Written by Daniel Horowitz
No, we are not celebrating Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, or Millard Fillmore this week. We are supposed to be celebrating George Washington. In other words, we are not celebrating the majestic power of the chief executive of the United States government in the abstract, but the humble leadership of one man who, until recently, successfully set the precedent of the presidency being wielded as an office of limited power rather than the power of a king.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Barack Obama, Benjamin West, Calvin Coolidge, COVID–19, Federalist #69, Federalist #70, George Washington, James Wilson, Joe Biden, Millard Fillmore, Presidents' Day, Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Whiskey Rebellion, Woodrow Wilson
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
February 17, 2021 5:34 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing.
Not even Honest Abe is safe.
In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid the school system of now-disgraced public figures at 44 sites says that a high school named after Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and held America together through the Civil War, ought to drop the Great Emancipator.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, Abraham Lincoln, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Asbury United Methodist Church, Black Lives Matter, Cultural Marxism, Dan Snyder, Dianne Feinstein, Francis Scott Key, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Floyd, George Washington, James Garfield, James Monroe, John Muir, Junipero Serra, National Football League, Paul Revere, Proud Boys, Teddy Roosevelt, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Redskins, William H. Lamar IV, William McKinley
Education, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
December 21, 2020 7:00 AM |
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Written by Dr. Jerry Newcomb
Last week we celebrated Thanksgiving, but is this holiday becoming so politically incorrect that one day it will be doomed to be sent down the “memory hole”?
There is a war on American history. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Antifa and other leftwing groups toppled more historical statues. Tyler O’Neil of PJ Media (11/28/20) describes the extent of this vandalism, which included the spray-painting of anti-Thanksgiving messages and statues torn down in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and Spokane.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Antifa, Billy Falling, Black Lives Matter, Frederick Douglas, George Orwell, George Washington, Golda Meir, Marxism, My Cherokee Roots, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, Thomas Jefferson, Tyler O’Neil, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
December 4, 2020 7:05 AM |
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Written by Walter E. Williams
There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant’s first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet government erased figures from Soviet history by renaming cities — such as the Imperial capital of St.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page, Cleveland Indians, Elihu Yale, George Mason University, George Washington, History, ISIS, Joseph Stalin, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Yankee, Taliban, Thomas Jefferson, Walter E. Williams, Woodrow Wilson
Education | David E. Smith |
August 5, 2020 5:00 AM |
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Written by Dr. Paul Kengor
Last weekend I overheard two recent grads (both musicians) discussing America’s greatest composers. The usual names were raised: Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein, Sousa … Foster.
“Who?” said one.
“Stephen Foster,” replied the other.
Only one knew who Foster was, and neither knew he was from Pittsburgh. Both, ironically, recently spent a lot of time in Oakland, where the Stephen Foster statue once stood outside the Carnegie.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, Bernstein, Columbus, Copland, Dr. Paul Kengor, Flinn, Foster, George Washington, Gershwin, Giuseppe Moretti, Highland Park, John F. Kennedy, KKK, Lenin, Lincoln, Margaret Sanger, Oh! Susannah!, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Sousa, St. Junipero Serra, statues, Stonewall Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, the Confederacy, Ulysses S. Grant
Faith & Religion, Federal Issues | Benjamin D. Smith |
July 18, 2020 4:00 AM |
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Written by Tad Armstrong
This op-ed will be hard-hitting. It’s time to tell the unvarnished truth. It is lengthy because I cannot shorten what needs to be said. If you care about Constitutional freedom, you will take the time. If your goal is to take America down the path of socialism, perhaps you might be interested in reading this in order to to better understand your adversary.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amos Humiston, Andrew Cuomo, Anthony Fauci, Bill Maher, D-Day, Donald J. Trump, George Washington, Gettysburg, Iwo Jima, Joe Biden, Mark H. Dunkelman, Mike Pence, Pearl Harbor, Ronald Reagan, SCOTUS, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, WW2
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
May 21, 2020 9:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
Democrats can’t seem to figure out whether they want to use the government to drive Christianity underground or just replace the biblical version with fake Christianity.
These aren’t mutually exclusive goals; either one brings America closer to a secular, socialist state whose unofficial religion is atheism.
Democratic presidential contenders like former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: British Common Law, Cory Booker, Declaration of Independence, Drag Queen Story Hour, Elizabeth Warren, George Washington, Glenn Stanton, Joe Biden, John Adams, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, William Blackstone
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith |
September 5, 2019 6:00 AM |
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Written by Joshua Charles
The Founding Fathers believed one thing was absolutely essential to a free society: virtue. Sometimes the term they used was “self-government.”
What did it mean? Informed by thousands of years of philosophy and theology, first with Greeks like Aristotle, and later by Christian theologians such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, the Founders understood “virtue” to be behavior (more specifically, habits) in accordance with the good—which both Aristotle and Aquinas, among others, defined as behaving according to “right reason.”… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
All things in life, even good things, have a limit to their utility and a point at which they become liabilities. Think of tasty spices in a dish or other ingredients in a melting pot. Quantities count, particularly over a specific period of time. Immigration is no different.
Recent Census data released from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) shows that immigration has grown to shocking, wholly unprecedented levels.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Community Survey, balkanization, Democrat Party, George Washington, Harry Reid, immigration, Maldwyn Allen Jones, naturalization, The Great Wave
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith |
September 26, 2018 9:00 AM |
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Written by Michael Curtis
By Jove, by Jing, by George is the thing! Can we say it isn’t so? We thought we knew Washington. As the proverb says, a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. It’s taken some time for the truth to be revealed, though no doubt a special counsel searching for less in good names would have taken even longer to find out whether, among other things, the father of the United States was in collusion with the Russians. … Continue Reading