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1 week ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, and pigs see you as an equal. Winston Churchill's astute observation, slightly tweaked, describes how people of different ideological breeds view the police. In the polarized miasma of contemporary "dialogue,” police are either vilified or venerated. Either they can't catch a break, or they can do nothing wrong. Politicians, by speaking from both sides of their maws, can be said to technically represent everybody.
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2 weeks ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
I have no plasma screen and all I know about plasma is blood related and my experience with streaming is strictly allergy related. I've attended traditional movie theaters avidly ever since I was uploaded with hormones and found the dark and intimate back rows of these fleapits conducive to romantic exploration. Now, they're fading fast (the theaters, not the hormones). The decline of movie theaters has been arrested, and it was not by ICE.
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3 weeks ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
P.T. Barnum, who said "There's a sucker born every minute,” lived before the population explosion and the present era of warp speed mass gullibility. Today, a sucker is born every nano-second. And all persuasions are equal opportunity suckers for exploitation by multilateral sources of propaganda.
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1 month ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
Wake-up callBeasts!BY RON ISAACPosted 3/28/25 Leaking bags of dripping animal blood, receptacles crawling with maggots, goat, sheep and lamb stools, drains clogged with bird droppings and feathers, spoiled, ashen meat by-products hosting larvae and vermin, tortured sentient creatures in minuscule enclosures. There are around 80 of these ghastly paradises in New York City. They produce wildlife carnage . Sometimes they're called "wet markets.” This item is available in full to subscribers.
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1 month ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
The eternal truths are always topical, and, if you track current events, the haunting loss of childhood innocence is rich in renewable content. Kids who viewed Sesame Street's debut and befriended Big Bird and Cookie Monster are now queuing for pacemakers and running out the clock on their lives and hips.
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1 month ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
Will postal workers soon be as insecure as a Cybertruck's body panel? Whether by chainsaw or sledgehammer, the efficiency ghouls in Washington are already doing violence to labor contracts, making a mockery of the meaning of "legally binding,” and pouring quicklime over the body of legacy principles of due process and the rule of law. The United States Postal Service may be sacrificed on the holiest of altars: elusive solvency in a profligate nation.
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1 month ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
There may be times when the goat gets the better of the Komodo Dragon, but don't bet on it. Just as precarious a wager is that any given politician will repel the tantalizations of ambition and choose to sacrifice the temptations of personal enrichment in order to uphold higher principles of honor and duty.
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2 months ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
Look out, it's Black History Month! It's because I respect its original purpose that I sound a cautionary alarm. It was conceived to elevate the nation with an awareness of the vast and vital intergenerational contributions of African Americans to the shared legacy of national greatness. Not just in pop entertainment, brawny sports and community leadership, but also in every area from opera to the hardest of sciences.
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2 months ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
Wake-up callFreewheeling and the peoples' businessBY RON ISAACPosted 2/7/25 Will someone please step forward and explain the logic and fairness of members of Congress being allowed to massively enrich themselves and their families by indulging in insider trading when it is strictly forbidden for the rest of us? This item is available in full to subscribers. Attention subscribers We have recently launched a new and improved website.
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2 months ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
The Post yet again attacks teachers' unions for opposing cuts in educational services to kids (“How lavish benefits pushed by NY teachers’ unions ramped up school spending…,” Jan. 17). It practically equates their advocacy for children with extortion and stealing from strapped taxpayers. It blames the unions for pressuring the city into spending more than their editorial board deems public school students are worth, and regards special-needs children as especially burdensome.
