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Thanksgiving is by all accounts, a traditional American holiday. Just saying the word “Thanksgiving” evokes images of family, football and of course, food. You can almost taste the roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing and pumpkin pie. Ask anyone about the origins ...

. . . In spite everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. —Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1944)   The heart that was made according to God’s own heart, is now the reverse ...

President Obama brazenly drew a “red line” in regards to the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has eliminated the US president’s bravado to nothingness. Americans who chose not to vote for ...

There are two kinds of survival skills that I like to call “soft survival skills” and “hard survival skills.” Hard survival skills consist of those abilities that a person or family needs to survive in an extreme situation, such as ...

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”  – Benjamin Franklin Unfortunately a growing number of Americans seem to be running away from true happiness rather than toward it. No ...

In his new book Who’s the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America, Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal shows the very rich pay more taxes in the United States than in any ...

The idol state uses the language of compassion because its intention is a messianic one.  It finds the masses harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd, needing a savior. —Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction (1983) …Man’s nature, so to ...

Somewhere in the fifty years just past is where historians of the future will place an arbitrary line and say: “This marks the Fall of the Galactic Empire.” —Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951) Social commentators, historians, and philosophers are always tempted ...

Every president since Ronald Reagan has promised to achieve American energy independence, and each president has failed. It is time to put an end to the rhetorically powerful speeches that promise energy independence and adapt real strategies that can achieve ...

The headlines coming out of Syria are truly frightening. Mass graves, civilian bombings, rampant violence – it seems to be degenerating daily. As of August 2012, analysts put 6,000 jihadists on the ground participating in violence. To say it’s not ...