Opinion

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 […]

Topic: Dating First Christ’s Coming to Our World. The coming of Jesus Christ into our world was so significant that it divided time into two—Before Christ and AD (Anno Domini) in the Year of our Lord, which by the way is how the Constitution is dated, in the year of our Lord 1787. Of course, […]

Topic: Anti-Semitism Today. George Washington’s favorite Bible verse was Micah 4:4, which talks about how every man shall be able to rest under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. To the father of our country, this verse from the Old Testament was a picture of what […]