Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
If Socialists, Islamists & Communists get their way and enact “Medicare For All.” Federal bureaucrats will decide if you are “worthy” of receiving medical treatment. If not, you will be pushed into committing doctor-assisted suicide. Canada is a prime example of its poor treatment of patients.
Those who are Christians have already made the decision to trust God, at least on some level. Today’s article outlines six reasons to trust God.
Maybe hell isn’t fire and brimstone. Maybe it’s something far worse: wanting forever and never being satisfied. Our modern culture may already give us a small taste—more money, more stuff, more attention, more pleasure, yet somehow never enough. C.S. Lewis suggested our deepest longings may point beyond this world. Perhaps the question isn’t how to get more, but why nothing we get ever seems to fill the hole.
Music legend Kid Rock opens up about his early years, his thoughts on the U.S. Senate race in Michigan and more on ‘My View with Lara Trump.’
In his Harvard address, Solzhenitsyn offered a scathing critique of ideological conformity, which he perceived as a threat to genuine intellectual and moral freedom. He warned against the dangers of a monolithic worldview imposed by the state or society, which stifles individual thought and suppresses dissent. This critique remains strikingly relevant today, as various ideological forces seek to dominate public discourse and marginalize opposing viewpoints.
Two men, separated by centuries, ran essentially the same experiment. The voice of Ecclesiastes had wealth, power, pleasure, wisdom, and everything the ancient world called success. Leo Tolstoy had aristocracy, military adventure, family, wealth, fame, and literary immortality. Both climbed the ladder, reached the top, looked around—and discovered the same uncomfortable truth: none of it could answer death. Ecclesiastes called it hevel—vapor. Tolstoy called it a crisis of meaning. Different men, different worlds, same conclusion: the things of this world cannot do the job of God.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard commencement address, “A World Split Apart,” serves as a profound critique of the spiritual and moral decay in Western societies. Solzhenitsyn foresaw a decline rooted in materialism and a departure from spiritual values, a perspective that resonates even more powerfully in today’s context. He warned of a society increasingly driven by consumerism, where the quest for comfort and wealth eclipses the pursuit of higher moral and spiritual ideals. This crisis of the human spirit, he argued, leads to a shallow existence, devoid of deeper meaning and true fulfillment.
Autumn’s falling leaves are a lighthearted reminder to let go of negativity and distractions, trusting God to carry what we release so we can make room for something new.
God pairs unlikely people like Abraham, the friend of God, and Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute, to show that both were counted righteous by faith that acts.
We spend our lives chasing happiness—more money, more success, more pleasure, more control—yet somehow the appetite always survives the meal. Ecclesiastes called it vapor. Augustine called it restlessness. Tolstoy discovered that even extraordinary success couldn’t answer death. Maybe the problem isn’t that God hasn’t given us what we want. Maybe it’s that we keep praying “Thy will be done” while quietly demanding “my will be done.” Happiness comes and goes. God offers something deeper: peace.
Michigan resident Sean Lechner and Iron Pig Smokehouse owner Ian Murphy discuss the weight their gubernatorial and Senate elections hold on ‘The Bottom Line.’
What if the greatest victories of evil don’t involve possession, spinning heads, or levitating furniture? What if they’re much simpler—pride, lust, greed, deception, hatred, and division? Ephesians 6 reminds Christians that our struggle is not ultimately against flesh and blood. Maybe we’ve become so busy identifying the enemy in everyone else that we’ve forgotten where the real battlefield is—and which weapons Paul actually told us to carry.
From Finland’s rocky farms to the copper mines and forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Finnish immigrants brought more than strong backs and “SISU” to America. They brought faith, saunas, traditions—and fierce arguments over labor, capitalism and socialism that divided “Church Finns” and “Red Finns” more than a century ago. Their remarkable story of immigration, revolution, war and assimilation helped shape northern Michigan and reminds us that many of the political debates Americans wrestle with today are anything but new.
Like a sand dollar, we are fragile and easily broken, but God can use our brokenness to reveal the purpose and strength He has placed within us.
Hermit crabs must repeatedly leave an outgrown shell and risk being exposed to find a new one — a picture of trusting God rather than ourselves in life’s vulnerable in-between moments.
God is good, and He is just. It’s important for us to remember the fullness of who He is so that we can remember how much we need the salvation and forgiveness His Son Jesus offers to us. In all of our brokenness, we are not without a Savior.
Satire is lost on our leftist friends. Type sluggishly, they are very slow on the uptake.
3:42 a.m.—Three hours before sunrise. Sarah and I are awake. Sort of. We begin our marathon route in the hamlet of Manitou Springs, a town where everything is organic, even the Subaru exhaust.
We start our journey alone, in front of the little courthouse, the official starting line of the Pikes Peak Marathon. Before we begin running, we hug each other tightly.
“We’re doing this,” we say before we sprint off into the silent streets.
The Muslim terror attack on 9-11 brought a fleeting moment of WW2-like national unity. A week later, I wrote the first and best op ed of the 1000 plus to follow: “One Front, Two Wars”. Our Homeland is one front where the Great U.S. Culture War and the War between Western Civilization and a resurgent Islam that breeds radicals and rage are fought.
I knew ”the adrenaline cocktail of shock, fear and anger intoxicates only for a season”.
Modern man says he doesn’t believe in miracles while standing on a wet rock hurtling through space, made of stardust, possessing consciousness nobody can fully explain, pondering a universe nobody can explain why exists. God? Ridiculous. Ancient aliens? Now you have his attention. Maybe we didn’t stop believing—we just changed the vocabulary and became selectively skeptical about which mysteries are socially acceptable. Watch for AFNN next week as we ask the uncomfortable question: “I Don’t Believe in Miracles,” Says the Miracle.