US Senator Joseph McCarthy was in the middle of an otherwise boring speech at the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9, 1950, when he pulled out a nondescript piece of paper from his jacket pocket.
Waving the paper into the air for all to see, Senator McCarthy proclaimed that he possessed a list of more than 200 known Communists in the United States, and that he would make sure they were all outed and punished. Continue reading
Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist writer. He is credited with the theory of “cultural hegemony” that advocates for changing society through academia, the media, and the culture.
That was the question a legacy media commentator asked after conservative talk show host and thought leader Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University. Another lamented, “Is this how we solve our political differences in America?” From the shattered stained glass of Annunciation Catholic School to the crowded fields of Butler County, Pennsylvania, the heartbreaking answer is too often yes.
And yet evil, whether it slinks across a rooftop or slams into twin skyscrapers, is not new. Two thousand years ago, the prophet Hosea watched his own nation, awash in idolatry, turn its back on God and declared a warning from the Lord, “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind …” Continue reading
Sen. Rand Paul is calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to reappear before Congress after emails were uncovered that contradict his testimony to lawmakers.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee obtained documents showing that Dr. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, directed NIH employees to destroy records.
“These documents suggest your direct involvement in efforts to conceal information related to the Committee’s investigation and appear to contradict your previous testimony before Congress,” Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, said in a letter Tuesday to Dr. Fauci. Continue reading
Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, speaks at the High School Leadership Summit, a Turning Point USA event, at George Washington University in Washington on July 26, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
By the time he set off on his final campus speaking tour, Charlie Kirk had built an organization of some 250,000 members, all the while engaging in conservative political organizing, engineering get-out-the-vote efforts, drawing tens of millions of dollars in funding, and growing a media influence machine.
A driving force behind Kirk’s movement, Turning Point USA, has been his focus on engaging young minds in political debate and setting an example for new generations of political influencers like himself.
Through this mission, Kirk often found himself on a college campus, delivering a speech or sitting down with a table and a microphone and defying his critics with the prompt “prove me wrong,” even in the face of insults and threats.
He continued this mission until the very end. Continue reading
A strategist working to restore schools from harmful agendas isn’t surprised that federal spending didn’t improve kids’ math and reading scores.
12th graders’ scores dropped to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills.
The assessments were the first since the pandemic, and the Associated Press says they “reflect a downward drift across grade levels and subject areas.” Continue reading
This was one of Charlie Kirk’s last posts on X. Like his Savior, Kirk was an exceptional influencer who exemplified grace, love, and understanding. For this, the left had him assassinated. We don’t know who did it, but it looked like a professional job and many socialist Democrats were celebrating. Some of their posts were reprehensible and I won’t repeat them here. Continue reading
Like a lot of people, I first came across Charlie Kirk when YouTube’s algorithm started showing me short clips of him dismantling woke Leftists at university campuses.
Kirk used politeness combined with simple logic and reason to demonstrate what we all already knew: the Left has no idea what they’re talking about! Continue reading
The Morning of 9/11, 2001
* They said it was for safety.
* They said it was for order.
* They said it was for the good of the nation.
Yesterday I wrote an essay titled WTC Building 7: Sabotage in Plain Sight that generated a great deal of reader commentary, which I have carefully read.
The perfectly symmetrical and simultaneous failure of all main supports in WTC Building 7 is just one of many bizarre features of the September 11, 2001 saga. Continue reading
To this day I still burn with rage as I recall the Islamic terrorist attack against America, with jets plowing into the Twin Trade Towers and setting in motion the horrific scene that followed. Many readers may not have even been born when the most heinous act in U.S. history unfolded on that fateful day of September 1st 2001, but for those of us who sat it in real time, whether on our television screens or the streets adjacent to the Towers, it was a scene that everyone who has ever loved America had seared into their mind and heart, as hot tears of grief and anger flowed down our faces. Continue reading
Michael Cole, Lauren’s father and founder of Lauren’s Wish, visits Lauren’s grave at Fletcher Cemetery in Cheat Neck, W. Va., on Aug. 13, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The shadows lengthened as Michael Cole walked through the cemetery near sunset to his daughter’s grave, where he dropped to his knees and kissed the cool, dark stone of her marker.
Head bowed, his hands tenderly swept away bits of grass clinging to the headstone’s base, fingers lingering on shells and heart-shaped stones left as tribute to Lauren Cole’s life. She was 26. Continue reading
I have been carefully watching our nation evolve over the past two decades, as it has morphed into something unrecognizable, becoming more tyrannical with each passing day, month and year, regardless of whether or not it’s the Democratic Party or the Republican Party holding the reins of power.
And nothing much is changing under President Trump who has only succeeded in proving my assertions from 2016, that he is indeed a Big Spending, Big Government Dyed-in-the-Wool Old-Style Yellow Dog Democrat or simply a New York liberal without any core convictions, when it comes to Americans’ Inalienable God-given Rights and the Bill of Rights and defending them. Oh, he’ll certainly defend them for himself, when he is under attack, but he certainly doesn’t mind trampling on them for the rest of us, especially when there are trillions of dollars at stake. Continue reading
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.” ~ James Fenimore Cooper
“Meh… good enough…” [Link]
Creating a culture of rewarding and celebrating conformity in being ordinary.
Unlike Socrates, Mediocrates is not a historically known individual but rather a satirical, fictional “god” or “philosopher” representing mediocrity and the pursuit of average intelligence or skill: Seek not to excel…
Mediocracy: a dominant class consisting of mediocre people, where mediocrity is celebrated and rewarded. Welcome to the herd.
Mediocre: of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate.
The Socratic Method encourages argumentative and cooperative dialogue to stimulate critical thinking by posing questions and then responding to them, thereby eliciting ideas and information.
The Mediocratic Method accepts conventional wisdom without question. Continue reading
Stanford University has issued a chilling warning about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs. The number of job opportunities for young professionals in AI-affected sectors across the United States has dropped by 13% over the past three years.
According to a report from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, AI is going to reduce the number of jobs available to human beings, and has already done so. Continue reading
How many people do you know who still believe we have too much C02 on this earth?
How many people do you know who are letting their children being taught “sight words” to hinder their reading abilities.
How many people do you know who think fluoride is good for them?
How many people do you know who believe we must cease of all uses of fossil fuels and transit to only so-called Green energies that are destroying our land, water, and crops and killing us and other living creatures on this earth. Continue reading
I’m going to try to keep this as short as humanly possible, but I am not going to make any promises; I do get carried away sometimes. Before I get to the subject matter I wish to discuss, there is something I think I need to clarify. I call these things essays, but that’s not entirely accurate, the are opinion pieces; my opinion. I do not claim to be right, but I do my very best to provide sufficient evidence to support my opinion.
I have found that people do not want to read things that cause them to call into question their own opinions; they would rather read only those things that validate them. That, if you ask me, ensures that one will never grow; for if they refuse to question their own opinions, their own beliefs, then how will they ever know if they are based upon solid evidence; upon the truth? Continue reading
Donald Trump has always been a master of imagery.
From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed rallies, he understands the language of spectacle. Now he has discovered the perfect propaganda machine: AI-generated images.
AI allows the creation of endless variations of Trump-as-warrior, Trump-as-enforcer, Trump-as-savior. These images spread across social media, replicated, remixed, and shared until they become familiar, even normalized.
The latest AI-generated images of Trump, shared on his social media accounts, depict him in the militarized black uniform of a SWAT officer, or in police dress blues.
These memes are carefully crafted signals of how Trump envisions power in America. Continue reading