Fourth generation native New Yorker. Former Law Enforcement in the city. Currently an indie film maker.I do a fair amount of work with the military. Father, grandfather. Scot-Irish RC. Family roots in Donegal and Mayo. Low tolerance for bullshit of any kind. Up close witness to the first WTC bombing in '93. Lost friends and associates on the 11th. Went in day two and worked SAR in the pit (with my oldest who was there when it all started), hence the WTC911 tag.

Issues that concern me:

First off....anybody wishing to help support the recovering troops at WRAMC or Brooke let me know or go to www.pentagonfoundation.org and indicate "fallen heroes" on the contribution form.

The leftward shift in America since I was a kid. If JFK ran today he'd have to do it in the GOP.

Any weakness in the WOT. I have friends and associates currently deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Some have been casualties. I know the price being paid and by whom. It is hard to hold resolve sometimes, especially when bad news hits close, but it is dangerous to lose resolve.

We are at war with Islam. They started it. We must win it. Terrorism is not the enemy, it is the enemy's tactic. Unless he is vocally against the enemy no muslim is a "moderate".

Europe first lost its faith, now it has lost its way. The European brand of secular socialism has given rise to a generation that has no core understanding of its historical religiosity...no faith upon which to rely. Muslims in Europe understand this. They are using this weakness of foundation to colonize much of western EU. Unless the subtrefuge is recognized and resisted vigorously Europe will become a province in Greater Eurabia.

Latin and South America will be the fire next time. Weak economies, exploding populations, reliance in many nations on drug manufacture or transport as a chief source of revenue and a seemingly inherent tendency by the intelectual elites as well as the under class to embrace Marxism coupled with America's diverted focus will lead, I believe, to a Hemispheric crisis before we reach the quarter century.

The aging demographic. Not here but in the developing world. Much of SA, ME, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe is facing a shift in population age that will be more severe in its consequences than the same shift in the First World. UN charts indicate that these countries are fast approaching a point where they have never been. A point where the elderly will start to outnumber the productive. This will be a different problem than ours will. These countries have no existing infrastructure designed to provide or care for the aging populace. The task of housing and supporting them will fall to their children. This means that a significant portion of the earning power of the next generation will be diverted away from any entreprenureal enterprise that would have benefited the society toward this home-care effort. The window for these countries to gain any level of individual wealth will start to close. Because of a lesser quality of diet, air/water and health care the average "productive" life in these countries is significantly shorter than in ours. The efforts to eradicate the global diseases that culled these populations have succeeded but the net effect is that the elders fall ill younger but suffer more long term debilitating diseases such as diabetes and cardio/pulminary diseases. They linger in their non-productive condition for decades creating a long term devastating burden. The net negative effect will be to forestall individual economic growth and the hope that it engenders. This individual hope is a basic component of democracy.

Isolation of a "GAY GENE" will spell the end of Roe v. Wade, Feminism and the democrats.

More to follow....