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...

  This isn’t a tale of heroics. It’s a story about luck, timing, and the kind of science that can turn death itself on its heels. In 1968, Uncle Sam decided I should wear an Army uniform. I was soon trained as a light weapons infantryman and given orders to report to the First Air Cavalry in Vietnam. Then fate intervened. Through some bureaucratic twist, one of those “Army miracles,” I was rerouted into on-the-job training as a medical corpsman. That, I quickly learned, was the best job in the Army. I was stationed in Germany. Determined not to wind up hauling trash or scrubbing latrines, I buried myself in medical study. Soon I was assigned to the treatment and surgery room at the largest dispensary in the country, a place where everything from major trauma to childbirth emergencies rolled through the doors. Through a small comedy of errors, nobody realized I wasn’t formally trained. Had they known, they would have shipped me to an ambulance crew. Instead, I found myself stand...

The Democrat Party has morphed back and forth into tyranny since it was created.   Most recently their inviting millions of illegal aliens to invade our nation was an act of treason and sedition.  This massive crime cost Americans and legal immigrants as much as a trillion dollars.   The American working class has been stabbed in the back as the invaders have reset wages to poverty levels.  This has undone so much that labor unions have accomplished for their workers.  American voted to remove these trespassers from our soil.  Since they broke our laws to enter they’re no different than any other enemy combatants.  They simply don’t get American rights and protections.  Any and all physical force needed to remove them is justified.   The problem is the courts and Congress can’t arrive at any workable solution.  Democrats understandably see these invaders as future Democrats that would guarantee a one party democrat America.  We...

  As the silver screen flickers to life with “Nuremberg,” the echoes of that infamous tribunal thunder back into our consciousness, a stark reminder of the legal abyss that swallowed justice whole. This was no solemn American courtroom upholding sacred constitutional principles. No, this was the raw might of the victorious Allies, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the iron-fisted Soviet Union, forging a trial from the ashes of World War II. Yet even among these conquerors, discord raged; they could never unite on how to brand and punish these so-called war crimes. Hear me now: many of these Nazis plunged into unspeakable horrors, their hands drenched in blood, and they reaped the grim harvest they sowed, including the noose’s fatal embrace. My quarrel is not with their guilt, but with the sham of “justice” that condemned them. Crimes were conjured from thin air, laws retroactively birthed, ex post facto abominations utterly forbidden by the American Constitution. The def...