Subject: A Different Take
Date Sent: 8 Jul 2025
1) Anything less than free food, medical treatment, clothing, TV, library, a gated/safe community for criminals, is a violation of the 8th Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause. However, it’s those who don’t have such domestic niceties that are being cruelly and usually punished - the taxpayers. What ever happened to road gangs, making license plates…?
2) The UN reported that Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities curtailed their enrichment goals by only 3-months. Seems the UN is encouraging – authorizing - the U.S. to return and finish the job.
3) The Trump/Musk on-again/off-again contentions and Musk’s threat of a third party might just be a subterfuge to lay-bare RINOs, suck in centralist Dems and/or stop the Tesla downslide.
4) Zohran Mamdani is the Democrat candidate for NYC Mayor. If his anti-Semitic, far-left ideology is a forerunner of the future Dem platform, it’s a gift to the Republicans that could set the Dems back a generation.
5) Russia has officially recognized the Taliban government of Afghanistan, a signal they are down to desperate measures. This Islamic nation was invaded in 1979 by Russia and now they are allies? What’s the quid pro quo: Russia helps them acquire nukes - Afghanistan allows Russia forces and nukes in country?
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Finally, A Happy 4th
Date Sent: 1 Jul 2025
Four Score and 162 years and we have witnessed the Brave Men [and women], Living And Dead, Who Struggled Here, and in Korea, Vietnam, over there twice… Have Not Died In Vain; that common-sense-void judges can no longer trample our Unalienable Rights and the transformation from an obese and incestuous government so entrenched its elected and bureaucratic officials violated with impunity the mandate, Shall Be Bound By Oath Or Affirmation to Support This Constitution.
Eight score and two years and we applaud the over-turning of protect-us-from-ourselves laws that offend all who have ever pledged: One Nation . . . With Liberty And Justice For All and the rise of the American empire where the world did take Note … and has Long Remembered … Government Of The People, By The People … is still Dedicated To Unfinished Work.
It’s now twenty score plus nine years and we are experiencing the re-beginning of the One People to Dissolve The Political Bands that were destroying Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness while we return to the task To Form A More Perfect Union so that This Nation, Under God, Shall Not Perish From The Earth.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: LEO Defined
Date Sent: 17 Jun 2025
American Law Enforcement Officers are a special breed. Our secular one-size-fits-all government cannot just take any person, and by subjecting him or her to extensive and sensitive training, create a LEO. A Law Enforcement Officer is one who first and foremost wants to be a law-enforcement officer because he/she honestly likes being able to help people. At the same time, has a strong sense of right and wrong, exhibits leadership abilities and subscribes to a healthy fear of being labeled a coward.
The American LEO exemplifies theologically-inspired moral and ethical values including the traits of bravery and common sense; entrusted to a physical-boundary of a political division of society with the authority, duty, obligation and power to maintain tranquility, protect property and persons and investigate and arrest anyone violating codified laws and rules in accordance with the Constitution.
American police officers are NOT the enemy, nor are they hand-holders, social workers, jack-booted-thugs or heroes. However, evil-doers may deem them the enemy; they may become hand-holders when comfort is needed or social workers when helping the indigent and even jack-booted-thugs when breaking down doors to protect the protectees from evil doers - and when heroic acts are required….
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Another Reality Check
Date Sent: 17 Jun 2025
Protests are public gatherings to voice one’s displeasure of government action/inaction. Protests become riots when persons are injured and/or property is damaged or occupied. Riots become insurrection when insurrectionists forcefully move to take control of a government. Government competence is exhibited by its ability to accept protests while not allowing them to become riots.
For their “service” police officers, firefighters and military members are paid very well. Our Senators and Members of Congress are not paid well for their “service”…wait, wait, I’ve got this backward; it’s the over-paid protectees who are kept out of harm’s way by the underpaid protectors.
At least 60% of the voters (Reps & Dems) fear Republicans are a detriment to America, but at least 60% believe Democrats have proven to be a detriment to America.
If the poverty level is X-dollars/family and all poverty families are given enough money to raise them $1.00 above the X-dollar level; the new poverty level will be X-dollars plus one dollar. Thus, poverty will never be overcome because gifted dollars will continually be needed to adjust the ever-increasing poverty level.
Always fight a fair fight - by your definition of fair, of course.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Education Priorities
Date Sent: 10 Jun 2025
Reports are emerging that college students are using AI to write term papers and required assignments. Are these future leaders demonstrating innovation by utilizing the latest technology to prepare them for the real world or just cheating? To counter this, some professors are allowing students to bring laptops/iPads to class for test taking, but those who do must be on the honor system that they won’t access the internet – yeah, right.
Other educators have taken to requiring assignments and test-takers to hand-write their coursework. However, school administrations are now discovering that students - from college seniors all the way back to grade school level - can’t write. Is the Teacher’s Union squandering the very limited number of hours available for teaching the 3Rs with the goal of supplanting the family/church with indoctrination of woke DEI, sex, religion, politics, computereeze?
Elementary school boards might best serve their communities by requiring all non-traditional instruction be offered as extracurricular credit, but only to those who pass traditional 3R teachings. Is penmanship (not pen-person-ship) the only basic that isn’t being taught in most grade school classes? If you don’t know what the 3Rs are, you might be part of the problem.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Voting en bloc
Date Sent: 3 Jun 2025
To Republican Senators and Congresspersons: You are NOT an Ohio/California/Texas…Senator/Congressperson, you are a United States Senator/Congressperson who happens to be from Ohio/California/Texas…. Our party leaders decide what’s best for America. As a party member, your duty, obligation and purpose is to vote for bills your party has determined are best for America. If this ‘best’ also benefits your state that’s an added benefit.
Individual state priorities and special interests, appeasement, compromise and ‘deals’ is what got us into the predicament of tariffs, military quagmire, disastrous foreign policy in the first place. Your re-election will depend on results – bills passed – not your egocentric opposition. Try to keep this in mind: If America doesn’t do well, neither will your district.
Of course, promotion of your state or special interests is not only welcome but expected of you … but not in contravention to the party’s goals. As we witness Democrats de facto voting en bloc, thus declaring the day of partisanship is over, we must stick together or we ain’t gonna get nothin’ done. The purpose/goal of having a majority – as we now have - is to also vote en bloc for the goals set out by our party’s leaders.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: The Obit
Date Sent: 27 May 2025
To Democrats: Condolences on the loss your brother. To Republicans: A huge and resounding *** whew *** as we finally become free from the restraints of our common sibling who has over-stayed his usefulness…Big Brother.
Big Bro’s final gasps were exhibited by memory-challenged Joe’s final act of pardoning criminals and just before the Donald pardoned…oh wait, wait, allow me to start over. Now that our shared relative, at least for the time being, is smoldering in the ulcerated bowels of political history, we can all look forward to the security of a king and his heirs … oh wait, damn, I’m not doing well today – must be those few minutes I spend everyday perusing MSNBC while FOX, and Newsmax are on commercial break. Cut me a little slack, I’m suffering from anxious moments caused by the only thing that can curtail MAGA - republican in-fighting.
Alright, a shot of coffee, a dose of Carl Higbie and a breath of farm-county fresh air and I can complete the short list of truths we’re finally experiencing: Secure borders, a don’t-tread-on-me military, make-my-day foreign policy, stick-in-your-ear tariffs, constitutionally correct SCOTUS, common-sense EOs and law and order in the streets.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Shame on you AFNN
Date Published by AFNN: 23 May 2025
[note: AFNN refused to publish my regular column (shown below and sent to my regular email list of +/- 300 on 20 May 2025. In lieu of this column, they published the following "Editor's Note" ]
Editor’s Note: The below article is a writer’s response to an editorial decision to not run one of his submissions. While we disagree that this is a, “1st Amendment issue,” we have allowed the writer space share his disagreement here. We have also allowed a link to his website where our readers may read the article in question and draw their own conclusions.
Ed
Is AFNN a source for news, opinion and truth or just another mainstream wannabe media whitewash?
Last week, I submitted an editorial based on truths: Suicide by Gun. AFNN refused to print or even post it to my page on their site. They claimed: “I’m sorry to say this, but I can’t publish this one. Our site would be shut down. I get what you are saying, but some truths are too difficult for most folks to swallow. Any number of folks...from the web host outright turning us off, to google burying our stuff, to the aggregators that would stop promoting us, to Facebook banning our site or any link that has our URL in it.....”. In other words, AFNN is admitting their 1st Amendment rights are dictated by big business. Are you, an AFNN reader, so cowed/weak you can’t swallow truths?
We gotta wonder what other truths this claimed media source is NOT allowing us to read. If we want pseudo and deceptive, controlled stuff, we can always go to CNN, FOX, CBS, et. al. You can read the complete and unedited Suicide by Gun editorial on MY website page: Chuck Klein Editorials
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Suicide by Gun
Date Sent: 20 May 2025
Everyone is going to die – there are no exceptions. No one can save a life – all one can do is postpone death. Some believe a better place awaits them after death. Lamenting someone’s intentional death without considering the suicide’s wishes is egocentrically selfish.
Suicide education should include teaching how to best utilize a firearm when dispatching oneself. Most gun suicides shoot themselves in the head and they do it in a location where someone has to clean up the bloody mess. Of course, some might wish to leave a bloody mess as a parting shot to those who have to do the cleaning.
The best example of how to unselfishly commit suicide was a friend who used a sufficiently powerful handgun, with expanding bullet (non-penetrating), to shoot himself in the chest – twice. He clearly knew the shot placement would not create a bloody mess and that he would have enough time for the coup de grâce.
My greatest fear is to end up in a condition (terminally bedridden, quadriplegic) where I am dependent upon others and unable to free those who feel obligated to care for me. And, I would rather be dead than incarcerated or enslaved.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Best For Who?
Date Sent: 13 May 2025
The Great Depression and WWII found us rallying behind FDR’s 3,728 executive orders. By 1945, militarily and economically, we were the strongest of all nations. Our smugness generated an 80-year liberal mindset that fostered the belief: What’s Best for Other Nations is Best of Us. Five factors followed:
1) Our tariff-gift policies caused the loss of the ability to manufacture the machines that make the machines that make things.
2) We turned a blind eye to nuclear proliferation and imperialism of countries that would become our enemies.
3) Our encouragement of accepting foreigners into American universities and corporations resulted in theft of copyrights, patents, trade secrets and other esoteric properties.
4) America became an obese, untrustworthy, egocentric government bent on perpetuating itself by the doctrine of CYA and forsaking ability standards in preference to DEI.
5) Though immigrants are our DNA, a massive influx of illegals is destroying the assimilation process.
So far in 2025, Trump has issued only 147 executive orders. Our failure to support him will result in subservientness to our enemies. The MAGA goal is to reverse the 80-year liberal appeasement trend with his policy: What’s Best for America is Good for Other Nations.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Tax Time
Date Sent: 6 May 2025
With the IRS in turmoil (5-Chiefs this year and many firings), you might want to consider:
* Keeping a copy (paper or electronic) of tax returns at least 7-years. Though the IRS usually won’t go back more than three prior years unless gross misstatement of income is suspected. Seven is a safe number unless fraud is the issue; then the IRS can go back as far as they wish.
* Setting up an account at IRS.gov to verify returns and payments. This would entail getting an ID.me account and could also be used to verify information at social security as well.
* About 50 years ago the IRS audited me questioning my income and expenses on RE investments. They ordered an additional tax and penalty. I didn’t agree and asked my attorney about an appeal. His reply is one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received. He told me to pay the money, saying if I appealed – win or lose – the IRS will feel offended, insulted. In other words, my future returns would be flagged to be scrutinized - the IRS has a long memory. I paid and have never been audited again.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Famous Quotes
Date Sent: 29 Apr 2025
If you’ve studied history or lived it, you should be able to add the last name and put context into these lines:
“From my cold dead hands….” Heston
“Et tu Brute.” William
“A date that will live in infamy.” Franklin
“We will bury you.” Nikita
“That’s one small step for man….” Neil
“Then they came for me….” Martin
“Yes, Virgina, there is a Santa Claus.” Francis
“So much owed by so many to so few.” Winston
“Read my lips.” Bush
“The most terrifying words in the English language are….” Ronald
“Ask not what your country can do for you….” Jack
“It ain’t over ‘till its over.” Yogi
“The Northern Lights have seen queer sights….” Robert
“Fourscore and seven years ago….” Abe
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad
“We have met the enemy, and they are ours.” Commander Oliver
“We have met the enemy, and they are us.” Walt (Pogo)
“The great silent majority.” Richard
“I have a dream.” Martin
“Nice guys finish last.” Leo
“Take my hand, take my whole life too, for I can’t help falling in love with you.” Elvis
“The secret to life is the ability to adapt to change.” Chuck
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: USPS Lawsuit Update
Date Sent: 22 Apr 2025
The ten-year battle continues with the US Postal service over their unilateral, arbitrary and capricious refusal to allow my mailbox to be at my property line. This violates my constitutional equal rights protection. They declared the road unsafe and threatened to halt all mail unless I moved the box ¼ mile to a cluster box location. Thus, if packages don’t fit in the box, it’s a 10-mile round trip to the local post office. This is problematic now that I’m in my mid-80s and ordering many mail order products. Only the owner of the road/right-of-way (the township) has the authority to make such declarations (except maybe Kings?).
The USPS response to my suit: “The 14th Amendment applies to state actors, not the federal government, and … USPS’s sovereign immunity.” In other words, the USPS is saying they are the King, as in the King can do no wrong.
UPS, FedEx, and other carriers regularly make deliveries on this 100-year-old road that has no record of accidents. If the USPS is allowed to determine the safety of a public road, then any agency – FBI, ATF, DOE… - could also, willy-nilly, close public roads. Case history and more consequences: https://www.chuckkleinauthor.com/page.aspx/360/usps.html
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Liberal Thinking
Date Sent: 15 Apr 2025
The editor of STORY MAGAZINE https://www.storymagazine.org/, a long-established magazine, wrote to his readers about how they select stories for the publication:
“I think the idea behind blind submissions is that you are judging the work solely based on the work and not on anything about the author: their race, creed, gender identity, where they went to college, former contributor, unpublished or National Book Award winner, and so forth. But, I’d argue that all these factors do matter and should be considered.
“Hypothetically, let’s say all of our submissions are blind. We accept 12 stories. We are ready to publish them. And we discover all 12 are by white American males. Do we have problem? I say, absolutely. You know who gets angry about this example? Old white guys. That’s it. No one else.” Editor-in-Chief: Michael Nye (10 April 2025).
Suppose a commercial airline needs to hire 12 pilots; 10 are qualified and hired; two who are not as qualified are hired to appease DEI goals. Who do you want flying the plane you’re on? The magazine is a .org indicating they are tax exempt, i.e., the taxes they don’t pay, we do. And the Dems wonder way Trump was elected.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: OUR FEDERAL COURTS
Date Sent: 8 Apr 2025
SUPREME COURT: Hears appeals from the Circuit Courts. There is no requirement that the Supreme Court must hear all or any cases. The reality of this selectivity is due to an overload of cases and sometimes for political reasons.
FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT: Appellant level court for matters related to international trade, customs and patent infringement, district courts and the Court of Claims. There are 13 Circuits.
COURT OF CLAIMS: Adjudicates claims against the government, such as injury or loss caused by the government or an agent of the government.
FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS: These courts hear civil and criminal matters as they pertain to federal law. There are 94 Districts.
COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE: This is a Special Court of original jurisdiction to handle disputes concerning trade practices between citizens of the United States and foreign countries.
TAX COURT: This is a court of original jurisdiction for citizens and business disputes over federal taxes.
COURT OF MILITARY APPEALS: An appellant level Special Court to hear appeals from military courts.
Though one has the 6th Amendment right a trial and a 1st Amendment right to appeal, there is no right to have the appeal accepted for review by any court.
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: FAR-SIGHTED OR DELUSIONAL
Date Sent: 1 April 2025
In the play/movie, The Man Of La Mancha, is the song, The Impossible Dream (1965, Joe Darion). The lyrics:
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To run where the brave dare not go,
To right the unrightable wrong;
And I know, if I remain true
To this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I’m laid to my rest.
The story is of Don Quixote, a delusional character, who thought of himself as a knight in shining armor. There were no giants, only windmills and the rival knights were herds of goats. DJT is a far-sighted man inasmuch as he is a fighter of an – up until now – unbeatable foe; he bravely runs to where sniper-fire may happen, and to him and his American supporters his quest is to correct the heretofore unrightable wrongs forced on us all. If Trump, the enforcer of laws, just like all police officers, stay true to the quest, they will lie peaceful and calm when laid to their rest.
The evidence of Trump’s principles is found in his book, THE ART OF THE DEAL: “I fight when I feel I’m getting screwed, even if it’s costly and difficult and highly risky.”
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Disturbing Trends
Date Sent: 24 Mar 2025
In a recent Wall Street Journal letter to the editor a writer claimed his son’s college Mechanical Engineering class required “students to re-write engineering problems in a context of social justice.” In other words, grades will be based on a student’s social justice views rather than the ability to understand engineering concepts. And we wonder why American education is falling behind.
A civil jury awarded Transfer Energy Co. $660M in damages after finding Greenpeace activists blocked the company’s construction of their pipeline. Greenpeace’s interim executive director, Sushma Raman, said: “This case should alarm everyone…. It’s part of a renewed push by corporations to weaponize our courts to silence dissent.” “Weaponize our courts”? Really? This once respected organization is claiming trespassing, destruction of property and/or disrupting legal activity is “dissent”. Shame. Should corporate victims of this “dissent” forsake the courts and retaliate violently, a la., strike breaking thugs? Is this the justification for firebombing Teslas?
We’ve witnessed the weaponization of the law by the persecution of Trump and with the refusal to prosecute rioters in cities (post George Floyd). Recently, Biden “weaponized” pardons followed by Trump’s retaliatory pardons. Currently, judges have “weaponized” themselves to run the country. Where are we headed?
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
https://chuckklein.com
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Subject: Functions of the Second Amendment
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