Why has America, among all the world’s nations, always been so prosperous? Lots of reasons. But, according to a new book, it begins with our rivers. (more…)
Why has America, among all the world’s nations, always been so prosperous? Lots of reasons. But, according to a new book, it begins with our rivers. (more…)
“For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perch’d on some dead Tree near the
Thanksgiving Proclamation Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789 By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. (more…)
Very often, in the early days of our nation, Congress would call for a day of “fasting, humiliation, and prayer.” (Google the phrase and compare the resolutions from the Continental Congress through Lincoln.) This was the kind of resolution that led to the holiday of
Back in August, a police officer shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. According to media accounts, the teenager was unarmed and shot from a distance, suggesting an egregious case of police brutality. That’s what it seemed like even to conservatives like Rand Paul and
Some people don’t have sexual desires. The Bible describes that as a gift of God (Matthew 19:11-12; 1 Corinthians 7). Today it’s being called a”sexual orientation,” an identity. There is now an “asexual community,” whose members call themselves “Aces.” (more…)
Evangelicals, Pentecostalists, and even Mormons took part in a recent Vatican conference on marriage, which was hosted by Pope Francis. Southern Baptist social ministries spokesman Russell Moore was an invited speaker. So was megachurch pastor Rick Warren, who was said to have turned the Roman
Does this message from an estranged husband to his wife after she filed a restraining order against him sound like a threat to you? “Fold up your PFA [protection-from-abuse order] and put it in your pocket. Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?” Does
Former Virginia senator Jim Webb has formed an exploratory committee for a run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Webb, a much-decorated Marine in Vietnam, was President Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy. He later turned Democrat, but he has been very much a maverick. A die-hard
Progressive education, which tries to reduce everything to a narrow academic specialty, thinks “liberal arts” means “humanities.” But in reality, the classical liberal arts refers to a whole approach to education– one that is broad rather than narrow, connected rather than fragmented, open to the
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