Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
St Louis, Missouri used to be our nations murder capital, but has been downgraded to second place behind New Orleans. The Gateway City saw a whopping 263 homicides in 2020, which, with the city’s population being 304,709 that year, the homicide rate was an astounding 86.31 per 100,000 population. In 2021, the city dropped to …
The other day a front-page story in the New York Times grabbed my attention like few others. The headline read: “At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame?.” The answer, readers learned, was not the students but the award-winning professor who taught the class. To quote the story: “In the field of …
Getting Ready for the October Ruse and the November Cheat Part 1
On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) signed an executive order banning the possession of firearms and other deadly weapons at city parks and recreation centers, something that even The Philadelphia Inquirer recognized as likely to draw a legal challenge. It didn’t take long: on Monday, October 3rd, the executive order was tossed …
The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family.
There appear to be three views on the Russian Ukraine battle. There is the camp that wants total war. Another camp wants to ignore the conflict and focus on the home front. And finally, there is the group that wants to be supportive without being really involved.
In an October 2020 speech, French President Emmanuel Macron identified an existential threat he claimed was stirring up division among citizens and undermining the country’s cultural heritage. “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States” were to blame, he said. Then-French Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer echoed Macron’s sentiments. He warned, “There’s a …
A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
New York magazine is suddenly realizing that the Republicans led by the conservatives, will likely retake the House of Representatives in the midterm election.
It was buried dozens of paragraphs down in a long story in The Philadelphia Inquirer, the indicator of the mindset that afflicts the oh-so-compassionate left in the United States: In Philadelphia, there are no gangs in the traditional, nationally known sense. Instead, they are cliques of young men affiliated with certain neighborhoods and families. It …
Education Indoctrination in Virginia: One Example, Part 1 of 2. The Virginia Board of Education posted the History and Social Studies Standards of Learning for comment. The 402 page document establishes what will be taught K-12 in Virginia Public Schools. The subject matter is covered well, but skewed with a focus on race, class, and gender. …
I harbor little love or respect for Hollywood or it’s spawn, but I can still appreciate movies as an art form and how they often point to literary works, pieces of history and culture, that are worth remembering. Take “Apocalypse Now,” for example. Through that one film—lauded as one of cinema’s best, yet tiresome and …
One of the many pillars supporting this Republic is that we believe in freedom of religion, the God-given right to practice the religion of one’s choice.
“The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” – Psalms 115:16 (KJV)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t get quite the reception she likely anticipated from the crowd at the Global Citizen music festival on Saturday night. Especially considering the concert took place at Central Park in deep blue New York City. The Speaker received a round of boos, and a few cheers, during remarks about the recently …
“Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the road less travelled,” by Robert Frost; a poetic version of being a thinker. That has made all the difference.
The world is in chaos, no country is at peace. A darkness has descended over people of good will, it is as if we are watching “The Lord of the Rings.”
By John R. “Buck” Surdu I wrote this series of articles in 2021, when AFNN was hosted on a different platform. With the midterms on the horizon, I have decided to blow the dust off these articles, updated them, and present them again. Please share widely. Part 1: Redrawing Boundaries, Refugee Migration, and Disunity This …
