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 is a huge fan of a vast number of authors, including G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Frederick Bastiat, Amy Carmichael, Henry Hazlitt, and P.G. Wodehouse.
Bryana has won prizes in multiple poetry contests and her first poetry collection, Having Decided To Stay, was published in 2012 with Ethandune Publishing. She currently lives in a rural community in Texas.
Bryana founded www.thehightide.com and writes there regularly. Follow her on twitter at @_Bryana_Johnson and on facebook.
Life lessons, adventures, people places and observations as I undertake my personal quest to travel to 100 or more countries before I die.
On Memorial Day a visit to the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy is a powerful reminder of sacrifice for freedom.
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Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel was built at the turn of the 20th century for Orient Express travelers. It's just as mysterious today.
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Published 6:14 p.m. May 20, 2013
The Romeike family fled Germany to seek freedom to homeschool in the land of the free. Now they are being faced with deportation.
Published 2:34 p.m. May 8, 2013
A mentally-handicapped Nevada woman who was almost forced to undergo an abortion gives birth to a "sublimely beautiful" baby
Published 2:52 p.m. April 24, 2013
New abortion legislation in Kansas and North Daokta suggests popular opinion is shifting towards personhood
Published 1:32 p.m. March 30, 2013
A Planned Parenthood representative says women and their doctors can choose to kill babies in "post-birth" abortions.
Published 2:35 p.m. March 20, 2013
Taxpayers are on the hook for $4 million+ dollars to study the 'interplay of gender & sexual orientation in obesity, alcoholism disparities'
Published 8:53 p.m. March 12, 2013
Mayor Bloomberg thinks he should be making our right choices for us. Here's why he's wrong.
Published 1:31 p.m. February 28, 2013
Outrage has erupted over law enforcement practice targets depicting "non-traditional threats" including an armed pregnant woman & small boy
Published 12:45 p.m. February 19, 2013
The Mexico Permanent Commission has voted to ask the US Senate for a registry of guns in border states. Gun-owners aren't too happy.
Published 5:03 p.m. February 12, 2013
The Romeikes fled Germany in order to homeschool their children but now face deportation from the US. What does that mean for Americans?
Published 5:24 p.m. February 4, 2013
The Obama administration has released a new version of the birth control mandate. But does it really help to protect religious freedom?
Published 8:46 p.m. January 25, 2013
1,000 British clergyman have warned that legalization of same-sex marriage will result in religious persecution. Are they right?
Published 1:17 p.m. January 17, 2013
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has released a plan for a bill nullifying President Obama's controversial executive actions on gun control.
Published 3:35 p.m. January 9, 2013
Vice President Joe Biden suggests that President Obama may bypass Congress with another executive order on the contentious issue of gun control
Published 6:00 a.m. December 20, 2012
A House-Senate conference committee led by John McCain has presented a new draft of the 2013 NDAA bill – without the Feinstein-Lee amendment.
Published 4:43 p.m. December 14, 2012
A common-sense policy about guns on school property could have saved innocent people from a deranged killer at Sandy Hook elementary school