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About Jefferson, the Danbury Baptists, and the abused (by the Left) “Separation of Church and State”

December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 Skip

…Either the wall was intended to keep government out of the church, or it was intended to keep the church out of the government. The truth is, Jefferson’s wall of separation was meant to protect every individual’s freedom of religious practice and expression without fear of penalty or retaliation from the government or any private … Read more

Memories of a Woke Warrior

January 23, 2022 Peter Lemiska

More than 50 years after the triumphant civil rights movement, many would probably agree that Joe Biden believes America is still hopelessly, systemically racist.

Decision making without a grasp of the impact

Some Founders’ Examples

August 14, 2020August 10, 2020

Here are some founders’ examples. They did not just talk the talk. They walked the walk. The founders had the vision to create a new system of government. It was something never seen before in world history. They built a nation. They separated from the unjust rule of England and went to something more and … Read more

Shaking our Faith in the “American creed”

June 2, 2020June 1, 2020

Watching TV this weekend, the contrasts could not have been more shocking to the human conscience. Hoodlum anarchist Gen-Z’ers and Millennials looting and rioting across America in supposed “protest” to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on one hand.

Why liberty?

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Ian Underwood

There are a few ways to answer the question: Why liberty? There is, of course, Jefferson’s answer: That everyone is born with a right to liberty is self-evident. Not as in ‘obvious’, but as in ‘requiring no justification’.

The J’s have it

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Ian Underwood

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a couple of things that John F. Kennedy said. The first is:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

I’m reminded of this whenever people (increasingly) talk about the possibility of, and even the ‘need for’, some kind of civil war in the United States, as a remedy for our unfortunate habit of using politics and law, not to codify areas of widespread agreement, but to force submission in areas where there is substantial disagreement.

Romney Talks De Tocqueville? Huh?

September 26, 2018August 31, 2012

I saw this last night on c-span before the convention and was shocked. How did the conservative gene skip Mitt?

This is the Romney that should be nominated, check this out:

“If I had to identify what I think is our most serious threat, it wouldn’t be in the economic area. It wouldn’t be in the political area. It would be in the social area….” said Romney. On defining the start of the problems, ” ….well you start out with the departure from the fundamental principles on which this country was based… The Declaration of Independence…”

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“I’ve seen the Federal government balloon to proportions that are way beyond everything conceived by the Founders… completely in violation of the 10th Amendment…”

Check out the vid after the jump…