The Church Lady Elegy
When I was a kid, church ladies ran the whole world. Elderly women were always telling me what to do, randomly appearing from the shadows and trying to feed me.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
When I was a kid, church ladies ran the whole world. Elderly women were always telling me what to do, randomly appearing from the shadows and trying to feed me.
Moral anger is where the process begins. Unlike ordinary anger, which arises from frustration or injury, moral anger feels virtuous. It carries the intoxicating belief that one’s emotional response is proof of righteousness. When politics is framed as a moral emergency, anger stops being something to manage and becomes something to display. Neurologically, this matters. Moral anger activates threat responses and suppresses reflective thought, which is why it feels urgent, clarifying, and necessary—even when it is wildly oversimplified. Once people believe that being angry is the same as being good, reason no longer stands a chance.
In the wake of the roughly 300 layoffs at The Washington Post, there has been a lot of blame spread, both among the subscribers who quit over owner Jeff Bezos refusing to endorse Kamala Harris Emhoff in 2024, and the paper itself for it’s very liberal leanings. The Post managed to piss off both the …
Why does the mainstream press report that a woman committed a mass murder, when it was immediately known that the perpetrator was a man in a dress? The mainstream press has its reasons, and they go far beyond school shootings.
One wonders where does this ridiculosity stop-and will not be shocked-when the NFL wokes further up and lectures us on social issues when they recognize other nationalities in America with their own distinctive national anthems, and start calling the “Star Bangled Banner” the “White National Anthem”
America’s electric grid lives in a strange legal and moral purgatory. It is economically private, legally regulated, but strategically national. That contradiction is not a philosophical quirk—it is a national security liability hiding in plain sight, humming quietly behind the walls while we argue about fighter jets, aircraft carriers, and which shiny weapons system deserves another trillion dollars.
The real big news on Sunday was the election in Japan. PM Sanae Takaichi is working at the speed of Trump. Right after she took office, she called for a snap election, which was held 110 days into her term.
When Joe Biden tells Americans to “buy a shotgun” and fire warning blasts into the air to scare off intruders, that’s not folksy wisdom—it’s reckless, illegal advice in most jurisdictions. It’s the kind of thing that gets people arrested, injured, or killed. It reveals a worldview where firearms are props in a story, not tools that demand discipline, training, and accountability.
This latest round of revived nonsense over Jim Crow 2.0 is resurrected donkey dung, hysteria laden dogma from half a decade ago. You would think that even a smidgen-a modicum of respect-for their constituents would motivate new thoughts, ideas or tactics from democrat leaders
Canned music. It’s everywhere. You cannot get away from it. It is always playing in public spaces. Grocery stores, hotel lobbies, airplanes, colonoscopy exam rooms.
My site’s favorite whipping boy, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far, far, far left columnist Will Bunch, who’s even crazier than Amanda Marcotte if such a thing is possible, has told us how important it is to enforce the law. We have previously noted how The Philadelphia Inquirer’s radical left columnist Will Bunch was adamant in his …
Uniforms are not decoration. They are language. Long before an officer speaks a word or a citizen weighs compliance, the uniform announces intent, authority, and the rules that govern the encounter. In a free society—especially one built on constitutional limits—this signaling is not cosmetic. It is foundational.
If Part I was about how we got here, Part II is about the uncomfortable truth most Americans are living with now: the system hasn’t collapsed—but it no longer works the way it used to. We are in the uncanny valley between order and chaos, where institutions still function, shelves are stocked, paychecks clear, and elections are held—but trust is gone, legitimacy is fractured, and nothing feels durable.
Epstein sits before the camera not as a man crushed by exposure, but as one still convinced the rules apply differently to him. He speaks in abstractions. He talks about systems, reputation, philanthropy, misunderstanding. The victims are nowhere to be found—not as people, not as faces, not as lives interrupted. They exist only as legal problems, public-relations complications, inconvenient footnotes to an otherwise impressive résumé. This is not the language of remorse. It is the language of a man who believes morality is negotiable if one is clever enough.
Modern political Christianity has a dangerous habit of confusing compassion with chaos. Somewhere between yard signs and virtue-signaling sermons, the Church was told that borders are immoral, laws are unloving, and governments exist primarily to replace God as the ultimate provider. None of that is biblical. In fact, Scripture teaches almost the opposite.
As would be expected, the whole of the professional media have been reacting to the significant layoffs at The Washington Post. I do not normally read Frank Luntz, but, lazing in bed this frosty morning, and scrolling through Twitter — I still refuse to call it 𝕏 — I clicked on the linked article from …
What is the main opposition to requiring or teaching Western Civilization survey courses? Why is teaching the considerable and important political and social contributions Western civilization has made to the world a bad thing?
For decades, political science was the academic punchline—the major you picked when calculus broke you, engineering filtered you out, and chemistry made you cry. Everyone knew the line: If you can’t do anything else, go poli-sci. Parents nodded approvingly because “college is good for you,” administrators cashed tuition checks, and students emerged four years later fluent in theory, jargon, and grievance—but functionally incapable of building, fixing, or running anything in the real world. What no one admitted at the time was that political science didn’t just produce underemployed graduates; it quietly trained a generation in how to dismantle systems they never understood and could never rebuild.
Today, Sean of the South lampoons comments found on the internet regarding some of the most impactful works of art, literature and other cultural entertainment
If you hate your political opponents so much that you bring in foreigners to stay in power, you’ve set the stage for a civil war. A civil war unbound by the Geneva Convention