By Bob & Christina Powers Mounting frustrations with the size and scope of the United States federal government have ebbed and flowed over the years with calls for a Constitutional Convention, touted as the solution for controlling an leviathan government. Mark Levin’s current book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic, promises a “quick fix” […]
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Red Line Rhetoric
By Rev. Bill Bathman We live in a dangerous world. Many have asked us, “What do you think about the current crisis in Syria? Should America go to war?” Both Syria and Iran are tweaking Uncle Sam’s nose claiming a pre-mature victory in a war that has not happened yet. They are saying, “The U.S. […]
Remarks concerning the Savages of North America
by Benjamin Franklin Savages we call them, because their Manners differ from ours, which we think the Perfection of Civility. They think the same of theirs. Perhaps if we could examine the Manners of different Nations with Impartiality, we should find no People so rude as to be without Rules of Politeness, nor any so […]
“Never, Never, Never Give In”
Guest Essay by Marshall Foster For two hundred years, one small island nation built the greatest empire since Imperial Rome. Its ships ruled the seas, its colonies covered the world and the sun never set upon the Union Jack. Its empire controlled the gold and diamonds of Africa and the treasures of India. London was […]
Obama Faces Opposition In Africa
The Most Expensive Presidential Visit in History Obama’s visit to South Africa is being described as “the most expensive presidential tour ever!” (The cost to the US taxpayer is over US$100 million. This is not counting the cost to the host governments in Africa either.) Military cargo planes have air lifted in 56 support vehicles, […]
American Classical Education: Biblical and Governmental The “Found’’ Tools of Learning
The “classical Christian” education trend spurred by the essay of a twentieth-century British mystery writer and Christian apologist, Dorothy Sayers, called “The Lost Tools of Learning,” looks back to medieval practices for a classical adaptation for today’s education of tomorrow’s Christian leader. The Principle Approach response to this movement is this: We never lost our […]
America at the Tipping Point
Guest Essay by Marshall Foster As Americans it’s time to dust off our Bibles and rediscover the loving laws of God. As G.K. Chesterton says, “If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the 10,000 Commandments.” In America today as the Ten Commandments have been ignored, the 10,000 […]
What Really Happened on July 4th
During the first days of July in 1776 the Continental Congress was considering one of the most historical events of all time—the declaration by thirteen colonies to become the new nation of the United States of America. On the issue of independence all the colonies were agreed, but a few of the most cautious delegates […]
A Tribute to John Talcott Jr.
John Gardiner Talcott, Jr.(1908-2013)A Tribute by Dr. Paul Jehle,Senior Pastor – The New Testament ChurchExecutive Director – Plymouth Rock Foundation Not too many people in America have experienced and also served in such a wide variety of ways as did John G. Talcott, Jr. John remembered the very first Armistice Day in 1918 which he […]
The Lure of Powerboating
by Ted Kreiter(from The Saturday Evening Post Nov/Dec ’91) The boats get more powerful every year, but the true test remains man against the sea. The Nordskog name has become synonymous with power-boating. Son Gerald publishes Powerboat magazine, while Bob Nordskog continues to race (below) in his Super Vee. Powerboats come in all sizes, and […]
Line Drills
Terrorism | Playing by the terrorists’ rules wastes time, money and energy By Joel Belz Through some clumsy scheduling, I ended up a couple of weeks ago with a three-hour layover in the airport at Buffalo, N.Y. It’s OK, I thought. If the clientele at a typical Walmart can respond thoughtfully to a few man-in-the-street […]
“And I Won’t Forget the Men Who Died”
By Jerry Newcombe On November 21, 1864, President Lincoln wrote to a Mrs. Bixby of Massachusetts, who had lost five sons in the Civil War. He wrote her, “I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But […]
Reconsidering John Locke
John Locke: Philosopher of American Libertyby Mary-Elaine Swanson Reviewed by Lee Duigon John Locke, the philosopher who gave the world the formula of “life, liberty, and property”; adviser to noblemen and to a king; sometime political refugee; hailed as the inspiration for the Declaration of Independence. Was he a Christian, or a deist?Was he really […]
In Memoriam: American Patriots
by Mark Alexander “With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating […]
Memorial Day—from the American Minute
by William J. Federer Southern women scattered spring flowers on the graves of both the Northern and Southern soldiers who died during the Civil War. This was the origin of Memorial Day, which in 1868 was set on MAY 30. In 1968, it was moved to the last Monday in May. From the Spanish-American War, […]