“Orwell’s ascertaining of certain political facts was not the occasion for a change of heart, nor for a crisis of the soul. What he learned from his experience in Spain, of course, pained him very much, and it led him to change his course of conduct.” – Homage to Catalonia Fascism caught fire in the aftermath of World War I by filling the vacuum of political instability left in its wake. By bringing quasi-relief to struggling nations, many countries elected either fascist

“Demanding accountability is important, but expecting 100-percent bulletproof security is simply setting up a system for failure. Security is a series of trade-offs with plenty of room for public debate…When we achieve a national consensus on our security strategy, we then have a chance to sustain the effort with steady support.” – Permanent Emergency Before September 11, 2001 (9/11), the worst airline fatality event in the United States was the Pan Am 103, the Lockerbie B

“The ideal monetary system from a government's perspective is a cashless system where all of your transactions are electronic and therefore traceable directly to you.” – The War on Cash Citing security concerns, such as employee theft, and seeking greater efficiency, many businesses are no longer accepting cash for certain services. From self-service checkouts, parking garages, public transportation, sporting events, and in-flight services, alternative credit or debit card

“Nothing is more to the self-interest of the average person than to live in a society that is filled with multi-billionaire capitalists and their corporations, all busy using their vast wealth to produce the products he buys and to compete for the labor he sells.” – How the 1 Percent Provides the Standard of Living of the 99 Percent In 2011, Occupy Wall Street, an anti-capitalist movement, coined the inane phrase, “We are the 99 percent”, a political slogan noting the divid

“Politics is a kind of purification ritual. Most folks think it's wrong to envy, to lie, to steal, or to kill. It's just not neighborly- unless they can get a politician to do the dirty work for them. Yeah, politics allows everyone, even the best among us, to envy, to lie, to steal, and even to kill occasionally. And we can still feel good about it.” – The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible In September 2025, just weeks after the US war in Iran, US President Donald J. Trump cr

“…In olden days, Israel was a physical designation meaning the descendants of Jacob, and that today Israel is a spiritual designation meaning believers in Jesus, whether they are descended from Jacob or not”. – Zion’s Christian Soldiers? On February 28, 2026, President Trump foolishly restarted a war with Iran, just 8 months following the 12-day war in 2025. Despite claims that the US had annihilated Iran’s nuclear facilities, a new round of bombing was needed. One of the

“This is civilizational warfare: first, arrive surreptitiously; second, cultivate allegiance to hostile foreign entities; and third, sabotage the cultural norms of your host country.” – The Invisible Coup When Puerto Rican born rapper Bad Bunny was announced as the entertainment for the US halftime Super Bowl show, not everyone was thrilled. Known for his pro-immigration and anti-ICE activism, the singer also performed his music in Spanish, a language most Americans do not

“An economy does not become richer by creating more and more money. First, there has to be savings, and then capital and consumer goods can be manufactured. This is the only way a society can become richer.” – Blind Robbery! In Matthew 5:14, during his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his disciples that they are the light of the world. Describing them as a city on a hill, visible for all to see, he reminds them that they are to serve as a beacon of hope in a spiritually

“The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions. Just as the FDA was compromised and Congress was neutralized or outright co-opted with generous donations and some federal prosecutors were undermined with a back channel appeal in Washington while others were mollified with the promise of a corporate job, just as state legislators and the CDC were hindered and sabotaged when they tried to curb

“The real Joe McCarthy has vanished into the midst of fable and recycled error, so that it takes the equivalent of a dragnet search to find him.” – Blacklisted by History In November 2025, President Trump was forced to sign into law a bill requiring that his Department of Justice release the full government file on the sexcapades and potential blackmail of famous and wealthy individuals who ran in Jeffrey Epstein’s circle. As the files slowly made their way to public view,

“Technocracy was the new term for describing the reign of professionalism, and its connotations were almost entirely negative. Rule by expert, it began to seem, excluded rule by the people. It was dehumanizing and mechanical. In a technocracy, the important policy decisions were made in faraway offices that were insulated from the larger whirl of society. The people making the decisions identified far more with society's rulers than they did with the ruled, and their decision

“The main problem, they maintained, was that taxes were too high, rules too suffocating, statism too overbearing, and authority too abundantly wielded”. – A Libertarian Walks into a Bear In Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, “ Atlas Shrugged ”, the men of the mind go on strike and disappear from the public, ending up in the fictional paradise called Galt’s Gulch. A retirement community for individuals who opposed the bureaucratic takeover of a free society in a dystopian United State

“They don't understand how a doctor, a rural farmer, a Hispanic small business owner, and a steel worker from Butler could all be voting the same. And they are bewildered by how a working-class person of any race – despite being the men and women who build the roads, make the transformers that light your streets, construct your houses, and weld your bridges so you are safe - could possibly be a conservative populist. And they look down on them for their lack of sheepskins on

“Today, America's intimate embrace of Israel- and especially its willingness to subsidize it no matter what its policies are- is not making Americans safer or more prosperous. To the contrary: unconditional support for Israel is undermining relations with other US allies, casting doubt on America's wisdom and moral vision, helping inspire a generation of anti-American extremists, and complicating US efforts to deal with the volatile but vital region.” – The Israel Lobby On

“In the short period following the war, Northerners had painted the South as a personification of meanness, folly, and utter and incurable inefficiency. The South was the despicable other in the American mind.” – Southern Scribblings From 1979 to 1985, Americans tuned in to watch the popular show, The Dukes of Hazzard. A sitcom centered around the Duke brothers, Bo and Luke, and their 1969 Dodge Charger, the General Lee, named for the Confederate General, the boys fought a

“The critical social justice movement is vast. Its influence is broad and deep within evangelical circles. And as that influence grows, it is causing some among us to make alliances we never would have forged in the past”. – Fault Lines On January 7, 2026, anti-ICE activist Renee Good found herself on the wrong side of the law. Parked sideways on a busy Minneapolis throughfare, Good hoped to stop ICE operations from moving forward. By doing so, she not only impeded a law

“Our government actively suppressed the truth if it hurt its effort to push the vaccine into every American's arm, regardless of age or risk factor. This concerted propaganda campaign is unparalleled in its scope and audacity. In the same world, those government bureaucrats responsible would be criminally charged.” – Deception Just months into the Pandemic of 2020, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to

“I, as with many other whites, would be happy to acknowledge that I have been the beneficiary of some unearned privilege in life, from being raised by good parents to enjoying good health to benefiting from a good education. But whiteness does not happen to be one of my privileges”. – The Unprotected Class In Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem, “The White Man’s Burden”, Kipling called for the colonization of indigenous people on the island of the Philippines during the Spanish-A

“The worst things Epstein and Maxwell did to me weren't physical, but psychological. From the start, they manipulated me into participating in behaviors that ate away at me, eroding my ability to comprehend reality and preventing me from defending myself. From the start, I was groomed to be complicit in my own devastation. Of all the terrible wounds they inflicted, that forced complicity was the most destructive… There were no bars on the windows or locks on the doors. But

“Perhaps an Angel of the Lord was among us today- what else could create such spontaneous peace but the hand of God himself? For one glorious Christmas morning, war had taken a holiday”. – Shooting at the Stars World War I was called the Great War for its unprecedented scale and devastation, with death rates into the millions. Beginning in August 1914, the main theater of battle was situated on the Western Front, between Belgium and Switzerland, where a large portion of