Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
For a century, the Department of Defense (now DoW) has asked a brutally simple question: can you read, can you reason, can you do basic math, can you learn a job without turning equipment into modern art? This isn’t about genius. It’s about baseline competence—the kind that keeps helicopters in the sky and generators from becoming bonfires.
It was with some amusement that I saw the screen blurb screen captured to the right in Wednesday morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer “Newsletters” section of their website main page. When schools move ‘tough-to-teach’ kids | Morning Newsletter by Paola Pérez | Wednesday, December 17, 2025 | 6:00 AM EST It’s not unusual for students to switch …
We reported, on Friday morning, how public schools in the Pyrite State have been required to treat mentally ill boys who think that they’re girls as real girls, and how such has caused a number of other high schools to forfeit girls’ volleyball games rather than play against ‘transgender’ players. The Wall Street Journal has …
Multiple Democrat states are targeting homeschooling families with new draconian laws & policies. The escalating attacks on home education & parental rights are part of a growing and coordinated movement to control, undermine, and eventually end, homeschooling.
I played football when I was in high school, but I was nowhere near the best player on the team; I’m neither the strongest, nor the fastest, nor the most athletic person around. Nevertheless, I tried and did my best. Now, in the age of ‘Participation Trophies,’ President Donald Trump has revived the Presidential Physical …
We noted, last Friday, the waste case that Martin Luther King High School in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia has become. MLKHS at least has the ‘excuse,’ if it can be called that, of being a school in the depressed East Germantown neighborhood, with 100% of students coming from ‘economically disadvantaged’ families. But what …
Thanks to former city councilwoman Helen Gym Flaherty’s failed campaign for the 2023 Democratic nomination for Mayor of the City of Brotherly Love, my site has reported several times on the Edward T Steel Elementary and Middle Schools, noting something that The Philadelphia Inquirer never bothered to tell readers as Mrs Flaherty, who campaigned on …
President Trump said it again!^ During his second rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, he said he would close down the US Department of Education and return oversight of public school education to the states, where it belongs.