A Review of “Spanish Texas, 1519-1821”
In an age of American culture wars against the particularities of the various regions of these United States, many citizens act as if such regional differences which remain are almost an...
Book Reviews
Review of Sowell’s “Dismantling America”
Leading economist and writer Thomas Sowell has a talent for simplifying difficult concepts and applying common sense when analyzing the issues plaguing America today. Nothing exemplifies this talent more than Sowell’s...
A Global-warming Primer
Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, by Brian Sussman, Washington, D.C.: World Net Daily, 2010, 224 pages, hardcover.Gideons International should obtain rights to this title and place a...
A Review of Spencer’s “Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran”
For years, Robert Spencer has endured insults and death threats because of his endeavors as director of Jihad Watch. If one tells the truth about Islam, one is at risk of...
A Review of Jones’ “New Heroes in Antiquity”
“What does it take to make a hero?” For anyone paying even scant attention to the lavish manner in which the media awards such designations, the modern reply might be, “Apparently...
Preserving the Past for the Present
In a day when the limited constitutional government our Founders bequeathed to us has been disfigured almost beyond recognition, when the principles of liberty that animated our forefathers have been abandoned...
Review of “Pursuing Liberty”
Authors Cory Emberson and Rick Lindstrom believe that Americans have taken their freedoms for granted. Because of this, they sought out “Americans by choice,” legal immigrants who came to the United...
William Hogeland’s Declaration: A Review
A reader unfamiliar with the history of the complex admixture of conflict, compromises, condescension, and coercion that led to the “shot heard ‘round the world” would be forgiven if after reading...
Bringing America Home
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. ...
Book Review: “Why We’re All Romans”
When it comes to the totality of our lives, Americans (and all Westerners) are culturally Hebrew, Greek, and Roman. We owe our intellectual inheritance to Athens, our religious attitude to Jerusalem,...
Book Reveals Neo-Con Influence in GOP
Tom Pauken, a lawyer and conservative political activist hailing from Texas, wrote Bringing Home America: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back for the stated...
Beck’s “The Overton Window” — A Powerful Political Thriller
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit...
A Brilliant Exposition on the Effectiveness of Nullification
Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing Inc., 2010, 309 pages, hardcover. ...
The Best Introduction to Economics in Print
If this writer were to claim that Peter and Andrew Schiff have created the master work of introducing basic Austrian economics that could be clearly understood by anyone of middle-school age...
Review: Jack Rakove’s Revolutionaries
Jack Rakove knows how to stoke the fires of amateur historians. In the “Founders Lit” genre of popular non-fiction, Rakove is one of the elite. Rakove won the Pulitzer Prize in...