The Most Important Gifts Include a Measure of Pain
To remain a free people, we need to be frugal in granting power to government, and merciless in holding it accountable for what it does with that power.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
To remain a free people, we need to be frugal in granting power to government, and merciless in holding it accountable for what it does with that power.
How do I know if I have honor? A pointed question from a young man unsure of his way and seeking advice from an American warrior.
The Advent season is a time of hope and waiting—waiting for the birth of the Christ Child, as well as waiting for our ultimate “home.”
Following the unfortunate death of methamphetamine-and-fentanyl crazed drug addict and previously convicted felon George Floyd while he was resisting a legitimate arrest in Minneapolis, the left went wild, and “Defund the Police“, as though the problem wasn’t crime, but people being arrested for committing crimes. This stupid notion was popular with the street agitators, and …
DNA extracted from the ancient permafrost at the northernmost point of Greenland revealed that two million years ago, temperatures in the arctic region were far warmer than they are today and that the area was teeming with wildlife. Previously, scientists had only been able to go back one million years. According to an abstract published …
By the time you are reading this, Congress will most likely have passed a bill requiring the Pentagon to revoke its vaccine mandates for servicemembers. That is a victory for the rights of military personnel, and a rebuke of the Biden administration and the political apparatchiks populating the Pentagon and the Defense Department. Perhaps this …
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXX; A day that will live in infamy of one kind or another. In Part XIV, our last segment, we examined a stain from the D.C swamp that should soon be eliminated. This week, we examine a different kind of a stain on our culture and our country, most recently …
Just when we thought America’s opiod crisis couldn’t get much worse, we learn that veterinary tranquilizer xylazine, known on the streets as “tranq,” has made its way into the drug supplies of U.S. cities in recent years. Drug dealers have begun cutting fentanyl and heroin with xylazine and one of the most visible results has …
Enemy of the State Wikipedia “Conspiracy theorists of the world unite.” 1998 – Enemy of the State The movie “Enemy of the State” was filmed in 1998 and over the last 24 years has slowly moved from the fiction to the non-fiction section. The film puts on display the power of corrupt agents operating within …
Protecting our future from pedophiles. I must confess that it has me deeply concerned, this violent awakening that pedophilia has had and the groomers, who are the previous step to it. I always viewed this issue with caution, since stories of abused children had a high impact on me. They are people who, even with therapy, …
The question of whether Joe Biden should run again in 2024 will be moot in two years. Why run again, when there’s nothing else to do.
We have previously noted the change from the 502 homicides originally reported for 2020, down to 499. Now, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas noted someone that many expected to be on the list of 499, but who wasn’t there. This one seems legitimate: A 22-year-old was killed just over the city line in Upper Darby. …
Edward L. Haugland, Ind. Consultant IC/DOD retired executive, in collaboration with LTG Thomas McInerney USAF (ret), MG Paul E. Vallely US Army (ret) (Founder – Stand Up America US Foundation) are sending this Restoring America Directive to all US Governors. The Restore America Directive speaks to six specific actions on which we are requesting all …
Firearms. When you want to talk about a contentious subject, with a lefty, that’s my go to topic. If that isn’t enough, it’s that pro-abortion topic. But since the left tries so hard to make the tool illegal, and I just love my collection of tools, that’s where I will argue until they want …
I read the classics and mythologies because my grandmother put them in front of me. I would rather have been playing with friends. I ask questions because my grandmother asked me. So, in keeping with the foregoing, what concerns do I see in the country today. Middle ground. Who defines exactly where or what that …
Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights questioned the woke CEOs of grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons about their proposed $25 billion merger last week. Fearing this deal will “raise prices, cut jobs and exacerbate inequality in food access through the closing of more locations,” unions and progressive …
Replacing a Senator; Montana Style At the end of November 2022, I was officially notified that one of Montana’s state senators submitted his resignation halfway through his four-year term. The process to replace a senator due to resignation is easy in Montana, until you get people involved or run into unclear rules and laws. Those …
Old Glory. “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Remember? When I was in school we recited it daily. We had our flag in front of the room. We also had …
During the Obama administration, MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the chief architects of Obamacare, said the “stupidity of the American voter” and a “lack of media transparency” were critical to the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Needless to say, Gruber’s comments ignited a firestorm of outrage. But was Gruber wrong when he …
Succumbing to Sixty Years of Propaganda “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell Greetings my fellow Americans! Regardless of the sensibility, or lack thereof, of anything uttered in public by any member of the non-defunct House Unamerican Activities Committee, or by …