Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
When Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government had been created during that hot Philadelphia summer he replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin wasn’t predicting the demise of our republic, he was observing that the baton was being passed to the self-governed. Our founders created the greatest republic the world has ever known, and then it became our duty to preserve it.
The only thing that makes our Constitution different from any other historical document is our willingness to defend the founding principles which it enshrines. Unfortunately, we are in a crisis because far too many people passively demand constitutional protections, without actively defending them.
What do you call a government in which the voters are only allowed to choose between “option a” and “option b” but not “option c”? It is an aristocracy, in which the elites restrict the choices of the electorate, to only approved options.
To be free of excessive government control (oppression) requires accepting responsibility for our lives and the consequences of our actions. When people accept responsibility, and act smartly, very little government control is needed to maintain social order.
Last week Merrick Garland announced the arrest of 18-year-old Idaho resident Alexander Scott Mercurio. Mercurio for terrorism. I’m a resident of Idaho. It is my community that the feds supposedly protected with Mercurio’s arrest. But given recent events, I responded to his arrest with more curiosity than gratitude.
You know that reproductive healthcare crisis the left keeps crowing about? Well in Idaho, women are facing a genuine reproductive healthcare problem–woke doctors.
Secession was on the menu for five rural counties in Oregon last May. Voters in Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker, and Lake counties voted to secede from Oregon and become part of Idaho, according to The Epoch Times. These counties joined Jefferson and Union counties which had voted in 2020 to leave the state. Last month, Harney …