Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse?
By Timothy Snyder: As we recall the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, sixty-six years ago today, we might ask: who was worse, Hitler or Stalin?
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Founders’ Quotes: On Society
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to…
Read MoreFounders’ Quotes: The reason they protected Religious Liberty in the First Amendment
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1791
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Highly recommended: ‘Liberal Fascism’ by Jonah Goldberg (Part 2)
Read part 1 here. Jonah Goldberg is a senior writer for the National Review magazine, as well as a syndicated columnist—his book “Liberal Fascism” should be on everyone’s must-read list. Glenn Beck has read…
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Highly recommended: ‘Liberal Fascism’ by Jonah Goldberg (Part 1)
Not since Mark Steyn’s America Alone have I read a book that was this important—Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, is highly recommended. Why? Because it sets out the intellectual heritage of the ideology of the modern…
Read MoreYou can’t separate economics from morality (Part 2)
Arthur C. Brooks’ new book “The Battle” divides the two main aspects of the “culture war” into new and old, the economic and the social. Brooks seems to prefer that the culture war concentrate on economics and ignore the “old” battle over abortion and so-called homosexual rights.
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The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Read MoreFounders Fridays: It’s Mitch Daniels v. The Founders
If you’re not watching Glenn Beck’s TV show on Fox News you need to start. Beck continues to do the work much of the big media refuses to when it comes to outlining the relationships and policy aims of the Obama Administration.
Another fantastic weekly contribution from Beck is his “Founders Fridays,” where he dedicates the hour to covering information that you need to know about members of our country’s founding generation.
Read MoreThe unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the…
Read MoreA conversation with a twenty-something American (Part 2)
A smart and successful young person recently challenged some of my writing in an email. Part 1 is here. To continue, her email went on to say the following about her aversion to party politics:
“I can’t speak for others but I have two major reasons for not wanting to get involved in established political organizations. One is that they are either too large or too incestuous to get anything done. And second, those individuals that I’ve seen enter with great messages and great intentions wind up getting spit out a polished but limp version of what they entered as.
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Citizens in Name Only
President Barack Obama said this in his inaugural address:
“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility – a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”
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Armistice Day and Echoes of History
Recently I watched an old black and white movie – the title escapes me – that opens with a World War I aerial dogfight where one of the pilots keeps checking his watch to see if the war was over yet. In the opening minutes of the film a couple of planes get shot down, men are killed, and then the hour arrives and they cease firing. The combatants salute each other and fly their separate ways.
The events portrayed fictionalize what actually took place ninety years ago today.
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America’s deadliest battle began ninety years ago today
One huge example of the failings of our public school system is seen when you ask most Americans to tell you what they know about important events in our history such as the Meuse-Argonne battle.
The Meuse-what?
Read MoreHard times: A review of ‘Austerity Britain, 1945-1951’ by David Kynaston
By John Gross: Britain emerged from the Second World War victorious but badly bruised.
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Independence Day and the Meuse-Argonne Battle
Historian John Keegan writes that on July 4, 1917, elements of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) paraded in Paris. A year later some of those men were to fight and die in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the biggest and most costly military campaign in America’s 232 year history. Sadly, too few people have even heard of it.
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