Artificial intelligence is no longer coming. It is here. It will be either a miracle or a wrecking ball, depending on where you stand. For writers, it already feels supernatural. A dead script can be dragged back to life in seconds and reshaped into something lean, fast, and dangerous. Talent used to take years. Now it takes instructions. Songwriting is no longer limited by human stamina, mood, or even imagination. AI can generate melodies, lyrics, and full arrangements at a pace no human can survive. The myth of creative struggle is being replaced by raw output. Actors are no longer safe either. Faces can be cloned. Voices can be fabricated. Entire performances can be generated without a camera, without a stage, without a living body. A digital performer does not age, does not argue, does not strike, and does not need a paycheck. The entertainment unions can only bargain with reality for so long. Contracts will slow the damage but they cannot stop it. In the end, most performers w...

It is long past time for another federal amnesty for machine guns, suppressors, and all other items swept under the suffocating weight of the National Firearms Act. For nearly a century, our government has trampled on the Second Amendment, treating a constitutional right as a privilege to be taxed, restricted, and endlessly regulated. The plain truth is that the National Firearms Act was, and remains, an open violation of the right to keep and bear arms. Yet our courts have repeatedly turned their backs on this constitutional assault, refusing to restrain federal power or strike down the unlawful taxes and prohibitions that have smothered the freedoms of law-abiding Americans. In 1968, even Washington briefly acknowledged the injustice. During that rare moment, the government offered an amnesty, allowing the lawful registration of tens of thousands of NFA firearms, nearly 100,000 in all. But that mercy was fleeting; in the decades since, no administration has dared to extend such relie...

If you don’t have a dog, you’re cheating yourself out of the one companion on this planet who won’t stab you in the back. Nothing lifts the human spirit faster than a dog who thinks you’re a hero just for walking through the door. Look around and you’ll notice it. People with dogs tend to be calmer, happier, and a lot less wrapped around the axle. I’m so glad hospitals, hotels, transit systems, grocery stores, and half the civilized world finally woke up and allowed dogs inside. They slap up signs about service animals being welcome, then conveniently forget to enforce anything. And guess what. Society hasn’t collapsed. No wave of dog bites. No plague. Just happier people with their four legged therapists. Sure, having a dog means dragging yourself outside at dawn and again after dark. And if you travel, you’ll either board the dog or trust a responsible friend. The one rule is simple. Don’t leave your dog alone to rot. They’re loyal to the bone, and they deserve the same back. There i...

Let’s stop pretending the world is safer than it is. We have all seen what happened to those young women on public transportation. They were torn apart by human garbage who should never have been roaming free. The cruelty was not accidental. It was deliberate, vicious, and absolutely preventable if those women had been armed and trained. American women have been conditioned like lab rats. They have been told guns are evil and that they should never touch one. The brainwashing is so deep that they ignore the God-given instinct to survive and instead rely on police that only arrive promptly in scripted television fantasies. In the real world, cops show up just in time to take photos of your body and sweep up the shell casings. Women are also fed the lie that guns are a man’s tool. That is pure nonsense. As a firearms instructor, I have watched women routinely outshoot men simply because they pay attention. Women run compact pistols like the SIG P365 and the Springfield Hellcat with unden...

Sig P365 XL It is time to talk about defensive guns and tactics again. Frankly, this conversation is so overdue it should be paying late fees. People cling to this fantasy that they are perfectly safe at home as long as the doors are locked. Cute theory. The real trouble starts when they leave their little castles to pump gas, buy groceries or walk back to a dimly lit parking lot where predators watch people who are glued to their phones instead of their surroundings. Training ought to take place in low light, no light and especially outdoors. Civilians never get enough night fire training, while cops get it because they actually have to stay alive. Now for the fun part. Revolvers have crawled back into fashion like the Phoenix clawing its way out of the grave. Suddenly everyone is falling in love with these gorgeous heavy caliber wheel guns. They are simple, reliable and they look damn good doing their job. Not that the semi autos have gone anywhere. In fact, the tiny 9 millimeter pis...

Driving while intoxicated is not just stupid. It is Olympic-level stupid. It is the kind of stupid that comes with a price tag big enough to make your wallet curl up and die. A DUI will bleed you between nine grand and twenty-five grand before you can even say, “But officer, I’m fine.” Insurance spikes, legal fees, towing, storage, DUI school, and the privilege of walking everywhere like some medieval peasant. And yes, it can cost you your job. Employers love reliability, not “Sorry, boss, my license is in jail.” Here is how it happens. The more booze you pour down your throat, the more convinced you become that you are Mario Andretti with a cape. After enough drinks you are basically Superman without the x-ray vision, the flying, or the common sense. Back in my early police days in the late 60s and early 70s, DUI enforcement was about as common as a snowstorm in Phoenix. Unless someone was dead or mangled, nobody bothered. The arrest process was a bureaucratic nightmare and bosses ...

It was bound to happen because the corporations have actually all but destroyed local news reporting.  There is no more investigative journalism.  And God forbid the professional journalist expose the corruption of local politicians.   Slowly, but surely these Internet reporters are learning their craft and how to use and abuse public records.  The real issue is will their audience financially support them?   They are beginning to succeed with advertisers.  CWB in Chicago.  Cash Jordan likes to go anywhere the action is happening.  Many live streamers are out there. Their failures are in not getting interviews from witnesses and bureaucrats.  That may work self out.  Most of the larger jurisdictions offer educational tours of court houses where court procedures are explained.  I suspected community colleges have programs where people can learn how to dig and tell their stories.  Newspapers have all been disappeared and loca...

Let me begin with the truth. I am not a lawyer. I am a criminal defense investigator with decades in the trenches. Over the past year I have been assigned to defendants in Los Angeles County who are facing the most serious charges on the books, including murder, and many of them have chosen to represent themselves. Everyone knows justice works better, faster, and more fairly when an accused person has competent legal counsel. The Supreme Court locked that principle into our constitutional fabric in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), which held that even the poorest among us are entitled to counsel at government expense. California extends that logic to investigators because a lawyer without investigative support is fighting blind. Then comes the wrecking ball. Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), empowered defendants to fire their lawyers and take the wheel of their own defense, no matter how untrained, suspicious, or plainly unfit they may be to navigate a criminal co...