Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
David T. Cloft 
Every few years, Washington discovers a brand-new way to make ordinary people miserable in the name of “security.” The latest brainstorm? A proposed rule requiring visitors from 42 friendly nations—including Australia—to hand over five years of their social media history just to enter the United States.
America doesn’t have a nursing problem—we have a bureaucracy problem. Every time Washington claims it’s going to “fix” something, it adds another layer of paperwork, redefinitions, and unelected decision-makers who have never set foot in a hospital at 3 a.m.
Most people have heard the phrase “the image of God,” but very few have ever stopped to ask what it actually means. We’ve inherited modern assumptions
For decades, Americans have trusted the United States Naval Academy to produce the second finest officers ever to run aground in shallow water. But troubling new reports suggest that midshipmen may be engaged in an old Navy pastime that predates modern refrigeration, nuclear propulsion, and personal dignity.
Carl Sagan wasn’t a prophet; he was the patron saint of smug. The original PBS influencer before social media existed. And like most influencers, he had one core belief: “I am smarter than 2,000 years of biblical wisdom.”
The Iron Major was never meant to be cool. He wasn’t a door kicker, a tank commander, or a helicopter pilot. He was something more tragic—a Jedi Knight of staffing, a warrior-monk assigned to pour black coffee into his bloodstream and rearrange briefing charts until the colonel approved the shade of blue.
Carl Sagan wasn’t a prophet; he was the patron saint of smug. The original PBS influencer before social media existed. And like most influencers, he had one core belief: “I am smarter than 2,000 years of biblical wisdom.”
Carl Sagan wasn’t a prophet; he was the patron saint of smug. The original PBS influencer before social media existed. And like most influencers, he had one core belief: “I am smarter than 2,000 years of biblical wisdom.”
Lately, something unexpected has happened: gas prices have fallen sharply, reaching some of the lowest levels since 2021. And while politicians will happily claim credit for it, the truth has nothing to do with speeches, slogans, or campaign ads. What’s happening is straightforward: the world is drowning in oil.
Bosnia’s collapse wasn’t ancient history. It wasn’t a medieval tribal feud. It wasn’t inevitable. It was a functional, modern, educated society that disintegrated in less than two years — not because of poverty, not because of famine, not because of foreign invasion — but because its political factions became so polarized that neighbors stopped seeing each other as citizens and started seeing each other as enemies.
If you think Joe Biden was the worst POTUS in history… you’ve never read about Woodrow Wilson. He didn’t just break America — he formatted the hard drive.
Scripture teaches something modern diplomacy avoids: nations are not equal in strength, discipline, or character. Some restrain evil; others unleash it.
Every December, the same myth rises from the grave like a bad History Channel rerun: the idea that the U.S. government had advance knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor and let it happen
Michael Heiser wrote What Does God Want? to bulldoze the religious clutter modern Christianity has wrapped around the gospel. Pastors padded it. Denominations complicated it. Church culture buried it.
If you ever want to study a perfect psychological operation — a full-spectrum manipulation campaign run against an entire population — Just look at American gun control.
Every few years, America picks up some shiny new bad idea, polishes it with jargon, markets it with hashtags, and forces the rest of us to pretend it’s brilliant. Today, the reigning champion of American intellectual embarrassment is something called Critical Theory
Until institutions decide to reward courage instead of punishing imperfection, we’ll keep getting leaders who need 27 meetings to schedule a meeting.
There’s a point where a PSA stops raising awareness and starts re-traumatizing survivors. There’s a point where a campaign meant to shock becomes so explicit that it normalizes the very evil it’s trying to fight.
If you stacked every leadership book published since the 1980s, you could climb it and slap the International Space Station. And every single one says the Exact. Same. Thing.
Remember when leaders actually led? When decisions were made by people with chests instead of committees with spreadsheets?