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BOWMAN: A National Calling

December 3, 2025 Jim Bowman

Times certainly have changed when catchy words can dismiss our relevant past. Despite such gibberish, what endures are our deeply embedded instincts to care for and love those we have brought into this world. That, in addition to our natural love of country, portrays just how immoral and evil it would be to do otherwise. … Read more

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PAYNE: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

October 16, 2025 Russ Payne

I still treasure wisdom from an old-time gospel song planted in my mind as a child: What is a mother’s love, dear friend, what is a mother’s love? It’s deeper than the deep blue sea and reaches from heaven above.” Many years ago, my life was powerfully impacted by the eternal truth that “the hand … Read more

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Payne: A Good Man Inspires Up

August 10, 2025 Russ Payne

The lack of strong Fathers in Godly-ordained families weakens families, which are the backbone of our American Republic. Some dads need to be both mother and father. Such was the case with my dad. Growing up the youngest of three boys, my Dad was my hero. Son of a ship carpenter on the Ohio River, … Read more

Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner

November 30, 2024 Ryan McMaken

The Thanksgiving holiday in the United States has a checkered past. Its more recent origins lie largely in government attempts at pushing propagandistic narratives. For example, Abraham Lincoln demanded Americans be thankful for ”the advancing armies and navies of the Union” during the Civil War. George Washington instructed Americans to give thanks for the new constitution in … Read more

A Personal Release

September 21, 2024 Jim Bowman

With my writing approaching four decades, there is this nagging or just an inner questioning of this knack. I suppose it has to do with being out of sync with the concept or general idea of a boilermaker, however, this personal aspect is not broad based since its been limited only to family and friends. … Read more

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Why the Family Is Not the Model for the State

September 14, 2024 Ryan McMaken

For centuries, advocates for greater state power have claimed that modern sovereign states are like families. The value of the strategy is clear: most people view families as both necessary and natural. Even in our current age of widespread divorce and single parents, the idea of “family” (variously defined) remains enduringly popular. Thus, for a … Read more

Revisiting Hashem’s Wisdom

August 30, 2024 NITZAKHON

I’ve been wanting to revisit & expand on my three essays about our current ignoring of Hashem’s wisdom. Here, for a refresher at your convenience: Ignoring Hashem’s Wisdom – Part 1 Ignoring Hashem’s Wisdom – Part 2 Ignoring Hashem’s Wisdom – Part 3 In the above I discuss things including abstinence before marriage, fidelity, porn … Read more

Treasuring America’s Future

August 7, 2024 Jim Bowman

A fact of life is that all nations and America is no exception, are sustained with each generation’s coming of age and answering its role of manning their nation’s bulwarks. Although this may include military service, it generally applies to the replacement of the retiring generation in whatever capacity they mastered. This is “the natural … Read more

Dear Democrats: We Need To Talk About Your Mental Health Crisis

August 1, 2024 Aaron Warner

Two recent polls reveal something seriously amiss with our Democrat (re: liberal) neighbors. Studies by Pew Research and the Institute for Family Studies-Gallup report a rise in poor mental health associated with politically liberal households. Pew Research indicates more than one in two (55%) “white women” who identify as liberal in their political ideology suffer … Read more

Mass. Bill H4750 Turns Big Brother Into Your Daddy

August 1, 2024 Aaron Warner

The State of Massachusetts is a hair’s breadth away from changing the meaning of family at the most nascent level of government involvement – the birth certificate. The House Ways and Means Committee voted 40-0 to adopt the bill H.4750 after several rounds of amendments which will move it along to the senate for final … Read more

It’s The Little Things

February 17, 2024 Jim Bowman

At the heart of any society is the family. A fair comparison is all the links of a chain that provide its strength. So it is that our American families are the beneficial links to our society. As such, it’s the little things within each family that bolster its inner functions, character, and purpose.

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New Hampshire Is Catastrophically Old—and That Will Hurt the Elderly the Most

December 3, 2022December 3, 2022 Op-Ed

New Hampshire has sleepwalked into a population crisis. The state’s demographic balance has been poisoned by decades of anti-child and anti-family policies—often explicitly designed to drive young families out of Granite State communities. As a result, New Hampshire has become catastrophically old.

Humor – Yes, If I Had a Nephew That Old, I’d Be That Conservative Uncle

November 24, 2022 Skip

Minus the beer, however. But I’d be ready…and waiting…eyes twinkling in anticipation. Anyone willing to lay odds on how it would turn out? Heh! (HT: Matt)

Why not our schools?

June 10, 2022 Don

I’m tired of millions of law-abiding citizens with no relationship to school shooters or responsibility for protecting schools being blamed rather than the shooters themselves and those people with the authority, ability, and responsibility to stop these criminals.

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Notable Quote – We’ve been too tolerant of rebranded Communist ideology

February 7, 2022 Skip

And to get to the heart of the matter first: If they can break down the family, they break down the final defense against the left’s total power. And the elimination of binary sex distinctions turns the family into a morass of chaos and confusion. Along with the welfare state, you have a two-pronged attack … Read more

How Else Does One Explain the Multi-Generational Poverty in the Democrat-Controlled Cities?

July 18, 2021 Skip

Culture can often be everything. One absorbs the culture in which they grow up and once they pass into adulthood, absorb that culture as well. For most of us, though, it is that culture in which we came of age – elementary, high school, college – the culture in which one is stewing counts the most.

Pasha’s Dignity

January 28, 2021 Op-Ed

A friend of mine recently urged me to watch Doctor Zhivago, the film based on Boris Pasternak’s book. He stated that it had been on the American Film Institute’s top 100 list and was inexplicably removed recently.

Objecting to Your own Principles … Is That a Problem?

September 30, 2020 Percy Blakeney

Objecting to your own principles. Is that a problem in an election year? Maybe not if you are a Leftist. Have you noticed the Leftists seem intent on criticizing Judge Barrett over issues they normally support? Seems a little incongruous, don’t you think?

“In Other Words #BLM is Culturally Appropriating the Beliefs of a White German who Lived in England”

September 25, 2020 Skip

The Left is not known for applying its own Rules against itself. But it will apply them to those in the middle and it tries to force, one way or another, a right to adhere to their “evolving” morality by any means possible.

Democrats and Supporters of BLM Need to Be Held Responsible for This as Well

September 14, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Walking up and to cops and shooting them is a thing these days. BLM protesters massing outside a hospital chanting I hope they die is too. Earlier I suggested you ask BLM supporters about this. Well, here’s something else on which they need to be challenged.