Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
On May 22, 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks (D-SC) entered the Senate Chamber, walked over to Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), and repeatedly beat the senator over the head with his cane until he was rendered unconscious.
As BPJ of Bridgeport Middle School stood waiting for his turn, Emmy Salerno and four other girls from Lincoln Middle School took their turns at the shotput. Each stepped into the ring and then stepped out, forfeiting the match in protest to having to compete against a boy.
The annual World Happiness Report recently ranked the happiest countries in the world. The U.S. dropped to number 24, its lowest position in the report’s history.
As a kid, I had a hard time imaging the year 2000, but now, we’re more than a quarter century past that, as 2025 rolls into history.
Many churches today struggle not because the Bible is unclear, but because familiar words have quietly changed meaning. Over time, Christian language has been softened, shortened, or modernized in ways that feel harmless.
Help us to love one another. Help us to find beauty in each fellow human being. Beauty within each soul who crosses our path today. Teach us to find beauty in our enemies.
College football didn’t just lose its way—it pawned its compass, financed a leased Lamborghini, and told tradition to hit the transfer portal.
Americans must not let a young black surgeon operate on him/herself. It isn’t racism on the part of the patient that guides such a decision. It is racism on the part of colleges, medical schools, residency programs, et al which places way too many black Americans in classrooms & training programs where they don’t belong.
Stranger Things didn’t invent spiritual warfare—it just put it on a BMX bike and added synth music. The show works because it’s parasitic: it feeds on biblical ideas already baked into Western consciousness. Shadow realms. Invasive evil. Possession. Sacrifice. Redemption. None of this is new.
What the heck is going on? Why aren’t people dating, or getting married? What’s to blame? I can’t answer that, I’m too busy scrolling my phone right now.
The televised tumult of a 90,278-person crowd inside Los Angeles County’s Rose Bowl Stadium was blaring through the feeble Samsung speakers. God wanted Alabama to win. That much we knew.
One can see that the Left has evolved from being merely an opposition party to becoming a traitorous force, reminiscent of revolutionaries. They will no longer settle for minor tweaks to our great country. They want an end to it as we know it.
In school, Baby Boomers learned to love America — the ideal of it — Freedom, Independence, Self-governance — the individual over the collective. “The sky’s the limit.” We learned independence & liberty were why people around the world wanted to be Americans. We saw the benefits of hard work, honesty, & charity.
There is a societal belief that people with the “right” credentials should be deferred to in matters associated with those credentials. The more credentials one “earns,” the more deference shown.
I find listening to & talking with Liberals an endless source of amusement. Granted, there are few discussions because they quickly descend into insults & threats when you ask a question the Lib doesn’t like. Here are nine short vignettes of my interactions with Liberals since businessman Donald J. Trump won his first election.
Carole’s mother was young. Twenty-two years old. She was married and pregnant with her second child. The year was 1945.
The War was freshly over. The Depression was still a recent memory. Carole’s mother wanted to buy her husband a gift for his birthday. He was turning 25.
If hindsight is 20/20, then 2025 was a year where irony is produced by algorithms and politicians think diplomacy is a TikTok trend. To toast our survival is the annual Rear-View Awards, the only column where irony is not just a category, it is the entire piece.
I’m saddened that there is a video of me circulating the internet, playing a banjo, with 7 million views, where the majority of commenters are labeling me a racist.
In the United States—particularly in states like Michigan—firearm ownership is treated as a normal attribute of a free citizen. In Australia, firearm ownership is treated as a conditional privilege granted by the state.
There’s a reason our ancestors didn’t hold hands, light candles, and sing to wolves. They eradicated them. Not out of ignorance, not out of cruelty, but out of lived experience. Wolves weren’t abstract symbols on a Patagonia catalog; they were competitors, livestock killers, and a direct threat to survival.