The Founders Warned Us: How America’s Founding Fathers Feared Political Parties
This is part 4 of a 4-part series on The Founders and their prescient fears and warnings on the dangers of Political Parties.
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The Founders Warned Us: How America’s Founding Fathers Feared Political Parties
This is part 3 of a 4-part series on The Founders and their prescient fears and warnings on the dangers of Political Parties.
The Left’s Embrace of Assassination Culture
Political violence in America, including assassination, is being applauded and embraced as virtuous activism by leftist Democrats, according to a recent academic study.
Charles Martel: The Hammer Who Halted the Muslim Conquest of Europe
In an age when Europe teetered on the edge of collapse after the fall of the Roman Empire, one man stood between the continent and a future under Islamic rule. That man was Charles Martel
The Founders Warned Us: How America’s Founding Fathers Feared Political Parties
This is part 2 of a 4-part series on The Founders and their prescient fears and warnings on the dangers of Political Parties.
Vlad the Impaler: The Brutal Warlord Who Fought to Halt the Spread of Islam in Europe
In an era where kings bowed to the advancing Ottoman Empire, one man chose terror over tribute. Vlad III of Wallachia, better known to history as Vlad the Impaler, was no diplomat, no saint, and certainly no peacemaker — but his reign of calculated brutality served a singular purpose: to keep Christian Europe from falling under the crescent banner of Islam.
Misguided Allegiance Promotes Surfing With The Aliens: A Society Conflicted, Dazed And Confused
When Values, Ethics And Morals Get Contorted By Aberrant Belief Systems And Violations Of Law, The Chaos Is Predictable
The Founders Warned Us: How America’s Founding Fathers Feared Political Parties (Part 1)
This is part 1 of a 4-part series on The Founders and their prescient fears and warnings on the dangers of Political Parties.
Systemantics Turns 50: Gall Was Right, and We’re Still Screwed
It’s been half a century since John Gall published Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail, and guess what? Everything he predicted has come true—spectacularly.
Famous Quotes
If you’ve studied history or lived it, you should be able to add the last name and put context into these lines:
“From my cold dead hands….” Heston
“Et tu Brute.” William
April 29 1975, The 50th Anniversary of The Fall of Saigon: A Personal Remembrance
Fifty years ago today, I was scrambling aboard a U.S. Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy helicopter along with some 70 or so other terrified people as we were evacuated from a place called Saigon as it fell to invading Communist North Vietnamese troops.
The Nazi Attempt to Rewrite the Bible: When, Why, and How
The Nazi regime’s obsession with controlling ideology extended beyond politics and race—it also sought to reshape Christianity to fit its own agenda.
An Officer’s Oath: Loyalty to the Constitution, Not a King
In the long march of human history, soldiers have sworn loyalty to emperors, warlords, kings, and dictators. But in 1787, America broke with that tradition.
Reflections on Newspapers, their Past & Future—and My Career at one of them
To say that the world of newspaper journalism has changed since I began my career at the Chicago Tribune last century would be a demonstrable understatement.
Rory McIlroy Wins The Masters And Steps Into History, Becoming The Sixth Golfer To Win The Grand Slam
McIlroy Vanquishes The Master’s Jinx That Has Haunted Him Since 2011
When Enough Is Enough In Europe
Last year in Southport England, after another “British” Muslim murdered children there was a flurry of protests with posters proclaiming “Enough Is Enough.” The UK Government moved quickly to arrest people simply protesting the murders as part of the immigrant invasion and Islam’s barbarism
Patterns in the Myths: How Modern Thinkers Nearly Uncovered a Deeper Truth
Across time and culture, human beings have told stories to explain life—stories about brave heroes, dying kings, magical cups, and mysterious journeys that lead to transformation.
The Shroud of Turin: Ancient Hoax or Holy Relic?
For centuries, one mysterious piece of cloth has captivated believers, skeptics, scientists, and historians alike: the Shroud of Turin.
Shattering the Old Lie: General Patton’s War Wisdom and the True Duty of a Warrior
Poets and propagandists have long clung to the ancient Latin phrase: “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”—“It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.” But by the time the industrial slaughterhouses of World War I had chewed through millions of lives, that “old lie,” as poet Wilfred Owen called it, rang hollow.
The Funeral at Shiloh
There were ghosts everywhere. That’s what I kept thinking, while standing on Shiloh battlefield. Ghosts. You could feel them. You could almost hear their fraternal laughter. You could smell their gunpowder.