The Times, They are a Changin’ … and Changin’ and Changin’…

In fact, it seems Trump’s deadlines NEVER stop changing.

President Trump redefined his indefinite ceasefire today to a definite 3-5-day ceasefire, if 3-5 days can be called definite. Yesterday the schedule was “until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.” Now it’s 3-5 days.

It happens that 3-5 days is also just the right timeframe for the arrival of the third US aircraft carrier to the gulf region. The USS George HW Bush will be back on the prowl within hunting distance of Iran’s shores by this weekend. Continue reading

Hundreds of Parents Seek to BAN Elementary School From Sending Children Home With Chromebooks as They Demand a Return to Pencil and Paper Learning

Parents of a Philadelphia school district have rallied together to get pencils back in their children’s hands and writing on paper again after seeing the damage of learning on Chromebooks.

At least 200 parents of the Lower Merion School District (LMSD) have signed an ongoing petition to opt their children out of a one-to-one electronic device program. However, administrators claim that opting their children out of the program is impossible (Penn Wynne Elementary School in LMSD pictured)

The petition claimed several teachers at LMSD support the refusal of technology-based learning after seeing the harms of devices such as Chromebooks, iPads, and MacBooks cause in real time.

Technology can harm students by distracting them, exposing them to cyberbullying and inappropriate online content and weakening their socialization skills, the complaint noted.

The petition added that devices can lead to teacher burnout, excessive screen time, privacy concerns, poor behavior in class, and concerns about the role of AI in children’s academic lives, among other issues. Continue reading

Scientists Baffled by Mysterious 1,200-Year-Old Coin Linking Vikings to Jesus

A goin coin from the ninth century (Pictured) containing the image of John the Baptist may rewrite the history of Vikings in England

A shocking discovery has unearthed an apparent link between Vikings and the teachings of Jesus, rewriting what historians assumed about the spread of Christianity 1,200 years ago.

A person searching for possible treasure with a metal detector in the UK’s county of Norfolk recently found a small, incomplete gold coin which had been turned into a pendant. Continue reading

The Salty Citizen: Cease Fires and Shots Fired… Another Day in DC

Could there be one more thing on fire at home and abroad? If it’s not enemies ceasing to fire, it’s friendly fire from within.

As of April 2026, the United States feels like it’s juggling a few too many flaming swords—some overseas, some right here at home.

A fragile (and slightly confusing) ceasefire situation with Iran is hovering over the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important oil chokepoints in the world. Meanwhile, political drama stateside is doing its best to keep up.

Let’s start offshore. Continue reading

Garrison: “Virginia Is for… Backstabbers”

Virginia is for Lovers” — that was the old slogan.

Now, thanks to Governor Abigail Spanberger and her Democrat crew, it’s looking a lot more like “Virginia is for Backstabbers“.

Today, April 21st, Virginians head to the polls for a special redistricting referendum. Many Republican voters who helped put Spanberger in office as a supposed “moderate” are waking up with a knife in their backs. She campaigned as a reasonable Democrat focused on kitchen-table issues. Continue reading

We Should Not Fear The Tyrants; The Tyrants Should Fear Us!

In our society, we do not push psychopaths off the ice when nobody is looking. In our society, we let them rule the world.

If there were a thousand people living on an island, and one of them began making life miserable for everyone else, there would soon be 999 people living on the island.

How strange, then, that a few oligarchs and empire managers get to push around an entire planet full of humans. Continue reading

Holmquist: Why Reinstating Cursive Is a Profoundly Progressive Idea

Perhaps it seems counterintuitive at first, but it may be just what today’s children need in an increasingly high-tech, AI world.

I’ve spent many happy hours volunteering in a program for inner-city children in Minneapolis since I was a teen. One of my tasks over the years has been helping these children with writing.

There we sit, side by side, with me writing outlines and sentences, while they earnestly race to copy my example. Some get frustrated by their slow pace, while others write with a speed that nearly gives me hand cramps in trying to stay a step ahead.

Occasionally, I’ve slipped into using cursive. This fascinates the kids, and they often try copying it or comment on how they wish they could write like that. They sense that cursive is something special — a secret code into which they would like to gain insight, but sadly aren’t currently learning. Continue reading

Smith: The Tyranny of the Federal Government

A surveillance photo of the Weavers with guns on the property in Ruby Ridge, 1992. Photograph: PBS

Being one of the staunchest defenders of the Bill of Rights and our inalienable God-given rights, I have always been particularly incensed and angered each time I reflect back over these past events and the manner in which the government agents reacted. Afterwards, it was always the same tired refrain of “the officers were following the law“, “we were only following orders” or “they acted against orders” and in the meantime, good and decent Americans still lay in their graves, deprived of life and joys they would still be experiencing today, since I’m certain that at least LaVoy and Ashli were both young enough that they would be alive today had it not been for trigger-happy, scared-of-their shadow cowards or simply evil government agents far too eager to take another American’s life simply because he or she stood up for what is right, good and decent. Continue reading

Hickman: Argentina Got This Warning Before Its Collapse. America Just Got It Last Week.

In early December 2001, ‘normal’ life very suddenly ceased to exist in Argentina – anything that remotely resembled a functional society came to an abrupt end. And that is by no means an exaggeration.

The banking system collapsed. Financial transactions ground to a halt. Desperate people looted supermarkets for food, and then grocery shelves emptied. Energy ran short. Riots broke out in the streets, and police were shooting citizens in the face. Continue reading

Dickens: Freedom – We Don’t Deserve It!

The actual title of this piece is Freedumb. Be patient… you’ll understand.

I marvel at what this country is and what it’s become, frequently wondering out loud and, more often, in writing, my favorite way to think. It’s enlightening that I can begin with an idea, and in the process of explaining it, it becomes whole in my mind. I find that by giving my thoughts form, they coalesce, gaining substance… I always discover more than I choose to share, mostly personal things you don’t need to know and will never understand.

I consider myself a very lucky man. I have a loving wife/partner and a comfortable home. It is the freedom America offers that brought us to where my wife and I are today. For us, that freedom is opportunity. It’s the liberty to make choices and decisions that allow us to follow our chosen paths, and that’s given us everything we have, including each other, and although we don’t always agree, we honor that freedom and the country that provides it.

Our life together hasn’t been easy, and it hasn’t grown any easier over time, except that we’re learning to make better choices. That’s part of the opportunity I mentioned. We’re free to decide what’s best for us. We can choose our own paths as partners and as Americans. That’s real Freedom.

Freedumb in Merka 

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Warning Over Statue of Liberty Terror Attack Ahead of America’s 250 Celebrations

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum issued a chilling warning about a potential terrorist attack on the Statue of Liberty as the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of its independence.

Speaking during a news conference in New York, Burgum lauded the U.S. Park Police, the oldest federal agency in the country, discussing their integral role in American history.

As he spoke about their work protecting the Statue of Liberty – one of America’s most iconic landmarks – he noted that it appears in images on most terrorist recruiting sites, warning that it could become the target of an attack one day.

“The Statue of Liberty, by the way, is the most featured image on terrorist recruiting sites,” Burgum said. “It’s the thing that, if someone could wreck our 250th anniversary…”

He went on to say that the U.S. Park Police screens over 4 million people who visit the monument each year before they board the iconic ferry that takes them to the island on which it sits.

“They protect the National Mall, the Golden Gate Recreation Area, but when you’re here on this ground today, at least 26,000 acres, the law enforcement for this national recreation is not the Metro – it’s not New York. It’s the U.S Park Police,” he said. Continue reading

Dickens: I’ve Had Enough!

This Isn’t What the Govern Meant…

I’ve been watching this dumpster fire for as long as I can remember, and I hit the end of my tether today.

I was sipping my morning coffee while perusing the news feeds, and reading a few posts on various sites, when it struck me… All We Ever Do Is BITCH about things – me included. I have offered some suggestions from time to time, but all the bullshit I’ve encountered in the past several years has been hyper-critical bitching and no… not one suggestion on how to resolve or fix any problem. These are superficial gripes and even some really detailed harangues, but not one single suggestion on what to do… Only bitching!

You know, you’re right… You do have the right to complain about anything and everything. That is your right. But I have the right to ignore your incessant bitching. This leads me to how I respond to your constant complaints. I’m going to recommend reading Aesop’s fable ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf.’ Continue reading

Smith: Artificial General Intelligence and the Underground Human ~ Liberty’s Reckoning with the Silicon Leviathan!

Foreword:

This mad rush to make everything connected to the inth degree with Artificial Intelligence – by the powers-that-be and the major countries around the globe – only ensures that the rise of tyranny marches on and keeps growing and hardening.

People need to act now to ensure the future of their families is secure to the greatest possible degree they might manage, in a manner that takes them out of the A.I. loop and lessens its impact upon them, whenever its impact is fully felt and realized in their respective regions.

Aside from the loss of liberty that follows this new technology, it should worry the hell out of folks today over how much of the world’s fresh water resources will evaporate in the support and cooling of these massive A.I. processing centers that cover areas as large as some cities.

While many benefits and some good for humanity is also emerging from the endeavors of this Artificial Intelligence technology, from all my own research and readily available current information, I see this rush to create and make use of an Artificial General Intelligence “Being” a Fool’s Folly and a net negative for all humanity – a soul crushing death sentence. ~ J.O.S.  Continue reading

The U.S. Must Start Culturally Vetting Prospective Immigrants

When I had a meeting at a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office in Northern Virginia some weeks ago, five FBI agents sat me down and told me that they’re investigating many cases of female genital mutilation (FGM), an abusive cultural practice that is far too common in the U.S.

As I am someone who lives in Minneapolis for most of the year, the agents explained that the city is one of the country’s FGM hotspots, especially because of its Somali population. While much of the country is rightly focused on pervasive Somali fraud in Minnesota, FGM has largely gone under the radar. Yet, FGM is a far more sinister issue. Continue reading

Johnson: The Dumbing Down of Education Through Technology

Unless we become Amish, (which is probably a healthier lifestyle), the mastery of technology is essential for success in the 21st century and should be taught in schools. But this guest opinion is going to cover three areas where the use or overuse of technology is not beneficial to students and can be dangerous.

1. Over use of technology can dumb down education, increasing illiteracy and decreasing intelligent thought and brain capacity.

2. Technology can be used to psychologically control and manipulate students.

3. Recent tragedies have shown that AI has encouraged vulnerable youth to kill or commit suicide.

Technology in the classroom has evolved from calculators and spell check to every student with a laptop computer and smart phone, to Large Language Models (LLM’s) like ChatGPT and Grok. Will the final destination be human brain chip computer interfaces like Elon Musk’s Neuralink or Sam Altman’s venture Merge Labs? Continue reading