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Do We Have the Courage to Save America?

Last week was an inflection point in U. S. history. I cannot say how the world will be different now, but I am confident it will.

Those who are familiar with Charlie Kirk’s work and words likely understand the importance of his assassination. The people who do not understand are his political opponents, ideological enemies, or those whose knowledge of him is limited to lies they have heard.

We will have more to say on this and related topics in the days to come. For now, let me ask you to consider one lesson we should learn.
His assassination proves there is one thing the left fears more than anything else: constitutional conservative Christians who can have respectful conversations with people who hold different opinions. We are feared because we are effective.

When people know the facts, and are open to a respectful discussion, minds can be changed. The left fears good will, kindness, and facts more than anything. Most of their political arguments are based on emotion and inaccurate assumptions. Their discussions don’t usually hold up under the light of truth. 0
Survey data repeatedly show the majority of Americans believe in conservative principles like those generally held by Kirk. Most Americans support reducing the size of government, lower taxes, respectful dialogue, secure borders, the welcoming of immigrants who come here lawfully, and don’t approve of grown men showering with their daughters. And he was a proud Christian and an effective apostle. For that he is accused of being an extremist.

The left fears conservative activists who are willing and able to debate the issues of our day in a way that is open, respectful, and successful. They are not worried about the most extreme, fringe conservative activists.

Charlie Kirk is not dead because he was extreme. He was not. Or because he was hateful. He was not. Charlie is dead because he was successful. He brought thousands of young Americans to understand and support our Constitution, nation, the value of the family, and the love of the Lord. Those are the things for which Charlie Kirk lived and died. Any time you want to know who is being effective, and who radical leftists fear the most, look at who they attack. That will tell you everything.

In a presidential campaign, your opponents will tell you where they fear they will lose. Just look at where they are spending their time and money. By the same reasoning, they will tell you who they think is hurting them in the political world. The people who are hurting them are the ones they attack. That simple.

In the case of Kirk, he was such a threat to the leftists that he was murdered. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know, you are beyond saving.
What should be our response? Be more like Charlie. We can change this world for the better, starting right now, if we commit to being unafraid to express our opinions, to debate in a way that is civil, factual, and persuasive, and to be willing to listen.

If every conservative patriot woke up tomorrow and did just that, we would change the political future of America, inexorably and positively.
How many of us have the courage to do that?

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Another Look at Gaza

A lot of formerly conservative and reasonable political types have decided to blame Isreal for the chaos in the Middle East. It is fashionable. All the “cool kids” seem to be supporting the side that started the most recent battle in the region.

Notably, the great majority of them hold these two positions simultaneously: 1, Ukraine should fight hard against Russia until they win, no matter the cost. And, 2, Israel needs to be calm, measured, and proportionate in their response, while bearing all accountability for the suffering in the region. Got it?
It is hard to imagine an explanation for this other than antisemitism. Give us a better explanation. We’ll wait.
With respect to all those who carry a different viewpoint, the trend today is to blame Israel for a problem started by Hamas. And these positions are justified by believing reports on Israel that come from Hamas. It is as if we believed the mafia dons instead of the DOJ.
Hamas and their allies, including dreck like AOC and Omar and Sanders and Harris, justify and build support for Hamas while ignoring our long-time ally in Israel.
This just in: war is bad. Innocent people die. That is not the fault of Israel. It was true when the Allies bombed Dresdent and Hiroshima, and it is true when they attack Gaza City.

One solution, of course, for people who don’t like civilian casualties would be for them to not massacre innocents themselves. Israel did not attack Hamas October 7. Hamas attacked Israel, and there should be a massive price. For me, I can justify wiping out Hamas leadership and fighters, permanently, without apology. They have lost their seat at the table of reasonable debate.
Have you heard the mindless ranting that “war never solves anything?” BS. It is often the very thing that solves problems.

Were the Nazis a problem? Of course. WW II solved it. And a ton of non-military casualties was part of the price we paid.
One assumes the people wadding their panties about possilbe civilian starvation – we actually don’t know how many people are starving, or why – would have opposed the ending of WW II because we bombed civilians. To say otherwise would be hypocritical.
No one is targeting civilians. Well, Hamas does, in a sense, by way of hiding behind them or under buildings where women and children are used by human shields.
Hamas started it, they are evil, they are among the most cruel and despicable governing bodies extant. (Name one that is worse. North Korea, maybe?) They are dedicated to wiping out all Jews, and America in the bargain. And people like Biden and AOC and Harris carry their water for them. And the Democrat Party has nominated a man devoted to wiping out Jews, and Americans, to be mayor of our largest city.
No one likes to have civilian casualties, which is one of many reasons our president is trying to end it. But implying Israelis are targeting reporters or children is irresponsible. And false. There is no accurate and credible information coming out of Gaza except possibly that from Israelis forces, American intelligence, and NGOs. And nearly all NGOs say Israel is not preventing food and other aid from getting to Gaza. But once there, Hamas leadership steals or misappropriates it.

It is up to you if you want to trust people who live streamed themselves raping, torturing, and massacring innocent people. If you give Hamas your loyalty or trust, God help you.

The food being distributed in Gaza gets there with the assistance of the Israelis and international aid organizations. Those same organizations deny the charges of Israeli genocide against Gaza. Genocide is the planned extermination, as a matter of policy, of a group of people. That is simply not what is happening in Gaza.

No sane person can blame Israel for the inexcusable ways Hamas treats its own people. They keep them unsafe, hungry, and in harm’s way. It isn’t you, me, or Benjamin Netanyahu.

BTW, there is no nation called Palestine, and never has been. A two-state solution has been offered repeatedly and rejected by the Arabs, including Hamas. And if there ever are two such states, one of them might be called Palestine. Fine. I couldn’t care less what they call it. But the often-repeated fiction is that the land from which Israel was formed was taken from a nation called Palestine. That just isn’t true. But you even hear U. S. representatives saying it.

“Palestinians” is a term that is widely used today because it was promoted by Yassar Arafat. He needed a good way to brand anti-Israel radicals. Thus the “PLO” cane to be. Which isn’t to say he invented the term, of course. But he recognized the value in seizing on an old term to represent a current cohort.
Today, millions of people want to “return” the “Palestinians” to a nation that has never existed. It is astounding how much world history is forged by false impressions and propaganda.

BTW, even major Arab nations in the region – Egypt, Jordan, for example – don’t want Hamas/Gazans. Egypt has a wall to keep them out that is bigger and more effective than anything we have on our Southern border. Arab nations won’t even allow Gazans in. Why do you think that is? Is it because the Gazans are loving, innocent people, blameless in it all, who just want rainbows and unicorns for a peaceful world?

Some, not all, of the Hamas apologists mean well. But sometimes the world offers moral clarity. This is such a time.

People who buy into all the anti-Israel garbage are doing the bidding of today’s Nazis. We need to pick a side, and they’ve picked the bad guys. Sorry to be so blunt, and nothing personal, but the anti-Israel propaganda machine has worked on a lot of otherwise intelligent and principled people.

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The View From the Neon Lights

By Rob Meyne

Aug. 29, 2025
4-min read

We love living in Las Vegas. There is no location with more to do.

But it is undeniable that the city is not as welcoming to people of ordinary means as it used to be.

It is funny how often I hear “The city was better when it was run by the mob.” I don’t know how true that is, but it was more accessible.

Ordinary Americans should be able to come here and have a good time on a decent budget. Manifestly, they cannot.

There are one-of-a-kind resorts here that give you an unforgettable experience. Places like the Venetian-Palazzo, or Mandalay Bay, or Aria do not disappoint. They have figured it out. There is no city like this, and some of the world’s biggest hotels are here, often full to capacity for weeks on end.

But the focus of many properties has, over time, moved from middle America to the rich and privileged. Lots of resorts have decided that essentially EVERY component of their operation must turn a profit. They are good at tracking expenses and income, but not always good at looking at the entire enterprise. More people will come to your hotel, gamble, and drink, if they don’t have to pay so much for parking, etc. But they miss that.

You used to be able to park for free, eat inexpensively, enjoy free drinks while playing, and probably see a decent show for little or nothing. You may have noticed the casinos didn’t go broke. They thrived. Now they charge ridiculous resort fees (which is just additional profit), outrageous parking fees, ludicrous prices for drinks, and there are very few affordable restaurants.

I was in a discussion once where a casino executive said, “Parking facilities are expensive, so why shouldn’t our visitors pay for it?” “For the same reason,” I said, “That you can still park at the mall, doctor’s office, or Applebee’s for free.” Heating and cooling are expensive, too, but they don’t charge you for it separately. They did not get the point or find it amusing.

Last week we had a friend in town who wanted to eat on the Strip. So, we went to Netflix Bites (which is not a commentary on their programming), a themed place at MGM. Five people. One ordered steak frites, another a cheeseburger, then a pasta dish, nachos, and a club sandwich. No drinks. It was ok, not great. If I had the same meal at Denny’s I would have said it was fine, but nothing special.

$250 before tip. There is zero chance we’ll go there again. If you get the urge to try it, please notify me so I can talk you out of it.

City leaders can claim the drop in visitation isn’t a Las Vegas issue, but not all the factors affecting us are global. The least responsible or credible thing businesspeople can do, when business takes a downturn, is to claim there is nothing you can do about it. There always is.

Major resorts are saying they are trying to bring in more business by lowering or eliminating parking charges and resort fees. They also claim those same expenses are not keeping people away. Uh… if those expenses aren’t driving away business, why would changing them bring it back? It IS about money. Of course it is. It always is.

A few years ago, the city sold its soul to F1 to bring a race here. It is cool to have one here. Sounds like a good idea, right?

But average people can’t afford to attend. And the annual event disrupts the daily lives of tens of thousands of people, for months on end, because they are constantly building, tearing down, and rebuilding the infrastructure. They are inconvenienced just trying to live their lives, but they get little or no benefit from the event itself.

There is also no way for most locals to participate in F1. Most major events – the Super Bowl, Kentucky Derby, Indy 500 – have a lot of ways for folks to enjoy the festivities, often at a decent price. Not F1 Las Vegas.

And, for about a third of the year, conservatively, things that people come here to see – think the Bellagio Fountains – aren’t fully visible or accessible because the streets and sidewalks are blocked. If you’re a crown prince or a billionaire, F1 is a good gig. If you are a teacher, cop, or firefighter, not so much.

This is a great city and one of the few truly unique locales one can call home. But it is not as affordable for mainstream America as it was once. Las Vegas will face tough years ahead if they continue to cater only to the richest among us.

The city leaders and the businesses who pull their strings have decided Las Vegas should not appeal to average people. They didn’t announce it, of course, but they made the decision to abandon middle America by making thousands of individual choices that rose the price of everything from taxis to uber to steaks to beer to parking. Having priced everything out of sight, it is hard to see how they can roll it all back.

Or maybe it is easy: lower your prices. But business models that depend on people paying $20 for a beer will be put to the test.

EVERY new property and restaurant wants to be the nicest, most elite, snootiest, etc. But sometimes people just want a decent meal and cocktail for a reasonable price. There are very few places to eat near the Strip that are priced decently. That is why the few that are, like Ellis Island, are crowded.

Vegas will survive but things will remain a bit more challenging than they need to be until someone in charge realizes there are more people who can pay 6 or 8 dollars for a beer than the 15 or 20 most places charge. I recently had a bourbon on the rocks, just a decent but not spectacular pour, for which they asked $35.00. One shot. I declined and didn’t stay around long enough to see if they actually inserted the drink where I suggested.

There is a vast, underserved market, and the next big winners in NV will be the people who figured out how to serve it.

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Equity is Failing,
And We Are Better Off

By Anthony Trevlac

May 12, 2024
5-min read

Unfortunately for people who are smart and knowledgeable, most public policy, even at its highest levels, is determined by something other than logic or facts. Examples abound.

Equality is a foundational value in our country. Historically, that has meant equality of opportunity and equality before the law. Those are defensible, widely loved elements of the American Dream. They fit cleanly into a society where people can be as successful as their ability and effort will take them.

Equity (the “E “in “DEI”) is an entirely different concept. Its supporters use it interchangeably with words like equality, in an effort to obfuscate its true meaning. But equity, as practiced by the Biden Administration, means treating certain races more favorably than others. It is the opposite of equal opportunity.

Equity rests not on any identifiable, defensible, or constitutional principle, or even on any generally accepted social norm. There is no tenet of traditional liberal thought that supports discrimination based on membership within a group. And discrimination is the core concept behind equity.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits that, as SCOTUS has ruled. But that is what Biden and Harris repeatedly did, hiring and promoting people based on race, appointing judges or selecting candidates based on race, and even allocating governmental largesse based on the race of the recipient, and not on need.

Emotions always come into play. Anyone brave enough to question equity is at risk (or inevitability) of being accused of racism. Equity, as practiced by Biden-Harris under the orders issued on “Day One,” proscribes that government benefits and opportunities be allocated based first on race, not merit.

If you weren’t a preferred sex or race, Joe Biden didn’t consider you for his VP slot or for his SCOTUS appointment. He said so. Both selections were therefore made, in a nation of about 330 million people, from a pool of less than 8 million. Equity is the enemy of equal opportunity and merit.

Calling someone names is the go-to tactic for people who have lost an argument. Calling someone racist is possibly the most egregious charge that can be made against them in contemporary American. If you ask questions about DEI, you are very likely to be called a racist. Very few people are brave enough to even ask questions about what is meant by equity. Even asking the question can result in raised voices and pointed fingers.

Emotion is powerful. If you convince an audience that you are on the side of love, compassion, and justice you will probably prevail. But if emotion isn’t tied to facts and reason bad law inevitably results.

Leftists are obsessed with viewing everyone in groups. Very little of their agenda can survive even a cursory dose of common sense. The left prevails when voters make decisions on broad emotional appeals rather than details and facts.

This just in: Groups don’t do things, people do. All members of a group – any group – are not the same. Yet we use broad categories like Hispanics or Asian Americans, that suggest they are uniform.

Asian Americans are…. well, what? Is a Korean the same as a Japanese person? Are all Chinese people the same? If not, why do we lump them into categories as if they were? The reason is that emotion is an easier tool to wield when the facts are made deceptively simple.

A friend once said it is “…easier for people to believe a simple lie than a complex truth.” The leftist narrative maintains that all Black people are victims, and all white people are oppressors. That is the core of Critical Race Theory and the driving force behind the Democrat agenda. But in America, Black Americans are not the only group that has suffered economically compared to their neighbors. Neither are white people outperforming everyone else. The most successful groups in America are Asians and Indians, not whites. But those details are inconvenient to leftist race-baiters.

The emotional and group-based appeals of the left fall completely apart once people start considering what their policies really mean. No reasonable person argues that every person of any group is oppressed or that every person of any group is privileged. There are too many examples that prove otherwise.

I know people of Cuban heritage who hate Mexicans, Mexicans who hate El Salvadorans, and Cubans who hate some other Cubans. Should this surprise us? Only if we haven’t been paying attention. People act as individuals, not groups, and no policy developed for broad group appeal can ever bring justice. Stop pretending it will.

The theory is that equity will make up for past injustices. The problem is that isn’t possible. We might as well dedicate ourselves to preserving unicorns. It can’t happen and never will. It is not possible to make up for past injustices or to make it as if they did not occur in the first place.

Two reasons: you can’t change the past (if this is news to you, please report to the Department of the Obvious for further information). Plus, the supposed “cures” aren’t applied to the people who were injured. In the case of slavery, for example, those people are no longer among the living. Neither are slaveholders. You can’t atone for injustices to one person by giving benefits to someone else.

There is also the inconvenient fact that not all slaveowners were white. Records aren’t particularly reliable – we can’t look up their Instagram accounts – but it is certain several thousand Americans owning slaves were themselves black or of mixed race. Some also held white indentured servants. Irish people were among America’s first slaves.

Modern equity programs maintain that all members of certain groups are victims, they have all been held back and have all been denied a chance to succeed. They also maintain that all white people are oppressors and themselves advantaged. Really? Neither of these points are true.

When you elevate one group, you devalue another. That has always been the catch-22 behind affirmative action and equity, and law has finally come to grips with it. SCOTUS says so, as do the federal statutes. Will the woke left ever stop viewing the whole world as a Marxist struggle of the classes? Don’t count on it.

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A Corrupt Party Wants to Keep Government Corrupt

A good rule of thumb in contemporary politics is that the people who oppose a change are the ones who benefit from things staying as they are.

Take election integrity. Americans today need proof of identity to get a job, enroll their child in school, open a bank account, or adopt a pet. Yet opponents of secure elections are adamantly opposed to requiring ID for voting. If it is not racist to ask for identification to open an account at your neighborhood savings and loan, why is it racist to prove you are eligible to vote?

The answer, of course, is that it is not racist to ask for ID. It is a reasonable, common-sense requirement. So why do Democrat leaders oppose it? Simple: they benefit from cheating. If they did not, they would not fight so vociferously to keep it easy to cheat.

It has recently come to light that more than two million people who entered the U. S. illegally were given social security numbers by Biden/Harris. Their administration lied, directly and repeatedly, about this. If we had an honest and professional media, it would be a scandal playing out on the front page of every American newspaper. Most news outlets have ignored it, thus expediting their descent into irrelevance.

In the last Congress, the very top priority of the Democrats was to nationalize elections; effectively banning voter ID and requiring same day registration. It was called HR 1, and it was their single most important goal. The Democrats want people voting who are not eligible. It is undeniable.

Look also at Ukraine. President Trump was the only candidate in 2024 who campaigned on ending the war. Harris/Biden wanted more war, more spending, more unaccounted dollars flowing east they could be sent back west to fill the coffers of defense contractors, crooked politicians, and their ilk.

Zelensky has said about half of the money sent to Ukraine has “disappeared.” They do not know what happened to it. Yet when the House GOP wanted to require the full accounting of all taxpayer money sent to Ukraine, Democrats overwhelmingly opposed it. Why? Who is opposed to honest and transparent management of government funds? People who are corrupt, aka, Democrats.

Then there is DOGE. The entire apparatus of the national Democrat Party has fought tooth and talon against all efforts to make government more honest, open, and accountable. They are outraged that any federal employees might no longer be needed, might be asked to come into the office, or might be subject to even the most basic expectations associated with professional management.

When Bill Clinton reduced the federal workforce by more than 300,000, Democrats cheered it. When Trump tries it today, he is vilified. The reason is pure politics. Democrats feel Trump’s efforts are reducing their power. And power is their sine qua non.

When the Keystone Pipeline was cancelled on day one by Biden, about 10,000 people lost their jobs. When asked about it, Biden laughed derisively and said they could “…learn to code.” No Democrat leaders cared.

When hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their jobs because they did not want to get an untested, experimental Covid vaccine, no Democrat cared. Their opposition to DOGE is based on their desire to cling to power, and nothing more.

People who benefit from corrupt systems do not want them changed. The adage says, “follow the money.”

The entire federal government has become a massive trough from which big government swine feast at our expense. Elected officials get rich through insider trading; governmental agencies throw around money like it was confetti; NGOs allied with the Democrats live off your tax dollars; and the kids and spouses of elected officials get plush appointments, contracts, and funding that keeps them fat and happy.

The people who benefit from this corruption oppose ending it.

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GOP Anti-Trumpers Look More Foolish All The Time

By Rob Meyne

April 23, 2025
4-min read

Formerly Republican anti-Trumpers love to act superior to members of the Party to which they were previously loyal. Nonsense. They aren’t smarter, more principled, or better than Trump voters. They are less so.

The least courageous thing a person could have done in 2024 was to abandon the principles they used to claim to have and vote for Harris or even sit on the sidelines.

GOP Anti-Trumpers used to support lower taxes, smaller government, a safer world, lower risk of nuclear war, free speech, less censorship, and more freedom. Now they throw all of that away so they can strut around and pat themselves on the back for turning on their Party and country.

Every person who is serious about politics has voted for people they didn’t like, just because they were better than the alternative. There are no perfect options. I never liked McCain but voted for him because he was better than Obama. I supported Rubio for president but when Trump got the nomination, I worked to elect him. Every election is a binary choice. Harris would have been a disaster in the White House from which we would never have recovered.

It took courage for Americans to stand with the best candidate in 2024, while running from Trump was the worst kind of hypocrisy and cowardice. Lots of anti-Trumpers think they are cool, wise, and morally superior. What a joke. Trump’s record was clearly superior to Biden/Harris. If anti-Trumpers think it is more important to have someone who doesn’t send mean Tweets than someone who is trying to prevent nuclear war, God help them.

It is laughable to see anti-Trumpers virtue-signaling. They are the types who want coveted invitations to the best parties and to eat lunch at the cool kids’ table. But it mostly shows they are unprincipled. The people who clung to their core values in 2024 are the real heroes. Fortunately, that was the majority. God bless each of you who had the guts not to run away from conservatism when it got tough. That is real courage.

It is astonishing how many formerly conservative Republicans have decided they are morally, factually, or intellectually superior to the tens of millions of people who recognized Donald Trump was a better president than would be Kamala Harris and then voted accordingly.

These anti-Trumpers are fortunately not a large group, relatively speaking, but what they lack in sheer numbers they more than make up for in condescension. I’ve spent my entire life with conservative Republicans who say they are patriots, loyal Americans, principled conservatives, and willing to sacrifice for the country. A few of those people (the formerly conservative ones) have now decided Trump is bad for the nation, as if voting for his opponent might have given us the second coming of James Madison rather than the intellectually bereft cackling cipher she was.

Anyone who thinks Harris would have been a better president is: one, a hardcore Marxist/leftist; two, uninformed; three, anti-Trump to the point of verifiable mental illness; or, four, all of the above. There simply is no way to factually and logically make the argument that the Biden-Harris presidency was more successful than Trump’s.

An acquaintance recently ranted that they are patriotic, conservative, and willing to sacrifice, but we should throw Trump overboard because of the recent stock market volatility. It brings to mind the famous comments from Patrick Henry, long a rallying cry for the right, when he said “ Give me liberty and a robust 401-K, or screw America, you’re on your own.” Well, maybe that isn’t exactly what he said.

Solving long-term challenges facing America will not be easy or quick. Our national debt is crippling and not one Democrat or old-school Republican has a solution. Fraud and waste is out of control. The border was wide open for four years and we have just learned that millions of the people who came here illegally were given social security numbers.

Our military was not meeting recruitment goals and was more concerned with the color of our soldiers than with their lethality. Record drug deaths and historic inflation have become the norm. And our young women have been told they have to learn to like showering with, and competing against, biological men. What could go wrong?

In three months, we’ve made tremendous progress. But curing the ills of the last four years will take time and courage.

If you’re whining about the value of your portfolio and, after 90 days, are determined to brand Trump a failure, please, just go ahead and join the Democrat Party. Goodbye and good riddance. There is no shortage of people who pretend to be patriotic until the road gets tough. Just leave. We will both be happier if you do.

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The Dems Show Us Who They Are

By Rob Meyne

March 6, 2025
2-min read

If you just pay attention, people will tell you what they care about. Congressional Democrats showed us this week.

President Trump’s speech this past Tuesday, was one of the more significant, impactful, and definitive messages ever delivered by a president.

News organizations conducted surveys following the speech. CBS found that 77% of those who watched it said they were very or somewhat positive about it. The number from CNN (both leftist news outlets) was 69%.

Yet Congressional Democrats could not applaud or stand in support of a single major issue or statement. Not. One.

Dems would not support a bill to require removing illegals who have committed a crime. They oppose banning men from competing in women’s sports. They do not want a secure border. They support race-based preferences mandated under the banner of DEI. They oppose voter id, support 9-month abortions, and love war. They want continued fighting, spending (money laundering), and death in Ukraine.

President Trump’s positions on each of those issues enjoys support in the range of 75 – 80%. They are not interested in solutions or finding common ground. Today’s Democrat leadership is interested in dividing us and clinging to power. They know that Trump’s efforts to reduce the size of government, save money, and reduce the bureaucracy are a threat to their power.

They are not on your side.

Things change, and Trump has challenges ahead, no doubt. And the Dems are nothing if not ruthless and power hungry.

But for today, if you support common sense approaches that will make America safer, freer, and more prosperous, you are on the right side of history. The Democrats – their leadership, more specifically – are against everything a majority of Americans favor.

Congressional Democrats couldn’t even stand in support of a child that beat cancer, a woman who was seriously injured by a man playing om a woman’s volleyball team, or the family of a young lady killed by a person who is here illegally.

Laken Riley died because, and only because, the Biden Administration literally flew a plane to Europe and brought a convicted criminal here and set him loose. She would be alive today if not for Biden and the Democrats.

They. Are. Not. On. Your. Side. Trump is.

You may not like Trump’s style or combativeness – that is a conversation we could have – but if you don’t believe in the majority of his policies you are out of step with most Americans. This is his time. This is our time. There is a lot of history to be written, but today we have more reason to be optimistic than at any time in the last five years.

Keep the faith. Enjoy the ride. And don’t be ashamed to love your country or its president.

Cheers.

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A President Keeps His Promises

By Rob Meyne

Jan. 26, 2025
4- min read

As political commentators, reporters, and average people see President Trump taking quick action to turn the country around, their sense of astonishment and incredulity is palpable. Many talking heads could be seen literally speechless, their mouths hanging open, as they try to process the reality that President Trump is actually doing the things he said he would.

It does not say good things about our nation that people are surprised when politicians don’t lie. Usually, you can tell they are lying just by noting whether their lips are moving.

The corporate media, leftists, and anti-Trumpers have pushed some “Big Lies” for so long that many Americans take them as gospel. Among the accusations is that Donald Trump is somehow less honest than his predecessors and peers. It is crap. And it always has been.

Biden lied more before breakfast (which for him was about noon) than Trump does all day. The issue isn’t whether Trump ever prevaricates – he is human, and humans lie – but whether he does so regarding issues of greater import, or does so more often, than the presidents to whom we have become accustomed.

Perhaps even more importantly, the whole federal government has demonstrated, repeatedly, that you can’t believe them. If the government says something is true it doesn’t necessarily prove it isn’t, but it does move it to the top of the list of things you’d better verify for yourself.

Lying by government has become the raison d’etre of their existence. The priorities for today’s bureaucracies are, first, to preserve their jobs and expand their power. The second, concomitant justification for their existence is to promote the prevailing public narrative, as promoted by the top executive currently in power, to curry favor from them. If you agree you get pats on the head, raises, bigger budgets, and promotions. Virtually the entire federal government does not primarily exist to serve the people; it exists to protect their jobs.

When an EPA scientist or NOAA official looks at global warming/climate chance, what do you think they find? Of course! They say climate change is bad, it is getting worse, and we must give the government more of our money and our freedom. It is like asking a corrupt mechanic if you need your can repaired. You’ll be lucky if they say all you need is an oil change, and not a completely new transmission!

One of President Trump’s first Executive Orders was to stop the continuing, widespread government censorship of individuals and organizations in the guise of fighting disinformation. If you haven’t figured it out yet, the only accurate definition of disinformation is that it is information of which the government doesn’t approve. Disinformation is often true, but the folks in charge don’t like it. And government is the biggest source of disinformation, by far.

The CDC told us Ivermectin doesn’t help fight COVID, then later admitted it does. They laughed at people who endorsed it, calling it a horse dewormer (it is one of the most widely prescribed human drugs). How many lives might have been saved if they had told the truth? We’ll never know. But it is inarguable that there is human blood on the hands of the people who suppressed the truth, among them Biden and Anthony Fauci. No wonder Biden pardoned Fauci.

Governmental falsehoods about the effectiveness of masks or the safety of “vaccines” were also damaging. Lives have been lost because bureaucrats lied. The incidence of heart problems has grown dramatically among Americans because of the use of untested vaccines.

Note: none of the COVID vaccines have been fully tested and approved by the FDA. None. Not. One. They are approved only for emergency use.

We’ll be looking at some of President Trump’s most important Executive Orders in the weeks to come. For now, it strikes us that none may be more important than the effort to stop government censorship. Every autocratic, dictatorial, and fascist regime in world history depended on censorship to preserve its power. The U. S. government has itself gone too far down that road, and we hope and pray that the new Administration will be able to reverse that sad trend.

The American people deserve to hear the truth. And, yes, the truth shall make you free.

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America’s Stasi Must Go

By Rob Meyne

Dec. 20, 2024
4-min read

We want an FBI that is accountable, not independent.

Kash Patel lives here (Las Vegas, NV), we have met him a couple of times (we’re even FB friends), we have friends in common, and he will be exactly what is needed as Director of the FBI.

If you’ve been following the decline of the once-admirable law enforcement agency, you realize that Chris Wray and his sycophants have turned it into a threat to the nation they are supposed to serve.

Wray has covered up and withheld information from the public and Congress. He has ignored crimes committed by leftist protestors, such as the assault on the White House where a ton of police were injured, or the illegal harassment of SCOTUS justices. Yet he has prosecuted about a thousand people for their activities January 6, a majority of whom hurt no one and damaged no property.

Yes, anyone who attacked a police officer or broke a window deserves to be prosecuted. Grandmothers who simply walked around the lawn do not.

The FBI also claims it doesn’t know who brought cocaine into the White House, who built the gallows that were on the Capitol lawn January 6, who placed pipe bombs, or who leaked the SCOTUS decision on abortion. This just in: they are lying, or, alternatively, incompetent. In either case, they need to go.

The FBI denied for four years that they had operatives in the crowd on January 6, 2021. Now, they admit they did. They had more than 20 “Confidential Human” sources there. They play word games and try to conceal the truth by saying they didn’t have undercover agents in the crowd. Who cares what they call them? They had FBI employees undercover. And it is likely the Capitol Police, CIA, Secret Service, NSA, Homeland Security, etc., had people there too.

THAT is what an unaccountable FBI looks like. It is a threat to our freedom and the republic itself. The Chris Wray FBI would fit in perfectly in Iran. Not in the U.S.

Trump was injured in an assassination attempt in July. They have released almost no information about the shooter. Why? Probably because it shows he cooperated with either foreign actors or domestic agencies. If he was a lone shooter, a nut, a whacko who just tried to shoot Trump, you would know all about him.

If he was a right-wing terrorist and racist you’d know everything from his blood type to what size shirt he wore. They even cremated the shooter’s body three days after the assassination attempt, thus destroying key evidence. The only reason to rush the cremation was to cover up something.

Most importantly, don’t buy the BS that the FBI is supposed to be an independent agency. That is simply untrue. People who say that are either uninformed or intentionally misleading.

ALL of government is intended to be accountable to elected officials and ultimately the voters. The FBI isn’t supposed to be free of accountability and influence from the voters any more than the Social Security Administration, the Pentagon, or the Senate staff. ALL of government is intended to be managed and controlled by elected officials who are themselves accountable to citizens.

Like the idea of an “independent” FBI? How did independent police forces work out in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Kampuchea/Cambodia, or Iran? Do you want to live in fear that an unmoored FBI might knock on your door at 2 AM and drag you off to jail? That is what you get with an FBI that reports to no one. That is what we have now, actually. Do you like that? Neither do I.

Under Biden, the FBI has functioned as a political force pursuing and supporting Biden’s political goals. That is wrong. Biden is the first president to ever use all of the available judicial and police resources in a coordinated effort to keep his political opponents off the ballot and in jail. Fortunately, the effort has failed. The American people know the charges against Trump would not have been brought against anyone else. Their cases have all fallen apart, and the people pursuing them – like Fani Willis in Atlanta – have proven to be corrupt and immoral trash.

Fortunately, most Americans saw through it. Everyone who isn’t a leftist/socialist/anti-Trumper recognizes bias and incompetence when they see it.

And, yes, quite a few people who thought they would ever vote for Trump, for anything, realized he was the better choice in 2024.

America has rejected the police state tactics of Biden and Harris. Trump has pledged to put people in charge – people like Kash Patel – who won’t let it happen again.

Rather than being a threat to our republic, Trump is poised to be the person who saves it.

Our duty is to hold Trump and his team accountable for doing the things they said they will. For the first time in at least four years, we have a president who publicly acknowledges the freedoms we have lost and is committed to restoring them.

Thank God.

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The Truth Benefits Trump and America

By Rob Meyne

Nov. 11, 2024
3-min read

The few days following an election are traditionally a time of decompression, good will, and commitment to finding common ground. Trump and Biden seem to be doing their parts. The uproar from leftists, media, and many anti-Trumpers, however, has been less reserved.

If you listen to Biden’s statements, his message is essentially that people say a lot of bad things during a campaign but, after it is all over, we really can get along. Two days after Harris got trounced, Biden was smiling and said, “We’re going to be ok.” Two days earlier everyone on his side was saying Trump would be the end of democracy. Obviously, he didn’t mean it or believe it.

It was pure campaign hyperbole and vitriol. It is sad that millions of people are terrified of the many things Democrats said in the 2024 campaign are just not true. Democrats portrayed 2024 as a last fight for democracy. As the current Democrat president indicates, it wasn’t true, and he knows it.

Having lost badly in a democratic election, many Dems are saying they will do everything they can to oppose Trump. He was the winner and the best thing for the country would be to find common ground. Their hatred of Trump is greater than their love of country. They show no sign of goodwill, reaching out, or coming together.

The governors of Illinois and California, to name two, have marshaled resources to oppose Trump in whatever unnamed horrible things he is supposedly planning on doing. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who looks in a mirror and always sees a future president, has called for a special session of the California legislature to prepare for, well, he doesn’t exactly say. He wants to be ready for the terrible attacks Trump is planning, whatever they may be.

I am reminded of a few anti-Trumper friends and ex-friends who have been saying for nearly a decade that Trump is evil. He will ruin America. They always talk about the horrible things he WILL do, but it never happens. Trump did not strip women of their rights, try to put people of color in camps, or round up and imprison journalists or people of color, and he has no plans for it. Yet they keep saying it. Like Chicken Little, they say the sky is falling. But it hasn’t yet. Every day the credibility of the left is reduced. More people are catching on. That is one thing that explains the record level of support Trump got from Black and Hispanic Americans.

The entirety of the leftist/anti-Trumper narrative is that he WILL be a threat to America even though he has been president once and the nation was demonstrably better off for it.

Under Trump, unemployment and inflation were low, we were not involved in any new wars, we were energy independent, gas was cheap, and minorities enjoyed record low unemployment. Real incomes increased. All Americans got a tax cut. Importantly, real income grew at a faster rate for lower income Americans than for the richest among us, which is exactly the opposite of what Harris and company claimed.

That is the real Trump record. The left loses when people are better informed. Fortunately, the results of November 5 suggest at least some Americans are better informed than the anti-Trump crowd wants.

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