Johannes Kepler: Father of Celestial Mechanics
December 27 marks the birthday of the Father of Celestial Mechanics, Johannes Kepler. Born in 1571, he went on to become one of...
History
They Still Hate Senator McCarthy
The Southern Poverty Legal Center, which might be interested in innocent Americans enduring state-sponsored...
Dec. 15: Anniversary of Our Bill of Rights
On June 8, 1789 James Madison, the congressman representing Virginia’s 5th District, rose to...
Papers Reveal Evolution of Term “Military-Industrial Complex”
Papers released to the public on December 10 by the Eisenhower Presidential Library appear...
Pearl Harbor Was No Surprise
True history is not served if all that is remembered about December 7 is...
John Finn: Last of Pearl’s Medal of Honor Heroes
John William Finn was an amazing man. He passed away earlier this year just...
Who Funded the Mayflower?
Richard Maybury’s “The Great Thanksgiving Hoax,” first published in 1999 summarized the sanitized version...
Benson Letter Backed Welch Against “Ike”
It should surprise no one that someone who had served in the Eisenhower administration...
C.S. Lewis: Overshadowed but Not Outdone
One of the many stories that grew out of John F. Kennedy’s aborted term...
James Madison: Taking Back the Liberal Label
Long ago scholars identified the arches and loops of John Locke’s fingerprints on the...
Halloween Came Early in ’64 Campaign
Is it merely a coincidence that Election Day comes so soon after Halloween? The...
Bipartisan Warfare State
During the 1976 vice presidential debate between Senators Robert Dole, Republican of Kansas, and...
Time to Fire the Contractors and Return to the Blueprint
As a requirement of modern life, we contract others to do things for us...
America’s Inflation and Hyperinflation
With the reckless activities of the Federal Reserve and the United States Treasury over...
Baseball Hero, Ted Williams
Ted Williams had just returned from a hunting trip in Minnesota, about 40 miles...
Jefferson, State Sovereignty, and the Constitution
Of George Wythe, his former tutor and mentor, Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “No man...
The American Rifleman in the Revolutionary War
“When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament...
Larry McDonald — An American Hero Remembered
Congressman Lawrence McDonald had served as a medical doctor, an officer in the U.S....
Necessary and Proper and Treasonous: All in a Day’s Work
Few days over the course of the summer of 1787 were as historically relevant...