Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
What’s unfolding between the United States, Israel, and Iran isn’t just another Middle East conflict—it’s a real-time demonstration of fifth-generation warfare, and whether people want to admit it or not, we’re already inside the blast radius.
Now let’s be clear about something. Veterans arguing about foreign policy is not the problem. In fact, it’s healthy. People who have worn the uniform should absolutely debate how American power is used. The military has always produced strong opinions—usually accompanied by horrible coffee and worse briefing slides. But what used to separate professional disagreement from internet drama was something the officer corps once valued deeply: discipline.
For many Americans, the story is simple. Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds in the 1980s—most infamously at Halabja. They suffered horribly. When the United States eventually removed Saddam from power in 2003, the Kurds were portrayed as natural allies: brave fighters, pro-Western, reliable partners in a messy region.
Some weekends feel bigger than sports. Some feel bigger than policy. And then there are weekends like this one where leadership, competition, conviction, and country all collide. I was working on this piece with a Deployment Freedom Cigar lit, paired with a very special small-batch pour of MB Roland Dark Fired Kentucky bourbon. Smoke steady. …
The reciprocal and fentanyl tariffs have been overturned, and the Trump administration is responding. How should the individual business respond to this latest disruption?
If you hate your political opponents so much that you bring in foreigners to stay in power, you’ve set the stage for a civil war. A civil war unbound by the Geneva Convention
History has a sense of humor, and it’s rarely kind. As the United States barrels headlong into a Fourth Turning crisis—complete with generational rage, institutional distrust, ritualized protest, economic anxiety, and ideological self-harm—China isn’t protesting anything. It’s watching. Quietly. Patiently. With a spreadsheet.
There’s a comforting little bedtime story we tell ourselves about Antarctica. Nobody owns it. Nobody fights over it. Scientists in parkas share data and hot cocoa while penguins waddle around like tiny tuxedo diplomats. It’s the one place on Earth where humanity supposedly agreed to stop acting like humanity.
As the global hegemon, we don’t merely influence outcomes. We decide who is fit to lead. We anoint. We delegitimize. We sanction. We isolate. And when necessary, we remove. On that front, our record is impeccable. Few nations in history have been better at leader removal than the United States. Regime change—overt or discreet—is something we understand down to the checklist.
America has the attention span of a goldfish on an energy drink. If a war isn’t trending, isn’t hashtagged, or doesn’t have a Marvel movie tie-in, it simply evaporates from public memory. And so we forgot Bosnia.
President Donald Trump did not win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. if course, given the cognitive dissonance rampant today, that was not entirely unexpected.
Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stood to address the United Nations on Friday, September 26, and much of the room walked out. The world press paints this as a repudiation. The world is wrong.
There’s no such thing as a “Palestinian,” and there never has been. There is neither an ethnicity, nor a citizenship which grants such an identity to anyone. But that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be in in the future, given what world leaders are increasingly advocating – Palestinian statehood.
The French have a term to depict, to designate, a hinge moment – a turning point in history: Moment Charnière. Some such decisive/earth-shattering incidents that come to mind: Bestowing the Ten Commandments, the birth of Jesus, and more recently the dropping of atomic bombs that decimated Japanese cities.
England had three brutal civil wars in the 1600s. The wars and devastation included Scotland and, especially, Ireland. Hard questions were settled in that century. Hard questions await settlement in next English Civil War.
Often you have a critical task, but only bad options. So it has come to pass in Iran.
What President Donald John Trump did was end the FAFO War—and 46 years of “Death to America” BS from Iranian ayatollahs who have turned some of the most beautiful women on Earth into walking garbage bags.
We, the Iranian Americans of CYRUS FORCE, left our birth country, Iran, due to a Constitution that was imposed upon our countrymen by the Ayatollahs. We bring this to your attention today because we ask for a voice in the Senate. We believe that, with the help of the American government, Americans can facilitate the …
The vast majority of the young Chinese students studying in America have been deeply brainwashed by the CCP’s propaganda since childhood. As college students, they are physically in America, but their minds are still in China echoing with the CCP.
