Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
In this part, we turn to the early years of the SSN itself, the numbers that were forbidden, and the unlikely rebellion that began not with violence, but with a strange, silent act of civil disobedience: using a fake number on purpose.
Part 1 We Gave Up Our Names for Numbers: The Quiet Birth of the System That Owns You Looking back from the age of digital surveillance and algorithmic oversight, perhaps the greatest act of control wasn’t when the government began reading our emails—but when it gave each of us a number and took away our …
The United States is currently a 70+% consumption economy. Meaning for every $10 of economic activity? $7+ dollars of it is someone buying something.
Reports are emerging that college students are using AI to write term papers and required assignments. Are these future leaders demonstrating innovation by utilizing the latest technology to prepare them for the real world or just cheating?
For the last quarter-century or more, the Chinese Communist Party has been building the case for, and the framework of, a Beijing-led new world order.
At last count, China owns thirteen big American food production facilities, like Smithfield Foods. The Biden administration permitted or did not interfere with China’s scheme to buy American farmland and/or those thirteen or so food production companies.
Trump used the power of anti-trust law to get Nippon Steel to invest in U.S. Steel. Congress empowered presidents to do this over a century ago and Trump uses that power for the public good.
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the old movie “The Truman Show.” Not so much about the fictional enactment of a television director’s vision of utopia, but about the movie’s big question: “How’s it going to end?”
When a head of state – such as the President of the United States, for example – wants to encourage certain behaviors in a foreign government, the toolbox is limited.
IP and technology theft by Chinese entities is ongoing and pervasive. The communists understand the benefits of short-circuiting development costs by incorporating stolen IP and patented technologies.
US Rep Gerry Connolly passed away on the early morning of May 21st. Being a member of the Party of Greed, he would have vote “no” to this bill and “no” to continuing tax relief to low-income and moderate-income Americans. His vote would have produced a tie, thus killing the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
President Trump is negotiating. This is not nuclear science. He asks for the stars and settles for the moon. But the media says Trump capitulated while Xi—who will pay triple the tariffs Americans will pay—won.
Trump spoke at a business forum of Arabs and our tech tycoons. The builder of Trump Towers and resorts all over the world talked about the cities Arabs are building.
The Great Depression and WWII found us rallying behind FDR’s 3,728 executive orders. By 1945, militarily and economically, we were the strongest of all nations. Our smugness generated an 80-year liberal mindset that fostered the belief: What’s Best for Other Nations is Best of Us. Five factors followed:
April’s employment figures are robust, despite the usual blare of alarms about a “tariff shock” and “looming recession” from the usual mouthpieces of the clueless establishment.
Trump’s progress during the first 100 days has been extremely encouraging for Republicans, but it’s far too early to declare victory. It is the second 100 days that will determine whether the president’s agenda succeeds or fails. What unfolds in the months ahead will either cement Trump’s legacy — or undo it.
The evolution from capitalism to cronyism bears some distinct markers. Perhaps chief amongst them is the ever-increasing domination of…everything by the biggest of Big Businesses.
The battle between globalism and nationalism took a turn this year. After suffering defeats by Trump, Orban, Milei and Bukele, the One Worlders got smart and suddenly embraced patriotism.
More people read the headline than read the story itself; it’s sometimes quite effective for a biased news source to write a relatively fair story if they can put their spin into the title.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her first major speech since leaving office at Emerge America’s 20th anniversary gala in San Francisco this week. She described the current state of the U.S. economy as “the greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history.”