Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
As America approaches its 250th birthday, I find myself asking a question that would have seemed absurd when I was young:
How did so many Americans come to hate their own country?
Here’s a question for you: Can a nation so bitterly divided reunite and enjoy its 250th birthday this July 4th? Is patriotism in America dead—a quaint relic of another time when Americans (both Democrat and Republican) were proud of their country?
For more than a century, Americans have spent millions of dollars fighting nature at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Built in 1922 as a grand architectural feature, the pool transformed a former Potomac floodplain into a shallow, artificial body of water that has suffered recurring algae blooms, leaks, sediment buildup, and costly repairs ever since. The latest maintenance controversy isn’t a new problem—it’s simply the latest chapter in a hundred-year struggle to maintain a giant pond where nature never intended one to exist. Instead of pouring more taxpayer dollars into perpetual repairs, perhaps it’s time to ask a different question: what if we reclaimed the 15 acres occupied by the Reflecting Pool and returned that space to the public? Expanded lawns, shaded gathering areas, memorial gardens, event space, and recreational areas could serve millions of visitors far better than a body of water that most people can only walk around and photograph. Sometimes the best way to solve a century-old engineering problem is not to engineer harder—it’s to admit the original idea has outlived its usefulness.
Multiple black-owned subcontractors who built the Obama Center are reportedly owed millions of dollars and are now fighting to keep their businesses alive. The very entrepreneurs the project promised to uplift through its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, AKA racist scams.
In Federalist 85, the last of the Federalist Papers, Hamilton brings his closing argument for the adoption of the draft Constitution.
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When I first started teaching, I had an hour drive each way to work. Every single morning, Quinn and Rose were on the radio. That was MY morning routine. Coffee, highway, and Jim Quinn telling me exactly why the world was going insane… and somehow making me laugh about it at 6:30 AM.
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave follows the adventures of Dr. Cashgrab as he enriches himself in the growing field of identity alteration.
Diane discusses the plot to slaughter attendees at the White House’s UFC 500 which was planned by 23 of Democrats’ Useful Idiots. The terrorists’ ringleader is an illegal alien who was granted DACA protection from President Obama. Baader-Meinhof Gang which terrorized Germany FOR YEARS had only 20 members.
I have often heard the phrase: “Democrats hate our country.” Somehow, it always seemed a bit too imprecise and all-encompassing to condemn an entire political party for having such an unpatriotic conviction. After all, my parents and most of my family were Democrats, and I know they loved their country. I personally know other Democrats …
Hamilton continues reviewing the Judiciary and goes into greater depth on the issue of the relative jurisdictions of the Federal and State courts.
This single footnote could not and did not create a “constitutional right” to birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, a concept that was never intended by the 14th Amendment’s framers. The footnote has been rejected by constitutional scholars for decades.
‘The Five’ analyzes Democrats’ performance on the generic ballot and examines the party’s strategy heading into the midterm elections.
The concept of communism, on paper, presents a vision of a just and equal society where everyone’s needs are met, and resources are shared. However, history has shown us that this idealistic ideology consistently fails in practice.
Hamilton continues his discourse on the nature of the Judiciary in Federalist 81. This paper addresses the very current issue of an activist Judiciary.
Our modern beliefs suppose that the third branch of government has unlimited authority to make pronouncements. But that is not the case nor was it the intent of the Founding Fathers.
NSA Director GEN Keith Alexander’s philosophy increasingly based on the belief that you “can’t analyze data you do not have,” which led to a massive NSA Data Center project in Utah some 5 or so years later code named Bumblehive that enabled massive storage capability on a scale never approached before that only increased the already somewhat paranoid and conspiracy focused public to think the worst: many of whom would be proven right.
Since January 2025 the Liberal members of this club have become increasingly nasty. To curb this behavior, the new office manager recently started sending out “codes of conduct” messages with each weekly email Blast such as: “Please be Kind,” “Be Respectful,” and “Be Helpful.”
So many stories are in the news, covering so many completely different issues, from transportation to shopping, from sports to taxation. Might they have anything in common?
Don Surber takes us through another week of the summer doldrums of news cycles. He’ll make you laugh, think and understand the media better than the institution knows itself. Enjoy!