Defog Your Rearview Mirror Understanding the Historical Context Is Essential to Understanding the Historical Event, and Understanding the Event Is Essential to Rightly Interpreting the Present and Navigating the Future One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re […]
Examining the Evidence: Do Racist and Pro-Slavery Elements Exist in the Constitution of 1787? I do not expect to get near the worth of him; but cannot think of punishing him by transportation merely for coveting that liberty for which we have paid the price of so much blood, and have proclaimed so often to […]
Years After the Constitutional Convention of 1787, in the Throes of the Civil War, America’s Leaders Look to the Founders—and the Constitution—to Guide the Nation out of Slavery It is often said that the Constitution is “a bundle of compromises,” implying that those who wrote the document abandoned principle in favor of cutting eighteenth-century backroom […]
The Pervasive Myth of Maniacal Racism Among America’s Founders If I assume the “truth” to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my “truth.” And the “truth” of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods […]
How Black Political Leaders Misrepresent History to Exploit Their Own People Here’s my hypothesis about people who use slavery to trash the Founders: They have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty. Slavery is merely a convenient moral posturing tool as they try to reduce respect for our Constitution. —Walter E. Williams— This article is […]
Affirming the Priceless Contributions of Black Americans to the Cause of Liberty During the Eras of the American Revolution and Reconstruction Historical records show that 5,000 blacks fought for American Independence. Even without the certainty of their futures, they understood that the risk of dying for freedom was better than the guarantee of living under […]
Forgetting Flaws and Fabricating Fantasies: The Democrats’ Revisionist History I am not a fan of the Republican Party. I’m not here as a Republican shill. I don’t like them. I’m not a member of the Republican Party. They’ve lost their way. But let’s get history right. —Glenn Beck1— A condensed version of this article is […]
Don’t Be Fooled! Before lecturing Republicans, Democrats should mop up their side of the political spectrum [with regard to the issue of race]. —Journalist Deroy Murdock (who, by the way, is black)— Links to all the articles in this series are available here. Note: In Part 6, we began to record some historical facts Democrats […]
An Opportunity Seized by Progressives— and a Turning Point for America “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” —Thomas Jefferson— Links to all the articles in this series are available here. For the last eight weeks, we’ve been discussing […]
Launching Ad Hominem Attacks and Stoking Racial Tensions When liberals rant, it’s called free speech; when conservatives rant, it is hate speech. —John Dietrich— If the facts are not on your side, argue the law. If the law is not on your side, argue the facts. If neither the facts nor the law are on […]
God loves America. When you consider what He went through to bring our forbearers to this magnificent land, and when you realize what He accomplished in bringing forth a new nation on this continent – a government founded on Christian principles…you have to realize that He had a dramatic vision and purpose for this nation. […]
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. —John F. Kennedy— Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright […]
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it […]
May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps. —Abigail Adams— The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and […]
The Constitution outlines the role of the courts, but for some time they have been operating beyond their proper function. We must change how we see them, understand their appropriate role, and stop allowing the growth of power. Each new interpretation of plain text that widens the judiciary’s authority is a dangerous violation of the […]
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. —Benjamin Franklin— Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to […]
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