Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
This past week our little town got hit by a storm cell that was tornado-like in all but name and dark funnel. It was our hardest hit since the storm of the century, Hurricane Isabel, in 2003. This one was all wind, not water. Living on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay we’re used to getting both. A no name Nor-easter will flood with inches of past records. We weather them all. We weather whatever the storm.
The storms of nature and man will always confront us.
If Theodore Roosevelt were transported into modern America and handed a microphone, the man wouldn’t survive a single news cycle. Not because he was shy, confused, or prone to carefully worded diplomatic statements. Quite the opposite. Roosevelt had a remarkable ability to say exactly what he thought about history, religion, and civilization without the slightest concern for whether it might offend a future diversity committee.
In 1843, Sir Charles Napier issued the following warning to the Sindh people, part of the British Indian colonies, about their practice of burning widows alive.
In an age when Europe teetered on the edge of collapse after the fall of the Roman Empire, one man stood between the continent and a future under Islamic rule. That man was Charles Martel
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Yes, it is a thing, a British thing that began in 2012, but a thing nonetheless.