History
Mark Twain’s Tabooed Talk
It is sometimes said regretfully that many Americans today get their “slant” on the news from TV’s late-night comedians. But today’s “baby boomers”...
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100th Birthday of the Karl Marx of Arab Socialism
Though the majority of Americans have never heard of him, one hundred years ago a key figure in Islamic socialism was born in...
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Johannes Kepler: Father of Celestial Mechanics
December 27 marks the birthday of the Father of Celestial Mechanics, Johannes Kepler. Born in 1571, he went on to become one of...
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They Still Hate Senator McCarthy
The Southern Poverty Legal Center, which might be interested in innocent Americans enduring state-sponsored sexual harassment in airports or the coercion on college...
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Dec. 15: Anniversary of Our Bill of Rights
On June 8, 1789 James Madison, the congressman representing Virginia’s 5th District, rose to speak in a session of the First Congress and...
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Papers Reveal Evolution of Term “Military-Industrial Complex”
Papers released to the public on December 10 by the Eisenhower Presidential Library appear to show that as America’s 34th President prepared his...
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John Finn: Last of Pearl’s Medal of Honor Heroes
John William Finn was an amazing man. He passed away earlier this year just shy of 101 years of age. He was a...
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Pearl Harbor Was No Surprise
True history is not served if all that is remembered about December 7 is that it is the 61st anniversary of Japan’s surprise...
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Who Funded the Mayflower?
Richard Maybury’s “The Great Thanksgiving Hoax,” first published in 1999 summarized the sanitized version of the Pilgrim’s landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620...
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Benson Letter Backed Welch Against “Ike”
It should surprise no one that someone who had served in the Eisenhower administration would call FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's attention to...
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C.S. Lewis: Overshadowed but Not Outdone
One of the many stories that grew out of John F. Kennedy’s aborted term as President has to do with an idle question...
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James Madison: Taking Back the Liberal Label
Long ago scholars identified the arches and loops of John Locke’s fingerprints on the writings of James Madison. Evidence of this influence is...
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Halloween Came Early in ’64 Campaign
Is it merely a coincidence that Election Day comes so soon after Halloween? The voting is always in early November, perhaps in consideration...
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Bipartisan Warfare State
During the 1976 vice presidential debate between Senators Robert Dole, Republican of Kansas, and Democrat Walter Mondale of Minnesota, Dole outraged Democrats when...
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