Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
My friend Morgan is still on hospice care. I spent several days at her bedside. I played guitar for her, sitting on a chair beside her. Sometimes we held hands and just looked at each other. Talking about olden times.
Like the day we first met, some years ago.
I grew up watching the World Trade Center rise, but us kids never called it that. To us, they were the Twin Towers. I watched them climb skyward in that burnt orange iron inner façade that defined a childhood when New York felt endless and everything seemed constructed to last. The Empire State Building, completed …
Ah, the good old days when the American spirit was as rugged as a cactus and as individualistic as a lone cowboy riding off into the sunset.
There is a maddening repetition in civilization. The national rise-and-fall pattern is the common thread. Mankind never learns; never studies; never accepts reality. Mankind always embraces a delusional blindness. This blind eye excuses, embraces, and enjoys a fancied invincible hubris. The cyclical repetition is amazing. A nation’s “rise and fall” is not Rome’s exclusivity.
How does this happen? Why are citizens complacent regarding their nation’s existence?
After the flood, God again commands humanity to “fill the earth” (Gen. 9:1). Instead, humanity gathers at Babel and says, “Let us make a name for ourselves” and “lest we be scattered” (Gen. 11:4). This is open rebellion. Babel is the first attempt at global government independent of God—centralized control, unified language, human exaltation. It is humanity trying to reverse God’s plan and replace divine rule with human empire.
Is Chief Justice John Roberts a judge who follows the law and the evidence to a conclusion, or a judge who cherry-picks the law and evidence to arrive at his opinion? I think we’re going to find out in the coming months.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Americans still have questions—and apparently asking them remains more dangerous to polite society than leaving them unanswered. We know intelligence agencies had information about future hijackers, critical information wasn’t effectively shared, early accounts of the military response proved inaccurate, Saudi-connected individuals assisted two hijackers, and Building 7 became the first known tall building to completely collapse primarily from uncontrolled ordinary-content fires. None of that proves an inside job. It proves something much simpler: “trust us” isn’t an acceptable substitute for history. Open the remaining files, follow the evidence wherever it leads, destroy the stupid conspiracy theories with facts—and answer the legitimate questions. After 25 years, Americans have earned something better than a press release.
Charlie Kirk had thirteen adult years between founding Turning Point USA at 18 and his death at 31. Thirteen years to build something that would outlive him. But perhaps his most important message wasn’t ultimately political—it was pointing young people toward faith, family, purpose, and Christ.
The next generation will be discipled. The question is who will disciple them.
As we approach the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death, perhaps the best way to honor his legacy isn’t simply to remember him. It’s to continue the mission.
Our clocks are still running. Don’t waste them.
Genesis draws a sharp line between inside Eden (God’s dwelling) and outside Eden (the rest of earth). Humanity’s command to “fill the earth and subdue it” (Gen. 1:28) implies the world outside Eden was wild, undeveloped, and awaiting humanity’s rule. The Hebrew kavash (“subdue”) means to bring under order. You don’t “subdue” paradise. You subdue wilderness. The world outside Eden was not evil—just unfinished.
Public anxiety about data center construction only grows. Many worry that communities will face higher utility bills, water depletion, overburdened infrastructure and economic uncertainty.
I’m not expecting the GOP leadership to be perfect. But I don’t want them trying to pick state nominees and then supporting Democrats.
Just as a seashell is formed slowly, layer by layer, around a living creature, God patiently shapes us from the inside out into something strong and beautiful.
For years, Penn State wanted to forget Joe Paterno. The statue outside Beaver Stadium was removed. His name disappeared from places where it once stood prominently. Public discussion of his legacy became so uncomfortable that many simply avoided the subject. In the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Penn State understandably sought distance from one …
I CAME TO HEAR THE CYNIC,
A MAN OF MUCH RENOWN.
THE CYNIC SPOKE OF MANY THINGS
HIS INSIGHTS WERE PROFOUND.
Twenty-three years in an Army uniform, a decade running an ambulance, four kids, and a piece of mail from the City of Cleveland accusing me of a hit and run I did not commit. I am not retelling that story here. I already spent an entire article on it, and if you missed it, go find it. What I will tell you is what happened after that article went up.
Reagan National was a perfectly reasonable airport when it opened in 1941. Eighty-five years later, we’ve packed commercial jets, military helicopters, presidential transportation, restricted airspace and national-security missions into the same tiny patch of sky—and the warning signs are getting difficult to ignore. After 67 deaths, an emergency airspace redesign, repeated communications failures and a Marine One separation incident, perhaps the problem isn’t the latest procedure or antenna. Perhaps Washington’s convenience has simply outlived the acceptable risk.
So, what does the Western Civilization course I took at the University of Kansas decades ago have to do with why so many young Americans are drawn to communism?
President Trump posted this week that any community fighting AI data centers is choosing to stay backwards and poor. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had her comeback loaded and ready: put one at Mar-a-Lago, she said, and let’s see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.
The Greatest Generation didn’t have Wi-Fi, DoorDash, FaceTime, scheduled port calls—or an expected return date. They had a war to win. Today’s sailors aren’t the problem; they’re products of a culture that has become extraordinarily good at eliminating discomfort. The question isn’t whether young Americans are “soft.” It’s whether America still teaches resilience before history demands it the hard way.
The Pacific Ocean doesn’t have an HR department, and the enemy doesn’t care about your deployment schedule.
A few years back, one of my juniors in study hall raised her hand during a unit on supply and demand and asked me, dead serious, why the owner of the corner store “gets to” charge more for milk than the big grocery chain does. Not a bad question. Actually a great one. I told her the truth,….