Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Same paper, same dates, different markets. Is this real or fake? Media sometimes caters to what their audience predominantly wants to hear. Financial Samurai “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” John F. Kennedy Freedom …
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience mental illness in any given year.
A madman murdered people in a mall. Before we jump off a cliff, mewling, “It’s the guns,” let’s take time to get the details.
The Readiness of America’s Military is Under Internal Attack. Recent Accidents in Army Aviation, and Response thereto, Indicates What Plagues Our Military
While the FBI chases the elusive “white supremacist domestic terrorist,” it seems blind to other attacks on our society.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough MEN stand ready to do violence on their behalf
~Unknown
The 2020 notion was that we “are in a battle for the soul of the nation.” So let me ask a few questions:
I don’t know whether I write this as snark or as a serious warning about the abject evil Democrat governance is bringing upon this great nation.
The Tragedy of the Commons: Wicked Logic In The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actors, I discussed linear vs. spiral logic. I suggested that western logic tended to be more linear and Islamic and other cultures, perhaps more spiral. But that is a generalization based on today’s conditions. In the past, western logic tended …
Star Chambers Coming for Your Children. Washington & Minnesota, have already legalized the kidnapping and mutilation of children without parental consent
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXV; Whatever happened to John Cougar? Albert Constantine Jr. blasts Joe Biden with “Cherry Bomb.”
The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actor This is a follow on to Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons. It specifically looks at the rationality implied in Ostrom’s 8 points and the Rational Actor/Choice, Game, and Agency theories. What happens if the rational hypothesis fails or is different across cultures or relevant ranges? I …
The America I knew as a young man, was a country in which you could grow up to be anything you wished. My how that is now truer today, than ever before, but not in a good way. Today, no matter who you are, you can grow up to be literally “anything” you wish, given …
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 …
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 …
This Part B of the second installment of a series on Our Great U.S. Culture War. American Biblical Worldview When the thirteen colonies became thirteen united states, that America was 98.2% Protestant. The Protestant denominations had their differences, but they shared a focus, allegiance, and affinity to the Holy Bible. Furthermore, “dissenting” Protestantism is a …
Learning Life’s Lessons the Hard Way in 21st Century America
Defending The Republic, Part 1: Scenarios Over the last year, I’ve been thinking, researching, and writing (Corporatism Part 1, Part 2; Thoughts on Ukraine, Part 7: The Joint Corporatist Scenario, among others) a lot about corporatism. I’ve been searching for a reason why corporations are doing what they are doing with social justice agendas. Why …
This is Part A of the second installment of a series on Our Great U.S. Culture War. From Cape Henry to President George Washington It is 182 years from Englishmen planting the Christian Cross on Cape Henry, Virginia to claim a covenant evangelizing this new world, this Virginia, to the first inauguration of President George …