Culture

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t really concerned about legality until it seemed like he would get caught!

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The credentialed media rarely tell us outright lies, but sometimes you have to look pretty closely to find the parts they don’t want for you to know. From this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

Getting ‘legal status’ in America is harder than most people think. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE before he could.

A resident of the U.S. for 35 years, the construction worker was fatally shot by ICE agents while still trying to navigate the nation’s arcane immigration system.

by Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist | Monday, July 13, 2026 | 6:01 AM EDT

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday in Houston. He arrived in the U.S. from Mexico 35 years ago, built a construction business, and became one of five people killed by federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s plan of mass deportation.

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574 Governments, Zero Consensus

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The myth that America would magically function better with more political parties ignores one stubborn fact: more factions don’t automatically create more agreement. Look at the 574 federally recognized tribal governments. They don’t speak with one voice—and they shouldn’t be expected to. The 2022 renaming of 643 geographic features proved that even within Native communities, history, language, and culture are far more complex than Washington’s one-size-fits-all solutions. Diversity of opinion is a strength, but pretending there’s only one “correct” voice is politics masquerading as consensus.

Good, Meet Evil

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The culmination of the Left’s gender bending, death cult brainwashing was evident in last week’s assassination of Charlie  Kirk, whose only “crime” was speaking freely about his Faith, Family and Country, and his only weapon, a microphone. 

America Didn’t Become More Political. It Became More Tribal

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The real problem isn’t that America has two political parties—it’s that we’ve rediscovered tribalism. I remember growing up in the 1980s when your “tribe” was mostly your family, your neighborhood, your church, or the people your parents spent time with. Democrats and Republicans certainly disagreed, but most Americans weren’t immersed in the other side’s outrage 24 hours a day. Social media changed that. Today we’re constantly exposed to the loudest, angriest voices from the “other tribe,” and algorithms profit by keeping us divided, suspicious, and emotionally invested in conflict. Every insult, every viral clip, and every political flashpoint reinforces the idea that our fellow Americans are enemies rather than neighbors. When political hatred escalates into threats or acts of violence—including attacks targeting public figures—it should remind us that tribalism, left unchecked, stops being politics and starts becoming something far more dangerous. A constitutional republic cannot survive if our highest loyalty is to the tribe instead of to the principles that bind us together.

Squaw Bay: When Washington Rewrites Local History

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In 2022, during the peak of America’s DEI-driven renaming campaign, Washington quietly rewrote more than 650 historic geographic names with the stroke of a pen. No vote in Alpena County. No referendum in Michigan. No debate in Congress. Just appointed federal officials deciding what generations of local residents should call their own landmarks. Whether you believe the name should stay or go isn’t the only question. The bigger one is this: Who gets to decide? If local history can be edited from a desk in Washington today, what piece of your community’s heritage gets rewritten tomorrow? It’s time to restore local control, preserve historical context, and remind the federal government that not every issue belongs in Washington.

The Ten Commandments Part II

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Last time we met, we looked at the first three commandments that God gave to his people through Moses.  For the purposes of better understanding western thought, it is critical to recognize that the Ten Commandants have been the bedrock of western morality for centuries.  As we discussed, the entire law of Moses is predicated on two …

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Welcome to Kalifornia: “Idiocracy” is their new Curriculum Guide

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California insists it’s teaching culture, not replacing standards. Critics aren’t buying it. They argue that schools should be teaching every student the language of college, careers, and civic life—not spending precious classroom time redefining grammar. A common language has long been one of America’s greatest unifying forces. Respect every culture, absolutely—but don’t confuse lowering standards with expanding opportunity. “Idiocracy” was supposed to be a comedy, not a curriculum roadmap.

America at 250: A History of Government Trying to Mute Free Speech

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The First Amendment was ratified in 1791. Just seven years later, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, making it a crime to criticize the federal government. Since then, nearly every generation has been told that “this” crisis—war, communism, terrorism, or COVID—justifies limiting speech “for the greater good.” The slogans change. The excuses evolve. But one lesson has remained remarkably consistent for 250 years: governments don’t usually attack free speech head-on—they simply find a reason why yours should be the exception.

Thank you, England: Too bad you’ve abandoned the civil liberties that you gave us

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A few Brits on Twitter congratulated us on our 250th birthday as a nation by reminding us that this Sunday they will celebrate the 1,099th anniversary of their nationhood.

Well, cheers to them as well.

America’s New State Religion: Trust the Science, Worship the Self

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America did not become irreligious. It simply changed religions. The old civic faith placed God above man and man above government; the new one places the self above reality and bureaucracy above everything else. Scientism supplies the lab coat, wokeism supplies the moral panic, and government arrives as savior, priest, therapist, and parole officer. This is not progress. It is ancient Gnosticism with Wi-Fi.

Why do I pay $6.99 a week for a newspaper that hates our country?

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My digital subscription to The Philadelphia Inquirer hits my bank account for $27.96 every four weeks, or $363.48 every year. The City of Brotherly Love is where the members of the Continental Congress met and finally declared our independence from King George and Great Britain 250 years and one day ago. Yet our nation’s third …

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The Democrat Strategy – How Communism Will Win

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Americans see the recent the elections resulting in the purging of far left democrats with even more extreme democrat communists and radical Islamists, the continued murders by illegals and felons released on no cash bail, the flight from blue/democrat states by millionaires and billionaires from taxes to red/republican states, the war by insurrectionist elected officials and judges impeding application of our laws and elections to remove illegals, and the inflationary costs to live as separate and distinct.
They are not – these efforts are part of a well thought out strategy to ensure the subversion of our country via packing the voting roles with perpetually dependent illegals and/or their children, the destruction of our middle class, and the slow but intentional subversion of red (republican) states.

The Great American Lawn: Our Dumb Little Kingdoms of Grass

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For a nation founded by farmers, we sure spend a lot of time maintaining grass we can’t eat. The American lawn wasn’t born out of practicality—it was imported from European aristocrats as a symbol of wealth. Today, millions of us faithfully burn fuel, spread fertilizer, and surrender our Saturdays maintaining tiny suburban kingdoms that exist mostly to impress the neighbors. We rejected kings in 1776, then spent the next two centuries pretending to be them, one freshly mowed lawn at a time.