Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays were remembered because of their unparalleled contributions to the nation.  But now Presidents’ Day itself has become the melting pot of America’s presidents.

Consider these twelve insights concerning life from our sixteenth president’s sojourn on earth.  These are but a few that I have selected as they have made a fruitful impact on my life.

Recently, our President, Dr. Lillback, had the opportunity to encourage and equip our nation’s military personnel at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The War College is the Army’s premier professional military education institution focused on the study of national strategy, national security, strategic operations and strategic leadership. Graduates of the one year […]

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 […]