Category Archives: Point BLANK

Do we have the time, or is this the beginning of the end of life in America as we have known it? This is where you will find a range of Editorial postings and comments by a select group of writers, many of who have had long term relations with Kettle Moraine Publications – and EACH of whom provide us with THEIR Perspectives as this Nation ignores the warnings as we live in the end of days – for most Americans’ are Too Blind to See – and we once again convert back to one of our OLD and DEFINITIVE categories – POINT BLANK!

On a Day to Never Forget, Too Many Have Overlooked What Happened on 9/11

Tower 2 of the Twin Towers collapses as a plume of smoke and debris fill the air while people watch from Broome Street and 6th Avenue on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, in New York, New York.

It started as a gorgeous late-summer morning in New York City. Then everything went straight to hell.

Where were you when you knew?

Twenty-five years have passed as if in a heartbeat. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was sitting on the deck atop my Brooklyn brownstone with stunning views of lower Manhattan, preparing to take my daughter to her first day of preschool when a small plane appeared to fly into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Or so we thought. Continue reading

Memorializing 9/11 Must Have Consequence for Generations

Families of first responders view the new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza on Sept. 9, 2026 in New York City. Family members of first responders, and other NYPD officers was a new wall display was unveiled honoring first responders who lost their lives during the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center terror attacks and since. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Twenty-five years later, the central question is not if we remember 9-11.

How could we possibly forget?

The central question is what that memory requires of us.

And if, over the years, do those requirements change.

Sept. 11, 2001 was – and still is – a muti-dimensional tragedy. Continue reading

What Was the Benefit?

Ben Shapiro declares that Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and Cenk Uygur are all ‘anti-American, Islamists‘ who ‘shouldn’t be in the country

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro took aim at Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, streamer Hasan Piker and Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur on Monday, accusing all four of undermining American democracy

Conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro has claimed that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, New York’s Zohran Mamdani, and far-left influencers Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur don’t belong in the US.

The Daily Wire founder made the declaration Monday on The Ben Shapiro Show.

Meanwhile, the West continues to import these people,’ Shapiro griped at a point, pointing out how all are either foreign-born or have parents who are immigrants.

None of the people I just mentioned should be in the country. None of them.’  Continue reading

“I Will Defend My Country Against ALL Enemies, BOTH Foreign and Democrat!

The Democrat Party [nuthin’ “democratic” about it] has largely been the enemy of America, since 1913 with the election of Woodrow Wilson to the presidency and the passage of the Federal Reserve Bank Act and the Income Tax — and they have grown progressively worse through the FDR, LBJ, Carter, Obama and Biden years to the point that they are essentially authoritarian communists demanding the complete overthrow of our American system and the eradication of our constitutional republic and traditional America Herself, along with the virtues and principles that built Her — hiding the true horror and malicious and evil intent behind their agenda in the soft, comforting term of “the fundamental transformation of America”.

Their fundamental transformation will ultimately result in Hell on Earth and the reduction of every person in America to the lowest common denominator of “equality” in poverty — except of course for those holding the reins of power. ~ Justin O Smith

New Mexico Supreme Court Halts AI Data Center Permit Process, Handing Residents a Rare Win “a Rare Win

A pair of unanimous New Mexico Supreme Court orders has put a key part of Project Jupiter — a major artificial intelligence data center project in Santa Teresa — on pause, handing opponents a significant, though likely temporary, victory.

Here’s what to know 

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Speaker Johnson Predicts Americans Wants ‘Common Sense‘ Over Socialism

While Jeffries’s lieutenants speak out of both sides of their mouths about the creeping communist agenda — “Democratic Socialists aren’t part of the Democratic Party,” but “we’re a broad caucus” — conservatives are making it clear that the party has already been ideologically captured.

The Year of the Democratic Socialists took another twist Tuesday when the House went on the offensive to paint Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y.) party as a dangerous force of anti-Americanism.

While the New Yorker has desperately tried to put some distance between Democrats and the DSA (somewhat unsuccessfully, others would add), the party’s drift toward mind-boggling radicalism is putting the entire country on edge. Continue reading

Marquardt – AGENDA 21: Cancel Culture on a World-Wide Scale; Take 2

This article was originally written when Covid hit. We knew very little about the machinations of parts of our government that were working to enhance and spread Covid as far as possible. Now we even know a lot about our government’s hand in producing it and pushing the also dangerous vaccine on us. Some wondered why.

Since 1992, we, at American Policy Center have been pointing out that one of the major goals of Agenda2/Sustainable Development is to reduce the human population by over 90%. Yet many laugh and call us conspiracy theorists. What I don’t understand about this statement is that we had been hearing for decades that the world is overpopulated; that we will run out of space and room for everyone; that we can’t feed so many. At the same time that we were reading Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb and Population Explosion and the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth, America was being called the breadbasket of the world. Of the world!

We were sending food all over the world to feed people. Now… 

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Hickman: Government Regulations Now add $132,000 to the Average New Home

Somewhere in America there’s a local ordinance that tells you which way your garage has to face…

                    We are TRULY living in a Bleak House!

Another one dictates what your fence can be made of, and a third sets how many square feet of window your house needs. A few spell out the dimensions of particular features down to a quarter of an inch.

The National Association of Home Builders, the trade group for the companies that build American homes, has been adding up what rules like these cost since 2011.

Its reasoning is simple: the country is short about 1.2 million homes, and rising regulatory costs are one of the things keeping builders from closing that gap. So anyone writing new rules ought to know what the existing ones already cost.

Government regulation now adds about $132,000 to the price of a new home.

That’s just over a quarter of the roughly $500,000 the average new house sold for in January. Continue reading

DiLorenzo ~ Socialism Is Stupid… Here’s Why!

The nerds of socialism are just that: cowardly nerds, dorks, and geeks. For the benefit of yourself, your family, and our country, give them no comfort;

History is a beneficial way to learn. When schools cut back on history, society suffers. And we are suffering.

To all those 50 years of age and under, did you learn in school that the early American colonies were initially administered under socialism?

In the colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth, a communal labor system or agricultural socialism was used. Land was held collectively, and produce was distributed equally regardless of individual effort. Continue reading

Snyder: 16 Facts About The Shocking Decline Of Public Education In The U.S. That Every American Should Know

Virtually everyone agrees that our public schools are in a state of decline. Needless to say, it isn’t because we aren’t spending enough money. The federal government, our state governments and our local governments are collectively spending nearly a trillion dollars a year on public education. That is a colossal pile of money. Since 1960, spending per student has increased by 350 percent. That is even after adjusting for inflation. At this stage, we spend more money per student than any other nation on the entire planet other than Luxembourg. Anyone that believes that we can solve our education crisis by spending even more money is simply being delusional.

For nearly a trillion dollars a year, we should be getting a world class education system.

But we aren’t!!! 

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Benson: As Much As Some Hate It, God Wins In The End

There are those who will hate God’s victory and will fight against it in this world. But in the final analysis, they can do nothing about it. I woke up early this morning for some reason and as I lay there, some of the words from Martin Luther’s hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” came to mind which I will note here – “Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing. Were not the right man on our side, the man of God’s own choosing. Dost ask who that might be? Christ Jesus, it is he. Lord Sabaoth his name, from age to age the same. And He must win the battle.” Continue reading

Johnson ~ Children: God’s Gift or Economic Liability?

The Real Reason Behind the Birth-Rate Collapse Is Spiritual and Cultural

Margaret Sanger

I recently read Felix Yang’s article “The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling the Family’s Will to Reproduce,” published by the Mises Institute and printed on a financial website.[1] Yang contends that the collapse in birth rate is not a mysterious cultural anomaly. Instead, he argues it is the rational response of individuals living under a century of government interventions that have broken the link between parental sacrifice and long-term reward. He identifies six “nooses” that strangled the benefits of having children. According to him they were all economic. In other words, Yang was saying that because of government regulations the economic reward of having children has been strangled. Continue reading

DeWeese: Are AI and its Massive Data Centers the Answer for a Free Society or Its Greatest Threat Ever?

“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” ~ Proverbs 13:20 (KJV)

President Trump claims that AI Data Centers are “one of the biggest driving forces for the future of jobs.” He goes on to state that they are “sought as cash cows, with lower taxes and record setting jobs.” These have become the major selling points to local government as used by the Data Center builders. Prosperity, jobs, the new infrastructure for American progress! And of course, the number one argument is that we must not “lose Data Centers, AI, and this incredible new Technology to China.

However, incredibly strong opposition to the huge Data Centers in local communities across the nation has shocked the promoters, including President Trump. The President has responded by forcefully stating that “you can’t fight it, you have to go with it”! And he has charged that it’s the “Radical Left Democrats” that are leading the growing opposition. Continue reading

Greatest Political Cartoons in Recent History ~ But it’s ALL B.S.!

The cast of characters during the political cycles over the past decade or so has provided plenty of satirical fuel for political cartoons across the USA TODAY Network. As the 2026 calendar moves into the fall behind a whirlwind of tariffs and taxes and political headlines from President Donald Trump and more, we’re looking back on some of the best of the best cartoons in recent history.

The cast of characters during the political cycles over the past decade or so has provided plenty of satirical fuel for political cartoons across the USA TODAY Network.

As the 2026 calendar moves into the fall behind a whirlwind of tariffs and taxes and political headlines from President Donald Trump and more, we’re looking back on some of the best of the best cartoons in recent history.

C’mon… Go SEE Smo’! 

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Why Are So Many Young People Drawn to Communism?

Every generation searches for answers. Young people have always challenged the status quo, questioned authority, and sought a better future than the one they inherited. That impulse is not only understandable, but it is often essential to a healthy democracy. It is how societies reform, innovate, and correct injustice.

Yet one question has resurfaced with increasing frequency on college campuses, social media, and in political discourse: Why are some young people embracing communism or openly expressing sympathy for socialist and communist ideas despite the overwhelming historical record of communist governments?

The answer deserves more than slogans or political attacks. It deserves honesty, humility, and historical perspective. Continue reading

Garrison: AOC Brings NOTHING to the Table!

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to be considered as a viable 2028 presidential candidate.

Let that sink in.This is a woman who has spent years in Congress producing more Instagram posts than actual legislation. Her legislative resume is thinner than the paper her Green New Deal was printed on. She’s the political equivalent of a restaurant with a fantastic social media page, but found to have an empty kitchen. Before she got into politics, she was a bartender who couldn’t remember the ingredients to a rum and coke.

OK, we’re joking about the drink – we’re sure she’s far more qualified to be a bartender or barista than a president. Continue reading

Finney: In the Wake of a Spokane Disaster

It’s time the Marxists, running Spokane, pack their bags and leave.

Not one of the people the email, below, was sent to, had the intestinal fortitude to respond. They are hoping that, if they don’t respond, this will go away. ~ L.F.

Mayor,
Spokane City Council,

I particularly ‘enjoyed’ reading Mayor Lisa Brown’s Q&A piece with Emry Dinman last week. One has to wonder if the Spokesman Review collaborated with the mayor’s office on what questions Dinman could ask.

In that article, Mayor Lisa Brown claims that “we’ve always taken the view that traffic safety and fire safety are where community safety really meets people.” Continue reading

Aggressive Child: 1960s Psychiatric Case Study

You will note that the following video has been posted in two separate categories, “Point Blank and “Take a Little Pill.” What is interesting to me – is that in many respects – it was the 1960’s that much of what is presented in this video – is what led to the “taking of the little pill”. If you are not familiar with the reference, then I might suggest that you read a lengthy column which I wrote some years ago – and I DID witness the history of what was being discussed. Go ahead – read it: But it’s all OK – Just Take a Little Pill… where I opened with these simple words: “I was a third week Senior at Glenbrook North High School in 1965 – and I knew  that something was wrong…” ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor