U.S. News/Policy

5th Generation War, Part 4: Rights, Privileges, and the Fine Art of Leaving Each Other Alone

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The hardest rights to defend are usually the rights of people we disagree with. Freedom of speech protects obnoxious opinions. Freedom of religion protects beliefs we may consider ridiculous. Peaceful assembly protects protesters whose signs make our blood pressure rise, and due process protects defendants we may already despise. But liberty is not a license to commit crimes, and every desire, benefit, opportunity, or government service is not automatically a constitutional right. A republic survives when we understand both sides of that equation: I don’t have to agree with you, and I certainly don’t have to like you—but I’ll defend your right to be wrong. Just stay off my lawn.
What exactly are we trying to save?

5th Generation War , Part 3: How Do We Save the Republic Without Committing Suicide?

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The greatest danger in fifth-generation warfare may not be what our enemies do to us, but what we do to ourselves trying to stop them. Lincoln warned that if America were ever destroyed, “we must ourselves be its author and finisher.” The answer isn’t censorship, blind trust in government, or blind distrust of it. It is resilient institutions, transparent elections, evidence, critical thinking, and citizens willing to defend the rights of people they despise. The Human Domain is contested terrain—but if we surrender our liberty to defend it, we have already lost the battle.

Karelia: The Finnish Paradise That Wasn’t

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In the 1930s, thousands of Finnish-Americans left places like Michigan and Minnesota for Soviet Karelia, promised jobs, security, and the chance to build a Finnish workers’ paradise. Then paradise met Stalin. Some escaped, some disappeared into the Gulag, and some ended up in mass graves. Today, Karelia remains on the map, but much of its Finnish character is gone. It’s a fascinating and tragic lesson about political promises, cultural identity, and why—when someone promises you paradise—you should probably check the return policy.

5th Generation War Part 2: When the Chickens Come Home to Roost

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We spent decades studying the Human Domain, mastering information warfare, funding democracy programs, training activists, monitoring elections, and learning that legitimacy itself can become a battlefield. The uncomfortable question is not whether influence operations exist—they do—but what happens when the tools used overseas become tools that every major power can study, copy, and deploy. From Serbia to Ukraine, from covert action to open democracy assistance, the world learned a lesson: political legitimacy is strategic terrain. Now, in an age where every citizen carries a global information weapon in their pocket, the chickens may have come home to roost. The greatest threat to a republic may not be an army at the gates, but a population that no longer agrees on what is real.

Why CNN should be banned

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Woke up and realized I left something out: How these cowards at CNN had bowed to an actual tyrant named Saddam Hussein. CNN was silent about Hussein torturing Iraqis—including those who worked for CNN’s Baghdad Bureau.

CNN was complicit in Hussein’s crimes against humanity, portraying him not as the monster he was, but as a misunderstood leader who bravely stood up to American might.

NATO Welcomes Greenland Deal: Denmark Will Give U.S. “Permanent Security Control”

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Trump has expressed his desire to acquire Greenland, population 56,000, since as long ago as 2019. Officials from the United States, Greenland and Denmark negotiated for months behind the scenes, searching for solutions to address some of Trump’s security concerns about the mineral-rich island.

Stepping Back From The Abyss To Reset: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Going, What Does It Mean? Part 2

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Where they are encouraged to undertake action for social causes they are far too young to understand, it should not surprise anyone that these precious little duckling propagandized Stepford Children and kids grow into flawed, fragile, immature, mercurial, entitled, dim witted, self-centered, self-medicating brats.

People With Dogs

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I took my dogs for a walk. It was sunny. High 80s. The blossoming trees made Crestwood smell like heaven.

The first person I met was an old man, sitting in his yard. He was beneath a massive oak. He ate from a hospital tray, sipped tea from a straw. He wore a Gilligan hat. His nurse was seated with him.

I was walking past his house and he spoke to me because everyone talks to you when you have dogs. It is a universal truth, unrefuted by science.

Faith, The Founders, And Free Enterprise

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Pick up any of the founding generation’s private letters, public speeches, or founding documents, and you’ll find something that gets edited out of a lot of modern retellings: these men did not talk about liberty in secular terms. They talked about it as a gift, a trust, and a test — language borrowed directly from scripture,

‘Casting Down Imaginations’

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All of humanity was born to worship. We have an instinctive need to reverence our Creator. This is just how God made us. In the beginning, mankind had a close relationship with Him. But in Genesis Chapter 3, we read of how the king of demons, Satan, tempted Eve and caused her to doubt what God said. And the rest, as they say, is history. Adam followed Eve in her quest for forbidden knowledge and power, and together they traded perfect communion with God for a life of pain and toil, of blood, sweat and tears… of thorns and thistles, culminating in death and then the judgment.