Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

John Pepple wonders aloud why newspapers hide their content behind paywalls. I've wondered the same thing. When I try to read the letters to the editor of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, a window pops up denying me access and trying to get me to subscribe. I leave the site immediately. They'd rather not be read than to be read by someone who hasn't paid. That's fine. I have other places to get news.

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column. Here is his extra column this week.

Error in the System (1983).

Here are highlights from Stage 3 of the Tour of Oman.

So President Donald Trump, who has never served a day in military service, wants a grand military parade with tanks, guns, fighter jets and all the rest down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The only regimes who engage in such behaviors are bullies—attempting to inspire fear in other countries and their own people, or attempting to bolster their own insecurities by posturing. Examples of the former are Germany and the Soviet Union in the middle of the 20th century. Examples of the latter are North Korea and, yes, France. Maybe this bully will have a uniform designed for himself as commander in chief, forgetting that civilian leadership of the military is one of the U.S. constitutional highlights.

Real military leaders, and I have personally known many, use the force at their disposal only when necessary and do not send the troops under their command to death lightly. Every casualty eats at them for the rest of their lives.

Veterans parades—that is the survivors of battles—celebrate not the killing, but the sacrifices made. So let's have veterans parade, and let's celebrate fighting the good fight when we had to, but let us not engage in intimidation or glorify our military might. As former President Theodore Roosevelt said, "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."

— James Kahan, Southeast Portland

While the Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working hard to come up with a solution to DACA, they should be strongly considering a system of Merit Based Immigration so that we will have the people ready, willing and able to help all of those companies moving into the USA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2018

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This is Michelle Obama's official portrait. What is she wearing, a tarp? Click to enlarge.

The facts of the Florida shootings aren't out yet, but CNN's talking heads are clamoring for gun control. These incidents are simply opportunities for leftists to try to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. If you ban guns, only criminals will have guns.