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phil-naessens's picture
Jan.02.2013
  Phil begins the show with how excited he will be to return to the United States for good, praises the USA founding fathers on their foresight in making laws and allowing freedoms that very few in the world has and then replays an interview with Matt B. Redmond regarding his latest literary...
stacy-ann-nyikos's picture
Apr.04.2012
Jefferson's Sons -  A Founding Father's Secret Children Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Grades 6 - 9 Brubaker Bradley brings to life the story of the four children - Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston - that researchers have, after much prodding, historical research and DNA analysis,...
jessica-j-murray's picture
Sep.14.2011
  On this tenth anniversary, I don’t want to write about 9/11. I’ve written elsewhere about the implausibility of Washington’s story about what happened that day, as have many other astrologers (see especially the blogs of Eric Francis), and the explosive transits under which it...
steven-robert-travers's picture
Sep.06.2011
President John F. Kennedy once held a state dinner at the White House, in which he and Jacqueline Kennedy hosted an astounding group of intellectuals, scientists and research experts. Kennedy remarked that never had so much brainpower been assembled in the White House, with the possible exception...
rand-bishop's picture
Jul.06.2011
After Vancouver lost on their home ice to Boston in the Stanley Cup Finals, rabid Canuck fans took to the streets, leaving a path of destruction in their wake. These fanatics probably thought of themselves as “super patriots,” loyal to the local hockey franchise. In fact, they were nothing more...
wync-yarber's picture
May.28.2011
                Social conservatism is a threat to freedom and liberty. You can not politically espouse social conservatism and claim to be either a strict constitutionalist or a defender of individual rights and freedoms.  To levy such a claim is both illogical and incongruous. Time and time again...
steven-robert-travers's picture
Dec.07.2010
Who were these extraordinary men, the Founding Fathers? Let us start with the Father of Our Country, George Washington. The story of Washington chopping down the cherry tree, then admitting to it because “I cannot tell a lie,” may or may not be apocryphal. It does reflect the basic idealism not...
barry-secrest's picture
Aug.20.2010
America's Architecture of Liberty: Preserving The Path of Exceptionalism   Conservative Refocus As the American people grow ever more cognizant of where the true problems lie within the Nation, we find that what started with the President being elected as a virtual panacea for what was "...
anastasia-m-ashman's picture
Mar.30.2010
All this talk about finding your tribe. It’s so rewarding to connect to people with similar world views. True peers. As we seek our global niche, we’re integrating across all sorts of out-moded boundaries. You could also say we’re segregating along the lines of our true selves. Perusing a Berkeley...
lloyd-lofthouse's picture
Nov.11.2009
If George Washington had lost the American Revolution against Great Britain, he and the signers of the Declaration of Independence would have been hung, and crows would have pecked on their corpses. Today, they would have been known as traitors instead of the Founding Fathers of a great nation. In...