Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons I first came across the problem (tragedy) of the commons in a political science course in grad school. We read a remarkable work by Elinor Ostrom about the problem. Her work both resonated with me and left me looking for more. I thought the problem was bigger …
Imagine a typical North Idaho family, Shawn and Jane Doe and their three children Mary, Mike and Becky. Shawn is the assistant manager at a local division of a national company. The Doe family is a comfortable, middle class family and happy, but money seems tight. Jane has been pestering Shawn to ask for a …
These are Orwellian days in America, much like what George Orwell experienced as a volunteer fighting for the partizans in the Spanish Civil War.
I believed I could handle making the switch back to the Democratic party, despite my lingering questions about their position on abortion.
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.
On April 18, 2023, Charles Stanley passed from life here to life in heaven at the age of 90. Dr. Stanley was the greatest Christian teacher of his time.
We should all beware of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. They are but ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.” ~G. Michael Hopf
Universities are supposed to be places where you are exposed to a broad array of ideas, philosophies, and opinions. Sadly in America, they aren’t.
That things get stupid following a mass shooting, such as the one in Louisville, or school shooting like the one in Nashville, is expected. But there’s a point at which stupidity gets squared. From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Parents say Bala Cynwyd fifth graders texted about who should be shot in the next school shooting “Everyday …
Selwyn Duke: Here is my Letter to the Minnesota Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flanagan who demanded parents respect their kids’ identities.
We are indeed in the midst of a centuries long battle between good and evil, it is primarily a cognitive war that is occurring both domestically and globally.
And she wants to do everything she can to improve public safety except the most obvious: actually enforce the law! As Robert Stacy McCain noted in “Chicago Votes for More Crime,” when the Windy City Democrats nominated police-hating Brandon Johnson to become their next Mayor, the bad things that happened under Mayor Lori Lightfoot would …
Today, it’s hard to think how race relations could move more backwards than they are. And, they’re moving fast and hard in the worst reverse ever.
The Romans Road “Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.” ~Anatole Broyard The Romans were good at a lot of things. While touring Europe, I was able to see much of the work they left behind that sometimes looks in better condition than the roads in my hometown of Helena, Montana. But …
If there is a consensus that the mentally ill shouldn’t own guns (there is) then why is there no concern over “Trans” people owning them?
People who don’t believe they are the biological sex their chromosome and equipment indicate, need treatment, not “gender affirming care.”
If we expect our kids to reflect our values of hard work and personal integrity, we are going to have to take a closer look at public education.
The latest fad is transgenderism. With it comes not only the death of cultural norms, traditions, biological science and even common sense, but also untimely deaths of mostly youth who are allured by this new phenomena.