Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
I thought I had seen the last of traitorous Americans cursing our soldiers or calling for them to be killed when the last American combat troops were pulled out of Vietnam following the 1973 Paris Peace Treaty. After the disgusting display by anti-American, pro-Iran thugs in Philadelphia and the perfidious “No Kings” protestors last weekend, it appears I was wrong.
Diane discusses her heartbreak over Joe Kent turning from a patriot to a Liberal, likely due to the influence of his second wife who hates President Trump. Steve is frustrated with the way that Republicans in the Senate allow the Democrats to pull them around by their noses.
Büdingen, Germany, late ’90s. The barracks were “historic,” which was Army-speak for old, fragile, and nobody wants to pay to fix it. The plumbing was past its expiration date—backups, leaks, that constant low-grade stench that never quite left your clothes. And that’s where we put our enlisted soldiers. The pitch from leadership bordered on parody: “You’re living in a historic building—Adolf Hitler once gave a speech here. See the photo!” That didn’t land. Not even close.
Bobby Pulido, who is running for Texas’ 15th congressional district, calls himself a “winter Texan” because he lives in Mexico most of the year. Pulido’s wife lives in Mexico along with children from previous marriages. He owns a house in Mexico.
The man who shot and killed an instructor at Old Dominion University on March 12, 2026 was a naturalized citizen WHO HAD ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED OF TERRORISM. In 2016 Jalloh was convicted of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and sentenced to 11 years in federal prison.
The Shahed-136 is not a masterpiece of engineering. It’s not stealthy, not fast, not elegant, and certainly not impressive in the way a fifth-generation fighter is. It sounds like a weed whacker with anger issues. It flies like a lawn dart with a GPS addiction. And yet—this ugly little flying triangle has exposed a brutal truth about modern warfare: You don’t need to be advanced to be effective. You just need to be cheap, numerous, and good enough.
There’s a quiet absurdity baked into modern America, and like most absurdities, we’ve lived with it so long we stopped questioning it. Every day, the federal government spends billions protecting people who fly occasionally—while leaving tens of millions of children sitting in classrooms with wildly inconsistent security. Let that sink in. We’ve normalized a system where you can’t bring a bottle of water through an airport without federal scrutiny, but your kid can walk into a school where security depends entirely on the zip code.
NATO didn’t invent cognitive warfare, but they did something important: they named it. And once you name something, you can’t pretend it isn’t there. Their definition isn’t wrapped in science fiction or Hollywood nonsense. It’s blunt. Cognitive warfare is about influencing or disrupting how people think in order to shape what they do. Not just soldiers, not just leaders—everyone. Entire populations. Allies, adversaries, and increasingly, your own backyard.
Kent’s boss was Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, not President Trump. His resignation letter should have been addressed to her. This is the first clue that the resignation which he made into a big public display is political, not principled.
The Transportation Security Administration was born in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks—a moment of national trauma where speed mattered more than strategy, and action mattered more than accuracy. That’s understandable. What’s not understandable is why we’re still running the same playbook a quarter century later like nothing has changed.
It has been said that Catholic converts are among the most zealous of all. And so it is with Carrie Prejean Boller, or, as I prefer to call her, Carrie Prejean Hez-Boller, because she has been extremely vocal in her support of the ‘Palestinians’ and their war against Israel. On March 23, she tweeted: Israel …
After 25 days of Operation Epic Fury, adversaries are making moves that show they want no part of an Iran that it is losing. Even Iran’s biggest supporter—Russia—is saying no mas. Now that Iran cannot provide Putin’s army with drones, he doesn’t need them.
China’s elite worldview isn’t built on crude racial hierarchy like 20th-century Europe. It’s older, subtler, and in many ways more dangerous. It doesn’t scream superiority. It assumes it.
President Trump called off launching a huge bombardment of Iran on Monday. He said he was talking to Iran’s leadership. Meanwhile, Iran’s leadership denies this. Both statements are true because no one is really sure who is in charge.
We all love electricity. Flip the switch, lights come on. Coffee maker fires up. Wi-Fi router blinks happily. Data centers hum. Teslas charge. Life is good. Modern civilization runs on electricity the way the human body runs on oxygen. The only time people think about the electrical grid is when it fails—and then suddenly everyone becomes an expert on transformers, substations, and utility companies. But here’s a fun little detail almost nobody knows: the entire grid quietly depends on a specialized material most Americans have never heard of.
There is a lesson in the Afghan man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who shot two national guardsman in DC in November of last year, if we are acute enough to see it.
While our NATO allies are flitting about trying to find a way to appease their Muslim invaders while not pissing Trump off, the Saudis are supporting us—albeit without acknowledging Israel.
There are two fronts in every war – one kinetic, one cognitive. The kinetic front is obvious, the cognitive not so. We will succeed on the kinetic front in the Iran war in the next few weeks, but what happens on the cognitive front will be the determining factor of success or failure. With a fifth column subverting us from within, we must address the cognitive war taking place globally and domestically, as they are one and the same.
There was a time when America could screw up a war and still hold itself together. Bloody? Yes. Messy? Always. But there was still a basic assumption that the people in charge weren’t feeding you a carefully plated narrative with a side of spin. That assumption is gone—and nobody seems particularly interested in getting it back.
