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The Declaration of Independence... [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.” —Thomas Jefferson

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INDEPENDENCE DAY 2008

If our nation’s Founders could visit us on this, our 232nd Independence Day, what would they make of us? What would they declare of us?  ... read more

Posted 21 hours ago - 2 comments

"OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, OUR SACRED HONOR"

    It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall, bony, redheaded young... read more

Posted 2 days ago - 2 comments

Reverse Globalization

  They say every cloud has a silver lining, and perhaps that is even true of the hubbub over fuel costs. Each day, as we are bombarded with news... read more

Posted 6 days ago - 5 comments

Iowa Floods Means Mexican Instability

Serious floods in Iowa have sent corn prices spiraling upward as the United States faces severe impact on its 2008 corn crop. At a time when food pric... read more

Posted 2 weeks ago - 6 comments

A1's Quotable Award - June 17, 2008

“Ideological descendants of Marx and Rousseau now lead the Democratic Party and they have turned it into a disloyal opposition to an increasingl... read more

Posted 2 weeks ago - 3 comments

How to Destroy America

We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Recently there was an immigration overpo... read more

Posted 1 years ago - 3 comments

The Mayonnaise Jar

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar.A professor stood before h... read more

Posted 1 years ago - 3 comments

A Valentine’s Day Massacre (Of the Constitution)

In some ways I’m surprised it took them this long. On Valentine’s Day, 14 February, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) began a campaign to grab just abo... read more

Posted 1 years ago - 2 comments

Separating Fact from Fiction

First, let’s be clear that the current debate about climate focuses on “global warming,” which is not synonymous with the debate about the envir... read more

Posted 1 years ago - 6 comments

On Sunnis and Shi’ites

The historical complexities and theological nuances of the 1,400-year-old rift in Islam make the 600-year division between Roman Catholicism and Prote... read more

Posted 1 years ago - 2 comments

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