Op-Ed

When Washington lets the government grind to a halt over partisan trench fights, it creates a self-inflicted readiness gap that our adversaries are eager to exploit.

A mainstream media outlet meant to sound an alarm about “justified homicides,” but its own reporting confirms what gun owners, cops, and veterans already know: trained, law-abiding Americans stop predators and keep families alive.

Bombing drug boats can rattle a cartel’s supply line for a moment, but as a strategy it seeds legal and ethical trouble, alienates coastal communities we need as partners, and ultimately cedes the long fight to traffickers who adapt faster than we can drop ordnance.

Bombs can shatter buildings and morale for a moment, but they rarely win wars, breeding more enemies than they kill and leaving civilians to carry the burden long after the smoke clears.

Unless honest government acts, AI will serve a New Nobility of monopolists and dark money, turning democracy into pay to play and the rest of us into serfs.

Trump forced a Gaza ceasefire with a “hold my beer” shrug, exposing the hollowness of our rules-based priesthood while Congress, gelded and drowsy, watched power act and then tried to explain it.

With Marco Rubio serving as both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, the Trump White House is steering toward another costly small war in Venezuela, an echo chamber for regime change that dismisses sovereignty, sidesteps a cowed Congress, and forgets Powell’s warning that if you break it, you own it.

Trump brands himself anti-globalist, yet his tariffs, combative rhetoric, and forward-leaning deployments bind America more tightly to great-power competition, raising risks to our security and national cohesion.

Treating Venezuela as a target board for drug war theatrics swaps strategy for spectacle and ignores the hard truth that cartel profits, legal ports of entry, and U.S. demand thrive despite bombs, while the real fix lives in reform, cooperation, and treatment.

The U.S. buildup in the Caribbean, paired with covert moves and a push to label cartels as terrorists, reads less like a plan and more like a high-stakes gamble where strategy, law, and morality collide.

There is one human race, and until America confronts the living legacy of state sanctioned racism with honest education, equal law, and everyday compassion, we will keep mistaking skin tone for character.

Special Operations favors the one who thinks under fire, starts before he is told, and pulls others with him.