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- Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots
- No Inadaquacy in the Constitution
- Iphitus: Adams’ Defense, No 47
- Alexis de Tocqueville: The New Despotism
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- Origin of the Anglo-Americans and Its Future Importance
- Exterior Form of North America: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Corinth: Adams ‘Defense’ No. 45
- Putting Down the Mob, Defending Law and Order
- Crete’s So-Called Democracy: Adams’ Defense, No 44
- Suggestions on Improving the Union by Thomas Jefferson: 1786
- Union A Main Prop of Our Liberty—George Washington
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- Madison: Limits on Treaty Making Power
- Achaia and the Volatility of Small Democracies: John Adams’ ‘Defense’ No. 43
Classics, Western Civilization >>
They Call it Democracy: Affirming the Civic Engagement Doctrine »
BY CARL L. BANKSTON III The education for civic engagement crusade marches on. According to an article (1) in Inside [...]
Made of Paper: Books of Early Adolescence »
LITERATURE, CARL L. BANKSTON III By the time I entered junior high school, I had developed the habit of reading by the [...]
Made of Paper: Huxley, Burgess, and Dystopia »
BY CARL L. BANKSTON III From high school through college, I read through the works of two British novelists, Aldous [...]
Made of Paper: The Childhood Books »
CARL BANKSTON III The seventeenth century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo made a wonderful series of portraits, representing [...]
Too Great a Temptation »
Liberty Letters, John Locke, 1689 Perhaps the most fundamental violation of the Constitution today, and the most [...]
Column du Jour >>
The Chimera of Tax Fairness »
SHELDON RICHMAN, THE FREEMAN In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night President Obama played the fairness card in calling for higher [Read More]
American Minute >>
History of Jewish Immigration to America »
American Minute with Bill Federer Ferdinand and Isabella sent Columbus [...]
Douglas MacArthur: Old Soldiers Never Die, They Fade Away »
American Minute with Bill Federer Douglas MacArthur was born JANUARY [...]
Christianity and The Strive Against Communism »
American Minute with Bill Federer On JANUARY 25, 1941, Democrat [...]
Free Enterprise Zone >>
The Chimera of Tax Fairness »
SHELDON RICHMAN, THE FREEMAN In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night President Obama played the fairness card in calling for higher taxes on upper-income people. He said: e need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of Members of [Read More]
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Judeo-Christian America >>
A Return to Virtue »
A Way of Life, Sister Elaine S. Dalton Last April, two days after general conference, we held our first meeting as a [...]
I Am Come in My Father’s Name »
Old World Witness For Christ I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own [...]
The Father, Because He Was Conceived By The Power of God »
American Scripture The Father, because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus [...]
Finding Joy in the Journey »
A Way of Life, President Thomas S. Monson My dear brothers and sisters, I am humbled as I stand before you this morning. [...]
There Are Only Two Churches »
American Scripture And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of [...]
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer »
Old World Witness For Christ How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to [...]
39 Years, 54 Million Babies – The March Against Roe v. Wade »
RIGHT TO LIFE/ABORTION, JAY SEKULOW 39 years ago the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of the worst [...]
You Always Have a Choice »
A Way of Life, Boyd K. Packer This matter of gender is of great concern to the Brethren, as are all matters of morality. [...]
Top News & Liberty Alerts >>
Remembering the Holocaust in a Dangerous World »
JAY SEKULOW, ACLJ " . . . for the dead and the living, we must bear [Read More]
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FIRE’s Open Letter to Vanderbilt Regarding Religious and Political Organizations
Rep. Gosar Continues to Push “No Confidence” in Holder Resolution
Supreme Court Decision in ‘Jones’ and Students’ Fourth Amendment Rights
City Council Candidate Yanked Off Ballot Over English Proficiency
More From Our Pundits & Guest Writers >>
Remembering the Holocaust in a Dangerous World
JAY SEKULOW, ACLJ " . . . for the dead and the living, we must bear witness . . . to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all . . ." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor This day is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The world must never forget the Holocaust. [...]
Global Warming Approved by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
COURTS/ENVIRONMENT, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is dominated by Democratic-appointed judges, and many of its decisions have been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Ninth Circuit is even more liberal than the Obama Administration. A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel struck down a plan by the U.S. Fish & [...]
The Chimera of Tax Fairness
SHELDON RICHMAN, THE FREEMAN In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night President Obama played the fairness card in calling for higher taxes on upper-income people. He said: e need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of Members of Congress, pay our fair share of taxes. Tax reform should follow the Buffett rule: [...]
The State of the Union: An Inside Report
MARK W. HENDRICKSON, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES On Tuesday evening, I had the honor of attending the State of the Union address as the guest of Congressman Mike Kelly (PA-03). Here are my impressions in abbreviated form: The address seemed more like a rewrite of previous speeches than an original work. Sure, there were new anecdotes and [...]
Working Into the Grave
BY ALAN CARUBA Believe it or not, there was a time when, if you turned 65 and retired, you could expect to live in reasonable comfort. Social Security covered a portion of your expenses; your savings account yielded a modest amount of interest, and, if you had made investments, stock dividends provided a safety cushion. Not so [...]
Morning Bell: A Slashed and Burned Military
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION The future is not bright for the U.S. military. Yesterday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave America a glimpse of the half-trillion dollars in defense spending cuts requested by the Obama Administration and detailed how the U.S. military’s capabilities would be affected in practical terms. The result is [...]
They Call it Democracy: Affirming the Civic Engagement Doctrine
BY CARL L. BANKSTON III The education for civic engagement crusade marches on. According to an article (1) in Inside Higher Education, a group of educators met on Jan. 25 at the annual meetings of the Association of American Colleges and Universities to discuss how to carry out the ideas set forth in a recent report on civic learning by the [...]
GAO Gives Commercial Colleges a Failing Grade
EDUCATION, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT The Obama Administration is determined not to cut a penny out of the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into our schools and colleges, even though they can't show any progress toward the designated goals established for the spending of that money. The government has just started to look at some areas of [...]
Feminist Propaganda in College Textbook
FEMINISM, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT A woman walked into my office recently and handed me the textbook her daughter was assigned for her "Women and Gender Studies" Course at the University of Missouri/St. Louis. I was shocked at this textbook and I'm going to share it with you. The title is Women's Voices, Feminist Visions by Susan M. Shaw and [...]
Europe: Assisted Suicide “Must Always be Prohibited”
RIGHT TO LIFE, MATTHEW CLARK, ACLJ We are pleased to report a major victory for life in Europe. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (“PACE” – pictured above) has banned euthanasia (assisted suicide) in Europe. The newly adopted Resolution provides, “Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or [...]
The Truth About Mitt Romney’s Taxes
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION How many times should your money be taxed? One time? Two times? Three times? Four? Sounds like a ridiculous proposition, but that's the true story of capital gains taxes in America, and it's one that's not being told in the continuing debate over Governor Mitt Romney's taxes. For more than a week, the [...]
Preparing the Military for Future Threats
EARL H. TILFORD With breaking news of a U.S. Navy SEAL team successfully rescuing two hostages from pirates in Somalia, military pundits are quick to note how the deployment of small, elite units will fit in with President Barack Obama’s vision for modernizing the U.S. military. Yet, while small, elite units are indeed crucial to the modern [...]
Made of Paper: Books of Early Adolescence
LITERATURE, CARL L. BANKSTON III By the time I entered junior high school, I had developed the habit of reading by the author. I’d find an author I liked and then look for all of his (they were pretty much all men) works. I began to enjoy science fiction. The berserker stories of Fred Saberhagen , about the desperate fight of humans against [...]
The Problem with Privatization
It's about competition. STEVEN HORWITZ, THE FREEMAN Classical liberals commonly favor “privatization” of many government activities. Their case, of course, is that the private sector would provide goods and services at lower cost and of higher quality than government can. Since classical liberals are right about this, why do I think [...]
The Deteriorating “State of the Union” Parody
BY CHRISTOPHER G. ADAMO The annual charade known as the “State of the Union Address” has clearly become the most telling example of everything that ever went awry within the federal government over the past few decades. Compared to the constitutional premise on which it is based, the fraudulent and politically tainted monstrosity presented [...]
