What makes an American? What are the qualities — the “ingredients,” if you will — that distinguish Americans from Germans, Mexicans, or the French? Why is it that we feel a special right to be proud of who we are…
“Recipe for an American”
Category: Liberty
America is Freedom’s Colosseum
“I believe freedom of speech and religious liberty at home will be restored. I believe that, abroad, America will once more be feared and respected, freezing the sweat and chilling the bones of men that aspire to tyranny, even fleetingly.…
Treason From Within
“Every man, when he is oppressed and disarmed, may still imagine that, while he yields in obedience, it is to himself he yields it. . .It is in vain to summon a people who have been rendered so dependent on…
ID or not ID — that is the question
A long time ago, when America was free, and new inventions and ideas seemed to be popping up every day, there arose the gravest threat to individual liberty, and to everything the American Revolution had stood for, that the people…
To Our Fathers and Grandfathers Who Fought
America owes everything to you. You sacrificed your youth, you saw your buddies die before your eyes, you gave up life and family and love as you fought in Europe or the Pacific — all to save the world from…
White Privilege Is An Abstract Used to Enslave Minorities
A pillar of contemporary Leftism is the notion of “white privilege. The good news is that you don’t have to actually participate in this as a white person . . . or even be aware of it, actually. If you’re…
Term Limits Would End Special Interest Control
VICTOR HUGO once remarked: “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” Serving in Congress was always envisioned by our founders as a chance to serve one’s country not as a means to…
The Lock on the Chain
Many of us have heard of the Constitution of the United States referred to as “The chains that bind government.” Those “chains” have a “lock”. Unfortunately, those with intent to unlock this lock have had such great success that few…
Wouldn’t It Be Nice? The Rule of Law….
Has it ever struck you as a little odd that in a country with a Thirteenth Amendment that outlaws “involuntary servitude of any kind”,there’s also a “Selective Service” system that forces men, on pain of imprisonment or death, to join…
What Makes America Great?
Five decades after America gained independence, the French author Alexis de Tocqueville remarked on our nation’s exceptional character. Unlike other nations that were defined by ethnicity, geography, common heritage, social class, or hierarchal structures, America was a nation of immigrants…
Superman Complex
Progressives claim that society is steadily progressing, becoming smarter and smarter, and that old social mores are outdated and must constantly be replaced as people journey ever closer to perfection. At least, that is what they claim. But it’s not really…
Celebrate The Bill of Rights Every Day
December 15, 1791 marks the most momentous day in human history. On that day, the first ten amendments to the then-new United States Constitution were ratified, placing severe limits — for the first time in in thousands of years —…
Destroying Religious Freedom
Just as the Equality Act (HR 2282), that passed the House in March of this year, was about pushing a leftist agenda, so too is the Do No Harm Act (HR 1450) introduced by Rep. Joseph Kennedy of Massachusetts in…
Apathy and Enslavement
“Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence;…
On Becoming Public Enemy No. 1
“Who needs direct repression when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?” Slavoj Zizek In an Orwellian age where war equals peace, surveillance equals safety and tolerance equals intolerance of uncomfortable truths and politically incorrect ideas,…