Bryana is a homeschool graduate, history buff, self-taught artist, and enthusiastic autodidact. She is politically incorrect and passionate about politics and the theory of government. Bryana was classically educated using the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education and grew up in the Middle East. She has won prizes in multiple poetry contests and is an amateur calligrapher and guitarist, as well as a huge fan of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Amy Carmichael, Frederick Bastiat, Thomas Sowell and P.G. Wodehouse. She currently lives in a rural community in Texas.
Bryana founded www.thehightide.com and writes there regularly. She is also a contributor to The College Conservative. Follow her on twitter at @HighTideJournal.
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Contributions to the Communities Sports desk from readers.
Published 12:00 a.m. May 10, 2012
In which a Swedish paper bashes climate change skeptics and we take a look at some prominent and very scientific "doubters."
Published 3:02 p.m. April 24, 2012
Are the talking heads utilizing the Trayvon Martin tragedy to play the people of America?
Published 5:28 p.m. April 7, 2012
Brazilian schoolchildren wearing micro-chips, teens jailed for food fight, middle-school students with reading skills of five-year-olds, and teachers rewriting homework answers for higher exam scores
Published 11:15 p.m. March 18, 2012
As the Russian city of St. Petersburg bans homosexual propaganda in public places, human rights activists have conflicting views on whether the action constitutes a true violation of free speech rights.
Published 4:55 p.m. February 28, 2012
Has the “war on terror” gone too far? Yes, say law-abiding citizens who feel targeted by the Fed's newest belligerent actions – against them.
Published 5:01 p.m. February 18, 2012
New report shows Planned Parenthood snookering taxpayers by cheating Medicaid - to the tune of millions
Published 10:51 p.m. January 29, 2012
Far from being anti-Israel, Ron Paul may be the strongest friend Israel has among the presidential candidates.
Published 12:39 p.m. January 16, 2012
Conservatives shouldn't mock the Occupy movement. They should educate and make common cause with it.
Published 1:32 a.m. January 9, 2012
While no modern presidential candidate has ever won both Iowa and New Hampshire in the primary elections and failed to capture the nomination, there has to be a first time for everything
Published 12:55 a.m. December 20, 2011
In January 2011, youth-led pro-life group Live Action conducted a series of “sting” operations on Planned Parenthood clinics.
Published 6:52 p.m. December 14, 2011
Lowes pulls advertising due to pressure from family values group; Paypal shuts down anti-homosexual lifestyle bloggers; Victoria Childress turns down a lesbian couples' business.