipped dramatically, but so has the physical and social actions of these selected individuals.  They are commonly and openly aggressive in their words and actions in such a way as to foist mockery, intimidation, and ridicule onto others.  Sadly, the result is more often a belittlement of them.  And unfortunately, we the people are apparently willing to buy into this slide down the character chute and more or less encourage them to slide down further.  So what if they curse and become belligerent in the course of their duties; they are just being themselves and of the people.   So what if they unabashedly take advantage of their insider information and enrich themselves in financial transactions; they are special people and deserve these benefits.  So what if the conduct of their personal affairs often borders on the immoral and unethical; they are public servants who are dealing with inordinate amounts of stress and complicity.  Their pleas to us are thin gruel…the burden of power hangs heavy.  Having reached their vaunted positions through a claim of being special people, they now claim the frailties and the forbearance of the common man.  The saints have fallen to the earth and yet still want to be heralded as saints.  If you do not want to walk the walk…do not talk the talk.

 

A correction to this abysmal erosion of character in our government must start at the top.  It must begin with those three co-equal branches set forth in our Constitution.  It must be demonstrated by our President, our Congress, and our Supreme Court of the United States.  It can…and should…begin with Donald J. Trump.  Based on his accomplishments over the first 10 months in office of his second term and the random possibilities that are present in the world today, it is fair to say that Trump has arrived at a fork in his road.  If he continues his current path and finds success in most of his efforts, he will go down in history as a very successful president.  But no matter how impressive his accomplishments might prove to be, he will nonetheless be a notch or two below a monumentally great president.  This is because 30-to-40 percent of the people in America hate the man for what he is and will never accept the merit of his success.  His moment is at hand.  Today, he is a colossus standing astride the global political world.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/13/trump-israel-gaza-hostage-release-news/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/all-living-israeli-hostages-return-home-ending-two-years-of-torment/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/13/the-pieces-of-trumps-peace/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/08/democrats-arent-insane-or-unhinged-theyre-deliberately-and-methodically-anti-american/

 

Ponder this reality for a moment….It has proven far easier for our President and his Administration to negotiate with a bunch of barbaric, heathen terrorists in the Middle East than it has with a bunch of liberal, progressive politicians who are leading the Democrat Party in Congress.  Trump has gotten down in the mud with these folks and licked them.  But having proven that point…is it not time to climb out of the pit and clean up a little?

 

Before him lies the opportunity to forego the completely understandable urge to even the score with all those who have persecuted him over his political career…both rightly and wrongly.  It is a much easier road that turns the treachery and sabotage back on those who had previously trained it upon him.  Considering what he endured, it is not at all surprising to see him go down this road; in all honesty, most of us would take a similar path.  But if Trump could tamp down those vengeful instincts; if he could rise above the pettiness and venom so ingrained in today’s political environment…he could win over a sufficient number of those 30-to-40 percent doubters and solidify his place in the pantheon of past presidents as one of the greatest.  Every…single…moment that is spent on lawfare, crude remarks about people being fat or stupid or both, sombrero memes, self-aggrandizing riffs, and lame exercises in over-the-top rhetorical nonsense is a moment in which he sacrifices grand achievement potential for personal gain satisfaction.  President Donald Trump is currently the most powerful man in this world.  What will he choose to do with that power? 

 

Will he continue the course he has begun in his second term piling up important political and policy wins while demonizing, marginalizing, and driving his political opposition crazy…or…Will he adhere to his fundamentally positive instinctual policy initiatives, make dramatic shifts in the health and well-being of our nation towards a greater and better country, and set a new and refreshing example as the type of inspirational and effective leader that we all yearn for?  The opportunity lies before Trump to make transformational changes not only in the performance of our government, but also in the character of our government.  Will he reach for the stars and all that might be possible…or…Will he settle for the satisfaction of eviscerating his opponents and laying their political agenda to waste?  The next three years will answer these questions.  As Americans, we can both support President Trump and still yet wish for him to be a better man.

The DPZ…the Gray area…is SHRINKING

The DeMilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North Korea and South Korea is 2.5 miles wide, located on the 38^th parallel, and one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world.  It was established in July of 1953 by an armistice agreement that laid the groundwork for a ceasefire between the warring parties.  Oddly, there has never been a formal peace treaty signed.  President Truman had to whoa down General MacArthur, who was well on his way up through North Korea with every intention of moving on to China.  Who knows what the world would look like today had MacArthur been turned loose to “finish the job”? Imagine if you will that this 2.5 mile buffer was suddenly reduced to 1 mile…with tens of thousands of soldiers and millions of dollars worth of military hardware facing off across a barren stretch of land.  Do you think it might raise the tension level?

 

In many ways, America is now dealing with its own type of separation zone; let’s call it the DPZ…the DePoliticized Zone.  It is that space that lies between the Republican Party on the right and the Democrat Party on the left.  I am going to put forth some numbers, but they are my numbers and cannot be supported by hard data…it is simply my opinion and fodder for discussion.  You can think for yourself and decide if there is reason in it.  For the first couple of decades in the 21^st century, this DPZ represented about 20 percent of our voters.  On either side of the DPZ, you could find 40 percent of the electorate faithful to one or the other national parties.  The 20 percent in the middle represented those who might break either way and typically decided the elections.  I believe that in America today, the DPZ has shrunk down to about 10 percent of the electorate with 45 percent on either side.  Not only are voters more polarized…they are also more energized.

 

These are the people who do not blindly follow a national party mantra.  They may break either way, right or left, depending on various reasons and have proven nearly impossible for the pundits to accurately read.  Mixed in this bunch will be serious people who study and think about their choices, smart people who make snap decisions, busy people who look for the path of least resistance or the lesser of the evils, and lazy people who flip coins.  When considering the DPZ, we should consider three factors: size, composition, and nature. 

 

As I mentioned, I believe that the size of the DPZ has shrunken down to a much smaller portion of the entire voting bloc…nearly halving itself over the last 25 years or so.  That means that as a percentage, fewer people are determining the outcomes of national elections.  The composition of the DPZ has likely not changed much over the last several years.  It is made up of Independent voters, Libertarian voters, moderate voters of both national parties, and a smattering of voters faithful to statistically-insignificant organizations of like-minded people.  The nature of these folks in the middle tends to be more of a skeptical approach to candidate selection, with that approach sometimes being rational and sometimes being irrational. 

 

Many of the talking-head political pundits that have graced our media in the past…and the present…like to note that when elections are close, they tend to break overwhelming towards one party or the other.  This would seem reasonable when you consider the relatively small percent of all voters this group represents and the fact that politics is typically not black and white, but gray in nature. But if in fact the DPZ has essentially halved its size since the year 2000…that would mean that more people are blindly loyal to their own party.  The gray area is smaller and perhaps more skeptical than ever…while the national party percentages on either side have grown in number and become much more partisan…and less selective.

 

If we make the leap to accepting this premise, then one thing becomes obvious…what had once been 2.5 miles separating our warring political parties from each other has now been whittled down to about 1 mile.  If this is true, then we might very well be approaching a cataclysmic reckoning in the foreseeable future.  Given the partisan venom that exists in today’s political climate, combined with the global uncertainties of trade/wars/immigration/nation building/etc., and adding in the radical progressive elements that have seized control of the Democrat Party…one has to wonder how far away are we from a significant collision. 

 

When the DPZ shrinks to the point where it can no longer offer an effective buffer between the extremities of either party, then conflict is bound to occur.  And if our moderating influences are to be found in that part of the electorate that is diminishing in size and influence, then the intensity of that inevitable conflict is going to ratchet upward.  Is the violence through actions and words that we are witnessing today in our country a preview of that coming storm?  Will the hatred and blind devotion to dogmatic ideals that have eroded the middle push the two opposing sides headlong into a battle that is simply out of control upon its arrival?  We as a nation are headed in a bad direction and everyone should hope and pray that somehow…some way…the diminishment of the DPZ can be reversed.

 

Our education system in America…urban/rural/national/local…is corrupted by malevolent, power hungry egotists and misguided social warriors.  These destructive forces have been called out, but they continue to operate freely within their spheres of influence and persuasion.  They must be eliminated so that the education of our children might return to something resembling common sense, moral/ethical purpose, and fundamental preparation for solid citizenship.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-cant-give-up-on-our-colleges/

 

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-is-a-policy-choice

 

https://jamesgmartin.center/2025/10/alabama-fights-for-freedom/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-virginia-tech-initially-tried-to-skirt-trumps-dei-crackdown/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/28/des-moines-school-superintendent-arrested-by-ice-as-many-call-for-his-release/#more-236332

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-chicago-teachers-union-is-exactly-who-you-thought-they-were/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/10/02/nyu-law-school-cancels-conservative-speaker-on-anniversary-of-hamas-massacre/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/10/05/freedom-shirts-reportedly-banned-in-kansas-elementary-public-school/

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5375575-randi-weingarten-dnc-resignation/

 

As mentioned in the opening paragraphs of this piece, radical progressive elements have seized significant levels of power and leadership in the Democrat Party.  As that Party struggles to find its own identity and mitigate this corrosive influence, those people and organizations are continuing to run wide open in their quest to reinvent the United States of America into a place more suitable to their non-constitutional ideals.  The ONLY way to effectively combat these forces is at the ballot box.  Elections matter.

 

What it looks like: https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/25/the-crudity-of-the-obsessive-compulsive-left/

 

How it thinks: https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/jay-joness-texts-are-a-frightening-peek-into-a-bleak-moral-worldview/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/07/new-tactics-but-climate-crusaders-running-out-of-options/

 

How it maintains power and influence: https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/new-law-firm-donation-data-from-professor-derek-muller-is-wake-up-call-to-corporate-america/

 

What it advocates: https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/29/let-your-rage-fuel-you-politicians-and-pundits-embrace-rage-politics/

 

Who it chooses to honor: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/09/chirping-for-chesimard.php

 

What it does with governmental control: https://reason.com/2025/10/03/economic-freedom-begins-recovery-from-covid-era-government-meddling/

 

How it administers justice: https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/27/new-york-strip-bragg-drops-charges-against-woman-who-attacked-pro-life-advocate/#more-236292

 

https://nypost.com/2025/10/03/us-news/brett-kavanaughs-would-be-assassin-gets-just-over-8-years-in-prison/

 

The mainstream media has been a liberal, Democrat Party lapdog for decades now.  That tide is beginning to turn as the sheet gets pulled back, thus exposing their bias and unethical operations.  This nation will be a better place if our Fourth Estate can be restored to a position of respect, integrity, and trust.

 

The way it has been: https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/01/ten-years-of-censorship-that-was-censored/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/06/media-downplay-jay-jones-assassination-fantasies-because-they-agree-with-him/

 

The way it is changing: https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/media/paramount-skydance-to-name-bari-weiss-editor-in-chief-of-cbs-news-sources/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/freakout-at-cbs-news-2.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/the-new-regime-at-cbs-news.php

 

If I were Donald Trump and had experienced the sabotage and calculated treachery that he has dealt with, I would no doubt have blood in my eye and a healthy appetite for getting even.  I would want every scoundrel that ever cheated me, lied about me, conspired against me, or sabotaged my efforts to pay for their actions.  That being said, it is my hope that President Trump will be satisfied with exposing these despicable people and their malfeasance to the public.  It is a waste of his time to vengefully pursue his political enemies to the grave.  His time in the White House is limited and there is so much to do that is far more important than spite and malice.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/lawfare-forever/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/30/the-curious-tale-of-columbia-professor-daniel-richman/#more-236440

 

https://reason.com/2025/09/29/in-trumps-tussle-with-james-comey-you-should-hope-everybody-loses/

 

Like his boss, our Secretary of Defense often does things in a brash and arrogant fashion, thus taking some luster off of the message itself.  To his credit…his message is correct, his mission is honorable, his plan responsible, and he is exhibiting personal courage in its pursuit. We can only hope that his actions match his rhetoric.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/the-military-will-be-stronger-for-pete-hegseths-commonsense-changes/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/04/victory-at-sea-the-importance-of-maritime-power-against-the-prc/

 

Innovations and advancements in high technology have taken us headlong into a new frontier.  As Captain Kirk said…Where no man has gone before.  It is a double-edged sword that is best reflected in Uncle Ben’s advice to Spider-Man…With great power comes great responsibility.

 

https://reason.com/2025/10/03/apple-removed-iceblock-from-app-store-under-doj-pressure/

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/tech/hollywood-ai-actor-backlash

 

Per our Constitution, our President runs our Executive Branch.  Or does he?

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/jerome-powell-the-feds-white-knight/

 

The Supreme Court of the United States is our Constitution’s ultimate decider.  It is the great mediator between the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch.  The upcoming SCOTUS session will be as consequential as any that have come before it.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/30/the-federalists-guide-to-the-2025-supreme-court-term/

 

The resulting human loss of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel was the statistical equivalent of 40,000 American lives being lost in a similar attack.  How can ANYONE defend such an action as this and blame Israel for now insuring the safety and future of its people?

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/anniversary-of-a-horror/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/works-and-days-of-hamas-2.php

 

Big Pharma does great things and saves/improves the lives of many.  But…it is corrupted by corporate greed and tainted with a God-complex.  Congress must sit down with the industry and fashion a structure that is innovative, supportive, transparent, and affordable.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/three-cheers-for-the-american-pharmaceutical-industry.php