You hear the word “democracy” thrown around quite a bit these days. “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by Donald Trump!!” and “Democracy is being destroyed in...

John & Nisha Whitehead “If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of...

Maybe using the word “insane” is overkill, but it makes a better title than using the word “troubled” or something equally innocuous. But maybe “Insane” actually might be the...

John & Nisha Whitehead “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.” Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. Supreme Court was...

Todd Hayen Any group of human beings who are supposedly in a free society and who have a leader (or a council of people who lead), assigned by that...

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly...

Sylvia Shawcross There was a wild wind and a wicked sky and a cold cold day. North of here the power went out for a long long time and...

Todd Hayen When all this Covid crap started up my primary concern was why most people did not see what we saw. Then I began to realize they did...

Sylvia Shawcross It is cold again at night and the raccoons that reach their little hands up to the bowl of food are not there under the porch light...

Todd Hayen Think for a moment about what you really care about. Let’s say you are an average working Joe or a partnered mother with three kids. You have...

John & Nisha Whitehead “We’re all potential victims.” Peter Christ, retired police officer Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before...

John & Nisha Whitehead “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.” Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government...

Todd Hayen Here I go with the mask thing again, sorry, but a strange thing is happening with this around the world. It seems that wearing a mask is...

Sylvia Shawcross It was late in the game when I realized I’d forgotten to look at the latest meteor shower. It is something I always like to do to...

Sylvia Shawcross Well, heaven help us—the Gods of Mount Davos are meeting again. We’re now at Wefcon2. Run! Run! But I digress. Not. So let us just examine this...

John & Nisha Whitehead “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” Richard Nixon Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the...

Todd Hayen We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal… Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 A recurring theme in...

Todd Hayen Here’s another weird thing I think is going on. Like most things I observe, you have probably observed this too, and probably way before I first thought...

John & Nisha Whitehead “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” Edmund Burke Folks, it’s time to break the cycle of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and unacceptable—that...

Todd Hayen I remember as a kid that privacy was pretty important. It really did have a sort of sanctity to it. There was a deep principle violated if...