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IN THE MIDDLE
From the perspective of DA haircuts and black leather jackets, some thoughts, observations and maybe even some wisdom from an old, retired cop.
Stars Fell on Alabama
Thanks to Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians for the title, a famous big band song of 1934… On the March 26th of 2024, a woman named...
Michael Robb
Mar 30, 20242 min read


Lightning Strikes Twice
Back when he was president, Barrack Obama, in what was supposed to be a confidential conversation, got caught on a hot mic, remarking,...
Michael Robb
Mar 29, 20242 min read
Trump, Biden, and Napoleon
In his latest scam, the apparent (at least for now) Republican candidate for President is selling Bibles. So, for any Trump supporter who...
Michael Robb
Mar 28, 20241 min read


Looking Positively Presidential
Excluding ZZ Top opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd on a concert tour, the news has been dominated by Donald Trump trying to come up with $454...
Michael Robb
Mar 22, 20242 min read
Brother, can you Spare a Dime?
Awhile back I wrote an article about the stress that both Trump and Biden are under and how it could affect the election results. When I...
Michael Robb
Mar 19, 20241 min read


Ukraine
George Santayana wrote, “…those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it …” In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville...
Michael Robb
Mar 17, 20243 min read


On the Border
Thanks to The Eagles for the title …Unless you’re a full blooded Native American, we’re all immigrants and while immigrants built this...
Michael Robb
Mar 15, 20243 min read


Georgia on my Mind
Thanks to the great Ray Charles, a Georgia native, for the title………I was going to turn this into a profanity-laden, spit flying,...
Michael Robb
Mar 12, 20243 min read


88 Minutes
I watched The State of the Union address last night, usually I just blow it off and do the Cliffs Notes version the next day and read...
Michael Robb
Mar 8, 20242 min read
Down Ballot
While presidential elections catch the bright light and most of the press, down ballot races over the course of four years realistically,...
Michael Robb
Mar 6, 20242 min read


The State of the Union
President Biden is getting ready to issue his State of the Union address, the annual report card on the nation. Well, that is if he...
Michael Robb
Mar 4, 20242 min read


Trump & the Supremes
There’s joy in Trumpville, the Supreme Court is going to hear his appeal for presidential immunity. As much as Trump has jacked around...
Michael Robb
Feb 29, 20241 min read


Our Better Angels
It bothers me that apparently, we’ve become a society that can’t discuss anything anymore. Egged on by a shrill media who create...
Michael Robb
Feb 23, 20241 min read


School Shootings
School shootings are the social cancer of the new millennium, easy to diagnose, difficult to fully prevent and stubbornly defying the...
Michael Robb
Feb 15, 20244 min read
Life's Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Don’t get too down on your country, there’s a few million people at the southern border risking life and limb to get in, we must be doing...
Michael Robb
Feb 13, 20241 min read


Sandy Hook 2012
I found this article digging through a file of old articles and notes. I wrote it in 2012, several weeks after the Sandy Hook incident...
Michael Robb
Feb 12, 20244 min read
Doc in the Box
I’ve been kind of rough on Donald Trump, lately, so in the interest of fairness here’s a story about Joe Biden. It seems the rigors of a...
Michael Robb
Feb 11, 20242 min read


Bullet in the Head
Yesterday, I posted an article, “The Parallax Effect” and suggested that behind the scenes, Republican and Democratic power brokers and...
Michael Robb
Feb 10, 20242 min read


The Parallax Effect
The dictionary defines the Parallax effect as, “…how the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different...
Michael Robb
Feb 9, 20242 min read
Like Aretha Said, R-E-S-P-E-C-T
A friend of mine once said, “…Police departments invented SWAT Teams to deal with that one crazy son-of-a-bitch who won’t listen to...
Michael Robb
Feb 4, 20242 min read
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