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Lincoln, Obama, and Us

America Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison A very significant date, March 4, 2013, has passed virtually without notice. It was on that date that President Obama’s tenure exceeded that of Abraham Lincoln. We can all give thanks to God, of course, that Mr. Obama’s term in office has not been cut short, as Lincoln’s was, by […]

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Benjamin Franklin’s 2 Questions Still Stand

In 1787, when delegates at the Constitutional Convention were divided and at an impasse regarding how to build our government and frame the U.S. Constitution, 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin appealed to the other delegates to pray for divine intervention to help them out of their darkness: “In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were […]

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The 10 Worst Bombings in US History

Explosion By John Hawkins We still don’t have all the facts about yesterday’s horrific Boston Marathon bombing. At the time this column is being written, it’s being reported that 3 people died and more than 100 were injured in the attack. If those numbers hold, which is far from a given because of the wildly inaccurate […]

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Born On This Day: Thomas Jefferson

Blog Future President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s preeminent political theorist, is born on this day in 1743. Historian and biographer Joseph Ellis has called Jefferson, who had a monumental role in shaping American politics, the American sphinx for his enigmatic character. Since his terms in office, presidents and politicians […]

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Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87

LONDON (AP) — Love her or loathe her, one thing’s beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. The Iron Lady who ruled for 11 remarkable years imposed her will on a fractious, rundown nation — breaking the unions, triumphing in a far-off war, and selling off state industries at a record pace. She left behind a […]

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Combating Cultural Totalitarianism

Ggs By Bruce Walker Totalitarianism is usually associated with an omnipresent state which enchains the individual with iron manacles of edicts, orders, and regulations.  The voracious appetite of government and its eager use of coercive power make citizens into slaves whose lives are the property of those who rule rather than serve the people. This is […]

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The Sky Is Crying: John Adams Repents

President_John_Adams By John Kirkwood YESTERDAY, ALL MY TROUBLES SEEMED SO FAR AWAY Remember when America was more Mayberry than Babylon, more Norman Rockwell than Robert Mapplethorpe? Remember what it was like to wake up and not think that your own government was the biggest threat to your freedom and your future? Remember what it was like […]

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Zombies vs. Jesus – The Walking Dead

Bill O’Reilly On Easter Sunday evening, a TV show about good and evil aired on the History Channel — the final installment of “The Bible” miniseries in which Jesus is executed. AMC ran the season-ending episode of “The Walking Dead” — the series where zombies try to eat the brains of human beings. One footnote: […]

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When Men Forsake God, Tyranny Always Follows

Hw By Chris Banescu The prophetic words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn resonate like thunder across the history of man.  “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”  Thus summarized the Nobel laureate, Orthodox Christian author, and Russian dissident the main reason why the communist revolution was able to enslave, terrorize, and murder tens of millions […]

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