American History

John Whitehead Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise. Barely ten seconds later, someone or an army of someones has...

AP Images Dan Crenshaw Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who is increasingly gaining notoriety as a voice for what’s left of the neocon movement, is calling on his party to not immediately shoot down a border and migration deal being worked out in the Senate. Contrary to the sentiment of some of his GOP colleagues who have expressed misgivings about the...

AP Images Stacey Abrams Has Stacey Abrams, once viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party, now become a falling star? As it grapples with debt totaling millions of dollars, two-time gubernatorial Georgia candidate Stacey Abrams’ voting-rights group — once a major force to be reckoned with — is now reportedly cutting almost all of its staff. Fair Fight,...

AP Images Harvard University Harvard University is dealing with yet another plagiarism and academic fraud scandal in yet another of its diversity hires. This time, the Washington Free-Beacon reported, citing another complaint to the university, the culprit is Sherri Ann Charleston, Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer. The charges against Charleston are more serious than those that helped jettison former...

AJ_Watt/iStock/Getty Images Plus The National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance that was live-streamed on Wednesday morning from Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible is a reminder of the eternal verities forming the foundation of the American Republic. Co-founded by Dr. Jim Garlow, CEO of Well Versed, a ministry to members of the U.S. Congress, and Tony Perkins of the Family...

Ben Franklin gave an address at the Constitutional Convention, titled “Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy,” June 2, 1787: “Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men … ambition and avarice — the love of power and the love of money … When united … they have … the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a...

FG Trade/iStock/Getty Images Plus “It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free,” observed Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. “Their passions forge their fetters.” In light of this, what are the implications of the reality that, according to a new poll, Gen Z is more likely to “identify” as having sexual devolutionary status...

Even researchers who are familiar with the destruction of education in America and globally, including the major players who have brought about its demise, will learn something new from Alex Newman’s latest work. And to the casual observer as well as the “educational expert,” much of this shadowy story is barely known. Newman is perhaps uniquely qualified to write such...

fstockfoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Supreme Court, in a rare move, agreed to hear Trump’s complaint over the ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court during its normal “break” period. The high court’s term runs from early October through the end of June the following year, with a breather taken between late January and the middle of February. This year is different, thanks...

Sean Pavone/iStock/Getty Images Plus Maine State House A bill that would have turned Maine into a “sanctuary state” for kids who want to change their gender went down to a resounding defeat Thursday at the hands of the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. The majority-Democrat committee voted unanimously to prevent LD1735, which opponents dubbed the “Transgender Trafficking Bill,” from being sent...

buzbuzzer/iStock/Getty Images Plus Lia Thomas — the biological male who stole a national swimming title from a deserving female athlete in 2022 — is now taking his quest to be recognized as a female swimmer international. The 25-year-old Thomas, formerly known as Will, is asking a Swiss sports court to overturn rules imposed by World Aquatics that keep Thomas from...

The state of Texas is taking a stand against the Biden administration’s pro-invasion border policy. “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a statement on January 24. “James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that States should not be left...

Veronic Gagnon/Wikimedia Commons Canadian truckers' Freedom Convoy, January 2022 A federal judge in Canada has concluded that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the nation’s Emergencies Act in 2022 to address the convoy of truckers that descended upon Ottawa to protest the government’s draconian Covid-19 policies was unreasonable and infringed upon the Charter rights of Canadian citizens. For the first...

Texans have never liked tyranny from D.C., and Monday’s 5-4 emergency ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court against the Lone Star State tosses fuel on a smoldering fire. Without explanation, five justices in D.C. authorized the Biden administration to destroy Texas-owned concertina fencing that stemmed the flow of illegal aliens near the border town of Eagle Pass. Texas officials videoed...

vistoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus Having already stripped their state’s parents of many of their rights in furtherance of the transgender agenda, Maine lawmakers are now considering legislation that would make the Pine Tree State a haven for kids who want to change their gender — and the adults who enable them to do so. The worst of the transgender madness, it...

John Whitehead In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.—Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, d) purchased tickets to travel...

John Whitehead No president from either party should have the sole power to shut down or take control of the internet or any other of our communication channels during an emergency. — Senator Rand Paul What’s to stop the U.S. government from throwing the kill switch and shutting down phone and internet communications in a time of so-called crisis? After...

LUNAMARINA/iStock/Getty Images Plus Are we truly a nation of, by, and for the people, as Lincoln put it, if our elected representatives aren’t the ones actually making the decisions affecting our lives? For a long time they haven’t been making many of those decisions, too, having essentially “outsourced” them to judges and bureaucrats. But two cases currently before the Supreme...

AP Images Javier Milei Argentine self interest or fundamental principles? Having taken the time to research and cover (in this substack essay) the CV and anarcho-capitalist logic of Argentine President (and economist) Javier Milei, I was familiar with most of the points made during his speech at the WEF earlier this week. However, his comments supporting monopolies were new to me,...

Bill Hahn At a time when property rights and standards of living are under attack due to environmental extremism, freedom-lovers all around the world are pushing back. From farmers and truckers in Germany and the Netherlands, to farmers here in the Midwest and Plains states, much concern is being raised about the United Nations Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. Last...