Commentary I was doing my usual Thursday morning stint on Tennessee Star Report radio, when host Michael Patrick Leahy read aloud the latest news from the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) regarding the ongoing controversy concerning the dreadful slayings of six people, three of them 9-year-olds, at the Covenant School that has become something of…
Nashville Coverup Escalates: Tennessee’s Governor Must Cancel Special Session
Restoring a Sound Public Education
Commentary What can be done to turn around the troubling trend of a public education downturn over the last several years? We can brainstorm some solutions as we wrap up another school semester and peer ahead to the next academic year. First, the federal Dept. of Education ought to minimize its influence on local education,…
Everything Has Become a Threat Assessment
Commentary The following article describes K.C. Aud’s first day in the shoot house at ME A-School at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) written after passing his team’s lethal use of force drills. [Editor’s note: ME A-School, or Maritime Enforcement Specialist “A” School, trains Coast Guard personnel to provide security and law enforcement support for…
The America I Loved Is Leaving
Commentary The America I grew up in is leaving, spiraling down into the gutter of history like the Roman Empire. My father was a career military enlisted master sergeant who believed in discipline, and structure. I was raised to clean my room and make my bed before leaving the house. I attended elementary school in…
London Ontario’s Public Library Bans Society for Academic Freedom
Commentary In mid-May, True North columnist Andrew Lawton reported that the London Public Library in Ontario refused to rent space for an annual public lecture organized by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS). Founded in 1992, SAFS is a Canadian academic organization with a mandate to “defend freedom in teaching, research and scholarship.”…
National Security and the Debt Ceiling
Commentary As the debt ceiling debate looms, U.S. national security may be at risk while welfare is safe. The U.S. Constitution states that the purpose of the government is “to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”…
China’s ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organization’ for the Moon
Commentary A deepening cold war divide between China and the United States is about to be officially extended to the moon by China’s creation of a formal organization that will help extend the hegemony of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the Earth to the Earth-moon system. The impending formation of the International Lunar Research…
Post-Durham Report, Is It Time for GOP Candidates to Stop Campaigning and Support Trump?
Commentary I have registered my discontent with the Durham Report—that it doesn’t go far enough and advocate punishment (indictments) for the obvious evil-doers at the top—although it does a workman-like job of detailing the treasonous betrayal of Donald Trump before and during his presidency and, even more ominously, the similar betrayal of this country, its…
Israel Facing a Multi-Front War of Biblical Proportions
Commentary How will the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) handle emboldened enemies surrounding it? For Israel, in many ways, it’s the best of times. Israel has never been as technologically and militarily advanced or as economically powerful as it is today. The level of development it has reached in the past couple of decades is impressive…
Is Self-Defense Becoming Illegal?
Commentary If someone you love were threatened, or physically attacked, do you have the right to defend them? And even more so, when police are being defunded and when criminals are being released on the streets, do you have a right to protect yourself? Do you have to just let things happen? Must you just…
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