Politicians Start Preaching: A Short, Historically Accurate Warning From the History Files
The Nazis didn’t merely “misuse” Christianity. They mugged it in the alley, stole its jacket, and strutted around pretending to be holy.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
The Nazis didn’t merely “misuse” Christianity. They mugged it in the alley, stole its jacket, and strutted around pretending to be holy.
Mind Games: How They Play Us; Part III — You’re Not as Smart as You Think: The Psychology of Being Easily Played (and the Way Out) Here’s where we get honest: The biggest vulnerability in this whole system isn’t the internet. It isn’t Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Congress, or the Russians. It’s your brain. You are …
Social media took human beings — once capable of nuance, friendship, and healthy disagreement — and shoved us back into warring tribes like it’s 10,000 BC and someone stole the mammoth meat.
Mind Games: How They Play Us; A Three-Part Series on Manipulation, Tribalism, and the Illusion of Thinking for Ourselves
A couple of years ago I started pondering: What will the last straw be? What will launch us into our next bloody civil war – national choice by violence? It was a really stupid thought experiment – based on the wrong premise.
You don’t need a PhD in economics to know when the herd is about to stampede. All you need is a functioning pair of eyeballs, a basic memory of 2008, and maybe a little common sense — which in modern America qualifies as a superpower.
The real danger isn’t Christians defending their families or forming lawful militias. The danger is people confusing holy war rhetoric with biblical responsibility and constitutional order.
Every nation goes through a cycle. Because of the wicked nature of man and the enticements of our enemy, Satan, power tends to concentrate at the top, which is tyranny.
I used to think I was just a regular guy, going about my life, as President Lincoln once said: “with malice toward none and charity for all.” Boy, was I wrong.
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may …
The US owes $38+ trillion. Stop right there. That amount of money is insurmountable – and un-payback-able.
The US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2024 was $29.2 trillion. So the debt is 130+% of that. That alone is enough information to write off the US.
Most states are legislating to cease traffic ticket quotas. The ticket-quota issue came about due to a few communities who took advantage by ordering their police department to write more tickets as a method for increasing their general fund – not kosher.
Under Zelensky, it is open season for Hunter and all the other spawn of politicians in Kyiv thanks to the Russian invasion.
There are women out there qualified for high office. But being a woman is not a qualification in and of itself.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor…
Many in the press have enjoyed taking pot shots at President Donald Trump for his recent recommendation that the banking community make 50 year mortgages available to prospective homeowners.
We all know the iconic photo: an old Union veteran in blue shaking hands with a Confederate in gray at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. It’s become the symbol of forgiveness — proof that America “healed” fifty years after the Civil War. But the truth underneath it is far more complicated.
We used to believe the housing market ran on freedom, work, and responsibility — the idea that if you saved and worked hard, you’d earn the keys to your own home. That myth still sells well, but the current cycle is revealing something darker: a culture conditioned to dependency.
My good friend and occasional blog pinch hitter William Teach noted that Luke Broadwater of The New York Times was apoplectic over the hardball that President Donald Trump played during the Government shutdown: The government shutdown is already the longest in American history. But it’s also perhaps the most punishing, in part because President Trump …
Historical myths say that Lucrezia Borgia was a seductive poisoner who carried a hollow ring filled with venom, hosted orgiastic banquets, and eliminated lovers and rivals at will—an archetypal 16th-century Renaissance “femme fatale.”