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When Abraham Lincoln, born 201 years ago today, delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address, he called for a “new birth of freedom.” (more…)

As Christmas comes, reactions abound. Since the fourth century AD, when Roman Emperor Constantine embraced Christianity, church (more…)

Americans from the major Christian faiths, seeing an imminent move by the civil power against God-given elements of a free (more…)

James Madison, the father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, asked, ”Who are the Best Keepers of the People’s Liberties?” in a 1792 article in the National Gazette, a Republican newspaper critical of the ruling Federalist party. The question is always relevant. (more…)

What the Berlin Wall Anniversary Means
By Joe Gschwendtner

The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago this week. Anyone in Central or Eastern Europe today, 70 or older, has spent over two-thirds of their life under Communism or jackbooted Nazis. That is, unless your courage and ambition made you willing to risk life itself like our neighbor, Emerencia Marton Kanan. Emi was born into impoverished, post-war, Communist Hungary in 1945. At age four, weakened by ingested chemicals, Emi was near death on a straw bed until a man with rare Rh negative blood offered an 11th hour transfusion. (more…)

Last fall I shared in the disappointment of 47 percent of the voters who did not cast their ballots for Barack Obama and feared his stated intention of “transforming” America into a socialist regime. (more…)

The Obama Administration has been the occasion for numerous Tea Parties and Town Hall Meetings, which are different species of the genus public assembly.  How they are seen and understood depends a great deal on one’s point of view. (more…)

[T]he fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.- St. Paul (more…)

The national holiday we celebrate today is more often referred to as the Fourth of July than Independence Day (more…)

It’s not hard to love Independence Day. There are fireworks, picnics, baseball games, and a long weekend. What’s more, the air is filled (more…)