Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Americans look at America’s institutions – at all levels – RACING to sell US out to Big Tech and its Artificial Intelligence? Just the latest in a LONG litany of instances of America’s institutions selling out Americans?
I was at a barbecue. There were lots of people around, eating, and at some point one of my cousin’s kids rode their Schwinns into the yard. One boy leapt off his bike and sidled up to me. “It’s so quiet out here,” the boy remarked in stupefied wonder.
New research reports that, thanks to smartphones, kids are smarter today than their ancestors ever were. “Technology,” the article said, “is expanding the American IQ.”
As I look around at the end of 2025 and beginning of 2026, I gotta say I’m enjoying a lot. Of course the fact El Presidente de life Maduro is currently in federal prison awaiting trial for multiple charges is pleasing.
There were 26 of them, altogether. High-school kids. Not one cellphone among them. Neither were there TVs, airpods, gaming devices, or tablets. No tech at all.
It was a party.
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?
As we hand over more control of our lives to soulless machines, I hope the programmers have included a little something to protect humanity from the T-1000 scenario.
What is different about the 2020 election is the sophistication of the alleged fraud and the lamestream Media Echo Chamber (LMEC/LSMBTGA) and social media titan incuriosity
Democrats have found the new Golden Goose for the elections. Affordability. If they win, I would not hold my breath for prices to drop.
The OnlyFans phenomenon isn’t a story about her success — it’s a postmortem on modern manhood. When a society destroys real community, mocks purpose, and replaces relationships with screens, people will rent connection wherever they can find it.
Mind Games: How They Play Us; Part III — You’re Not as Smart as You Think: The Psychology of Being Easily Played (and the Way Out) Here’s where we get honest: The biggest vulnerability in this whole system isn’t the internet. It isn’t Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Congress, or the Russians. It’s your brain. You are …
Social media took human beings — once capable of nuance, friendship, and healthy disagreement — and shoved us back into warring tribes like it’s 10,000 BC and someone stole the mammoth meat.
Along comes AI —the great new hope to solve all our problems. AI, created by hopeful modern tech acolytes of the Gilgamesh saga, who themselves hope to cheat death, cannot be moved away from their goal: immortality.
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.
If we’re going to call the AR the “Modern Sporting Rifle,” let’s stop pretending it should be chambered in something that looks like it came out of a Pez dispenser.
Look at your phone. Ads. Turn on a television. Ads. Open a laptop. Ads. Scroll social media to make sure cherished friends and loved ones are still alive and actively posting angry political memes. Ads.
The word of the day is peculation, which is the dishonest appropriation of public funds or property entrusted to one’s care. Synonyms include misappropriation, defalcation and Congress.
It was a social experiment. Nothing more. We were in an elevator. Me and Bill. Bill is an academic researcher, dealing in human behavior. Also rats. He knows a lot about rats. Whereas I am a redhead.
I’m a retired Army math geek, and I’ll confess: I didn’t get to work on the sexy, world-changing projects my predecessors did back in the day. My career field was literally born because, in the middle of World War II, some engineers with more brain cells than social skills invented a device called the Variable Time fuze
Wake up. Get dressed. Remove phone from nightstand charger, put phone in pocket. Your phone dings. The phone is already notifying you about your highly sophisticated security cameras, which have just picked up movement by the neighborhood cats.