‘Editors Page’ Archives
Ideas and Guns are Dangerous Things
Tyranny Unmasked, Joseph Stalin "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." So said Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878 – 1953) served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in [...]
Moral Beings and the Law
By Steve Farrell I am always puzzled by the query "Why do you Christians insist on legislating morality?" I suspect many of those who ask it are equally perplexed by my brief and to the point response: "That's what men do, Christians and non-Christians alike. We are all moral beings." Let me explain what I mean by first emphasizing why we have [...]
Rights, Wrongs, and the Law
By Steve Farrell One of the oddest, most harmful political beliefs to emerge in the past 50 years is the notion that one cannot legislate morality. What utter nonsense. Man has always legislated morality. Sir William Blackstone, the central legal mind the post-1787 U.S. courts looked to for guidance, wrote, “The primary and principle objects [...]
Denying Spiritual Man
By Steve Farrell The apostle Paul prophesied the time would come when man’s “conscience seared with a hot iron.” (1) Part of that searing, sad to say, has come in the form of a modern secular state that has, plain as day, utilized curriculum mandates, accreditation standards, and block grants to impose one standard, and one standard alone [...]
Robbing Man of His Divine Heritage
By Steve Farrell In the long battle to subvert the liberties of man a key to victory over the forces of liberty has always included center stage: 1. an all out effort to subvert the Judeo-Christian belief that man is a child of God, made in His image and likeness, possessed of a duel nature of spirit and body, endowed with the godlike qualities [...]
On the Dangers of Deficits and Perpetual Revenue
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell In the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Mr. Mason of Virginia, suggested: the necessity of preventing the danger of perpetual revenue which must of necessity subvert the liberty of any Country. If it be objected to on the principle of Mr. Rutledge's motion that public credit may require perpetual [...]
A Meaningless Old Parchment?
by Steve Farrell Today we are bombarded with the idea that private virtue has nothing to do, nothing to say, about proper governing and the maintenance of free government. Not so among America's Founders. On August 14, 1787, John Francis Mercer, a Delegate from Maryland to the Constitutional Convention rose to his feet. He said: What led to [...]
Korea: The No-Win War That Keeps Giving
By Steve Farrell In November of 1950, American General Douglas MacArthur triumphantly completed his reversal of the communist takeover of North Korea and their subsequent Chinese-led and Soviet-ordered invasion of South Korea, and won the war. In what has been described as one of the greatest displays of military genius in history, MacArthur [...]
Time to Leave No Child Left Behind, behind
By Steve Farrell It has been said that the most effective way to conquer a man is to capture his mind. There is no slave more devoted, no disciple more dedicated than one who has become completely obsessed with the vision of what he considers to be a great idea. (1) Thus, education has long been a proper object of concern among both freemen and [...]
Is Democracy the Voice of God?
By Steve Farrell Back in August 2010, Judge Vaughn Walker engaged in the increasingly played tyrannical game: "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool!" when with no other authority than his own high opinion of himself and his revolutionary view of what he'd like California and American law to become, he struck down California's [...]
Michelle Obama Caught In the Act
By Steve Farrell According to a pool reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times, the First Lady, Michelle Obama may have violated Illinois law when she solicited votes inside a voting center not far from the booths. She asked people to "keep her husband's agenda going." Her husband's agenda, as we know, is about change — change away from the [...]
Blessed Tolerance: The Virtue of a Republic in Decline
By Steve Farrell Approximately two and a half millennia ago, Plato, in his classic work, "The Republic," unveiled a more intimate look into our just discussed "National Law of the Harvest" – that is, Plato unveiled with precision and wit just what happens by and by to the individual 'democratic man' when he foolishly, or by matter of course, [...]
National Law of the Harvest
by Steve Farrell There is a Christian church in America that contends, as did many of our Christian forefathers, that America “is a choice land; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and captivity, and from all other nations under heaven; if they but serve the God of this land, who is Jesus Christ.” (1) An [...]
Young Men Think Old Men Are Fools
By Steve Farrell George Chapman observed, in 1605, "Young men think old men are fools." (1) So do American progressives young and old. They are the sort to daily spit into the wind of "all past historical experience" demanding the abandonment of everything American—especially our "horse and buggy" Constitution and the Judeo-Christian ethic that [...]
Only Those Who Do Things are Criticized
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell "He who fears criticism is hopeless," wrote Thomas Jefferson. He explained: "Only those who do things are criticized. To hesitate for fear of criticism is cowardly." Jefferson could speak. He was one of those who did something. For instance, he penned that Declaration of Independence that among other things [...]
Gerry Warns Fellow Founders On Popular Vote for President
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell In May through September of 1787 America's Founders met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a Constitutional Convention. Several issues generated considerable debate, one of the most controversial of all had to do with the manner of electing a national president. At one point several delegates suggested the [...]
The Event is In the Hand of God
by Steve Farrell As the delegates filtered in the week and a half prior to the start of the Constitutional Convention in May of 1787, George Washington turned to Gouverneur Morris and said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we [...]
There’s Theory and There’s Reality
By Steve Farrell The great American statesmen J. Reuben Clark Jr. noted: "Tradition has it that Solon, the great law-giver declared in reply to the taunt 'Are these the best laws you can devise?' 'No! but they are the best the Greeks can bare!'" Clark responds, "There is always a wide margin between the theoretically perfect and the practically [...]
Bringing America Home
By Steve Farrell Talk about self-evident patriotism! In Tom Pauken's latest, Bringing America Home, here is a writer who's heart and mind unabashedly rings out 'God! Family! Country!' from cover to cover. So does his commitment to striking a balance between faith and reason and a roll up your sleeves work ethic as he easily moves from broadside [...]
1787 Common Sense: Debating Minimum Citizenship Requirements
By Steve Farrell Some policies, laws, constitutional principles and traditions are about common sense. On August 9, 1787, Gouverneur Morris, one of the eight delegates to the Constitutional Convention from Pennsylvania, observed regarding minimum citizenship requirements for the United States Senate: "Every society from a great nation down to [...]
Obama Elitists Diss Missouri
by Steve Farrell Proving once again that we are dealing with an arrogant, dictatorial bunch in the Obama Administration, its reaction to just over 71 percent of Missourians saying "No!" to Obamacare mandate that individuals buy insurance and businesses provide health insurance to employees or be fined is revealing. Obama Press Secretary Robert [...]
I Demur
By Steve Farrell Emily Dickinson spoke to her time as well as ours when she penned this penetrating line: Assent — and you are sane — Demur — you're straightway dangerous And handled with a chain. I wonder, this day, can the State of Arizona and its good people relate to the treatment Dickinson predicted? I'm sure they can. Have they not [...]
Americanus Speaks to Arizona’s Immigration Crisis and to All of Us
By Steve Farrell As the illegal immigration crisis proceeds a pace, and an American President has so far removed himself from his duty (and his wits) that he has ordered his Justice Department to sue an American state (Arizona) for doing its duty and for having its wits about it in defense of its citizens and their property — a little wit and [...]
Glen Beck On the C.F.R. and Media Bias
By Steve Farrell In video clips posted today at JBS.org, Glen Beck addresses what the John Birch Society has been warning about for the past 50 years, a cabal of Insiders (member of the Council of Foreign Relations - CFR) who have infiltrated the government and the media working hand and glove to deceive the America people with the goal of moving [...]
Nil Desperandum
By Steve Farrell Liberty Letters, Samuel Adams, 1772 Human nature being what it is, patriotic fervor tends to come and go. In 1772, when it seemed to be more going than coming, James Warren reported to Samuel Adams from Plymouth about the towns he had been canvassing: "They are dead," he lamented, "and the dead can't be raised without a [...]
University of Illinois Professor Fired For Standing By Catholic Teaching on Homesexuality — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell Calling it hate speech, the University of Illinois has fired a Catholic professor hired to teach an introductory course on Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought for responding to a student question about why homosexuality is immoral under Natural Law. The professor, Ken Howell answered in his email: "Natural Law says that [...]
What Goes Around Comes Around — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell There's a maxim everyone's heard, personally mouthed, and undoubtedly believes: "What goes around comes around." Or, "the boomerang effect." Remarkably, however, although we've all heard, mouthed, and believed it, many arrogantly claim a personal exception from this law of God and Nature — even when it comes to some serious [...]
Rescuing Our Kids and Country From Karl Marx — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell It bears repeating: If we hope to halt, reverse and permanently alter America's descent into the gutter of debauchery and that political tyranny that is forever its companion — "education is the key." (1) And if so, it must be, it can only be that that education is initiated, financed, and controlled by parents, not by Karl [...]
The Loyal Opposition — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell On the 6th of June 1776, Boston's Samuel Adams wrote to fellow Son of Liberty, James Warren, President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts: "Tomorrow, a motion will be made, and a question I hope decided, the most important that was ever agitated in America." Indeed it was. The motion introduced in the Second Continental [...]
A Rare Phenomena! — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell It is a rare phenomena, but sometimes Johnny-come-lately political movements get it right. Case in point: The Tea Party Revolution's wise choice to hold up the The United States Constitution rather than the Republican Party as the standard, the true red, white and blue American Ensign to which we must rally to save our [...]
