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HERE'S WHY DEMOCRATS WORK SO HARD TO DEFEND CRIMINALS
By Howard J. Warner,  August 27, 2025

A few days ago, Vice President J.D. Vance in an interview was asked why the Democrats are getting behind criminals and blocking prosecutions and police protection. He responded (to be kind) that the politicians have lost touch with their constituents. But although this might be true of some, he did not get to the real reason.

When Barack Obama was elected president, he indicated that he wanted to fundamentally change America. To that end, he fundamentally changed our health care system, in which many now acknowledge a lack of personal care, as our doctors have become employees of hospitals and large medical groups. Office visits are often to nurse practitioners, as physicians are generally engaged in procedures that generate greater remuneration than office visits. The visits are generally faster, and the provider spends much of the time on the computer. Government influence over our health care system has increased for sixty years (since Medicare and Medicaid), but the Affordable Care Act accelerated this trend. Gaining control over health care was just the beginning to fundamentally changing America from the Enlightenment to Marxism.

As Mark Levin has brilliantly detailed in his book American Marxism, our country did not accept classical class-warfare Marxism, since our creed is to become rich by accumulating wealth through property. But the Frankfurt School version of Critical Theory provides the opportunity to identify oppressed groups aside from the proletariat and bourgeoisie. Democrats have decided to separate the population via race and ethnicity and this has succeeded. For this approach to work there must be a dependent group which appears disadvantaged.

Obama is an intelligent person who morphed Saul Alinsky, Marx, Critical Theory, and anarchy into a legitimate political movement. Although it was successful in his personal ascension to power, this approach has not generally gained ground nationally. (It is well received in the large urban cities with large minority populations.) The movement toward radicalism includes a reduction in policing and punishment for crimes. This results in chaos which threatens the local poor and minority population most giving them a sense of hopelessness and desperation. This is critical to the theory. Hence, these political leaders will resist any attempt to make our streets safer.

Democrats defend crime and defunding the police because this keeps them in power. If people are threatened, they are more willing to distrust those who fall into the “oppressor” groups. The impetus to change paradigms does not come easily when “free” stuff is offered to those with little resources. Hence socialist Mamdani is leading for NYC mayor in a city with a large immigrant population. Crime is the chaos that Critical Theory has ordered. Lowering the crime rate in Washington, D.C. by the Trump initiative is a threat to the Democratic leadership. Of course, the opposition to Trump labels this effort as racism, since Critical Race Theory is one element of this Marxist approach.

Cleaning up Chicago’s southside and west will be of great benefit to the citizens. It will demonstrate Democrat failure. But fixing the problem removes the chaos and might hurt the radicals’ power base.

Reprinted with permission from the American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com

IS THE RUSSIAN MILITARY DEMORALIZING ITS OWN?
By James Zumwalt, September 4, 2025

A way to demoralize one’s own fighting forces reportedly is in use by the Russian military as its invasion of Ukraine continues.

If so, what Russia is doing serves a twofold purpose—to hide the number of casualties Moscow has suffered in its war with Ukraine, and to hide evidence of non-military deaths for which it is responsible. In fighting an earlier war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), Russia—then the former Soviet Union—embarked upon a similar strategy to hide the true impact of its troop losses. However, what it is said to be doing in Ukraine represents a new low in pursuing that objective.

To avoid stirring up criticism among the Russian public during the Afghan war, Moscow did not send its wounded back home. Instead, it used hospitals located within the countries of its Warsaw Pact allies. Meanwhile, its dead were returned home in sealed, zinc-lined coffins. Such coffins were used to prevent families from opening them and viewing the remains. This was done by the government due to concerns that families viewing the disfigurement of a loved one would obviously be upset, sparking criticism of the war. One mother is said to have allegedly tried using a screwdriver to open her son’s coffin to see him one last time but was unsuccessful in doing so.

Distressing too during the Afghan war for those Soviets—both military and civilian who could identify them—was the sight of the “Black Tulip” flights, the An-12 transport planes carrying the bodies home. Such flights were observed either as they took off from Afghanistan or landed in Moscow.

Due to the effort to conceal casualty numbers, the best estimate is that, during its ten year war in Afghanistan, the Soviets suffered between 14,500 to 26,000. In addition to at least 9,500 battlefield deaths, others later died of wounds, accidents or diseases. As the Afghan war took a toll on the Soviet economy and tarnished the image of the Soviet army as an invincible fighting force, it contributed to the country’s eventual collapse. The conflict has since been dubbed as “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam.”

But as Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, its forces are said to have brought with them the immediate means for disposing of their dead—the sight of which undoubtedly has to be most chilling to its soldiers. This time, to hide the casualty count, mobile crematoria have purportedly been accompanying the invading forces.

This is most revealing about Russian tactics. Not only does the mobile crematoria policy hide the fact unsound military tactics are responsible for such a high casualty rate but it also hides the number of Ukrainian civilian deaths, in an effort to avoid leaving behind any evidence to justify possible war crime prosecution later.

It is estimated that, currently, Russia has committed 60% of its ground forces to the Ukraine war. For its young soldiers—many of whom have been drafted and under-trained—the sight of such mobile crematoria following in their footsteps obviously does nothing to motivate them, only adding to their fears.

Undoubtedly, these crematoria are not used to dispose of the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers as Moscow wants Kyiv to know the price it is paying in human casualties for not capitulating to Russia. With North Korea contributing 12,000 soldiers to Russia’s war effort (and possibly sending 18,000 more), it is unknown whether its dead are also being disposed of via the crematoria.

During the Vietnam war, Pyongyang sent a squadron of pilots to assist North Vietnam. Every North Korean pilot that engaged a U.S. pilot died, while flying North Vietnamese planes. The toll of this “help” was too costly for Hanoi, which asked the North Korean pilots to return home. But twelve of those pilots were buried in Vietnam (later repatriated)—all undergoing rather macabre funeral rituals. Thus, North Korean soldiers killed in Ukraine may similarly be buried , initially at least, on foreign soil, helping Pyongyang avoid accountability at home.

In both 2000 and 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin said about the Soviet Union’s fall in 1991: “Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.” Despite this, he has re-established the type of governmental control leaders of the former Soviet Union savored.

In 2005, Putin suggested the Soviet Union’s collapse was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” as “tens of millions” of ethnic Russians suddenly found themselves living outside Russian territory in newly independent countries. Calling it a “genuine tragedy” for the Russian people, it was obviously this mindset that caused him to invade Ukraine in 2022 to reclaim territory lost by the Soviet Union’s collapse.

With the Ukraine war now in its 43rd month, from a territorial perspective, Moscow has little to show for its misadventure as it currently controls only about 12% of the country. This has come at the cost of the lives of an estimated one million Russian soldiers. However, Russia has a long history of a willingness to make tremendous human sacrifices to further its strategic goals.

Russia has also lost thousands of tanks. This hardware cost was evident during its 2024 Liberty Day parade. Russia has always treasured showmanship, commemorating such events by parading row after row of tanks. However, for the first time, such a commemoration displayed only a single tank. And, most embarrassingly, Russia has lost at least two dozen Black Sea Fleet ships at the hands of a country never considered much of a maritime threat. All this raises the question of how much longer Putin can keep up the fight against a smaller but determined foe.

One wonders, as the subject of peace talks is aired, whether Putin has reflected back on how the war in Afghanistan contributed to the Soviet Union’s fall and that the Ukraine war could well contribute to his own demise. Should such a fate befall him violently, the good news is a mobile crematorium unit would immediately be available which, having been good enough for Russia’s fallen in Ukraine, is good enough for Putin as well.

Reprinted with permission from the American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com

EDITORIAL
Science Works Every Time
By Maureen H. Rudel

This is an editorial I wrote for the July 2003 edition of the newsletter.  Since that time, the phony "scientists" have renamed "global warming" to "climate change" since the weather has cooled, not warmed.  Now they are calling it a "climate emergency" to try terrify the populace which has not been educated in real science by our ever-failing public schools into doing things that don't make sense.

Why do these people try to promote these scams?  First, they want to tear down the American economy because we are an "evil" country for being so successful compared to most of the world.  They hate "fossil fuels -- oil, gas and coal -- because we have lots of them and they produce plentiful and cheap energy which allows our industries to prosper.  They want us to waste a lot of money, birds, and effort on solar and wind energy which are expensive and unreliable, so we will not be so successful.  Next, they want to force us to support a lot of failing economies and countries run by socialists, communists and dictators so we won't be so much more successful.  The real, heartfelt, reason for this passion is they hate America.  I don't. And, having actually been trained as a scientist, I know bullshit when I see it.

I don't care where you went to school, or how far you went, you were "exposed" to some science.  The problem is that it seems very little of it became imbedded in the brains of most of the American public.  This is particularly true of the members of the mainstream media.

I don't think there is a "Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy" which meets in some corner somewhere and decides: "How can we fool them today?"  I believe that people who go into journalism are most often enamored with the power of words.  They enter the field on a mission.  They want to make the world a better place.  They are oozing with compassion and emotion.  They are willing to do almost anything to accomplish their ends.  Take a look at the various columnists, reporters and authors who have been exposed over the last several years for fabrication, plagiarism, distortion and totally erroneous works.  Not one is a conservative.  However, these do-gooders often do a great deal of harm by falling for something that sounds good and is nonsense.  If they were to apply the smallest amount of scientific logic to their cause, the truth would out.

The scientific method (you remember this) depends upon logic.  First, you develop a hypothesis to explain a phenomenon.  Then, you develop an experiment to test the hypothesis.  Next, perform the experiment.  Analyze the result.  This will tell you whether your original hypothesis was correct.  If it was, you should be able to perform the same experiment time and again and get the same results.  Think about the old magnet and compass.  The magnet attracts the compass needle every single time.

Now, let's talk about some recent "issues" where a little logic would work. 

 I have a friend who had a daughter in college who was taking environmental science.  That is the least scientific field I can think of.  She started railing at her mother about recycling the trash.  Her mother was at her wit's end with frustration.  I suggested an experiment.  Her daughter was assigned to follow the trash at her own college.  All of the glass, cans, paper and garbage was separated in various bins.  They were picked up separately.  They all went to the land fill.  They were all dumped in the same bin.  However, the trash company was making a whole lot more money by charging for the handling of the separate bins.  Think about it.  If recycling really worked, people would pay YOU for your trash.  However, no one ever tests a program like this which is so politically correct.

My favorite is global warming.  First, one has to establish that the globe is in fact warming.  This means that one has to have an accurate method of measuring the temperature of the globe over a very long time.  Remember, thermometers are relatively new.  What do you measure and how do you do it?  If you can establish that the globe is warming, one might want to know why.  One might also want to know how much it is warming, how long will it last, how hot will it get, and what will be the result.  The global warming disaster-mongers cannot answer any of these questions.  What they have done is to develop computer models which they say answers these questions.  The problem with computer models is that if you put garbage in, you will get garbage out.  Not a single model which they say will predict the future can accurately replicate the past.  Remember, if it's real science, it will produce the same result each and every time.

If it's an anti-capitalist agenda, it will cost a whole lot of money, will produce a disaster for the United States and still won't solve the problem.

Q.E.D.

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