NickKalm

And it’s looking like he flushed $20 million down the toilet.

I worked 20 years for a child sex trafficking rescue group. I want you to know this: 90% of Lost Children Are Found Within 30 Minutes. That statistic should both comfort you and wake you up. Most lost children are found quickly. But the ones who aren’t? They usually made one mistake. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: It’s often the exact thing most parents teach them. We tell our kids: “If you get lost, come find me.” It sounds logical. It sounds empowering. It’s WRONG! The Mistake Most Lost Children Make: When children realize they’re separated, they do three things almost automatically: They panic. They wander. They try to find you. Every step makes them harder to locate. From a search standpoint, movement creates chaos. Parents retrace their steps. Security scans zones. Staff lock down areas. Search works best when movement stops. When a child keeps walking, they move outside the original search radius. Helpers are looking where they were last seen — not where they’ve wandered. Stillness increases probability. Movement expands the problem. The first lesson is not “go find me.” It’s this: Stop. Stay. Yell. Why Stillness Wins: Think like a search team. If a child stays put: Parents can retrace steps. Security can scan systematically. Helpers converge to one fixed location. The search radius remains small. If a child keeps moving: The search area expands. Adults pass each other. Missed connections multiply. Minutes stretch into hours. Stillness keeps the math on your side. Teach Them Who to Approach: The second mistake we make as parents? We say, “Find an adult.” Not any adult. Not the nearest stranger. Children need a filter. Teach them to look for, if at all possible: A mother with children. Caregivers who already have kids with them are statistically among the safest people to approach in public settings. They are visible, stationary, and more likely to engage quickly. It’s a clear, concrete instruction. Children don’t process vague categories like “safe adult.” They process visuals. “Find a mom with kids” is visual. A Phone Only Helps If the Number Is Known: We often assume phones solve everything. They don’t — unless your child can use one. Even young children can memorize a 10-digit phone number with repetition. But you must train it. Practice it like a song. Sing it in the car. Chant it at bedtime. Turn it into rhythm. Repetition becomes recall. In an emergency, recall matters more than theory. The Code Word Rule: One more layer of protection. Choose a private family code word. Something only your household knows. If someone approaches and says: “Your mom sent me.” Your child asks: “What’s the code word?” No word. No go. This simple rule eliminates manipulation attempts instantly. It gives your child agency without requiring them to evaluate character. Real Safety Is Training — Not Luck! We don’t get safer by hoping. We get safer by practicing. Teach: • Phone number • Code word • Stop, stay, yell • Find a mom with kids Multiple skills. Simple instructions. Clear visuals. Five minutes of training can replace hours of panic. This isn’t about fear. It’s about preparation. Because when a child gets separated, the clock starts. And what they do in the first minute determines what the next thirty look like. That’s real protection.

Funding With two terror attacking the US today it’s time for enough Democratic Senators to again crossover and fund DHS and TSA without delay. Once again Schumer is trying to keep his job with counterproductive maneuvers that accomplish nothing but please his base. This is now too serious and too dangerous to keep delaying further and these employees can’t keep working without pay.

Iran Coverage The headlines abound: Iran Regime doing well, in control Trump under pressure to end war Khomeini son just as tough as Father US responsible for missile on school One headline after another essentially featuring Iranian propaganda as the news. Where are the headlines: 50 Iranian ships sunk Iranian military assets destroyed Leadership tries to put on good showing despite internal chaos Khomeini appointment creates hereditary theocracy War plan progress unprecedented The press is a drumbeat of negativity favoring the Iran regime. It’s puzzling at this point how any success is buried. The reality is likely the regime is being pummeled on all sides and has no ability to provide for its people. Maybe it can put on a good show for another week or two but its leadership is under immense pressure. But that’s not what the American public is getting from mainstream media.

Way to go, @united! Great move.

Something like 70 to 75 percent of Americans are never arrested in their lives. Another 20 to 25 percent are arrested once, usually for something minor. Almost all of the arrests, especially for violent crimes, are coming from about 5 percent of the population. If all of these people were just thrown in a cage forever and forgotten about, the rest of us could live in peace. That's a fact. You could essentially solve the crime problem, almost completely, by arresting the tiny minority of the population that commits basically all of it. Instead we let them roam the streets, continually release them back into the public, and watch helplessly as they kill, rape, and destroy, even though nobody on Earth can explain why this system makes sense, or is fair, or moral, or just.

.@JBPritzker is basically accusing @BillClinton of lying under oath. ☕️

This one is my favorite. Bill staring at the photo of girls in a hot tub so much that his lawyer has to take it away, then he fights her to take it back to keep looking. Great optic.

NEW: Team USA honors Johnny Gaudreau, who was killed by an alleged drunk driver, by bringing his kids on the ice. Gaudreau was set to make the U.S. Olympics team before he & his brother were hit by a car in August of 2024. His kids are now 2 and 3. 🇺🇸

I know people go there and enjoy it. I went to Baja once on a work trip more than 30 years ago, and that satisfied my lifetime need/desire to go anywhere in Mexico.

If I worked in Hollywood, I would avoid making any long-term financial commitments. Yikes.

I love that 17 seconds of the one minute – or 28% – is spent taxiing around O’Hare, trying to get to the runway. Accurate.

Believing that Colin Kaepernick is still at the top of mind for any football fan on Super Bowl Sunday in the year of our Lord 2026 could be one reason the Washington Post no longer has a sports section.

Free #PR advice to US #Olympics athletes: when a reporter asks you about American politics, whether you’re proud to represent the country, Donald Trump, etc., don’t take the bait.

@Metra @metraUPN #306. And this is at least the second or third time I've seen this -- in the Quiet Car, no less -- in the past three weeks.

@NickKalm We apologize for any inconvenience caused, in an effort to address this matter, can you please provide for us with the train number in which you had observed this matter?

@Metra I know this is crazy talk but instead of talking about adding stations and cafe cars, how about using $$$ so you don’t use 50-year-old cars with inoperable doors on rush hour trains? @OnTheMehtra

@VDHanson Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Notes In Absentia I want again to thank everyone for the wonderful expressions of concern and reassurance that I have received from listeners and readers. In response to inquiries, and some quite detailed questions and advice, here is a brief update concerning my current temporary absence. As I wrote, the removal of a cancerous lung mucinous adenoma carcinoma along with the lower right lung lobe roughly a month ago was successful. But a post-op aneurism /bleed soon developed. That required a quick second reentry operation into the lung to stop the hemorrhaging—adding considerable time under anesthesia and requiring about 5 blood transfusions. As a result, over the last 30 days, I developed low red blood counts, fatigue, and bouts of arterial fibrillation. All that has sort of slowed my recovery. This type of nonsmoker’s lung cancer has a rare genetic/mutation profile. And it seems to recur about 40 percent of the time in the general lung area—even when as in my case the removed and biopsied lymph nodes, along with adjacent vascular/pleural samples, were all negative. And the pre-op PET scan show no signs of malignancy outside the lower right lung lobe. Chemotherapy and immunotherapy are said to be not particularly effective against this rare sort of tumor mutation. But they can offer a 5-10% edge in stopping recurrence. So I’ll do a cost-benefit analysis, depending on how quickly I regain energy, to determine whether to start the preventative drug regimens. The bottom line is that I’m hoping to come back as soon as possible. But I don’t know exactly when I'll be back to near normal. In the meantime, I hope to post things now and then on days when I feel better. Sincerely—and again thanks to everyone! Victor Davis Hanson

Great…..

Belichick waited 49 years for his girlfriend to be born, the Hall of Fame will be a piece of cake for him.

@Metra Winnetka elevator still locked/inaccessible.