237 Years Ago Patrick Henry Said: “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.”
Lord Byron called him the “Forest-born Demosthenes.” Others called him the “Lion of Liberty.” Whatever the title, Patrick Henry (left) was never one...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Madison!
Today, March 16, is the 261st anniversary of the birth of the “Father of...
Bicenntenial of Luddite Lawlessness
Is technology and industry good or bad? There is no moral answer to the...
Mitt brennender Sorge: 75th Anniversary of Encyclical Criticizing Nazism
Christianity has proven time and again to be the most resilient force against totalitarianism....
The 150th Anniversary of American Ironclads Colliding
The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history, made all...
40 Years After the Infamous Shanghai Communiqué
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the infamous Shanghai Communiqué, the joint diplomatic agreement...
Treason: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, and the Constitution
Sunday, February 19, is the 205th anniversary of the arrest of the former hero...
Dresden, Hiroshima, and Soviet Machinations
The anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945...
Fifty Years After the Algerian War of Independence
Algeria — just west of Libya in northwest Africa — has been part of...
The 66th Anniversary of Tito’s Yugoslavia
The nation of Yugoslavia was a creature of the Versailles Treaty, first cobbled together...
Recalling the Moscow Show Trials
Seventy-five years ago, on January 25, 1937, the terror known generally as the Moscow...
Alger Hiss Conviction Highlighted Communist Subversion of U.S. Gov’t
The Soviet Union since its earliest days described the United States as the “main...
1982’s “Cold Sunday” and Global Warming
Thirty years ago, on January 17, 1982, America experienced the famous “Cold Sunday,” when...
Crazy Horse Memorial: A Tale of Two Stories Told in Stone
The Black Hills of South Dakota have long been associated with the four U.S....
Recalling the Failure of Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”
On January 8, 1918, less than one year after the United States had declared...
A Century of “Bolshevism”
Communism, for a long time, was simply “Bolshevism” in the western world. The Russian...
Mainland China’s Last 100 Years: Free Republic to Communist Tyranny
There is little doubt that the nation of China has enormous potential and that...
“The Economist” Rewrites History
In last Saturday’s print edition of The Economist magazine (left), staff writers attempted to...
Bill of Rights Day: a Day of Celebration or of Mourning?
The Cato Institute’s newspaper ad reminding citizens that December 15th was Bill of Rights Day summarized...
Faith of the Founding Fathers
Since the early days of this Republic, various of our Founding Fathers were accused...
