The Anglosphere miracle
By Daniel Hannan: An excerpt from the forthcoming “Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking People Made the Modern World.”
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A nation ‘cannot survive treason from within’
It’s amazing that some still believe human nature is evolving. Read these two from Marcus Tullius Cicero who lived in the first century B.C.: Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who…
Read MoreWhat Conservative Foreign Policy Looks Like
A few from the inbox on foreign policy and history. First up, foreign policy: What Conservative Foreign Policy Looks Like: Neither John McCain nor Rand Paul get it right The Futility of the Afghan…
Read More‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink
Two quotes by Thomas Paine from his pamphlet “Crisis,” which was written and published in 1776. The first quote is the work’s famous opening: “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer…
Read MoreCultural Marxism and the (Very Real) Movement to Normalize Pedophilia
From TheOtherMcCain.com
Read MoreHEY, NANCY BOYS: The Early Church Rebelled Against Oppressive Governments
A big “Amen!” to what Townhall.com’s Doug Giles says here: The Christians of the first century were rebels with a cause. They weren’t the hair-spray-addicted, religious sponges of pop culture and oppressive governments looking…
Read MoreBen Carson on the Decline and Fall of the United States
Here’s retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson from last Friday’s Illinois Family Institute dinner…you can watch his entire speech below: Now it is true that we are the pinnacle nation in the world. Not the first…
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Cold Case Christianity: A homicide detective investigating the Gospels
This is an interesting interview of J. Warner Wallace by John Stonestreet. Here’s the promo: John Stonestreet asks former cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace whether the evidence for Christianity is enough to convince a…
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VIDEO: Malcolm Gladwell on “The unheard story of David and Goliath”
Years ago I enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Tipping Point” and evidently he has a new one coming out and this talk is related to it. I post it here for two reasons. 1)…
Read More‘The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people…’
John Adams is my favorite of the Founding Fathers since reading David McCullough book about him. In fact it was so good I did something I rarely do with a non-fiction book — I…
Read MoreThe Myth of American Isolationism: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Military Affairs in the Early Republic
From the Heritage Foundation: Abstract: America’s founding principles do not call for an isolationist grand strategy, and early U.S. statesmen did not adhere to a non-interventionist foreign policy as they sought to secure the…
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The Left’s Central Delusion
From Thomas Sowell: The political left’s devotion to central planning has endured from the French Revolution to Obamacare. The fundamental problem of the political Left seems to be that the real world does not…
Read MoreHappy Constitution Day!
Here’s the opening of the Wikipedia entry: Constitution Day (or Citizenship Day) is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It…
Read MoreFive Guys Named William, Four Guys Named John, Three Guys Named George and James…
Last year I put this together: “Six guys named George, John, Thomas, William, and…” (The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence). Here’s a list of the names of the men who…
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Deconstructing Putin
An important article from Kim Zigfeld at American Thinker: Writing in the New York Times in 1999, Vladimir Putin argued that Russia could bomb Chechnya regardless of what the rest of the world might…
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