U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the Pnyx hill, where ancient Athenians held democratic assemblies, with the ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis in the background, in Athens,Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
A Republican gubernatorial candidate agrees with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s assessment of America, while conservative commentators compare and contrast his soaring defense of Western civilization with other memorable orations.
According to Associated Press, Rubio used the backdrop of the iconic Acropolis in Athens, Greece, to deliver a stern warning — that the United States finds itself at a crossroads. Continue reading
They didn’t all disappear at once. Some were renamed, others were folded into broader courses, and many were transformed by technology or pushed aside as schools devoted more time to academic requirements and tested subjects. Traditional shop became engineering or career and technical education. Typing blended into computer literacy. Home economics evolved into family and consumer sciences. Mechanical drafting moved from pencils and T-squares to computer-aided design.
“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly.
The sun was beginning to settle behind the western ridge, when I pulled an old wooden chair out onto the back porch, set my coffee beside me, and leaned back far enough that the chair gave a little groan beneath my weight. I took that as a good sign. A chair that has known you for twenty years and still complains when you sit down is a chair with character, and I have always trusted character more than furniture advertised as “ergonomically engineered.”
We don’t need permission from Silicon Valley or Washington to start thinking for ourselves. The moment we stop outsourcing our minds is when we take back America!
Eight years ago in the summer of 2018, an automated monitoring system at the US government’s Social Security Agency flagged a questionable transaction and immediately forwarded it to a human worker at the agency to investigate.
WE are in a war. Man has been in that war since day one. Just studying history shows that there are people who want to make all the rules, who want to control what we eat, if we eat, what we believe, and even how long we get to exist on this mortal coil.
It’s early, even for me. I read the opening quote before falling asleep, and it stayed with me all night. The metaphor didn’t hit me until about 3 AM. So here I am. Rising from a fitful slumber with that quote echoing in my mind, and unsure where it could lead.
The most serious threat to American liberty today is not a single cabal but a convergence of three powerful institutions — the national-security bureaucracy, the global technology industry, and the administrative regulatory state — that together create a system of soft despotism that is far more durable than any elected official.
What’s the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364?
Last month, Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations revealed that the “Fiqh Council of North America issued a legal ruling (fatwah) in coordination with the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America” that allowed Muslim charitable contributions or Zakat to be used for political donations.
Come what may over the next decade, should I be so fortunate to live so long, I won’t go quiet if things take a turn for the worse – Heaven Forbid – and our nation’s commies take all three branches of government into their destructive, filthy hands. I won’t back down.