The following text is perhaps one of the most insightful appreciations of the Declaration ever pronounced. President Calvin Coolidge gave this speech in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926, marking the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. We hope you will find it encouraging.
‘If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final’
“If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us,
we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.”… Continue Reading
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
Progressives frequently point fingers at those who disagree with them, calling them deplorables, Bible-thumping rubes and science deniers. Yet without fail, our accusers rarely provide any evidence to support their claims. The leftists’ call to “respect the science,” i.e., look at the obvious empirical evidence, almost always works against them rather than for them and their utopian schemes.
This is true across the spectrum of the current political debate. Be it inflation, foreign policy, immigration, racism, the efficacy of masks, climate change or gender identity, when we look at the empirical data relevant to any of these topics, the science screams that progressives are wrong and conservatives have been right all along.… Continue Reading
Tags: Antisemitism, Black Lives Matter, Border Crisis, COVID–19, Donald Trump, Lia Thomas, marriage, mRNA injections, national security, open borders, two parents
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | July 2, 2024 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Children Do Best When They Have a Mother and Father Bound to Each Other in Marriage
Written by Robert Knight
The U.S. Supreme Court works in strange and mysterious ways.
It can enrage the progressive left with a solidly constitutional ruling like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the issue of abortion to the states.
But it can also amaze and frustrate conservatives, as when it refused before and after the 2020 election to review Pennsylvania officials’ unconstitutional changes to election procedures.
“We failed to settle this dispute before the election and thus provide clear rules.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Amy Coney Barrett, Bostock v. Clayton County, Clarence Thomas, COVID–19, cross-sex hormones, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Environmental Protection Agency, Facebook, gender reassignment surgery, Great Barrington Declaration, Hans von Spakovsky, hydroxychloroquine, Instagram, Ivermectin, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, Murthy v. Missouri, Neil Gorsuch, Obergefell v. Hodges, puberty blockers, Roe v. Wade, Samuel Alito, Twitter, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | July 1, 2024 6:15 AM | Comments Off on SCOTUS Missed Opportunity to Uphold Freedom of Speech
Written by David E. Smith
In the wake of Thursday’s Presidential Debate between Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden, pundits on both side of the political spectrum agreed that President Biden’s mental acuity, weak voice and stammering and halting answers were alarming. Makes one wonder just who is behind the curtain in the White House making decisions.
Prior to this debate, there may have been some whispers in the wind about replacing Biden as the pro-abortion Democratic nominee, but those whispers are now being spoken loudly by political strategists and analysts on cable TV and news talk radio.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2024 Election, Darin LaHood, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Donald J. Trump, Front Page Magazine, James Marter, Jerry Evans, Joe Biden, Joe McGraw, Kamala Harris, Mary Miller, New York Times, Politico
Executive Branch, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | June 29, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Joe Biden: 2024 Democratic Nominee or One Term Has-Been?
Written by David Harsanyi
Not long ago, Snopes, a left-wing “fact-checking” site, finally admitted that Donald Trump had never called the neo-Nazis who marched at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people.”
For years, Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have repeated this false claim. Indeed, Biden, who’s been running for the presidency since 1987, ludicrously told the press in 2019 that the events in Charlottesville, and Trump’s alleged reaction, inspired him to run in 2020.… Continue Reading
Tags: anti-Israel, Antisemitism, Charlottesville, COVID, Donald Trump, Gaza, Hamas, Hezbollah, Jewish Lives Matter, Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, neo-nazis, Palestine, pro-Israel
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Israel | David E. Smith | June 28, 2024 11:00 AM | Comments Off on There’s a Charlottesville Every Week, and Joe Biden Is Fine With It
Written by Peter Heck
As another so-called “Pride Month” is coming to an end, I’m left marveling again at how thoroughly the sexual revolution has completely and utterly overrun our culture. The three-century-old poem of Alexander Pope strikes our contemporary conscience with piercing familiarity:
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
as to be hated needs but to be seen,
yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
we first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
In the same week that a 13-year-old girl was raped by recently released illegal immigrants, Joe Biden unilaterally and illegally granted amnesty to more illegal immigrants. Republicans have no better issue, timing, or political opportunity to engage in a government funding fight. Why does U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refuse to draw a line on September 30 funding? And why is Trump giving him cover to sell us out?
Biden has flooded the border for more than three years.… Continue Reading
Tags: amnesty, Barack Obama, border control, Border Crisis, border security, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, Donald Trump, illegal immigrants, Joe Biden, Mike Johnson, Rachel Morin, Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | June 26, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Why Won’t Mike Johnson Draw The Line On Illegal Aliens?
Written by Robert Knight
One of the most chilling scenes in the anti-communist 1965 film “Dr. Zhivago” shows the doctor returning to his Moscow home after forced duty in the Red Army.
The Bolsheviks overthrew the czar and took power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917.
As his wife, Tonya, gives him a hug and a silent warning, Yuri looks around and sees dozens of people unrelated to him. What was once the Zhivagos’ home — a large, magnificent house — is now a sordid commune crammed with state-sponsored squatters.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Bidenomics, Bolsheviks, Carolyn Hax, Dr. Zhivago, Michael J. Coren, Riley Gaines, Ten Commandments, The Washington Times, Valerie Richardson, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 25, 2024 4:00 AM | Comments Off on The Left’s War On The American Dream
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
Did you know that the 11 words inscribed on the Liberty Bell, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the Land Unto all the inhabitants thereof,” were written by Moses?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams originally proposed that the Great Seal of the United States include an image of Moses with the motto “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”?
Did you know that when the nine justices of the U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Bruce Feiler, Cicero, Great Seal of the United States, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hobbes, Hume, James Madison, John Adams, Liberty Bell, Locke, Montesquieu, Moses, Plutarch, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, Ten Commandments, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, U.S. Supreme Court
Education, Faith & Religion | David E. Smith | June 24, 2024 5:22 AM | Comments Off on What’s The Big Deal About The Ten Commandments?
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Have you ever wondered what our jails and prisons would look like had the Black Lives Matter rioters of 2020 been given the “January 6 treatment”? Well, it’s hard to envision such a parallel universe. We don’t have enough jail cells to house the tens of thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of individuals who would be languishing in prison for years based on the January 6 standard of justice.… Continue Reading
Tags: Black Lives Matter, Bryce Williams, Cindy Young, Enrique Tarrio, George Floyd, J6 Riots, January 6th Riots, Jonathan Gross, Martin Luther King, Michael Harvey, Montez Terriel Lee Jr., Oscar Stewart, Patrick Schiltz, Proud Boys
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | June 22, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Grandma’s J6 Case Highlights Justice Double Standard