Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Memorial Day. The official start of summer here in these United States. Like retired Army Colonel Buck Surdu, I have mixed emotions on this what should be somber day. You can read his thoughts here: Thoughts on Memorial Day Like everyone else in these United States, I am very glad to see summer arrive. It …
What are the top 5 reasons the United States is the greatest nation ever conceived by mankind?
America, we need to remember how to disagree without hating one another. When I was growing up, many of my neighbors and friends were Democrats. My family was conservative and Republican. We disagreed. Sometimes we argued politics at the dinner table. But when the weekend came, we still went swimming together, canoeing together, watching movies together, eating together, and living as neighbors. Political disagreement did not require hatred. It did not require destroying friendships. It did not require treating half the country as enemies.
The six-pointed star did not begin as the Star of David. For centuries, it was associated with the legendary Seal of Solomon, a symbol tied to stories of hidden wisdom and supernatural power. Over time, the same geometry took on a very different meaning, becoming the enduring emblem of Jewish identity, survival, and national restoration. The lines never changed. The story did. And that is the secret behind every powerful symbol: it is not the shape itself that moves people, but the history, faith, and identity carried within it.
American Indians in their winter camp at Wounded Knee, were murdered on Dec. 29, 1891, by federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection.”
My grandfather fought in World War II. My father served in Vietnam. My wife and I both deployed to Iraq. Three generations answered the nation’s call, each believing that sacrifice served a greater purpose. But after Vietnam, 9/11, Iraq, Wall Street, and COVID, millions of Americans are asking a question more dangerous than any enemy abroad: Have we been lied to? That question marks the beginning of the American Awakening—a rediscovery that we are more than consumers and collections of atoms. We are moral and spiritual beings, and once a people remember that truth matters and rights come from God rather than government, they become very difficult to manipulate.
Hannibal, Missouri, is a little off the beaten path. Actually, Hannibal is a LOT off the beaten path. I can’t even find the beaten path anymore.
On the way into town, my GPS kept getting confused in rural Missouri, and at one point I ended up in—this is true—Illinois.
Secret societies do not need literal magic rings to shape history. Their real power lies in symbols, secrecy, and the ancient promise of hidden knowledge. From Solomon’s legendary seal to modern surveillance systems and technocratic elites, the temptation remains unchanged: to gain wisdom without God, power without accountability, and immortality without redemption. The Tower of Babel was never destroyed—it was upgraded. Today’s builders wear tailored suits instead of priestly robes, but the serpent’s oldest lie still echoes through the corridors of power: “You shall be as gods.”
Think about almost anything…The first thought is simple. Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear.
The first thought is simple. Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear. Yet, after more thought and study, the holistic conclusion is simple. A few words very loaded with meaning suffice.
I am not optimistic about today’s independent media. Most of its practitioners are untrained amateurs who lack the basic reportorial skills to gather accurate, fair, and balanced information.
Cracker Barrel is quiet this time of night. There are few cars in the parking lot. My wife is with me. We’ve been traveling all day.
On the way into the restaurant, I see a few kids sitting on rockers outside. They’re playing checkers.
My website, The First Street Journal, maintains a Stylebook of its own devise. It includes: Those who claim to be transgender will be referred to with the names, honorifics, and pronouns appropriate to the sex of their birth; the site owner does not agree with the cockamamie notion that anyone can simply ‘identify’ with a …
Writing about race and the rapidly shifting racial complexion and composition of America is a dangerous exercise. No matter how you discuss it or describe it, if you are white, you are almost certain to be called a racist by easily triggered leftists who prefer that you keep silent
Things I’ve seen in Spain.
Little children, deviceless in public, making blatant eye contact with adults, behaving ten years more mature than their age.
Can anyone please make at least some sense of today’s liberal ideology? As Winston Churchill said of Russia, the same can be said of the liberal mindset: they are a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
Liberals are like a pizza, made round, packed in a square box, and eaten as a triangle.
In a stunning turn of events, the skies are filled with the wails and moans of top gun ace fighter jock pilots from the Air Force and Navy.
We may not want to admit it, but… There is a reason why so many Democrats have tried to kill President Trump, and a Republican Congressional baseball team, and President Trump’s cabinet members, and members of the Supreme Court.
During WWII the upper echelon German leaders’ culture was fight to the death embracing even suicide…as Hitler did. The troops, however, were not fatalistic inasmuch as when faced with obvious over-powering odds they surrendered. The Japanese had a different culture: Military officers and their soldiers believed honorable death, including Hara‑kiri, was preferrable to capitulation. Their Emperor was slightly more realistic, calling it quits after experiencing the devastation of nuclear bombs.
“Satanic Worshippers Cry Foul Over Ten Commandments: It’s Hard to Sin When God’s Rules Get in the Way!”
Our good friends on the left, who have been so supportive of the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” must grant automatic citizenship to the “anchor babies” of people …