The Passing of Joseph Sobran
A more elegant wielder of the pen than Joe Sobran was always hard to find. After devouring something he had written, most of...
Culture
Archie Comics to Feature Obama and Palin
The writers of the classic Archie Comics series seem to be doing their best to remain contemporary and mainstream. This was clear when...
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Baseball Hero, Ted Williams
Ted Williams had just returned from a hunting trip in Minnesota, about 40 miles north of Minneapolis, when he heard the news that...
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Jefferson, State Sovereignty, and the Constitution
Of George Wythe, his former tutor and mentor, Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than...
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The American Rifleman in the Revolutionary War
“When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor...
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Larry McDonald — An American Hero Remembered
Congressman Lawrence McDonald had served as a medical doctor, an officer in the U.S. Navy, a U.S. Representative from Georgia, and the chairman...
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Hundreds of Thousands Flock to DC for Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally
Glenn Beck’s August 28 Restoring Honor rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial confirmed that oft-used infamous quote from Field of Dreams,...
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ABA Advocates Federal Legalization of Homosexual Marriage
Constitutionalists are expressing their disappointment, and even outrage, over the decision by the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association (ABA) to...
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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 as August 20. Time was dragging on and the...
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Tom Sawyer Had ADHD?
No longer satisfied by with diagnosis of over 5 million children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), believers in the reliability of the diagnosis...
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Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality
The year is 1941, and the Nazis are in the midst of their Lebensborn program. Men of pure Aryan stock — especially members...
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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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Couples That Pray Together, Stay Together
On August 12, the Washington Post reported that couples who share religious practices tend to be happier than those that don’t. That is...
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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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Bishop John B. McCormack to Retire
Today is an important day for New Hampshire Catholics. It is the 75th birthday of Bishop of Manchester John B. McCormack, the former...
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