Written by Thomas Hampson
John Adams’s test of character, the Pritzker story J.B. tells, and the history the polished biographies leave out
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams, October 11, 1798 [1]
John Adams was not advocating a religious test for office. He was arguing that in self-government, our constitution—our laws—cannot replace character. In the same letter, Adams warned that avarice, ambition, revenge, and other passions, if unrestrained by morality and religion, could break even the strongest constitutional restraints.… Continue Reading
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Crime Culture, IFA News, Illinois Politics, Political | Alyssa Sonnenburg | 
August 18, 2026 5:00 AM | 
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Written by Robert Knight
President Biden said during July’s heat wave that “extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States.”
Mr. Biden is “wrong by a factor of 25,” wrote Bjorn Lomborg, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, in The Wall Street Journal. “While extreme heat kills nearly 6,000 Americans each year, cold kills 152,000, of which 12,000 die from extreme cold.”
Mr. Lomborg noted that heat-related deaths have declined for decades in the United States and around the world because prosperity has allowed more people to afford air conditioning and other technology.… Continue Reading
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Climate Change, Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | August 5, 2024 7:02 AM | Comments Off on Numbers Don’t Lie, Except When Democrats Report Them
Written by Micah Clark
There is a perception that Chicago was a war zone during the time of Al Capone and alcohol prohibition. Not long ago, I watched a Jimmy Stewart movie based upon a true story of a person falsely convicted of killing a police officer in 1932. The 1948 movie began with an attempt to shock the audience by reminding them of that “most violent year in Chicago history” in which one person died from a gunshot each day of the year.… Continue Reading
