Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh writes: America used to mean something. The Statue of Liberty represented independence, what it meant collectively to be an American. There was a reason why millions risked life and limb to come to our shores. We…
Tag: Freedom
Freedom is More Fragile Than You Think!
Hungary’s parliament recently voted, by two-thirds majority, to give President Viktor Orbán almost unlimited emergency powers for an unlimited amount of time. He can rule by decree, suspending any laws he chooses. Parliament is closed; elections are canceled. Anyone spreading…
The Two Americas
There have been two completely different Americas in U.S. history. For more than a century after the United States came into existence, there was no income taxation or IRS. People were free to keep everything they earned and decide for…
Those That Ignore History Are Doomed To Repeat It
“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.” Vaclar Havel Socialism…
A Bad News Week for Socialists in the US
The news is filled with stories of political corruption and oppression. The ugly face of statist-control is staring at us just behind the headlines and the media spin. Unfortunately, the legacy media is more interested in hiding the truth than…
Slavery: Common To All Races and Nationalities
“The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.” Mark Twain Something that you rarely hear or read about and is never taught in school is that two thousand years…
Because Our Forefathers Did Not Submit To Tyranny 243 Years Ago, Americans Still Have The Freedom Today To Right The Wrongs!
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon &…
LGBTQ Wrongly Assumes Authority to Dictate Our Words – Caution!
Behind The Iron Curtain, a cesspool of unhappiness, stress, control along with uncertainty was a part of everyday life. This was the first place I learned of the sin of using unauthorized words offensive to the dictatorship. Words, if spoken could land one…
Freedom and Responsibility Go Hand-in-Hand
“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” President Ronald Reagan The left continues its agenda of taking America in a new direction, away from the free association of self-governing individuals envisioned by our founders, toward a…
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…
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 —…
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;…
Enough is Enough
The twenty-seven simple, easily-understood words of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution have not proven clear and forceful enough to protect and defend the right it concerns, especially given its ideological enemies who willfully misunderstand it. In the…
Where are the Second Amendment’s Billionaires?
According to Forbes Magazine (2011), there are 397 BILLIONAIRES in America now. A billion dollars is ONE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS. Chew on that for just a moment. Few of us can even fathom the sum. Go here to see the…