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Critics of White House renovations also hated Jefferson’s colonnades and Truman’s balcony. By The Editorial Board – Oct. 23, 2025 12:00 pm ET – Wall Street Journal President Donald Trump holds a mockup of the White House ballroom in the Oval Office … Continue reading Trump’s Big, Beautiful Ballroom
Above image: President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in April 2025.Saul Loeb/AFP Via Getty Images History Our first president, George Washington, selected the site for the White House … Continue reading A History of the White House
President Donald J. Trump – The White House – whitehouse.gov 1754-1763 French & Indian War Despite its misleading name, this conflict (also known as the Seven Years’ War) was a war between the French and the British, from 1754 to … Continue reading Road to Revolution: A Timeline
Books Reviewed by Ian Ona Johnson – Claremont Review of Books – Fall 2024 (I am a subscriber to Claremont) My cmnt: This review goes into the three strands of intellectual/philosophical thinking that led to communist doctrine and beliefs. In the … Continue reading Hammer and Sickle
By Charles Hurt – The Washington Times – Thursday, August 22, 2024 OPINION: CHICAGO — Welcome to the matriarchy. In the epic battle between Mars and Venus, insanity has won. And the Cat Ladies have taken over the Democrat Party. The free vasectomy campaign here at … Continue reading The Crying Game convention: Childless Cat Lady vibes vs. A Man’s Man’s World
Mark Lewis | Mar 03, 2024 | Townhall.com “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” Democracy (republicanism) is actually very rare in history; frankly, it still is in many places in the world. And even previous … Continue reading Self-Evident? Self-Evident to Whom?–Part One
Mark Lewis | Mar 06, 2024 – Townhall.com We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” Pure and simple, the Left today—the Democratic Party in America and every other Leftist organization on this earth—is trying to overturn … Continue reading Self-Evident? Self-Evident to Whom? Part Two
By Katherine Hamilton – 15 Jul 2024 – Breitbart Democrats and left-wing media have lied to the American people about former President Donald Trump, model and actress Amber Rose proclaimed during her speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday … Continue reading Model Amber Rose at RNC: ‘Media Has Lied to Us About Donald Trump’
By Amy Furr – 28 Jun 2024 – Breitbart My cmnt: This is such a no-brainer. Of course the Bible s/b taught in all of the nation’s public schools – as it once was. My own father said, matter of … Continue reading ‘A Cornerstone of Western Civilization’: Oklahoma Requires Schools to Teach the Bible in Classrooms
Robert George5-Minute Videos – Nov 29, 2021 – Prager U Was America founded to be a secular nation? In other words, does religion have no role in American politics or public policy-making? The answer is more complex than you might think. Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explains. (This video was made possible through our partnership with Dallas Baptist University.) It has become a dogma of progressive ideology that America is a “secular” nation. What do people mean by secular? Their argument goes this way: “Since the Constitution establishes a strict separation of church and state, religion has … Continue reading Is America’s Government Secular?
Robert George 5-Minute Videos – Oct 04, 2021 – Prager U If you ask Americans to name their country’s form of government, most of them will say they live in a democracy. However, the real answer is more complicated (and … Continue reading The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic
Robert George5-Minute Videos – Jul 18, 2022 – Prager U Winning the War of Independence brought a new challenge to the American people: what sort of government should they choose for their new nation? Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explores the problems the founders faced at this pivotal moment in history. Against all odds, the Americans won their War of Independence. But their success brought a new challenge—no less daunting. What sort of government should they choose for themselves? How could they ensure that the tyranny of the English king George III would not be replaced by … Continue reading The Constitution: Why a Republic?
Celebrating the resilience, creativity, and contribution of the nation’s African founders. by Diana Schaub – Spring 2023 – Claremont Review of Books Who founded the United States? Although Americans give special accolades to a few indispensable individuals, we clearly have no single founder—no one like Lycurgus, who gave Sparta its laws and way of life. Instead, we have founders—plural—and often refer to the founding generation or the founding era. This difference between the ancient lawgiver and the modern phenomenon of elected representatives acting on behalf of the people is remarked on by Publius (himself the plural creation of James Madison, … Continue reading African Founders: How Enslaved People expanded American ideals
My cmnt: These were conveniently assembled on the website BallotPedia My cmnt: Notice how each and everyone first acknowledges Almighty God (or some derivation of the same) as the grantor and originator of all of our freedoms, rights and privileges. My cmnt: Almost all of them are immediately followed by a Bill of Rights which begin with a statement of the purpose of government being primarily to secure these rights and to protect their property. Here is Nebraska’s as a typical example: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKAOF 1875,AND SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTSPreamble.We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom,do … Continue reading The Preambles to the various State Constitutions
America’s spark and tinder still exist. by Mark Helprin – Summer 2023 – The Claremont Review of Books My cmnt: Here is a proposal to renew a sense of America’s unique and invaluable position in the world as a bastion of truth, justice and freedom and a method for getting this idea in written form into the hands of the next generation as the current one is probably largely lost to the great concepts upon which America was founded. As America fattens with material successes and weakens with self-serving and delusional resentments, it is removed from many of the challenges … Continue reading An Immodest Proposal
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Republics always decay into democracies and then dictatorships “You misunderstand me, Priscus. I know that it was inevitable that Rome become what she is. Republics decay into democracies, and democracies degenerate into dictatorships. That fact is immutable. Where there is equality – and democracies always bring equality – the people become faceless, they lose power and initiative, they lose pride and independence, they lose their splendor. Republics are masculine, and so they beget the sciences and the arts; they are prideful, heroic and virile. They emphasize God, and glorify Him. But Rome has decayed into a confused democracy, and has … Continue reading Democrats always cry, “Our democracy”, when we are actually a Constitutional Republic
By REBECCA MANSOUR – 4 Jul 2023 – for Breitbart.news So many Americans today believe that our political differences have become so intractable and our discourse so toxic that our very democracy is at risk. What they fail to realize is that our political differences have always seemed insurmountable, and our democracy was never easy. The story of the birth of our nation by Declaration in July of 1776 is a story of disagreements, debates, compromises, and moral courage. It’s a story of a group of rebellious Englishmen who—despite their many differences—could agree on one thing: they wanted to live … Continue reading Mansour: The Spirit of 1776—How 13 Rebellious Colonies Declared Their Independence
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty … Continue reading Democracies always die a fiscal death
12min Team | Posted on May 31, 2019 – a quick review from the 12min/blog About Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro is an American lawyer, author, and conservative political commentator. He became a nationally syndicated columnist as a teenager—the youngest in the history of the United States. Editor-in-chief for The Daily News and editor-at-large of Breitbart News (2012—2016), Shapiro is also known as the host of The Ben Shapiro Show. He has so far written ten books. How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great The West is special. Want to learn why? Ben Shapiro explains in: The Right Side … Continue reading The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro: a Summary
John Locke’s political philosophy constitutes the bedrock of American republicanism. by David Azerrad – Winter 2022/23 – Claremont Review of Books John Locke’s influence on the American Founding is so overwhelming and obvious that only an academic could deny it. Not only did Thomas Jefferson lift two turns of phrase from the Second Treatise of Government when drafting the Declaration of Independence—the “long train of abuses” and the fact that men are “more disposed to suffer”—but Locke’s teaching on human equality, natural rights, government by consent, religious liberty, and the right to revolution constitute the bedrock of American republicanism, at both the national … Continue reading Locked Out
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When government presumes to reshape society, the result is likely to be gory. by Myron Magnet – Fall 2020 – Claremont Review of Books books reviewed Great Society: A New History Reparations for slavery, you say? Well, we tried that experiment, in the $20-plus trillion spent on welfare, Medicaid, housing, and food stamps for the mostly minority poor since Lyndon Johnson declared his War on Poverty in 1964. As Amity Shlaes shows in her cautionary Great Society: A New History, those trillions only made matters worse. As the clamor swells to compound LBJ’s mistake, Shlaes provides a sobering postmortem, dissecting how and why, when government … Continue reading Poverty Won
Grade/Age: 9th–12thDates: Aug 16, 2022 – May 2, 2023—TuesPeriod: 08:00 AM – 09:15 AMInstructor: Rev. Lee Johnson Textbook: 8 Ways to Run the Country – Brian Patrick Mitchell ISBN#: 0894554409 Description:Copy Fee: noneInstructor: Mick Lindgren What is government? Where did it come from? Why do we have it? Why do we need it? I want my students to be able to ask the right questions. The first step in understanding anything is to know which questions to ask so that you can have any hope of finding the right answers.They need to know on what presuppositions our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution rest – both … Continue reading U.S. Government – course description
While many people have heard of the Buffalo Soldiers, most aren’t aware of the crucial role they played in the history of America’s National Parks. By Monica Danielle, AccuWeather senior producer – Updated Feb. 24, 2021 12:49 AM CST My cmnt: I post this article because it is informative, interesting and of historical importance. My cmnt: I also want to note that Shelton Johnson should do more to acknowledge that much of the nation DID acknowledge the worth and humanity of black people and fought a war to set them free from southern bondage. Blacks in the northern free states did have … Continue reading The hidden history of the Buffalo Soldiers, America’s first Park Rangers
By Lord Buckbeak 7/28/22 I heard this on Bott Radio. Pastor Robert Morris of Gateway Church in Dallas was preaching and this aired Jan 10, 2023. As near as I can discern from the Gateway church website they are a charismatic-dispensational church. I neither recommend nor de-recommend their church (even tho’ they claim to be nondenominational, every church has a denominational-type set of beliefs) as their Statement of Faith is biblically sound and very much the same as any number of evangelical, bible-believing Christian churches across America. Like many charismatic Christian churches they have female pastors while their Elders are … Continue reading What is the purpose of life?
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By Scott Hogenson | Oct 22, 2022 | for Townhall.com Rob Schneider is a funny guy. A lot of his humor is irreverent and better suited to the Beavis and Butt-head demographic but his physical comedy and sense of timing are hilarious. His Saturday Night Live skits as the Richmeister / makin’ copies office nerd still crack me up 30 years later. But there’s more depth to Schneider than his off-color gags and pratfalls suggest. During a recent interview on Fox News in which he explained why he is moving his family to Arizona from California, Schneider touched on the biggest threat facing America … Continue reading Why The Left Hates God, Family and Country
Far Left, Far Right, and Middle? BOOKS, PUBLIC POLICY, WORLDVIEW 26 DEC, 2010 – Whole Reason Abortion Sex Ed Homosexuality Separation of Church and State Immigration Death Penalty Continue reading Government 101 – 8 Ways to run the Country
by BRIAN PATRICK MITCHELL posted on JANUARY 18, 2018 For many people, the fact that the Orthodox Church once had deaconesses, somewhere at sometime, is enough to justify having them again. After all, they say, we Orthodox believe in tradition, and deaconesses are part of the tradition. Are they really part of our tradition? Or are they merely part of our history? Here’s the answer: Continue reading The Church once had deaconesses. So what?
by BRIAN PATRICK MITCHELL posted on OCTOBER 11, 2017 Remarks by Protodeacon Brian Patrick Mitchell At the St. Phoebe Center Conference on “Renewing the Male and Female Diaconate” Irvine, Calif. October 7, 2017 Thanks, Helen [Theodoropoulos], for the introduction, and thanks also to AnnMarie Mecera and everyone else at the St. Phoebe Center for the opportunity to speak here today, especially Marilyn Rouvelas, who made the introduction, and Fr. Peter Danilchick, who suggested my name when the need appeared. I’m, of course, representing myself here today and no one else—not my jurisdiction and not my bishop—so the opinions I express today are mine … Continue reading Orthodox Deaconesses?
Posted By Tim Hains On Date October 23, 2022 – Real Clear Politics “Full Measure” host Sharyl Attkisson speaks with FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend who says he wants to report politically motivated investigations and operations during the 2020 election campaign, including an alleged entrapment plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer while she was running for re-election and investigating non-violent participants in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. “Stephen Friend says financial incentives rewarded FBI managers who built lots of cases under the heading of domestic terrorism,” Sharyl Attkisson reports. About the January 6-related cases, he said: “I had sort … Continue reading FBI Whistleblower: Capitol Police Letting Peaceful Protesters Inside Building On January 6 “Smelled Like Entrapment”
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By Cal Thomas | Oct 13, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Cal Thomas is a faithful Roman Catholic and as such has a fear of non-Catholic Christians pursuing some kind of war against them. This is not what is going to happen and is a bit of a strawman. Thomas needs to understand that the people in American government and within the ruling elite (i.e., university professors, democrat politicians, the Deep State, Hollywood, Journos, the alphabet networks, the billionaire class of autocrats, etc.) are the ones he needs to fear. They represent the cancel culture and Marxism and oppression of Biblical … Continue reading Christian Nationalism?
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One of the most powerful books ever written, 1984, offers many meaningful themes related to government and the governed in a totalitarian society. Discover some of the key 1984 themes to improve your understanding of this important work of literature. … Continue reading 7 Essential “1984” Themes to Know
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More than 2 dozen states to restrict abortions after Roe v Wade overturned in Dobbs decision Abortion faces restrictions, bans in at least 25 states, or half the country By Jessica Chasmar | Fox News – 06/24/22 – for fox.news Thirteen states in the country are poised to enact immediate abortion bans and at least 13 more could quickly follow suit after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, leaving abortion rights up to the states to decide. At least 13 states in the country have so-called “trigger laws” banning most abortions that will take effect immediately or within weeks of Roe v. Wade … Continue reading An Historic Day of Grace: Supreme Court finally overturns Roe v Wade and sends it back to the States
Lord Buckbeak: "Will you come into my parlor?," said the Spider to the Fly. 