The current war against Iran was totally unnecessary. WAS. Past tense. This disaster was born in 1979 when the so called Islamic Revolution rolled in and the mullahs decided kidnapping American diplomats was a smart opening move. They terrorized and held our embassy staff hostage for 444 days.  They turned the United States into a global punchline. President Jimmy Carter had a choice. Crush a fragile regime that had just shown its fangs, or sit at a table and beg for cooperation. He chose the table. Endless negotiations. A rescue attempt that collapsed in the desert. The message to Tehran was simple. America hesitates. America negotiates. America bleeds slowly. Tehran learned the lesson. For nearly five decades the regime metastasized. Terror proxies. Assassination plots. Missiles. “Death to America” as a slogan repeated like a national anthem. Then along comes Joe Biden, who decided that handing billions to the same regime was somehow strategic genius. I lot of the ...

It is a command to government: you will not disarm the people. You will not control their arms. You will not regulate them into submission. The right was not written for hunting. It was not written for sport. It was written so citizens could defend themselves, not only from criminals, but from the very government under which they live. History is clear. Governments drift. Governments expand. Governments corrupt. The Founders studied that history. They had lived it. They refused to build a nation where the people would be helpless in the face of superior force. They did not intend for citizens to be armed with symbolic tools while the state held overwhelming power. They understood that a free people must never be reduced to inferiority in their own defense. The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is a structural safeguard against tyranny.

  Gun control. The gift that keeps on giving — mostly to criminals. Ignorance must be bliss when you are a politician rubber-stamping every gun restriction that crosses your desk. Ban this. Ban that. Ban anything that sounds scary in a thirty-second sound bite. Take handgun shoulder stabilizing devices. Take laser sights. Tools designed for one simple purpose: accuracy. Stability. Control. But apparently accuracy is the problem. When lawmakers outlaw devices that help a lawful gun owner hit what they aim at, they are not reducing danger. They are increasing it. Missed shots do not disappear. They land somewhere. Into a wall. Into a car. Into someone’s grandmother who just happened to be standing in the wrong place. The irony is thick. These laws are inspired by street gang chaos. Yet the very people driving that chaos are the least disciplined shooters on the planet. They spray and pray. They target each other. And when they miss, innocent people pay. Meanwhile, an elderly cit...

    The bloodletting at Nexstar, gutting anchors and reporters at WGN and KTLA, is not a shock. It is a symptom. The patient has been terminal for years. There was a time when you could switch on the evening news and actually learn something. Facts. Context. Accountability. Now you get sermons. Viewers are no longer informed. They are managed. Spoon-fed political orthodoxy and campaign messaging dressed up as journalism. Subtle as a brick through a window. TV news did not die in a blaze of glory. It suffocated in a cloud of hairspray, banter, and manufactured charm. Personality replaced substance. Chit-chat replaced journalism. The audience noticed. They left. They fled to podcasters and bloggers who, flaws and all, at least pretend to chase facts instead of cocktail party approval. News breaks on weekends. News happens on holidays. But if you rely on local TV, you wait until Monday, when the hair is perfect and the teleprompter is warm. Two anchors per broadcast, grinnin...

   I have poured every ounce of experience, instinct, and hard-earned judgment into this mystery, working only with the scraps of information law enforcement has chosen to release. And after watching the circus of half-baked theories roll by, I reject them all. This is not complicated, Nancy Guthrie was murdered. This was not some ransom plot. Not some bizarre kidnapping fantasy. This was a murder, plain and simple, followed by a calculated plan to erase her from the earth. The intent was never negotiation. The intent was removal. Her killer did not improvise, had a destination in mind: one of the over 300 deep, abandoned, foreboding mines, the kind of place that swallows evidence forever. And the reason is obvious. Without a body, authorities can only struggle to establish the corpus delicti. No body, no confirmed cause of death, no clean homicide case. That is not an accident. That is strategy. Someone wanted Nancy Guthrie dead for one of two reasons. Rage, or money....

  Make no mistake: corporations and bean counters have invaded local mainstream media like termites in a wooden house. The result has been a slow-motion disaster, especially for investigative reporting. Instead of hard news, we get endless fluff, chirpy banter, and the kind of “breaking story” that turns out to be a weather tease and a celebrity haircut. So what are reporters doing?  They’re walking.They’re quitting. They’re realizing they don’t need a corporate leash to do journalism.  They can launch a podcast, a vlog, a blog, and suddenly the editorial direction belongs to them, not some executive in a glass tower who thinks “investigative reporting” means a feel-good piece about a rescue dog. The audience? They’re not sitting there hypnotized by the 6 o’clock news anymore. People watch TV with an iPad in their lap, a phone in their hand, and a laptop open. Television news is background noise. The only things still reliably grabbing attention are severe weather, spo...