Four Chaplains gave their life jackets to rescue others. But, they’ve given them to us too.

While Marx recognized that socialism is a milder form of communism, clearly not every socialist or every statist ideology holds to the more radical tenets of communism.

The tragedy of slavery hangs over the American story like an overcast sky.  It’s unimaginable now that a whole class of people were once denied personhood and stripped of foundational human rights.  But then again, maybe not.  There is another whole class of people who are denied personhood and stripped of more than foundational human […]

The national remembrance of the great civil rights activist the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. occurs on the third Monday of each January in the USA.  If the African-American orator/activist were still living, this January 15th would mark his 89th birthday.  April 4th will mark the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination (April 4, 1968). […]

There’s an irony in America’s history over taxation.  Laurence J. Peter wrote:  “America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”  The Sons of Liberty resisted the Stamp Act in 1765 with the protest, “No taxation without representation!”  Yet many taxpayers around April 15th grumble, “Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.” […]

Too Cold For Angels to Fly? The burning cold of Arctic air has enveloped America with shivering blasts of howling winds.  An early winter has blanketed much of the US.  It’s been so cold that skiers have gone to the slopes only to sit by a fire and look at the snow rather than risk […]

As we have done often in the past, we are pleased to highlight George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789. May Washington’s words remind us all of the great and many blessings that God, is His all knowing and wise Providence, has bestowed upon our nation.  [New York, 3 October 1789] By the President of the […]

One who read it said that Lee’s prominence was actually a sham as he was really the cult figure of later southern racists.  They sought to use him to justify Jim Crow laws by celebrating the nobility of the “lost cause” of the Confederacy.  As I reflected, if such were so, then I would question the wisdom of the Lee statues.

The politically correct interpretation of the West has gained ascendancy and in its hegemony, it has decreed that the indigenous peoples of the “new world” be given their due respect at the expense of the great discoverer.  

Today the very concept of unity is in question as we see our nation polarizing over the plethora of issues we face. The national debate that has developed over the standing for the National Anthem at sporting events has highlighted this fact all too well.