Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
On Monday, 6 celebrities formed an all-female crew aboard a Blue Origin space capsule for a suborbital space flight that lasted 11 minutes. The women included the wife of Jeff Bezos, singer Katy Perry and CBS presenter Gayle King. Public reaction was not what Bezos expected for him or his company
For decades, nuclear energy has been caught between promise and peril—offering a cleaner energy source but carrying the baggage of meltdowns, waste, and public fear.
Imagine you’re at a family barbecue, flipping burgers, when your conspiracy-loving uncle asks, “So, do you think quantum mechanics proves time travel is real?” This is your moment. You sip your drink, smirk knowingly, and say, “Well, that depends on whether you believe the universe plays dice or bends like a yoga instructor.”
Once upon a time in the magical land of Shareholder Value, a pharmaceutical giant named Merck gazed deep into the void of human suffering and asked the question all noble drugmakers must ask: “How can we make arthritis treatment more profitable than oil?”
This is my fourth week with a flip phone. My “unintelligent” cellular phone is manufactured by Nokia, and the phone’s primary selling feature is that it sucks.
For most of history, governments have relied on monopolies of force, money, and information to control populations.
In the shadowy world of 3D-printed firearms, one pseudonym stood out: JStark1809. This alias belonged to Jacob Duygu, a German national born to Kurdish parents who arrived as refugees from Southeast Turkey in the 1990s. Duygu’s exact date of birth remains uncertain, but he was either 28 or 29 years old at the time of his death in 2021.
If you thought the Second Amendment was clear, Michigan’s recent attempts to outlaw 3D-printed firearms prove that clarity means nothing to politicians looking for control. The state’s latest ghost gun legislation mandates serial numbers on homemade firearms, threatens prison time for ownership, and in classic bureaucratic fashion, assumes criminals will suddenly start following gun laws. …
It is my third week without a smartphone. Twenty-one days ago, I purchased a Japanese “dumb” phone with the same high-tech functionality of coleslaw.
The American industrial base has withered significantly over the last 4 or 5 decades, and especially in the last 20 years.
Some researchers—including independent scholar Randall Carlson—have proposed a radical hypothesis: that the Moon may hold evidence of a pre-Adamic civilization—one that foresaw an impending catastrophe on Earth and sent an “ark” of knowledge to the lunar surface to preserve its legacy.
The truth is, if STARBASE had any real educational value beyond its DoD connections, private industry or the Department of Education could have funded it.
For those interested in Artificial Intelligence, here is one of our best writers’ experiences.
Like so many Americans in the wake of 9/11, I cheered on the loss of my own freedoms in the name of security. The government told us we needed extraordinary measures to protect our way of life, and we trusted them.
It seems like everyone is talking about AI. It’s on the news. It’s in every newspaper. “AI is taking over the world,” the media headlines declare. “AI replaces 12 million jobs.” “AI wins Miss America Pageant.” AI might be writing this right now. There’s no way to know.
The debut of China’s DeepSeek AI has taken the tech world by storm, outperforming some of the most advanced Western AI technologies while boasting an open-source framework.
The roots of ham radio date back to the early 1900s, when hobbyists first started experimenting with wireless communication. By 1912, the United States had set licensing requirements for amateur operators, and the community of hams grew quickly.
When the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out, we were told they were a miraculous “safe and effective” solution to the pandemic. Time has made both of those statements false.
After Trump’s second re-election, the world is returning to normal, not that I care much about the rest of the world.
