David T. Cloft

David T. Cloft is a competitive smallbore and long range rifle shooter from the United States, who has won seven National Championships and has set 11 US National Records. In 1999 he became the first American to be Knighted by the Princess of Buedingen, Germany after winning their annual Schutzenfest. He formerly served as a United States Army officer and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Forty Years of “P*** Christ:” The Shock That Changed America—But Not the Artist

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Although “Piss Christ” never reached the Supreme Court, the controversy helped lead to the 1998 case National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley. The Court ruled that while artists have broad First Amendment rights to create controversial work, they do not have a constitutional right to taxpayer funding. The lasting debate wasn’t whether Serrano could make the photograph—it was whether the public should have to help pay for it.

America’s New State Religion: Trust the Science, Worship the Self

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America did not become irreligious. It simply changed religions. The old civic faith placed God above man and man above government; the new one places the self above reality and bureaucracy above everything else. Scientism supplies the lab coat, wokeism supplies the moral panic, and government arrives as savior, priest, therapist, and parole officer. This is not progress. It is ancient Gnosticism with Wi-Fi.

Mercury: The Miracle Metal That Tries to Kill Everyone

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Mercury was once the miracle metal. Doctors prescribed it. Gold miners depended on it. Hat makers worked with it. NASA even launched it into space as the propellant for experimental ion engines. Then science caught up. The same liquid metal that advanced civilization was quietly attacking the human brain, poisoning rivers, and climbing the food chain. Mercury is a reminder that some of humanity’s greatest innovations come with a simple question we often ask too late: What if the miracle is actually the warning?

The Great American Lawn: Our Dumb Little Kingdoms of Grass

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For a nation founded by farmers, we sure spend a lot of time maintaining grass we can’t eat. The American lawn wasn’t born out of practicality—it was imported from European aristocrats as a symbol of wealth. Today, millions of us faithfully burn fuel, spread fertilizer, and surrender our Saturdays maintaining tiny suburban kingdoms that exist mostly to impress the neighbors. We rejected kings in 1776, then spent the next two centuries pretending to be them, one freshly mowed lawn at a time.

Twisting Jesus: A 2,000-Year Counterfeit

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Every generation claims it has finally uncovered the “real” Jesus. Strip away two thousand years of Christian teaching, mix in a little philosophy, sprinkle in some secret knowledge, and suddenly Christ becomes something entirely different. The tragedy is that the oldest counterfeit never disappears—it simply changes its vocabulary. The apostles warned that false gospels would come. They weren’t predicting the distant future; they were describing their own day. Two thousand years later, the same deception persists. The names have changed, but the message remains the same: replace the Savior with a teacher, repentance with self-discovery, and grace with the promise that the answer has been inside you all along. Counterfeits don’t succeed because they’re obviously false—they succeed because they look just enough like the truth to deceive those who never compare them to Scripture.

250 Years Without a Military Coup: The U.S. Army Officer’s Oath to the Constitution

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For more than 250 years, the United States has accomplished something few nations in history can claim: its military has never overthrown the constitutional government it serves. The reason isn’t luck—it’s the oath. Every commissioned officer swears allegiance not to a president, a political party, or a commander, but to the Constitution of the United States. That single principle has preserved civilian control of the military through wars, political turmoil, and peaceful transfers of power. It’s one of the greatest—and often least understood—traditions of the American republic.

Buckle Up, Buttercup – The AI Investment Bubble is gonna Pop!

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Artificial intelligence may change civilization—but history suggests investors are about to relearn an old lesson. Railroads, electricity, and the Internet all transformed the world, yet each left a trail of bankrupt companies and shattered fortunes before the winners emerged. Is AI different, or are we simply watching another speculative bubble inflate? Buckle up, buttercup. The technology is probably here to stay. The valuations? That’s another story.

The Nine: FAFO Meets Federal Court

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The internet convinced a generation that every cause deserves a revolution and every revolution deserves applause. Reality is less forgiving. The Prairie Land Nine is a reminder that America draws a hard line between peaceful protest and criminal violence. You can march, speak, organize, and vote all you want. But once you trade the ballot box for direct action that destroys property or endangers lives, the hashtags stop mattering and the rule of law takes over. In a constitutional republic, change comes through persuasion—not intimidation.

The Theology Nobody Told You About

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For nearly 1,800 years, Christians did not believe supporting a modern nation-state was a biblical mandate. Then a nineteenth-century theological system changed how millions read prophecy—and eventually how many viewed foreign policy. This is the untold story of John Nelson Darby, dispensationalism, and how a theological innovation became so deeply woven into American Christianity that many now assume it has always been there.

The Greatest Piece of Military Equipment Was a Tiny Bottle of Tabasco

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Every veteran remembers that tiny glass bottle of Tabasco tucked inside an MRE. Most of us assumed it had always been there—or heard ridiculous barracks rumors that it was issued to keep you awake on guard duty. The truth is even better. It wasn’t the product of a Pentagon study or a billion-dollar procurement program. It was the idea of a Marine who understood that morale sometimes comes in a one-eighth-ounce bottle. This is the story of how one of the most beloved pieces of military “equipment” earned its place in America’s rucksacks—one spicy meal at a time.

The Exception, Not the Rule: Why the American Revolution Was an Anomaly

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Most revolutions begin with promises of freedom and end with new forms of power. The French Revolution produced the Terror and Napoleon. The Russian Revolution produced Lenin and Stalin. The Chinese Revolution produced Mao and mass famine. History’s pattern is clear: tearing down institutions is far easier than building stable replacements. The American Revolution was different. The Founders inherited functioning local governments, a tradition of self-rule, and a deep understanding of human nature. Rather than trusting power, they divided it. Rather than creating permanent revolution, they created a constitutional republic capable of reform without collapse. As America approaches its 250th birthday, the greatest lesson of 1776 may not be that revolution is glorious, but that the true miracle was what came after—the creation of a nation where change could occur without needing another revolution.

Maybe It’s Time to Retire the Reflecting Pool

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For more than a century, Americans have spent millions of dollars fighting nature at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Built in 1922 as a grand architectural feature, the pool transformed a former Potomac floodplain into a shallow, artificial body of water that has suffered recurring algae blooms, leaks, sediment buildup, and costly repairs ever since. The latest maintenance controversy isn’t a new problem—it’s simply the latest chapter in a hundred-year struggle to maintain a giant pond where nature never intended one to exist. Instead of pouring more taxpayer dollars into perpetual repairs, perhaps it’s time to ask a different question: what if we reclaimed the 15 acres occupied by the Reflecting Pool and returned that space to the public? Expanded lawns, shaded gathering areas, memorial gardens, event space, and recreational areas could serve millions of visitors far better than a body of water that most people can only walk around and photograph. Sometimes the best way to solve a century-old engineering problem is not to engineer harder—it’s to admit the original idea has outlived its usefulness.

The Myths We Teach Ourselves About Slavery

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Slavery was a moral evil, but that doesn’t mean every story we’ve inherited about it is historically accurate. Most Southern households did not own slaves. A common soldier couldn’t afford one. Former slave owners were generally not compensated after emancipation. Industrialization didn’t make slavery obsolete—it often made it more profitable. The Civil War itself was far more complex than the slogans we use to describe it. History deserves better than mythology. We can condemn slavery without reservation while still insisting on facts over folklore, because understanding the past honestly is the only way to understand the present clearly.

The Great Cosmic Scorecard

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Every civilization seems to invent a cosmic scorecard. The ancient Egyptians had the 42 Assessors of Ma’at. Modern culture has social media, political tribes, and endless virtue signaling. The question never changes: Have you done enough?

Christianity’s answer is radically different. It doesn’t tell us to try harder, climb higher, or balance the scales. It tells us the scales can never be balanced by human effort alone. Grace—God’s unearned favor—is the answer to a problem humanity has wrestled with for thousands of years. The Gospel is not the story of people reaching up to God, but of God reaching down to people. That’s why Christians call it good news.

The Forgotten Reset Beneath Lake Huron

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What if our ancestors really did survive a global catastrophe?

Beneath the waters of Lake Huron lies the Alpena–Amberley Ridge, a prehistoric hunting landscape that once connected Michigan and Ontario. Today it sits submerged and largely forgotten. To some researchers, it is evidence of sophisticated hunters tracking migrating caribou 9,000 years ago. To others, it raises a far bigger question: how much of humanity’s ancient story now lies underwater?

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis remains controversial, but the idea is difficult to ignore. If a cosmic event helped trigger dramatic climate shifts, floods, and environmental upheaval near the end of the Ice Age, what would the world have looked like a few thousand years later? Perhaps not a world of lost super-civilizations, but one of survivors rebuilding, adapting, and passing down memories of a world forever changed.

The Alpena–Amberley Ridge doesn’t prove the theory. What it does prove is that entire landscapes, ecosystems, and chapters of human history can disappear beneath the waves. The real mystery may not be what we’ve found, but what remains hidden.