This Day in the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Thursday, August 16, 1787. The State House in Philadelphia was hot, hot, hot. The delegates gathered to “form a more perfect union” were...
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Real or Imagined? A Critical Review of the SPLC’s List of Conspiracies
The indefatigable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whose professed aim is "fighting hate and bigotry," and "tracking and exposing the activities of hate...
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The Ancien Régime and Obama — The More Things Change …
The Telegraph’s Nile Gardner, a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst for the British newspaper, has compared the Obama Administration to the ancien régime of...
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Sir Thomas More: God’s Servant First
There is, if you will, an arresting scene in A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s magnificent play about Sir Thomas More. The...
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University of Virginia Digitizes Papers of James Madison
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia announced last week that the university’s collection of the papers of James Madison are being digitized...
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James Madison and Limited Government
Famed Roman orator, the silver-tongued Cicero, once noted, "It is valuable to look to the words of our Founders, but it is more...
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Railroads, Robber Barons, and Unbridled Capitalism
When Matthew Josephson wrote The Robber Barons in 1934, he tipped his hand as to his personal prejudice against the capitalists of the...
Read moreDeporting Illegal Immigrants
Pardon me, but if I hear one more time that we can’t deport 12 million illegal aliens I’m headed for the backyard to...
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Glenn Beck: History Vindicated Joe McCarthy
Fox News host Glenn Beck aired an extraordinary program June 24 explaining how the facts released from the files of the FBI and...
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Kent State and the Perfect Coup
In May 1970, news was made at Ohio's Kent State University when campus police and the National Guard attempted to wrest control from...
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Where Else But Armenia? World’s Oldest Leather Shoe Found
In the country of Mt. Ararat, where the Bible says Noah’s Ark rested when the Great Flood subsided, there now is news of...
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Mithraic Mysteries and the Cult of Empire
The proud Roman general stood with his commanders and retinue as the wild hillsmen, dressed in the ragged but still-flamboyant clothes of corsairs,...
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Amtrak and the Railroads
Amtrak and its lobbyists at the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) recently invited us to commemorate the third annual National Train Day...
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Fear & Fatal Power During the Time of Pompey
Since the days when Mark Antony’s grandfather patrolled the coasts of the Mediterranean searching for the distinctive gilded-stemmed masts of their lightweight vessels,...
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All for Naught: The Battle of Peleliu
Studs Terkel called World War II the “good war.” If any war could be called good, then the Second World War is at...
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