Opinion

Topic: America at 250. America will soon be celebrating our 250th anniversary as a nation. Noted columnist Don Feder, who writes regularly for the Washington Times, wrote an article recently on why the whole world—not just America—should celebrate this birthday. Feder notes: “God is an integral part of the American identity. To ask what England […]

Topic: Contrast Between the US and the USSR. NYC Mayor Zohran Mandami said in his inauguration address that we need to reject the “frigidity of rugged individualism” and instead embrace the “warmth of collectivism.” Well, communism has a track record, and it’s not good. Dr. Gregory P. Seltz, the executive director of the Lutheran Center […]

Topic: The Need for Reform in Education. Education was very important to the founding fathers. They even wrote up the Northwest Ordinance and passed it in 1789. There’s a section in there about education. It reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary for good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of […]

Topic: Somali Medicaid Fraud. In the Constitution, the founders were very careful to divide power so that no one person or small group could abuse power. Theoretically, Minnesota is still under the U.S. Constitution. So what went wrong when it comes to the recently-exposed Somali daycare scandal, where billions of dollars were spent on social […]

Topic: Names of God and America’s Founding. When the founding fathers of America spoke about God, they often used words like, Providence, the Great Governor of the Universe, the Invisible Hand, and so on. Were these just fancy words for the God of the Bible? Or are they references to more of a god acceptable […]