Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
I wrote this piece the week after 9-11 in 2001. I’ve written over 1k pieces since then. This may be the best. Certainly prescient, even if DoD didn’t go for WW-T and went with GWOT (Global War on Terrorism). The first front of the World War against International Terrorism (WW-T), our American Homeland, is remarkably …
All over America, on Reserve and National Guard facilities, phones were ringing off the hook. The question was unerringly the same: “When do you need me there?”
The Imperial City’s spendthrift ways have to stop sooner, rather than later.
When identifying problems and proposing solutions, context is important. It’s especially so when talking economics and even more, when politics is the driver.
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence” ~Jim Babka
Capitalism provides an abundance of wealth, but fails when we covet each other’s possessions more than our own freedom. Communism provides and equal distribution of poverty, but fails when we value freedom over security. Socialism simply fails.
William Shirer wrote “The Nightmare Years” about Germany from 1930 to 1940. He describes how one of the greatest countries in Western Civilization was taken over by criminals and became a Human Secularist Totalitarian state. That state committed genocide, needless war, and crimes against humanity – in just 12 years. The Human Secularist Totalitarians in …
The IRS and Income Tax: Examining Unintended Consequences and Constitutional Concerns of that increasingly-bloated and powerful agency.
In the ever-evolving world of firearm regulations, the Sullivan Law, enacted in New York around 1910, stands as a testament to the delicate balance between crime prevention and individual rights.
Real Reform, Part 3: The Bureaucratic Cat Burglar Greenman HouseThe cat burglar creeps quietly into his target after doing extensive surveillance and steals the planned target. If the burglar does the job well, there is no evidence of a theft and it may not be detected for weeks or even months, depending on the target. …
Our very own government’s hilarious attempt at following the US Constitution is like watching a circus act gone wrong–only with more politicians and less acrobats.
We are in the midst of an ongoing war with China; the American leadership in Congress, Executive Branch, and even State offices have already been targeted.
There’s been a lot of hooraw in the news lately about the Biden family’s corrupt dealings, but we shouldn’t forget to pay attention to some of the other perennial heroes of the Left; this time it’s the daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, he of the three mansions, who is in the crooked-dealings spotlight. …
Real Reform, Part 1 Introduction In A New Contract With America, I included a bullet point about qualifications for congressional committee and subcommittee chairs: “Enact congressional policies to require minimum qualifications for committee and subcommittee chairperson positions. These qualifications will be like qualifications required for similar positions in the private sector or the executive branch. …
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave channels Francis Ford Coppola in his socio-economic version of Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”
Justice Alito makes a misspeak and possibly opens up a dangerous can of worms regarding Congress’s power to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave channels President Eisenhower and his warning, “Beware the Military Industrial Complex.”
This article argues that the pre-9/11 Army was a better organization than today, with a stronger focus on its singular purpose: winning the nation’s wars.
As House Republicans close in on the truth about the Biden family’s overseas influence peddling business, Democrats are growing more and more desperate. As well they should. At last week’s House Oversight Committee meeting, ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is rapidly becoming the “Adam Schiff” of the GOP’s investigation into the Bidens, tried …
A dash of deception here, a dollop of fiction there, and bam! We’ve got ourselves a lip-smacking concoction that leaves us craving for more.