It is that time of year again for high school and college students, including my own daughter, to graduate from their respective thralldoms and either traipse on to higher education, …
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When You Want a Job Done Right: ‘We Build The Wall’
by Steve Pomperby Steve PomperIf you want a job done right, do it yourself. This old saying came to mind when I was perusing lifezette.com and read about a job some Americans are doing …
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You are a 16th or 17th century European native living a subsistence-level existence interrupted occasionally by a king or some other authoritarian figure when he tells you to pay more …
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As we gear up for another family trip across the country, I cannot help but reflect on last year’s trip—the voyage that inspired me to write my first article for …
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Safe Gun Storage — Safe for Whom?
by Steve Pomperby Steve PomperThe second someone puts the words common sense in front of gun laws, we can be sure common sense has nothing to do with the anti-gun activists’ version of one …
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Two Ways to Teach Your Kids the Importance of Memorial Day
by Steve Pomperby Steve PomperBackyard BBQs and other events Americans celebrate with family and friends are appropriate ways to honor Memorial Day and remember what our nation’s military heroes did for us—died for us. …
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If You Truly Believed You Were Saving the Nation, Why Would You Deny Doing It?
by Steve Pomperby Steve PomperAs a retired law enforcement officer upon whom it was impressed to never engage in even the appearance of impropriety, the emerging daily evidence of high-level sedition, perhaps a federal …
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Monster Marines or Tough Love? (Part II)
by Morgan Deaneby Morgan DeaneThe military always has to straddle a line between tough training and physical abuse in its ranks. Sometimes it crosses that line such as when drill instructors abused recruits, but …
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Can Traffic Policy Intended to Make Cyclists Safer do the Opposite?
by Steve Pomperby Steve PomperWhile I was on the job, I can’t remember one time I investigated a bicycle vs. motor vehicle collision that wasn’t the cyclist’s fault. This is not to say I …
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Police Accountability or a Fundamental Transformation of Law Enforcement?
by Steve Pomperby Steve PomperI like to give people the benefit of the doubt. But it’s not worth giving it to many so-called “police accountability groups” because they so often demonstrate they’re not serious …