Crazy Horse Memorial: A Tale of Two Stories Told in Stone
The Black Hills of South Dakota have long been associated with the four U.S. Presidents who adorn Mount Rushmore. The granite faces of...
History
Recalling the Failure of Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”
On January 8, 1918, less than one year after the United States had declared war on Germany and its allies in the First...
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A Century of “Bolshevism”
Communism, for a long time, was simply “Bolshevism” in the western world. The Russian term means “majority” and it originated during the Second...
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Mainland China’s Last 100 Years: Free Republic to Communist Tyranny
There is little doubt that the nation of China has enormous potential and that Chinese civilization has had a profound influence upon the...
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“The Economist” Rewrites History
In last Saturday’s print edition of The Economist magazine (left), staff writers attempted to compare today’s Internet with the publication of Martin Luther’s...
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Bill of Rights Day: a Day of Celebration or of Mourning?
The Cato Institute’s newspaper ad reminding citizens that December 15th was Bill of Rights Day summarized the desperate shape those first ten amendments to the...
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Faith of the Founding Fathers
Since the early days of this Republic, various of our Founding Fathers were accused of being irreligious, impious, and even atheist. Those accusations...
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Remember WHAT about Pearl Harbor?
Most shifts in history do not come with easy-to-remember dates associated with them. I could not tell you exactly when the U.S. war...
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Forbes: Rich Nations Go Broke by Overpromising and Overspending
Cato Institute senior fellow Jim Powell wrote in Forbes magazine about the inevitable and predictable decline of rich nations that debauched their currencies...
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75th Anniversary of the Anti-comintern Pact
Moderns who rely upon conventional history have been spoon-fed many historical myths, which are indispensable to the perpetuation of statist collectivism and all...
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Niall Ferguson Ignores God-given Rights
Niall Ferguson (left), professor at Harvard and the London School of Economics, summarized his latest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest for Newsweek...
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Robert Taft: Count Him Conservative
If Robert Taft had been a baseball player instead of a United States Senator, he might have led the league in left-handed compliments....
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How Would George Washington Counsel Us Today?
Rev. Mark Collins (left) of Yorktown, Texas, enjoys a national reputation as a portrayer of George Washington. Since July 4, 2002, Rev. Collins has...
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Solyndra’s Bankruptcy and the Failure of 19th-century Steam Subsidies
The social and economic upheavals caused by environmental subsidies, as seen in the demise of Solyndra and other energy companies, are devastating but...
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So Much to Give: The Legacy of Garman Kimmell
It is a classic story of Americana, with all the excitement, dreams, struggle, disappointment, ingenuity, resilience, triumph, love, loss, and enduring lessons common...
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