Oops, Your ‘Freedom’ Tattoo Has a History You Missed
In our postmodern culture, where individuality and self-expression reign supreme, history has become a neglected casualty. Take, for instance, the skyrocketing popularity of tattoos and piercings.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
In our postmodern culture, where individuality and self-expression reign supreme, history has become a neglected casualty. Take, for instance, the skyrocketing popularity of tattoos and piercings.
War has always been defined by paradox: it is at once simple and impossibly hard. The fundamentals—move, shoot, communicate, sustain—are straightforward on paper.
The universe is not random but encoded with sacred geometry and mathematical laws that reflect the very nature of God.
In the year 2050, in the glorious gray sprawl of the United Socialist States of America, meat was illegal, cows were extinct (except for the one in the Smithsonian), and the only thing anyone had ever eaten was Bugpaste™
Rocks. In. My. Garden. Those demon-possessed geological freeloaders are multiplying faster than a college feminist studies major’s pronouns.
No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”
~Carl von Clausewitz
The 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia over Kosovo was billed as a humanitarian mission—a righteous stand against ethnic cleansing in Europe. But behind the moral pretense was something more enduring and more dangerous
This is Part 1 of 3, about the story of a broken promise—and the consequences that would echo from the Balkans to the Black Sea.
Family, is different than military service, no matter how honorable. A nation may thank you for your service, but it won’t sit beside your hospital bed when you’re broken.
In the early 2010s, retired Navy SEAL and political novelist Matt Bracken published a provocative essay titled “CW2 Cube. In it, he proposed a three-dimensional model for understanding how a second American civil war might play out—not along neat geographic lines, but via complex interrelations of race, ideology, and allegiance to government authority.
In discussions about the Bible’s relevance to modern Christian life, misconceptions often arise regarding the importance of the Old Testament.
The Balkans conflict in the 1990s, particularly the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo, saw the U.S. and NATO engaged in a prolonged and often overlooked peacekeeping mission.
If Donald Trump really wants to Make America Great Again, he should start by leading the charge to repeal the Patriot Act—one of the most un-American laws ever passed in the name of “security.”
Most Americans can name the Tet Offensive of 1968. Fewer have heard of the Easter Offensive of 1972—a thunderous, armor-led assault that nearly shattered South Vietnam and delivered one of the most brutal, large-scale conventional battles of the entire Vietnam War.
Today, the average American works nearly half the year just to pay taxes—federal, state, property, fuel, sales, even death.
Human beings are wired to survive, to move forward, to grow. Everything in our lived experience is framed by awareness, time, and continuity. We plan for tomorrow. We remember yesterday. So the concept of not existing — of a permanent pause button on all of reality — is so foreign to our operating system that it evokes panic, dread, or numbness.
“The separation of church and state was never meant to eliminate religion from society—but to prevent the state from becoming a religion.” Thomas Jefferson
In conventional wars, armies carry rifles and wear camouflage. In Civil War 2.0, your enemies wear lanyards, file lawsuits, code algorithms, and write policy memos. Their weapons aren’t bullets—they’re mandates, executive orders, subpoenas, shadowbans, and ESG scores. This isn’t just war—it’s fifth-generation occupation.
This is part one of a three part series on the hidden Civil War now taking place in these United States of America, a Civil War that most Americans don’t realize they are already involved in.
Modern academics and popular media often portray the Crusades as a series of brutal, unprovoked wars of Christian aggression against a peaceful Muslim world. This narrative is not only historically inaccurate, but deeply unjust to the generations of Christians who answered the call to defend their faith, their fellow believers, and the very existence of Christian civilization.