Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Boys, Fathers, Academics — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly I read an interesting article in the Washington Post recently and I'd like to share it with you. In a high school in Alexandria, Virginia, the teacher of an all-black class was exasperated at how poorly the kids are performing. The class included both native-born African-Americans and kids from Africa. In a moment of [...]
Freedom In America — Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? — George Leef
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, George Leef It is an age-old question of perception. Show a person a glass with some liquid in it and ask, “Is it half-full or half-empty?” The importance of the answer depends on the interests of the person asking the question. If you owned a restaurant and wanted to skimp on the wine, you would rather [...]
A Plea for Religious Toleration — Roger Williams
Liberty Letters, 1644, Roger Williams First, that the blood of so many hundred thousand souls of Protestants and Papists, spilt in the wars of present and former ages, for their respective consciences, is not required nor accepted by Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace. Secondly, pregnant scriptures and arguments are throughout the work proposed [...]
Free Market Is the Only Answer — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson The only safe and solid answer is the mechanism of a free market operating in an environment of really free private enterprise and free competition. Here everyone has a chance to cast his vote in the election which will decide what is a fair price, fair wage, and profit, and what should be produced and in what [...]
Distracted by Stupidity — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba I have a friend who lives with his blind Malamute dog, Boris, in a cabin deep in the Missouri woods. He is as self-sufficient as one can be, but he is not one of those survivalists who are waiting for the Homeland Security to show up. He has to go into town to get dog food and pipe tobacco, although he has been brewing his own hard [...]
Limiting congressional power — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Power corrupts. Power in Congress corrupts Congress. In hopes of preventing, or at least minimizing congressional corruption, the nation’s framers carefully limited the power of Congress to those specific powers set forth in Article 1, Section 8. The 10th Amendment makes it impossible to misinterpret the limitation of [...]
Abundant Reasons to Thank Providence — George Washington
American Minute with Bill Federer The Battle of Cowpens, JANUARY 17, 1781, depicted in Mel Gibson's movie "The Patriot," was where American General Daniel Morgan had a line of militia fire into British General Cornwallis' and Colonel Tarleton's dragoons, regulars, Highlanders and loyalists. When the Americans retreated, the British pursued, [...]
The Mayflower Compact — William Bradford
Liberty Letters, November 11, 1620, William Bradford In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, [...]
Crucifixion of Michael Behenna — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway There is something seriously wrong with the execution of this nation's code of military justice - it is being used against the very people it is meant to protect. Case in point: the imprisonment of an heroic Army officer for killing a murderous Iraqi insurgent who had [...]
The Devil's Freedoms — Harold B. Lee
Prophet Statesmen, Harold B. Lee Some time, if you would have a stimulating mental exercise, sit down and carefully analyze the full implications of those vaunted “four freedoms” about which so much is said today. If you examine literally two of them, absolute freedom from all fear, and absolute freedom from all want, (1) you may find [...]
Almighty God Created the Mind Free — Thomas Jefferson
American Minute with Bill Federer “Each year on JANUARY 16, we celebrate Religious Freedom Day in commemoration of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,” wrote President George W. Bush in his 2003 Proclamation. Jefferson's Article of Religious Freedom, which he commemorated on his tombstone, was passed JANUARY 16, 1786, [...]
Farewell Address — George Washington
Liberty Letters, 1796, George Washington Friends and Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me [...]
Census Multilingual Ad Campaign Assures Illegal Aliens
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch The U.S. government has launched and unprecedented $133 million advertising campaign—in dozens of languages—to promote the census with the Spanish ads assuring the decennial count is confidential and cannot divulge respondents’ immigration status. Billed as the most diverse outreach campaign in U.S. history, [...]
N.A.S.A. Global Warming Documents Exposed
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch NASA Scientists Go on Attack After Climate Data Error Exposed Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- January 14, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained internal documents from [...]
Prop 8 Judge Concerns — Maurine Proctor
by Maurine Proctor Ed Whelan, who writes on a blog for National Review, is closely watching the anti-Proposition 8 in San Francisco, and makes some important observations. He says that the U.S. Supreme Court's order barring the broadcast of the trial this week not only derails Judge Vaughn Walker's intention of turning this into a " high-profile, [...]
African Slavery in America — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, March 8, 1775, Thomas Paine To Americans: That some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, Christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though [...]
The Gospel of Love — Martin Luther King Jr.
American Minute with Bill Federer Martin Luther King, Jr. was born JANUARY 15, 1929. A minister like his father and grandfather, he pastored Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery and Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On April 16, 1963, King wrote: As the Apostle Paul carried the [...]
Gay Lobby Takes Its Lumps — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly In the last months of 2009, the advocates of traditional marriage have enjoyed some important victories in controversies where they were predicted to lose, or at least to end up in a very close race. The New York State Senate defeated same-sex marriage by a large margin after predictions that the vote would be very close. New [...]
Reid Unmasks Democrat “Sensitivity”
by Christopher G. Adamo Were Senator Robert Byrd (D.- WV) ever to switch political parties and become a Republican, the liberal media reaction would be to suddenly “discover” his past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, which would thereafter be relentlessly reported until he was hounded from office in disgrace. Yet as a Democrat, his former [...]
Early Church Warning Regarding Communism
Prophet Statesmen: Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark Jr., David O McKay With great regret we learn from credible sources, governmental and others, that a few Church members are joining directly or indirectly, the Communists and are taking part in their activities. The Church does not interfere, and has no intention of trying to interfere, with the [...]
Ten Commandments Display Constitutional
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Cincinnati, OH – Today in ACLU v. Grayson County, Kentucky, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a display including the Ten Commandments in Leitchfield, KY, on the second floor of Grayson County’s courthouse. The display is entitled “Foundations of American Law and Government” and [...]
Government in the Bedroom, and Everywhere Else — William L. Anderson
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, William L. Anderson Left-liberals, when discussing abortion on demand, often declare: “We don’t want government in the bedroom.” While I am not arguing about abortion rights, I will point out how the left really wants government in our homes. After we moved to Cumberland, Maryland, in 2001, a woman from [...]
Utah First To Give Illegals Special Driver’s Licenses
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch Utah has proudly become the nation’s first state to offer a special class of driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants who will be ineligible to obtain the cards when new federal security standards kick in. Another illegal alien sanctuary state (Wisconsin) considered offering the same benefit but the measure, [...]
Feminist Vendetta Against Men's Sports
by Phyllis Schlafly I was shocked to read a U.S. Army report that 75% of America's 17- to 24-year-olds are not eligible for military service for various reasons. According to this report entitled "Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve," nearly a third of all potential recruits can't join the military because they're too fat, out of shape, can't do [...]
But Not In Heaven — Albert Schweitzer
American Minute with Bill Federer Albert Schweitzer was born JANUARY 14, 1875, in a village in Alsace, Germany. A Lutheran pastor's son and acclaimed for playing the organ, he earned doctorates in philosophy and theology, was pastor of St. Nicholai's Church, principal of St. Thomas College, and professor at University of Strasbourg. Then, at [...]
The American Crisis 13b — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, Sept. 9 1783, Thomas Paine A Supernumerary Crisis IN "Rivington's New York Gazette," of December 6th, is a publication, under the appearance of a letter from London, dated September 30th; and is on a subject which demands the attention of the United States. The public will remember that a treaty of commerce between the United [...]
Prop 8 Trial — No Broadcast Says Supreme Court — Maurine Proctor
by Maurine Proctor Following up on its Monday interim order, the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon issued an order barring the broadcasting of the trial against Proposition 8 in California by a vote of 5-4. This comes as a relief to Proposition 8 advocates who believe that broadcasting the trial would turn this into a circus, with those [...]
Universal Voter Registration, Next Democrat Scheme?
Liberty Alerts, WorldNetDaily, Chelsea Schilling A political correspondent is making waves with his stern warning that Democrats are scheming to manipulate the electoral process this election year by implementing a federal mandate to involuntarily register millions of people to vote – making the system ripe for unprecedented fraud and [...]
Bravo to Brit Hume: Why faith is Not a Private Matter — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke Not too many things raise my eyebrows in these days of through-the-looking-glass America, where I fully expect up to be down, left to be right and right to be wrong. It’s not that I’m a pessimist — just a realist. And this is why hearing mainstream-media newsman Brit Hume recommend Christianity over Buddhism on FOX News [...]
Will Terror Trial Become Media Circus?
by Phyllis Schlafly The strange decision of President Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, to move the trial of the terrorist who masterminded the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers has many unfortunate and even dangerous consequences. If this terrorist, who is known as KSM, is tried in a non-military court in New York City, he will have to [...]
