November 16, 2023

Hell-Broth in the Middle East

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting...

August 15, 2022

Our American ship of state is in peril on the sea

“We are wandering on the great ocean of human affairs. We are running we know not whither.”—Patrick Henry, speaking to the Virginia ratifying convention, 1788. “We are running we know not whither.” A more accurate des...

July 11, 2022

The Supreme Court Just Gave the Nation a Giant Civics Lesson

The essence of this lesson is: Federalism is a basic structure of governance in the United States, U.S. Constitutional rights are limited, and some rights come from God, not government. Supreme Courts of the United States like to bore down, relati...

May 17, 2022

The Significance of Ukraine

Some observers think that the United States has committed acts of war against Russia through sanctions, provisions of war materiel, and intelligence and that we are, therefore, partly responsible if Russia is “driven” to attack us with nu...

March 6, 2022

Ukraine And The United States Rule Of Law

“The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence ...

February 22, 2022

The twenty-one-year-old phenom: George Washington

"There was no way for getting over [the Allegheny River] but on a Raft, which we set about, with but one poor Hatchet...after a whole day's work. Half Way over, we were jammed in the Ice in such a Manner that we expected every moment our Raf...

January 2, 2022

The Flow of Money Creates a Path to One World Government

“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications.... [for] their promises of discretion for almost forty years... [t]he work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a W...

December 18, 2021

The reality of One World government

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . . and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. . . And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? —Wi...

December 11, 2021

A Case for Noblesse Oblige

When our Founders wrote the Constitution, they had a sense of noblesse oblige toward this country and its citizens. Too many people in today’s government, despite taking an oath to the Constitution, have no sense of fealty or obligation to Amer...

December 5, 2021

The Feast May Be Gone, But Thanksgiving Still Offers Food For Thought

There is a tendency in our culture that, once the World Series is over, the “holidays” have begun. The “holidays” include the genuine fun of Halloween, the intense partisanship of college football in the middle of the season, ...

November 25, 2021

Abraham Lincoln’s Message to Us This Thanksgiving

In October 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was still retreating south from the Gettysburg Campaign that summer and moving slowly toward the Rappahannock River. The Union’s George Meade followed closely behind but gave up t...

November 17, 2021

A Broader Oath for Those in National Power Today

“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. . .so help me God” Part of the Oath of Office for...

November 8, 2021

Tuesday's election was a giant civics lesson for our country

"It is difficult to perceive any limitation on federal power, even in areas such as criminal law enforcement or education where States historically have been sovereign. Thus, if we were to accept the Government's arguments, we are hard-press...

November 1, 2021

Has America Become ‘A Realm Beyond Words’?

“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. (1918-2008) For even the most devoted Wokesters in America today—whether true believers or camp followers—all know America ...

October 27, 2021

The National Education Association finally comes clean

"In reality, 'critical race theory' being taught in elementary, middle, and high school isn't a concern. All students deserve to be taught the truth and all educators deserve the right to teach it."  —Alice O'B...

October 22, 2021

Why A Large Number of Americans See Snow as Black

“Not all people exist in the same now.” Ernst Bloch, German Marxist, 1932. Twenty-five percent of the American people exist in one “now” and see snow as black; another sixty percent live in an opposite “now” and...

October 14, 2021

The Time Has Come To Nobly Save Or Meanly Lose

“We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth.” From President Lincoln’s annual message to Congress, 1862. Victor David Hanson describes what is happening in America as two forces squeezing the life out of the ...

October 7, 2021

Free speech or harassment in a ladies’ restroom?

A female activist (along with a colleague, who is filming) approaches a female United States Senator teaching a class at a public university in Arizona and follows her into the ladies’ restroom to lecture the Senator about federal legislation t...

October 3, 2021

The puzzling oversight hearings regarding the withdrawal from Afghanistan

A thousand-piece puzzle spread out on the dining room table is easier to put together than the testimony from our top military and civilian leadership regarding America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. One of the Generals slouched his way thro...

September 25, 2021

Leftists force mass Third World immigration by deceiving us into feeling guilty

Milton Friedman, the economist, was such a libertarian that he supported open borders. However, there was a caveat to this support: “It’s just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state.” It’s obvious, of ...

September 20, 2021

Guilt: The source of sorrow in America's classrooms.

"Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows behind, With whips and slings."  —Nicholas Rowe, English writer, 1674-1718 Nothing can explain how America has gotten into the situa...

September 9, 2021

The critical thinking that might help us escape our current travails

Last week, I said that "Americans now cannot tell reality from its perception."  The inability to do so prevents individuals from accurately analyzing factual data and taking appropriate and effective action steps. ...

September 6, 2021

Psychological paralysis in the battle for America

In a recent article in the American Thinker entitled "The Thirteen-Hundred-And-Eighty-Nine Year War," I outlined some of the major battles in the to-the-death struggle between Islam and Christianity.  Back and forth, bac...

August 30, 2021

The Thirteen-Hundred-And-Eighty-Nine-Year War

During an interview regarding the recent suicide attack on Kabul airport, a former Navy SEAL quipped that no one making military decisions for the United States seems to have read a history book. Lack of knowledge, he implied, is partly why America i...

August 19, 2021

Save the tatas and save your sanity

Thank goodness, America has finally hit bottom.  In the fast downward spiral that is the last seven months, terrified citizens simply wait for the inevitable bad ending to end it all.  The Executive Branch, as a collective, grippe...

August 10, 2021

Only a prayer and a hammer can save us now

Those in power are using the pretext of contagion to injure our children and to create an environment of fear so that questionable voting procedures that amount to election fraud are publicly accepted. By deliberately spreading infection through the ...

August 8, 2021

The 2022 midterms will be too late to save America

Extensions of time are over. Waiting for someone to emerge to lead us out of this nightmare is over. We The People, the ultimate power of America, the Sovereign, are going to have to take over and take over now. After much anguish, many Americans ...

August 4, 2021

Supreme Court precedent opposes Critical Race Theory in public schools

America started educating its young children officially in 1642, which was within one generation of surviving the famine and disease that killed most of the early colonists. The purpose of this education was to assure that children could read, write,...

July 25, 2021

Why historians making lists of the ‘best’ presidents get it so wrong

Many historians are apparently more interested in spinning their personal political views than in objectively evaluating past Presidents of the United States. Do not trust the various rankings of presidents that you may see. Ninety-one people fill...

July 16, 2021

Randi Weingarten’s ‘Honest’ Truth

Many bewildered parents send perfectly lovely children off to college only to have them return home for the holidays sullen, angry, and disrespectful Marxists. What we now know is Marxist education at college has seeped into grade, middle, and high s...

July 7, 2021

Supreme Confusion Over Free Speech

The Supreme Court just undermined the authority of K-12 public schools to set reasonable rules for children about their speech outside the classroom or on campus but involving school matters with established rules. The Court also took what should hav...

July 4, 2021

When it comes to America, Joe Biden gets it wrong

Recently, during a naturalization ceremony, Joe Biden stated a very troubling idea. He said that America is founded on an idea -- an idea, moreover, that we've invariably failed to live up to). As is so often the case with Biden, he's wrong. ...