Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Whenever a veteran recounts a war story from their military days they often start with the phrase, “So there I was.” Though I am retired from the military and back home in Montana there are still times when I feel the need to start a story off right. So, there I was, sitting in the …
We’re all on the bus together and will collectively experience the impact when our radical demented fool in chief drives the country over the approaching cliff.
Sometimes the stupidity gets piled so high and deep that I wind up just shaking my head. Yeah, I realize that some people just feel that they have to top the past sexual revelation, and when I find myself saying, “Well, this takes the cake,” I have to realize that something even dumber will soon …
1945’s Brent Eastwood raised an interesting point in an article titled “The End of Donald Trump Has Arrived.” He noted that, of the five former U.S. presidents who have run for the presidency after having lost their previous bids for reelection, only one, Grover Cleveland, was successful. Eastwood wrote: But that is precisely what he …
Last week, in case you missed it, was “Ethics in Journalism Week,” sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. As a journalist and a member of the SPJ myself, I naturally visited the SPJ’s website to see how it was commemorating this occasion. As expected, the site was bursting with platitudes about journalism and journalists. …
Apparently, every day is a battle for LGBTQ+ lawmakers. According to an Associated Press report, they “find themselves fighting just ‘to exist.’” The article begins on an emotional note: State Sen. Shevrin Jones can often be seen at the Florida Capitol greeting staff and colleagues with a smile or laugh, but when he’s alone it’s …
These are Orwellian days in America, much like what George Orwell experienced as a volunteer fighting for the partizans in the Spanish Civil War.
Two weeks ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that would ban abortions in the state after the sixth week of pregnancy, a move that will be welcomed by Republican primary voters. The more important question is: How will that play out in the general election? It could, as a Biden campaign spokesman told …
Minarchy and the Prudent Man’s Armory; Five Weapons for when something bad is happening and you need to deal with it.
In recent years, there has been a growing debate over whether or not homosexuals, lesbians, or transgender people should be allowed to adopt children.
We first mentioned Dylan Mulvaney a month ago, when, as Robert Stacy McCain put it, “satire is rapidly becoming impossible because reality has gotten so weird.” Since then, two well-paid executives accepting his ‘reality’ have managed to get themselves fired “leaves of absence“. Mr Mulvaney managed to keep his mouth shut for a while, as someone told …
The conservative punditry world hasn’t had a shake up like this weeks in a long time. Two years ago, we lost talk radio’s G.O.A.T., Rush Limbaugh. A sad day, but not a surprise given Rush’s health issues. Fox News firing its number one star, Tucker Carlson, was both a surprise and a shock.
America has become a nation of grievances. Is anyone else but me tired of the whining? In 1911, Booker T. Washington wrote, “There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able …
In collaboration with the National Down Syndrome Society, toy manufacturing company Mattel added a Down Syndrome Barbie to their product line on Tuesday. Typically, I turn off when I hear the word “inclusion,” but in this case, I think Mattel has done a very caring and lovely thing. Citing data from the Centers for Disease …
Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
Our institutions are failing. They aren’t failing to survive. They’re failing to meet our expectations; they’re failing to satisfy their reason for being.
Our Great U.S. Culture War; how America started helps explain how we got to where we are and why.
There were four distinct cultures in Colonial America. They united after the Revolution into a consensus American Culture.
The premise that Americans who believe in the Constitution are on the far right is a canard.
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” ~ George Orwell