Smith ~ The Last Republic: An American Chronicle, 2028-2032… – Part I

On the morning of August 20th 2032, the President of the United States looked out through the tall windows of the East Room and saw a city that no longer seemed entirely certain of itself. Washington had always possessed a peculiar confidence, the confidence of a place in which decisions were made, and consequences happened somewhere else, beyond the Potomac, beyond the marble facades and guarded doors. Even when the country was angry, Washington generally seemed serene.

Traffic still moved along Pennsylvania Avenue, flags still stirred above the government buildings, tourists still photographed the Capitol, and somewhere inside the vast machinery of the federal government a clerk was always filling out a form that another clerk would eventually approve. But that morning the city seemed different. There were National Guard vehicles at several intersections, barricades around the Capitol, and clusters of police officers standing beneath the summer trees.

The previous night’s demonstrations had continued until nearly dawn, and although the official statement from the White House described them as “isolated disturbances,” everybody in Washington knew that the phrase was intended less to describe reality than to create it. Continue reading

Dickens: In Memoriam…

It Can’t Happen Here… Never again… Or can it – Or has it?

The Problem with 9/11/2001…

It happened in a day and grabbed our attention, but it took years of preparation. We’ve been lamenting and memorializing it for 25 years, yet we still haven’t learned a goddamned thing — look where we are today.

Winning the war requires planning and patience. Losing it requires nothing at all.

Napoleon Bonaparte said, Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” And we’re quietly sitting on the sidelines, watching and ‘screwing the pooch’ in grand style.

Guess What… Our enemies have access to the same historical information we do, and many of their leaders were educated at our top colleges and universities. The biggest difference is that they’ve learned from it, adapted it, and use it to their advantage. But we ignore it, dismiss it, and actually believe that our prominence protects us from the lessons of thousands of years of history.

I’d planned to stay on the sidelines about this, but the media’s insincere wailing, gnashing of teeth, and feigned outrage this morning pushed my resolve and my medication to the breaking point. Continue reading

Islam flourishes in America 25 Years After Twin Towers fell

Twenty-five years after fanatical Islamists carried out surprise attacks on U.S. soil, there is a persistent question being raised: From red-state Texas to New York City, why are Islamists so prevalent in American life and culture after the Twin Towers fell?

A CBN News report in February described New York City mosques and their loudspeakers blasting the Muslim call to prayer across the city during the Ramadan holidays.

Such a display, which indicates dominance in Islam, would have been unthinkable in the weeks, months, and years after the 9/11 attack claimed 2,753 lives at the World Trade Center.

The very first fatality recorded in official records was Father Mychal Judge, a Franciscan priest. He died from falling debris in the North Tower lobby, where he ran from his friary to give last rites to the dying and to pray for the injured. Continue reading

Budweiser Clydesdales ‘9/11 Tribute‘ Ad: Super Bowl 2011

The Budweiser Clydesdale horses bow in tribute, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, ten years after the 9/11 tragedy.

In an idyllic rural setting, a team of eight horses pull an antique red wagon out of a vintage barn. There are two uniformed riders on the wagon.

A close-up reveals that these horses are stunningly beautiful Clydesdales.

A transition montage shows the horses walking and trotting along a green pasture, then along the cobblestone road of a small town, and then across the Brooklyn Bridge. Beyond the bridge, the Clydesdales reach a field where skyscrapers can be seen in the distant background.

The distant skyline becomes recognizable as New York. The team of horses become recognizable as the Budweiser Clydesdales.

With the Statue of Liberty in the background, the Budweiser Clydesdales stop walking and begin to bow their heads in unison. A wider camera angle then shows “Budweiser” painted on the side of the beer wagon. Wistful background music reaches its emotional crescendo.

9/11 Was the Beginning of the End of American Democracy

Editor’s personal copy.

No one who lived through the events of Sept. 11, 2001, needs a reminder that this week marks the attack’s 25th anniversary. Images and videos of the carnage were so omnipresent in the wake of the attack and the years that followed that they were seared permanently into our identities. Like standing too close to a Mark Rothko painting, the image of those collapsing towers consumed our field of vision until there was nothing else.

That’s why it felt so strange for me to walk near the Freedom Tower on Labor Day, where I overheard a young girl explaining to her even younger brother the cold facts of that day. A generation has grown up in the years since the attacks, and for the first time I heard events that bleed for me described in the dispassionate language of historical fact. She got the names and dates and numbers correct, which I appreciated, especially for someone who couldn’t have been older than 12. But hers was a historical retelling devoid of the trauma that made September 11 what it is for so many of us.

In a way, I envy her. Continue reading

On a Day to Never Forget, Too Many Have Overlooked What Happened on 9/11

Tower 2 of the Twin Towers collapses as a plume of smoke and debris fill the air while people watch from Broome Street and 6th Avenue on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, in New York, New York.

It started as a gorgeous late-summer morning in New York City. Then everything went straight to hell.

Where were you when you knew?

Twenty-five years have passed as if in a heartbeat. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was sitting on the deck atop my Brooklyn brownstone with stunning views of lower Manhattan, preparing to take my daughter to her first day of preschool when a small plane appeared to fly into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Or so we thought. Continue reading

Ethnic Studies Programs Are Reshaping How Students Learn 9/11

As the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks approaches, an education watchdog is raising red flags over how the tragedy is being taught in public schools.

A new report from Defending Education claims that mandatory ethnic studies programs in several states – including California, New York and Minnesota – are misrepresenting the history of 9/11.

Boards of education and school districts are approving and adopting curriculum based in Liberated Ethnic Studies, also called Critical Ethnic Studies. The approved curriculum in California, for example, lists “critique empire-building in history and its relationship to white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression” as one of its guiding values. Continue reading

Memorializing 9/11 Must Have Consequence for Generations

Families of first responders view the new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza on Sept. 9, 2026 in New York City. Family members of first responders, and other NYPD officers was a new wall display was unveiled honoring first responders who lost their lives during the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center terror attacks and since. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Twenty-five years later, the central question is not if we remember 9-11.

How could we possibly forget?

The central question is what that memory requires of us.

And if, over the years, do those requirements change.

Sept. 11, 2001 was – and still is – a muti-dimensional tragedy. Continue reading

Dickens: The Invasion of the Attention Snatchers ~ Our Deal with the Devil…

The Faustian Bargain of Modern Attention

The title sounds dramatic, but the invasion was anything but. It came through convenience, safety, and the ordinary little arguments that no sensible person wanted to oppose.

The Bargain Looked Harmless

At first, the bargain seemed harmless. Who would object to carrying a phone in a pocket? It promised convenience, safety, speed, and connection. We could reach our loved ones anywhere. We’d never miss an important call. In an emergency, help would be only a tap away. It sounded less like technology and more like protection. That was the sales pitch, and most of it was true.

And to be fair, much of the promise was real. A child could call from the roadside. A parent could be reached from the hospital. A traveler could find a route through an unfamiliar city. No reasonable person wants to return to helplessness just for nostalgia’s sake. The problem is that the device did not stay in its lane. It moved from an emergency tool to an everyday companion, from the glove compartment to the kitchen table, from the nightstand to the hand, until the servant began claiming every idle moment. Continue reading

ADHD’s “Stuck in the Present” Nature May Be Rooted in Specific Brain Network Communication

The following column is – in my opinion – further Bulls**t in the ongoing deceit of ADHD. This website has many, many columns which will counter what you are about to read. My own personal knowledge goes back to 1963 and can be followed at my column: Bennett: But it’s all OK – Just Take a little Pill – Editor

A recent study has identified a potential brain-based explanation for the connection between future-oriented thinking and the characteristics of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. The research suggests that the strength of communication between specific brain networks is linked to a person’s ability to plan for the future, which in turn is associated with the severity of inattention and hyperactivity. The findings were published in Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry.

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent patterns of inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity that can interfere with daily functioning and development. While often diagnosed in childhood, its effects can extend into adulthood, presenting ongoing challenges. Researchers now often view ADHD not as a simple category but as a spectrum, where individuals in the general population can exhibit varying levels of its associated traits without meeting full diagnostic criteria. Continue reading

What Was the Benefit?

Ben Shapiro declares that Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and Cenk Uygur are all ‘anti-American, Islamists‘ who ‘shouldn’t be in the country

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro took aim at Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, streamer Hasan Piker and Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur on Monday, accusing all four of undermining American democracy

Conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro has claimed that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, New York’s Zohran Mamdani, and far-left influencers Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur don’t belong in the US.

The Daily Wire founder made the declaration Monday on The Ben Shapiro Show.

Meanwhile, the West continues to import these people,’ Shapiro griped at a point, pointing out how all are either foreign-born or have parents who are immigrants.

None of the people I just mentioned should be in the country. None of them.’  Continue reading

“I Will Defend My Country Against ALL Enemies, BOTH Foreign and Democrat!

The Democrat Party [nuthin’ “democratic” about it] has largely been the enemy of America, since 1913 with the election of Woodrow Wilson to the presidency and the passage of the Federal Reserve Bank Act and the Income Tax — and they have grown progressively worse through the FDR, LBJ, Carter, Obama and Biden years to the point that they are essentially authoritarian communists demanding the complete overthrow of our American system and the eradication of our constitutional republic and traditional America Herself, along with the virtues and principles that built Her — hiding the true horror and malicious and evil intent behind their agenda in the soft, comforting term of “the fundamental transformation of America”.

Their fundamental transformation will ultimately result in Hell on Earth and the reduction of every person in America to the lowest common denominator of “equality” in poverty — except of course for those holding the reins of power. ~ Justin O Smith

New Mexico Supreme Court Halts AI Data Center Permit Process, Handing Residents a Rare Win “a Rare Win

A pair of unanimous New Mexico Supreme Court orders has put a key part of Project Jupiter — a major artificial intelligence data center project in Santa Teresa — on pause, handing opponents a significant, though likely temporary, victory.

Here’s what to know 

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Willie Nelson, 93, Is Telling His Texas Hometown to Fight the Data Centers “Invading Our Land

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images.

Willie Nelson has owned a home and farmland in Abbott, Texas since he was a kid, and he says he can still see the stars there at night. Now he’s asking his neighbors to stand up to the AI data centers moving in on rural land.

He called data centers “loud, water thieving, light polluting” in an open letter posted July 28 urging his hometown of Abbott, Texas to push back against the construction spreading across the state.

The strength of rural America has never come from big industrial footprints,” the 93-year-old wrote. “It comes from generations of people, open spaces, local businesses, and a connection to the land.” Continue reading

Speaker Johnson Predicts Americans Wants ‘Common Sense‘ Over Socialism

While Jeffries’s lieutenants speak out of both sides of their mouths about the creeping communist agenda — “Democratic Socialists aren’t part of the Democratic Party,” but “we’re a broad caucus” — conservatives are making it clear that the party has already been ideologically captured.

The Year of the Democratic Socialists took another twist Tuesday when the House went on the offensive to paint Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y.) party as a dangerous force of anti-Americanism.

While the New Yorker has desperately tried to put some distance between Democrats and the DSA (somewhat unsuccessfully, others would add), the party’s drift toward mind-boggling radicalism is putting the entire country on edge. Continue reading

Marquardt – AGENDA 21: Cancel Culture on a World-Wide Scale; Take 2

This article was originally written when Covid hit. We knew very little about the machinations of parts of our government that were working to enhance and spread Covid as far as possible. Now we even know a lot about our government’s hand in producing it and pushing the also dangerous vaccine on us. Some wondered why.

Since 1992, we, at American Policy Center have been pointing out that one of the major goals of Agenda2/Sustainable Development is to reduce the human population by over 90%. Yet many laugh and call us conspiracy theorists. What I don’t understand about this statement is that we had been hearing for decades that the world is overpopulated; that we will run out of space and room for everyone; that we can’t feed so many. At the same time that we were reading Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb and Population Explosion and the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth, America was being called the breadbasket of the world. Of the world!

We were sending food all over the world to feed people. Now… 

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Smith ~ Where Were You… When the World Stopped Turning?

…and What – if Anything have we learned in all of these years?

When our leaders first let Muslims to immigrate to America and set up shop, so to speak, with all that means, it was the greatest mistake that any past leaders had ever made in all of American history, and I believe what we have witnessed from this demographic within our country bears out the truth of my assertion.

In 2010, I had already been tracking Muslim immigration and population numbers in America for over thirty years. From my own research, taking in the top studies of the day, there were ten million Muslims in America at that time, contrary to the three million suggested by the U.S. census for that year. And those numbers have grown exponentially by millions more, given the numbers of refugees that fled to America during our wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, to the absolute, readily observable detriment of all America.

America’s communists believe they are in ascendence today and about to take the nation, but when one looks closely at the Red-Green Alliance between the Democrat Party and Democratic Socialists of America and Islam in America, it appears that America’s Muslims are wagging the dog, so to speak, and have largely taken control over the political narrative on the Far Left today, advancing an agenda that benefits them far more than anyone else in the country.

We may never be able to completely rid the land of Muslims and communists, but we must fight like hell to cleanse our country of their presence using every tool and means at our disposal or simply watch as the American people fall into a trap of control, oppression and tyranny, where Christianity and liberty are eradicated for the most part.

People will say, “Oh, that will never happen here” even as it already has.

NOTE: Our author does apologize for the looseness of his words throughout this column – but I not only forgive him – but fully understand the anger within him – as I have the same feelings after all of these years! ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor  Continue reading