By Jon Harris: In a time of uncertainty, there is a tendency to worry more about supposition than hard facts. We see it every day on every TV station and every news feed. Worry. Worry about what might happen. Worry about what could happen, not what is going on. The stories of what might happen […]
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By Jon Harris: A few days ago, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the existence of “information troops,” rumored for years but long denied by officials. “Propaganda must be smart, literate and effective,” he told the lower house of parliament. Russia spends $300m annually on its “cyber army” of about 1,000 people, according to the […]
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By Jon Harris: President Trump has called for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members to contribute more to the alliance or face the possibility that the US would “moderate” its level of support. He also suggested that NATO itself has become obsolete, and that NATO focuses on defending Europe against Russia rather than combating terrorism. Currently, the US […]
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By Stephen Owsinski: As the country witnesses the ripples from President Trump’s initiatives for the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to round up illegal immigrants, some law enforcement executives remain at odds regarding the legality of detainers and their role in deportation proceedings. Do these hiccups have to […]
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By Jon Harris: This week ISIS launched another wave of suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi forces battling to retake Mosul. One of those bombers is confirmed to be Ronald Fiddler, who became known as Jamal al-Harith after converting to Islam in the 1990s. Al-Harith was freed from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba […]
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By Jon Harris: Authorities are trying to find eight of 11 people who passed through an unattended security checkpoint at New York’s JFK International Airport on 20 February 2017, says Joe Pentangelo, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman. Transportation Security Administration officials in Terminal 5 left a security lane open and unmanned, […]
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By Jon Harris: Today in Whittier, California, one officer was killed and another was wounded as they responded to a motor vehicle accident involving a gang member and a stolen vehicle. When officers arrived on scene to provide assistance the gang member open fired killing one officer and seriously wounding another. The suspect was also wounded […]
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By Jon Harris: In recent years, there have been three cases that have grabbed the nation’s attention involving what many would characterize as treason. Yet that charge, the only crime that is specifically well-defined in the Constitution, does not quite fit, regardless of how much we might think it is appropriate. The common term traitor […]
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By Jon Harris: Is it trendy to flaunt disobeying the law? Is this the new reality—that laws we do not agree with can simply be ignored? Is it proper to protest the enforcement of laws that are currently on the books? How about deciding whether or not the First Amendment is even relevant any longer? […]
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By Jon Harris: Years ago, in 1984, a now-famous political advertisement ran for President Reagan. It featured a bear lurking in the woods. The bear, of course, was a symbol for the USSR, the Russian bear. At the end of his term, President Obama took a very clear and politically motivated move in an attempt […]
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By Jon Harris: Newer vehicles have become much harder to steal than their predecessors. No longer can you simply stick a slide hammer in the key cylinder, pop out the lock, and drive away using a screwdriver to start the car. That used to work, but not anymore. With newer vehicles all being equipped with […]
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By Jon Harris: California is now in a battle not only to resist the anti-sanctuary city policies of the Trump administration but also to double down and become a sanctuary state. In fact, the California legislature has gone as far as to introduce bills to make the entire state a sanctuary for illegal aliens. The […]
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By Jon Harris: During this last election cycle, after lengthy discussions with many supporters and my wife, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and run for Sheriff in my county. This was my first foray into the political field, and to say the learning curve was steep would be an understatement. There […]
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By Jon Harris: Recently, President Trump put a halt on the immigration from seven selected countries and the news media and protestors went nuts. For several days, we have heard how President Trump banned the immigration from these predominantly Muslim countries because they are Muslim. What the news media did not say was that these […]
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By Jon Harris: As a former K9 handler, I have depended on my K9 partners for many years and in many situations. I worked as a dog handler in counter-narcotics in Texas and as a security contractor overseas looking for drugs and explosives. I trust my dog with my life, and in many cases, that […]
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By Jon Harris: Writing for the Daily Wire, September 2, 2016, Editor in Chief Ben Shapiro noted: David Frum of The Atlantic, no hard-core immigration opponent, wrote in 2015 that as of 2011, there were 25,000 illegal immigrants serving murder sentences, and nearly 3 million offenses committed by illegal immigrants between 2003 and 2009, including […]
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By Jon Harris: In my previous article, “My Trip to Iraq”, I talked about working as a military contractor. As with any assignment, there is a point when it is time to come home. This was, in my case, much harder. I had been working as a canine explosive detection handler in Ballad, Iraq. We had […]
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By Jon Harris: In July 2012, I was a contract dog handler at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Sharana, Afghanistan. I handled a narcotic detection canine. The Taliban is principally funded by the smuggling and sale of narcotics. Afghanistan was (and still is) the largest producer of opium in the world, so my work to stop […]
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By Jon Harris: For the last eight years, spinners of various conspiracies have had a field day. Under the outgoing president, they found fertile ground for all sorts of impending disasters. Many of the right-leaning groups saw Barack Obama as the ultimate catalyst for the fall of the Republic. They found his presidency ripe with […]
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By Jon Harris: Military contracting is a strange way to make a living. It takes a certain type of person to be successful. You have to be able to leave your home, by choice, for extended periods of time, often for more than a year. You voluntarily go into places where most people in the […]
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By Jon Harris: President Elect Donald Trump has hit the ground running. Like it or not, this is how good leadership makes a transition. If you were in the military, when there was a change of command, there was an inspection, inventory, and a period of “left seat-right seat” introduction by the outgoing team to […]
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By Jon Harris: For decades, the American political scene has been dominated by the two party system. Voters were either Republican or Democrat, and today, that is mainly still the case. There are of course several others—the Green Party, the Libertarians, the Socialist Party, and a few other groups on the fringe. Then there is […]
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