Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
My good friend Robert Stacy McCain fisked an article from The New York Times, one which tried to make the case that American women postponing childbirth might still have children later in life. “Fertility delayed is fertility denied” is one of the great maxims of demographics. As a matter of statistical average, postponing parenthood means …
If you want a glimpse of how modern pressure can scale fast, look north to the winter of 2022 and the protests known as the Freedom Convoy. What began as a cross-country movement of truckers opposing cross-border vaccine requirements turned into a broader protest against mandates and restrictions. The response from the Canadian government under Justin Trudeau was decisive: emergency powers were invoked, certain financial accounts connected to the protests were frozen, and law enforcement moved to clear blockades. Supporters called it necessary to restore order; critics saw it as a warning shot—how quickly financial access and mobility can be restricted in a modern, digitally connected system.
By late 2020, vaccines arrived under emergency authorization. That should have been the turning point—the moment where risk became individualized again. Instead, the dial kept turning in one direction: more control, more pressure, more compliance. By September 2021, the federal government, under Joe Biden, pushed for sweeping mandates, including a requirement aimed at large employers through OSHA. It was framed as necessity. It was enforced as urgency. And it was received, in many corners, as coercion.
You didn’t need a history degree to recognize what was happening during the pandemic—you just needed to pay attention to how quickly ordinary people changed under pressure. Not all at once, not everywhere, but enough to notice a pattern. Stress, fear, and anxiety didn’t just shape policy; they reshaped behavior. And in many cases, they …
In the early 19th century, Britain had a problem. China produced what the world wanted—tea, silk, porcelain—and demanded payment in silver. The British Empire was bleeding hard currency. Rather than accept the imbalance, Britain engineered a solution: opium. Grown in British India and smuggled into China, the drug created dependency at scale. Millions became addicted. Silver began flowing back out of China.
Once an “assisted suicide” system is up and running under Socialized Medicine, it is just a matter of time when people who are not terminally ill, who are not in pain, would be euthanized by their own government. Since Canada’s MAID was legalized in 2016, the program has grown exponentially.
These phrases are the verbal equivalent of pulling the fire alarm in an argument. Once someone says them, anyone who disagrees immediately looks like a monster. After all, who wants to be the guy standing up and saying, “Actually, I prefer freedom even if it’s risky”? That’s not exactly a great campaign slogan. But history shows that these exact phrases — the language of safety, fairness, and collective good — are often the first step in breaking down systems built on individual responsibility and replacing them with systems built on control.
What if I told you that you are enough? Moreover, what if you woke up this morning and, for the first time ever, you actually felt like enough. What if you loved yourself? And I mean really loved yourself. Do you love yourself? Let’s find out.
Dear Tara, I heard that your cancer has spread. They tell me you’ll need to undergo some invasive surgeries, not least of which is a mastectomy. They tell me you’re frightened.
He looked like Chris Farley. Even after 6 years of taking transgendering drugs, Jesse VanRootselaar, 18, had a 5 O’Clock shadow that powder did not completely cover. Police say he shot and killed 6 people and wounded 25 others
To the woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The woman whose particular cancer, the doctor said, is the “bad kind.” Whatever the hell that means. Is there a “good kind” of breast cancer?
Officially, the experts will tell you it means “small O.” Cute. Harmless. Like a Sesame Street vowel. And sure — in the Greek alphabet, that’s what it is. But that explanation is also the kind of tidy little classroom answer you give kids when you don’t want them asking follow-up questions. You know. Like the ones adults should’ve been asking in 2020.
I turn on Fox News for the same reason a man checks the weather before he goes outside: I want to know what’s coming, and I’d prefer not to be blindsided by it. Is the world on fire? Are we at war? Did Congress accidentally pass something useful? Did somebody somewhere do something so insane it requires a full segment and a therapist?
By any honest accounting, the pandemic did more than disrupt daily life. It rewired cultural instincts, reshaped how Americans relate to authority, and quietly altered how dissent is treated in a society that once prized it. The damage was not limited to lost lives or lost income; it extended into trust, neighborliness, and the very idea of personal agency.
Every abortion is a bloody mess. Virginia Democrats are making a mess of the Virginia Constitution with a “Right to Reproductive Freedom. They’re determined to make killing a baby in the womb an “individual” right.
I see her on the street. She is a hospice nurse. I know this because she is standing directly beside her company SUV, which is covered in vinyl logos, parked outside an older house. She is mid-40s, wearing scrubs. And crying. Face-in-her-hands crying.
The 20-year-old girl is sleeping when we enter her hospital room. But her mom tells us to come in anyway. I’m carrying my fiddle case. My friend Bobby is carrying his banjo.
Assisted Living Facility In-House Doctor: “Obamacare diverts Medicare funds from life-saving procedures to comfort care.” He hinted that federal funds were flooding into assisted living facilities & other places, and away from hospitals & treating physicians, which has since been bore out.
We three refused to take The Jab, the faux Covid vaccine, that was supposed to prevent us from getting the second political disease in the USA. Not only did it NOT prevent patients from contracting Covid, it turned out to be damaging and deadly.
America doesn’t have a nursing problem—we have a bureaucracy problem. Every time Washington claims it’s going to “fix” something, it adds another layer of paperwork, redefinitions, and unelected decision-makers who have never set foot in a hospital at 3 a.m.