Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Around 2028, when things are beginning to return to pre-COVID levels of prosperity, and some fool at the NIH wants to shut the economy down to “flatten the curve,” remember the true cost of the last shut down.
How my West Point Class of 1972 mattered to the Army is why I care about West Point today. That begs the question, “Why does West Point matter?” What matters today – for the Class of 2022?
A urban fable that’s come up recently, is that being a law enforcement officer (LEO) requires less training than a beautician (although inaccurate, I must agree some states put ridiculous requirements on licensing to cut hair). The implication is that police are undertrained, or worse, untrained. To put it mildly, that is inaccurate. Liberals in …
America today seems more like a hostile, chaotic, and untamed third-world backwoods than a sophisticated cutting-edge republic
Racism is insidious. One cannot do anything about the color of their skin. We can dye our hair, if we have any. We can change the color of our eyes with contacts. But we cannot change our skin color.
America’s China policy objectives have been flawed for decades, resulting in the ascendancy of a hyper-aggressive People’s Republic of China
World history is marred with slavery. The Egyptians and Babylonians enslaved the Jews. The Greeks and Romans had slaves captured in battle. Nomad cultures in the Middle East, Africa and America resulted in the enslavement of captured tribes. There is an old adage, to the victors go the spoils. The spoils were put to death …
The West Point Class of 1972 entered at the height of the Vietnam War. We went, expecting to fight in Vietnam, when our generation and America was split in two. The War ended when the author was in winter Ranger School.
What were the lessons of the Stoics, why were they critical in Admiral Stockdale’s survival as a POW, and what can they tell us today?
“Go tell to Sparta, thou who passest by, that here, obedient to her laws, we lie.”
– Simonides
One doesn’t have to be a history buff to understand the significance of June 6, the anniversary of the Allied liberation of Europe in 1944. The D-Day landings in Normandy, France, amounted to the largest amphibious assault ever executed in military history. It marked the start of the two-month-long Battle of Normandy and the eventual liberation …
The left has been wanting to ban firearms, all of them, ever since I can remember.
Benjamin Franklin. Image via Pixabay Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it. America was founded on …
More Americans died fighting one another in “The Recent Unpleasantness (1861-1865)” than all of our other wars put together. Every year honoring the Confederate half of that most terrible war has its unique highlights and nuances. This year the Army is culturally cleansing the names of its forts. So, the unspoken post-war compromise – where Southerners could honor their soldiers’ valor if they ignored the abuses of Federal aggression and stayed silent about Yankee war crimes – is over.
Memorial Day is about remembrance. It’s about an appreciation for the lives that were dedicated to our American freedom.
The past two years hves been full of sudden, violent mental and emotional disturbances. Those events have caused a disturbance in the equilibrium of this Nation, in the permanence of this Nation.
Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII, and Part XIII of this multi-part series discussed the first eight increments of the second tier geopolitical and economic goals and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. This part summarizes a ninth portion of those goals and objectives.
