John Cardillo, IJR

John Cardillo

IJR

Florida, United States

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  • TheBlaze

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I Was Honoring Veterans' Graves on Memorial Day. Then a Volunteer Showed Me the 'Most Important' One

When something is a permanent fixture in our lives we have the tendency to stop noticing it and take it for granted. We rarely look beyond the superficial obviousness of it simply being there. Until this past Memorial Day, that had been the case with the old cemetery at the end of my street. I knew a little bit about the place. I knew that the land had been granted to the city by a wealthy… → Read More

Did a Ferguson Activist Group Dupe MoveOn.org and Keep Funds Intended for Another Group?

Did the Organization for Black Struggle, a grassroots partner of far left Service Employees International Union, raise funds under false pretenses, dupe George Soros backed MoveOn.org and keep monies intended for other groups? Phil Gassoway, a Ferguson resident, well-known local activist and Executive Director of Ground Level Support... → Read More

How Close are the NAACP, FBI and DOJ? Probably Too Close for Comfort.

Did the FBI violate their own investigative protocols and improperly extend special favors to the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People by immediately sending 30 agents to look into the apparent suicide of convicted murderer Otis Byrd in Mississippi? Byrd, 54, was found hanging from a... → Read More

I Used To Come For Your Guns – Now I Support Your Right to Defend Yourself

New York City in the early 1990s has been described as many things, few of them complimentary. The administration of Mayor David Dinkins was plagued with political and police corruption scandals, and some of the highest crime rates in the history of the city. Murders and violent crimes... → Read More

Will The Real Tea Party Please Stand Up!

Please stand up. Because I and many others have no idea who or what you are anymore. Are you a political party or a philosophy? A political action committee or a lobbying organization? Do you have a platform or are you shooting from the hip? Is your... → Read More

The Hugely Profitable Bureau of Land Management

Yesterday, April 24, I wrote this column here on The Blaze explaining why I no longer support rancher Cliven Bundy. It seems that people were confused, taking my opinion of Bundy to mean that I was on the side of the Bureau of Land Management and big government. → Read More

From Victim to Villain, the Cliven Bundy Story

Like all other freedom minded Americans, I was initially enraged by the Bureau of Land Management's treatment of a small family ranch about an hour outside of Las Vegas. Why would a government agency send armed agents, K-9 units, and snipers to enforce restrictions on some cows eating... → Read More