Man’s Upward Reach
Religion, said Bertrand Russell, is “a disease born of fear and a source of untold misery to the human race.” Russell’s opinion has...
Culture
A Beacon in the Night
It is easy to see why the enchanting paintings of Thomas Kinkade have captivated millions of admirers worldwide. On his canvases, alluring scenes...
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The Gift of Giving
The illustrious Christian writer C.S. Lewis could be unequivocally grumpy about certain contemporary Christmas customs, if we judge from his essays on the...
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The Hope of the World
As I see it, the beginning of the United States of America was the most dramatic and significant episode in a long pilgrimage...
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Bretton Woods
While WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal,...
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Faith Triumphs Over Persecution
The simple and enduring faith of Christians has proven unconquerable despite the persecutions from ancient Rome to modern-day Iraq. ...
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The War on Christmas
Because "public life" now entails virtually every part of our lives, erasing references to God entirely from public life means virtually eliminating them...
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Planned Parenthood Offers Gift Certificates for Exams – and Abortions
While many major retailers like Home Depot, Lowe's, and Wal-Mart grapple with today's politically correct pressure in deciding whether to advertise using the...
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Pearl Harbor: Motives Behind the Betrayal
There are several interpretations of the facts surrounding Pearl Harbor. The first, as expressed by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the film Pearl Harbor,...
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Pearl Harbor: Scapegoating Kimmel and Short
Pearl Harbor's secrets had been successfully preserved before the fact — but what about after? People around the nation, including some vocal congressmen,...
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Free-market Thinkers
With bailouts and other unabashed socialist projects being embraced by both political parties to "save our economy," has free-market economics been proved faulty?...
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The Pilgrims Weren’t Socialists
When next you sing the Hymn of Harvest Home, think kindly of our Pilgrim Fathers, for they were not "communists with a small...
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Update on the FLDS Child Kidnapping
You may remember the spectacle of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) authorities removing 468 children from a west Texas religious...
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Remembering Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine
"Holodomor" is Ukrainian for "death by hunger." During 1932 and1933, between seven and 10 million Ukrainians were murdered through a brutal campaign of...
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The Hard Truth of Hard Money
In our Republic's youth, presidential candidates openly debated central banking, and Andrew Jackson even won election as a "hard-money" advocate. Today's economic crisis...
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