Check This Out The Council on Criminal Justice, a non partisan, independent think tank, just released some eye-opening stats. Murders in the US dropped by 20% in 2025 from 2024. Spurred by drops of 30% in Chicago, 20% in NYC, 31% in Baltimore, 26% in Atlanta, 33% in Oakland, 31% in our Nations capital. Motor Vehicle theft - is down 25% Robberies - down 18% Violent crime arrests - up 100% Gang disruptions - up 210% Illegal Border Crossings - down 99% Overdose deaths - down 21%

Why Trump's Fixation On the surface seems a little bizarre, b ut it 's not because he wants to tee off the Danes. Or because he never met a piece of real estate he didn't covet. It's because Greenland is gateway to the Arctic. It overlooks the route Russia and China's nuclear submarines, bombers and missiles would take to nuke our sorry behinds. China has already made forays into the Arctic for minerals and other footholds. Russia is always lurking. But geography isn’t t

Under the leadership of the ATW, which mercifully ended on January 20, 2025 ... our nation performed as follows: Inflation hit a 40 year high. The monthly mortgage payment on a median price home more than doubled. The inflation-adjusted value of the average American’s weekly paycheck fell 4%. Native-born Americans were losing jobs while net job growth went to foreign-born workers. The cost of servicing the national debt exploded 117%. Bureaucratic government jobs exploded by

Venezuela - Let's Break It Down As well chronicled CME is a strong supporter of President Trump and the actions/accomplishments of his Administration thus far. Trump has a mission and it's no secret. Do everything in his power (and, hopefully, within the law) to make things better for America and its citizens. No holds barred. No worrying about pushback or carping from the opposition. His latest action, invading Venezuela and capturing its President, is the latest - he di

(Only subject today) That Freight Train You See Coming Full Speed is - the AI Express Everywhere you turn today, everything you read or watch on TV, AI is there. Just plowed through Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI by Professor Vasant Dhar , Ph.D., Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science and one of world’s foremost AI pioneers. Filled with technical (at least to me which ain't saying much) explanati

No Happy Holidays for Me. 110 Francis Albert's birthday was December 12. Would have been 110. Hard to believe its been 27 years since he passed. The man with the perfect pitch. So many of Christmas' greatest songs came from Ole Blueyes. Dems Going Nuts over Trump's Efforts ...to stop drugs from flowing into the US and killing thousands. Calling his actions to enforce sanctions and interdict drug running boats from Maduro "unconstitutional". Don't they know we have the i

Before I leave, a few thoughts. Can't Go to Target In a recent interview Elon Musk was asked about venturing out to public places. He admitted he's scaled way back. Says after Charlie Kirk's assassination, he just doesn't feel safe. Said, "one mistake and you're dead." The guy who gave us the electric car, affordable space missions, brought stranded astronauts home, internet to third world countries and devasted areas - with much more to come - is now afraid of getting wha

Don't look now. Donald might just make good on another promise. Dozens of Mexico’s most dangerous prisoners, cuffed hand and foot, boarded army jets under heavy guard this year. This rogues’ gallery of cartel leaders was responsible for smuggling tons of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine to insatiable U.S. buyers. The men were rousted from prisons, where money and corruption provided them with weapons, cocaine, booze, women and phones to run their lucrative un

Twist on Drug Prices One constantly reads of exorbitant prices for life saving drugs. Ours here in the US seem to be higher than everywhere else. Go across the border - north or south - and prices drop precipitously. This might be one reason why. In 2020 the highly flawed NAFTA was replaced by the USMCA, which Trump pushed hard for. This agreement among the US, Mexico and Canada helped mightily to level the playfield for US businesses and farmers. In order to get it passe

Time for a Common Sense Reset With midterms less than a year away, the Biden/Harris fiasco fading in the rearview mirror and polls showing concern, it's time for a Trump reset. Every Presidency has one. Nobody sails through without bumpy seas. Especially when turning a battleship around. Trump should do three things. Announce a comprehensive fix (or at least significant) to immigration that gives permanent status to those with long term residential equity. Stay the course

No Pain No Gain This week's polls (Can you really believe any polls?) show the majority of Americans are disappointed in the economic situation. Want prices to come down faster. They will but again battleships are hard to turn. One Step Forward- Two Back Less than one week after California revoked 17,000 commercial licenses that don't comply with Federal DOT minimum stands, a Federal Judge rules the DOT order cannot be enforced. Why - because it did not follow procedure n

Trump signs bill to end longest in US political history. So what lessons did we learn? Well, none of consequence really. As the Democrats eat their own, especially Chuckie Schumer who let the 8 renegades needed to avoid a filibuster jump ship, here are a few takeaways. The Democrats have no conscience. They are perfectly willing to lie and persecute the American people to pursue their deranged hatred of Donald Trump, his allies and the voters that put him in office a seco

Remember the Euphoria, the Gratitude, the Optimism? One year ago. And then Tuesday. Thunked in NJ, VA, CA and NYC elections. True all are very blue states, but still. Even more remarkable than the Commie in the Big (now RED) Apple was the DA race in VA and the fact that Jay Jones, the Democratic candidate who texted he wanted to see the children of the Republican Speaker of the House murdered... (Yup, murdered . You could look it up.) was not only was NOT thrown off the

Dolphins FINALLY fire GM Chris Grier after 10 Miserable Years. Another DEI hire bites the dust. Took way too long. Deja Vu - Brilliant Recently I was sent a video of remarks Ronald Reagan made some four decades ago. They still apply today. He was lamenting the natural instincts of Democrats. "You know every time a Republican gets elected President, the Democrats start acting like it's the end of the world. Every time we cut taxes or try to trim expenses, they act like the

Jolly Ole - NOT A few editions ago we noted the takeover of Europe's major cities by immigrants. Here's an anecdotal update from Jolly Ole England, which is certainly no longer mirthful. A columnist, who recently visited England to see the great historical sites, instead witnessed: a synagogue bombing in Manchester, British police shooting a Syrian ISIS member on the street in London, two innocent Jews killed while walking on the street, thousands of Pro-Palestinian protesto

Here's a few Reasons. At the center of the government shutdown is a disagreement over whether to extend a temporary pandemic-era expansion of the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits, which expire at the end of this year. Sold as a one-time boost during the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsidies are costly, fraud-prone, and primarily pad insurance companies’ profits. Consider:  Cost almost half a trillion dollars.  Total government spending would increase by more than $488 bi

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