Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
It was Taco Tuesday at our house last night. OK, we had Mexican pizzas from Taco Bell, but that is close enough for two kids in Appalachia.
It also was Trump Trolls the World Tuesday.
By the summer of 1963 Vice President Johnson-LBJ-was carrying a lot of baggage and was somewhat on the outs with the administration. Open rumors abounded that were not being denied by the JFK administration that alternatives were being considered for LBJ on the JFK ticket, should he be investigated by congress for either the Billy Sol Estes or Bobby Baker investigations, or both.
The night I was born, my mother took me into her arms and decided that she was going to name me Elvis.
My aunt recalls: “Your mama loved Elvis. Plus, you were a Capricorn, you know. Elvis and Jesus were Capricorns.”
“Privatize the profit – socialize the costs?” You betcha.
Utility companies are their own personalized legal black hole. Private companies own them – but get all sorts of government cronyism to aid and abet their profit making and taking.
It’s a quintessential example of the Diet Fascism that now dominates the US.
Just three years ago, Rubio and Tim Kaine succeeded in getting Congress to prohibit the president from unilaterally suspending, terminating, denouncing, or withdrawing the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization without the approval of two-thirds of the Senate.
Trump has a hard enough time getting one-third of the Senate to agree with him, let alone two.
But he has a phone and a pen. And he has a growing plurality of Americans who believe NATO’s time ended when the Soviet Union died.
“‘The message is clear,’ New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, whose investigation resulted in a jury finding on Tuesday that Meta must pay $375 million for failing to protect kids from child predators, told POLITICO in an interview. ‘It’s time to change the way these companies do business.’
Somewhere in the Pentagon filing cabinets sits a 2017 document that reads less like doctrine and more like a warning label we ignored. The Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons (JAM-GC) laid it out plainly: the United States wins wars because we can show up anywhere on earth, kick in the door, and maneuver freely across air, sea, space, and cyber. That’s our superpower. Not just firepower—access. And the bad guys figured that out.
Mullin: “Seriously, if they are a sanctuary city and receiving international flights, and we are asking them to partner with us at the airport, but once they walk out of the airport, they are not going to enforce immigration policy. Maybe we should have a hard look at that . . .”
By initiating Operation Epic Fury, President Trump has pulled the trigger on a strategic reset in the Middle East. This is the third act in a campaign that has unfolded from June 2025 through March 2026. Epic Fury is not a single military event but a phased, coordinated strategic campaign with no clear precedent in post-Cold War American foreign policy. Understanding it requires tracing the sequence.
Joe Kent says all 18 agencies of the Intelligence Community agree, Iran is not a threat. That statement does not add up.
Robert Conquest’s Second Law of Politics states: “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” The corollary logic is that progressive activists, being more ideologically motivated than moderates, systematically infiltrate, outlast, and eventually dominate institutions — whether universities, media organizations, NGOs, professional associations, or political parties.
Forget the timeline arguments for a minute. Set aside the academic cage match over dates, carbon curves, and who’s got the better spreadsheet of ancient dust. Start instead with something far more obvious—there was a world before everything went sideways, and there was a world after.
Have you ever been accused of “wearing a tinfoil hat?” Those who blindly accept every official narrative of the mainstream press, the government, the healthcare industry, and the culture at large, often like to ridicule people who have doubts or questions as “conspiracy theorists.” They mock them, saying they’re wearing “tinfoil hats.”
This movement against Trump-which has been best described by Dan Bongino on his Podcast-to undermine Trump has subtle differences. The effort is best characterized as a collusion of influencers-a block of well-known personalities-Pod casters, former solid republicans, MAGA cheerleaders and the like-who want to finesse the future into a world where we can achieve many of the Trump policies-the framework-without Trump.
The media continues reporting on the obvious, the bizarre and the ironic, often erroneously. American Free News Network contributor Don Surber adds his laugh-out-loud, make-you-think perspective to each instance of noteworthy reporting.
On Wednesday, the United States launched the first manned mission to the moon in nearly 54 years. Artemis II will not land on the moon but soon, very soon, the late Eugene Cernan no longer will be the last man on the moon.
When you include the Cheney belief along with the Israel insinuations to include the Iraq, Iran, and Charlie Kirk “data points,” as well as some of the previously contentious right wing affiliations that surfaced during his congressional campaigns, it is very surprising that Kent was brought in and nominated to be the NCTC Director in the first place.
The Fruit on the Ground: Nihilism, Violence, and the Cheapening of Life
Ideas have consequences. Always.
When a civilization is taught—systematically—that human life is a liability rather than a gift, the result is not peace or harmony. It is nihilism with rules.
Some weekends are about business. Some weekends are about golf. And then there are weekends where surviving another biological assassination attempt, fighting through CPAC, dodging the media, and still finding time for cigars, Old Fashioneds, and American grit all come together. This was one of those weekends. Front and center on THE Chuck’s table …
In 1987, Barbara Walters of ABC (then owned by Capital Cities) interviewed Donald and Ivana Trump. He was 41 and they were still married. Walters asked him about Iran, which had a decade earlier had broken international law by seizing the U.S. Embassy and holding all its American employees hostage.