Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
A high school & middle school mob, sent out into the streets by their teachers and school administrators, recently beat up a mother walking her dog who merely asked “what is going on?” Police stood by and watched.
SMR stands for Small Modular Reactor. The concept is simple: instead of building massive, one-off nuclear cathedrals that take fifteen years, billions of dollars, and three generations of lawyers, you build smaller reactors that are standardized, factory-produced, shipped in modules, and deployed where power is actually needed. They’re designed to be safer, faster to build, easier to scale, and—most importantly—repeatable.
If you get 50% on a test, you fail. In marriage, 50% also equals failure, and not just the failure of one, but the failure of both partners, and then the failure of the marriage itself.
That was 1967. Vietnam was raging. Cadets were not being groomed for cable news panels or Senate confirmation hearings. They were being prepared for jungles, rice paddies, ambushes, and body counts. Humor, especially gallows humor, wasn’t a problem to be solved—it was a survival mechanism. The name “Fighting Cocks” wasn’t vulgar to them; it was irreverent, aggressive, and just juvenile enough to signal that these were young men who understood they were not being trained for polite society. They were being trained for war.
Bow manufacturers and outfitters have turned “performance” into a marketing shell game. The base bow looks sleek, the cam’s whisper-smooth, the limbs are “super laminated,” but when you peel back all that fancy talk, you’re paying for design mystique and markup — not just a tool that shoots arrows.
Savannah. The sun is not up. The city is dark and foggy. I am the first one awake in my hotel. I am always the first one awake. I don’t know why. As a kid, I could sleep until Carson came on. Now I get up before the rooster clears his throat.
What is the main opposition to requiring or teaching Western Civilization survey courses? Why is teaching the considerable and important political and social contributions Western civilization has made to the world a bad thing?
For decades, political science was the academic punchline—the major you picked when calculus broke you, engineering filtered you out, and chemistry made you cry. Everyone knew the line: If you can’t do anything else, go poli-sci. Parents nodded approvingly because “college is good for you,” administrators cashed tuition checks, and students emerged four years later fluent in theory, jargon, and grievance—but functionally incapable of building, fixing, or running anything in the real world. What no one admitted at the time was that political science didn’t just produce underemployed graduates; it quietly trained a generation in how to dismantle systems they never understood and could never rebuild.
Cancel culture seeks justice through exclusion, but the gospel calls Christians to a better way.
A house divided cannot stand. Right now, the National Rifle Association is living that proverb in real time, and it’s painful to watch—because for generations the NRA wasn’t just an organization. It was the standard-bearer. The steward. The institution that most Americans, whether they owned a firearm or not, understood as the big dog in the fight over the Second Amendment.
There are rock stars… and then there are Michigan rock stars—the kind forged in cold air, hard miles, deer sign, and a stubborn refusal to apologize for loving the outdoors. Ted Nugent is that kind of animal.
For decades, the official story was simple: UFOs weren’t real, and anyone who said otherwise was either confused, lying, or needed to spend less time staring at the sky and more time paying their taxes. “Swamp gas.” “Weather balloons.” “Venus.” “Camera artifacts.” The script never changed—only the excuse did. But while the grown-ups in government played dumb and the media treated the subject like a late-night punchline, Hollywood kept doing something far more dangerous: it kept normalizing the idea that we are not alone.
Winter cleaning, whether of our homes or our hearts, invites us to slow down, reflect honestly, and allow God to renew our hearts with grace.
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?
I will admit to being something of a very amateur architecture aficionado; I love great looking homes, even though I’m in no position to afford one for our family. I follow people like Coby — “Working on creating better, more beautiful places to live in. Developer, Writer, Urbanist, Professor, Optimist. Check out my writing below!” …
America has officially reached the point where a country singer has to remind a billionaire music mogul that he does not, in fact, own the souls of America’s children.
During a discussion in a journalism class I was teaching at the University of Illinois a few years ago, I posited the following question: What do you think has been the greatest, most impactful invention in the world during the past 1,000 years?
If your goal were to sabotage Michigan’s hunting tradition, hollow out rural economies, frustrate every sportsman in the state, you couldn’t design a better system than the one the Michigan DNR proudly operates today.
This year, let’s slow down amid the frenzy of the Christmas season, seek the quiet light of God’s presence, and rediscover the peace and wonder of Christ’s birth.
Our “Get Real” special guest, David DeJager, demonstrates how he uses his “AI assistant,” Oliver. We pundits also discuss the idiocy of the Seattle mayor taking over grocery stores.