Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Here’s a fun riddle: what do you call a man who works for the President of the United States and thirty-one other heads of state — all at once — and can’t tick off any of them? Answer: The SACEUR.
America has the attention span of a goldfish on an energy drink. If a war isn’t trending, isn’t hashtagged, or doesn’t have a Marvel movie tie-in, it simply evaporates from public memory. And so we forgot Bosnia.
these are Hamas fanatics, who can, and will, and already have tried to continue the war. From The Jerusalem Post:
It’s happening. President Trump’s tariffs are taking hold and the attitude of Be American, Buy American is returning.
The old lie will always sound poetic. It always has. But maybe, this Veterans Day, we can start telling a new truth: The most noble act of service isn’t dying for empire — it’s living for liberty, for truth, and for the people God entrusted us to protect.
The Balkans Civil Wars never truly vanish from American foreign policy; they just fade into the background noise of newer crises. Yet even now — in 2025 — the traces still remain after 30-years.
For decades, Christian Zionists — usually the loudest voices in the evangelical and fundamentalist camp — have weaponized that verse into a geopolitical loyalty oath.
During World War II, America quietly became a warden to over 425,000 prisoners of war—mostly Germans, Italians, and a few thousand Japanese. They arrived in Liberty ships and railcars, scattered to more than 700 camps across 46 states.
Republicans are hitting Democrats in the wallet. First Trump shut down US AID. Now a conservative organization is going after foreigners funneling funds into our policy decisions and elections.
Use of force without direct Congressional authorization is often problematic. But that doesn’t make it illegal or unconstitutional.
Deciphering Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s periodic public statements could be a cottage industry. Some of his assertions and urgings are head-scratchers, given their divergence from easily verified facts.
Fast-forward another century, and the players have changed — but the mountains haven’t. After 9/11, the United States and its NATO allies, including Britain, marched into Afghanistan to root out the Taliban and rebuild the nation.
After World War I, the victorious allies, with the blessings of the newly formed United Nations, carved up the Ottoman Empire creating the independent nations of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel.
I believe we are in some uncharted waters as far as our government’s use of force is concerned. The President’s use of military force against alleged drug trafficking boats is going to break new ground and test the Constitution and international law.
He didn’t bow. Obama did, but President Trump got out of his car, walked over to the emperor of Japan and shook his hand.
Welcome back to our weekend reflection on leadership, legacy, and the quiet strength that forges true victories—not always in boardrooms or on fairways, but in the unyielding pursuit of principle.
Hey, remember that wild farmer strike in the Netherlands a couple years back? The one where thousands of angry Dutch farmers rolled their tractors onto highways, blocked airports, and sprayed manure at government buildings because the government wanted to shut down half their farms to “save the environment”? Well — guess who was running that …
You know, this really pisses me off. No, not Vice President J D Vance visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a place where I have been and found amazing and inspiring, but the utterly asinine comments of (supposedly) good Americans, some of whom even profess to be Christians. I have seen several …
In the longstanding and brutal ledger of religious persecution, Nigeria now occupies its own grim chapter with its enduring pogrom against Christians. Nigeria is the largest populated nation on the African continent and has become the crucible of suffering for its Christian minority.
There he goes, making peace again. Donald Trump cannot help himself. He just has to shut down another perfectly good opportunity for World War 3.