Send by a friend.  This is a very lucid presentation of what’s happening in Europe. Watch this video, 11:20 long, worth every minute of your time. By the way, sometimes biblically illiterate liberals will invoke Jesus’s words about loving your neighbor and turning the other cheek, imploring governments to follow these commands that are clearly meant for individual social interaction, […]

SOLRAD 2 was a surveillance and scientific satellite developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Like the similar SOLRAD 1 satellite (model pictured), it was intended to measure solar X-rays and ultraviolet radiation while conducting a covert surveillance mission, mapping the Soviet Union’s air defense radar network with its onboard Galactic Radiation and Background electronic surveillance package. SOLRAD 1, launched in June 1960, had been the first satellite to observe solar X-rays, confirming the connection […]

“Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Thus began the first of the Ten Amendments, or Bill of Rights, which were approved SEPTEMBER 25, 1789. “The Father of the Bill of Rights” was George Mason of Virginia. George Mason was the richest man in Virginia, owning 15,000 acres. When George Washington […]

September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of the year Holidays Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique) Christian feast day: Abadir and Iraja and companions (Coptic Church) Cadoc Ceolfrith Finbarr Sergius of Radonezh (repose) September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Lancelot Andrewes, […]

September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining until the end of the year Holidays Armed Forces Day (Peru) Christian feast day: Antonio Gonzalez Gerard Sagredo Our Lady of Mercy and its related observances: La Mercè (Barcelona) Our Lady of Walsingham (Church of England) Pacificus of […]

It was back on this day in 1789 that Congress passed the act that officially created the federal judiciary system that included the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The Supreme Court The Supreme Court itself was part of the Constitution. Article III said “judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court.” The details were […]

The Edmontosaurus mummy in the American Museum of Natural History is an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a dinosaur, the first found to include a skeleton encased in skin impressions; almost two-thirds of the skin is preserved. Discovered in 1908 in the United States near Lusk, Wyoming, it is ascribed to the species Edmontosaurus annectens, a hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur). It was discovered lying on its back, its neck twisted backwards and its forelimbs outstretched. […]

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year. It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Holidays Christian feast day: Adomnán Padre Pio Pope […]

“I have not yet begun to fight!” shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the 50-gun British frigate HMS Serapis taunted him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons scraped and masts entangled, yet his American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac, refused to give up. When two cannons exploded and his ship […]

“…The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn’t say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a ‘compelling interest’ in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn’t say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn’t say you have the […]

Literary Hall is a brick library building and museum in Romney, West Virginia, built in 1869 and 1870 by the Romney Literary Society. Founded in 1819, the society was the first literary organization of its kind in the present-day state of West Virginia, and one of the first in the United States. In 1846, the society constructed a building which housed the Romney Classical Institute and […]

Joseph Benson Foraker (July 5, 1846 – May 10, 1917) was an American Republican politician, who served as the 37th governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and a United States senator from 1897 until 1909. Foraker was born in rural Ohio in 1846, and enlisted at age 16 in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He fought for almost three years, attaining the rank of captain. After the […]

Special Thanks to Everything Hendersonville By William Haupt III   Author It Takes A Movement “Society is a contract between the past, the present and those yet unborn.” (Edmund Burke) Why is America the most auspicious and enduring democracy in world history? It has survived world wars, foreign invasion, terrorist attacks, and even a civil war. It was able to […]

September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of the year. It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal (Spring) equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Holidays American Business Women’s Day (United States) […]

Good morning, it’s Thursday, September 21, 2017. Six years ago today, an American president spoke at the United Nations on an elusive subject: world peace, starting in the Mideast. “The fact is, peace is hard — but our people demand it,” Barack Obama told the delegates of the world community. “Even as we proclaim our love for peace and our […]

September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of the year. Holidays Autumnal equinox observances in the Northern hemisphere, vernal equinox observances in the Southern hemisphere (see September 22): Arbor Day (Brazil) Spring Day (Argentina) Student’s Day (Bolivia) Christian Feast Day: Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert […]

The Article was originally posted in 2005. We thought we would just remind you of it…… The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was championed by far-sighted Southern lawmakers. They had experienced a fifteen year military occupation by the U.S. Army in post-Civil War law enforcement. They understood the heel of a jackboot. In a nutshell, this act bans the Army, […]

September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of the year. Holidays Christian feast day: Agapitus (Western Christianity) Eustace (Western Christianity) Jean-Charles Cornay (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) José Maria de Yermo y Parres Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) John Coleridge Patteson (commemoration, Anglicanism) Independence […]

Good morning, it’s September 18, 2020. Forty-seven years ago today, the governor of a mid-sized Southern state filed a two-page, hand-written report with an Oklahoma City-based organization called the International UFO Bureau. In that brief memo, the governor claimed that he had personally seen an unidentified flying object. At the time, the UFO spotter was an obscure Democrat with large […]

The Constitution v Birthright Citizenship “Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.” Thomas Jefferson (1801) There is a raging political debate about immigration in the U.S., or more specifically […]