Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

As the title suggests, this book should be in every patriot's library. It provides an excellent refresher course on the philosophic origins of America. Parents will find it helpful for filling the voids in their children's education.

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The scope of the essays and Ceaser’s erudition and penetrating insights make this book an important one to read, but difficult to summarize. Nevertheless, this review will attempt to convey the breadth of the author’s thinking, his passion for his subject, and to produce a desire to read the book.

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.  Winston Churchill

It’s time for Republicans to put their pants on.  When 47% of Americans “somewhat approve of Obama’s handling of the …

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In June, 198 years ago, the Shannon captured the Chesapeake outside of Boston Harbor. The events described in this clipping from the Niles Weekly Register correspond almost exactly to the story told by Patrick O'Brian in his book, The Fortune of War.

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If ever a man deserved the appellation of statesman, it is Albert Gallatin. John Austin Stevens, in his excellent book, explains why.

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Marc Leepson's biography of the American flag explains why it took 135 years and an Executive Order before Americans knew what the flag was supposed to look like.

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James takes a look at what the newly media-proclaimed "expert" (Richard Stengel) on the Constitution has to say in the most recent edition of Time magazine. (Note, Stengel's no expert, his article is rife with errors and his ideology leaks through all over it.)

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The Pinckney's of South Carolina contributed a lot to the founding of the United States. Thomas Pinckney was an ardent patriot during the American Revolution, a state governor, a member of Congress and returned to military service in the War of 1812.

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President Obama remains unable to conceal the conflict between his political ideology and that of the Founders.

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Calvin Coolidge deserves a good deal more attention. Strangely, he is not much more than a footnote in most history textbooks. He exists in the education system as a kind of witless boob Neanderthal relic of the pre-Depression 20’s. Progressives can’t refute his argument, so they seek to shut Silent Cal up instead.

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