Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
The headline in SCOTUSblog, which tracks the nation’s highest court, was infuriating. It said, “Supreme Court allows construction on White House ballroom to continue.”
Allows? Really? Allows? The president must ask the courts “Mother May I?” before any and all actions?
Since when? I am not a lawyer but I do not see a judicial veto among the powers granted in the Constitution.
Flock, like a firearm, is a tool. It can be used for good or bad. The machinery is not evil, it just is. The handler is good or evil.
Shiver me timbers. Bloomberg reported:
Arrr! The Department o’ Justice be makin’ ready to wake a long-sleepin’ prize court o’ the high seas, so as to make swift the seizin’ by the king’s men-o’-war o’ them Iranian oil tankers as Yankee prizes—so say three souls what be in on the plot.
Me mateys that means, “The Justice Department is preparing to activate a long-dormant maritime war court to streamline military capture of Iranian oil tankers as U.S. prizes, according to three people familiar with the plans.”
Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder Monday in the death of Tupac Shakur, which had gone unsolved for nearly three decades. Davis is accused of plotting the 1996 killing near the Las Vegas Strip, and he is the only person ever charged in the murder. CNN’s Josh Campbell reports from outside the courthouse in Las Vegas.
Christians are frequently reminded that Romans 13 tells us to obey governing authorities. Fair enough. But what happens when government reverses its God-given assignment—punishing good, protecting evil, or commanding Christians to violate their conscience? Scripture actually answers that question, and the answer is considerably less comfortable than “just obey.”
What happens when a nation begins to lose faith in its own elections, institutions, and leaders? History suggests that political polarization can quickly become tribalism, and tribalism can consume a republic from within. But Christians have walked this road before. The Bible never calls believers to place their ultimate hope in governments, political parties, or personalities. Instead, it teaches an ordered loyalty: love your country, serve your neighbors, pray for your leaders—but worship God alone. When the world grows chaotic, the Church should become the calmest place in it, remembering that while kingdoms rise and fall, the Kingdom of God has never required a recount.
As I was being graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1977, I was seriously considering going to law school. I had totally destroyed the LSAT, and thought it would be a good fit for my obviously brilliant mind and quick thinking. But, alas!, law school was simply not something I could ever afford, and, …
Remember when asking the wrong question could earn you a 30-day sentence in Facebook Jail? Millions of posts disappeared, accounts were suspended, and countless users earned their digital “street cred” for challenging the Official Truth™ of the day. Then, as the science evolved, some forbidden topics quietly became acceptable discussion. This isn’t just a look back at the COVID years—it’s a satirical reminder that when a handful of powerful platforms decide what’s permissible to say, every free society should ask the same uncomfortable question: **Who decides what the truth is tomorrow?**
America has always had criminals. What’s new is the fan club. From cheering an accused CEO killer to rallying around a mother who killed her three children, we’re watching sympathy, grievance, and tribal identity compete with basic moral judgment. When the first question becomes “Whose side am I on?” instead of “What is right and what is wrong?” a nation has a serious problem. Isaiah warned about calling evil good and good evil. Maybe our moral compass isn’t merely drifting anymore. Maybe it’s broken.
History’s most dangerous political bait-and-switch begins when groups with completely incompatible end goals unite around a common enemy. Iran’s Marxists thought they were using the Islamists; the Islamists had other plans. Today, America’s socialists, progressives, and Islamist activists sometimes find themselves marching beneath the same anti-capitalist and anti-Western banners. Iran offers an uncomfortable warning: before helping tear down the old order, you’d better ask what your revolutionary partners intend to build in its place—and whether they’ll still need you when they’re finished.
There is no question citizens have the right to monitor law enforcement in the open. Physically interfering with policing is another issue. When the government wants to preserve its privacy, it may build a fence or close a door—but not ban speech. U.S. Circuit Judge Myrna Pérez Massimino v. Benoit (2026) With the deployment of …
Don Surber escorts us through another week of the media’s treatment what it considers news. We need this reporting on the media or we’d never know what was actually going on.
ITEM 1: The New York Times reported, “Harry and Meghan Will Move Back to Britain After 6 Years in U.S.”
Two more self-deportations for Trump (4 counting the kids).
What if the duty to protect your family didn’t begin with the Second Amendment at all? The Armed Christian Creed argues that our responsibility to defend innocent life comes from God, while the Constitution simply recognizes and protects a pre-existing right to keep and bear arms. We worship God, not our arms. They are not symbols of aggression, but tools carried with discipline, humility, and the hope they are never needed. The firearm is not sacred. The life we may someday be called upon to protect is.
Our case against the USPS was tossed by the Federal District Court. Ditto the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both courts said our constitutional claim should be with the Postal Regulatory Commission even though they deny jurisdiction on constitutional issues.
The collapse of a republic rarely begins with tanks in the streets or dramatic constitutional crises. More often, it begins with a far quieter question: Can we trust our elections? Once citizens lose confidence in the process that grants political authority, every institution built upon that authority begins to crack. Courts become suspect, laws become negotiable, and political opponents become enemies. A nation can survive bitter policy disagreements. It cannot survive indefinitely if its citizens no longer believe their government derives its authority from legitimate elections.
The horse didn’t disappear when the automobile arrived. It simply stopped being essential. Artificial intelligence may be forcing the legal profession into a similar reckoning. When a $20 monthly subscription can research case law, organize evidence, draft motions, and explain legal procedure, the age of the billable hour may finally be facing its greatest challenge. Somewhere, an attorney is still billing in six-minute increments while AI has already finished the paperwork.
Last Wednesday, police in California arrested Heidi Beirich, formerly with the beleaguered Southern Poverty Law Center, on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of white supremacist groups—including payments to an informant who allegedly was her neo-Nazi boyfriend. Are you ready for the amount of SPLC donor dollars he received? (In Doctor Evil …
Another week has flown by, and who knows what’s really going on? Certainly not the media. Or if they do, they’re not saying. Don knows, though, and he’ll make you laugh and think as he attempts to explain.
Former criminal prosecutor Margaret McLean analyzes the legal fallout from Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on ‘The Will Cain Show.’
Former New York City First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro discusses New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax getting revived by an appeals court on ‘Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street.’