By Bruce Bialosky  /  Townhall Democrats led by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are still complaining that bankers did not go to jail for the 2008 banking crisis. That is despite, as previously written about in this column, the crux of the problem was the federal government. Likewise, that is despite the fact the government let well-connected Democrat Jon Corzine slide for […]

H/T to Jan Herron Hi all, Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival,Inc. sent out an email 8/19/17 asking people to contact Rep. Michael McCaul, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security.  Rep. McCaul (GOP from Texas) is busy bowing at the feet of Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, a prominent member of the far-left Congressional Black Caucus. See Rep. McCaul’s letter to […]

By Bill Dries  /   The (Memphis) Daily News Memphis Police arrested several people Saturday, Aug. 19, as they attempted to climb the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue in Health Sciences Park and cover the image of the Confederate general, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard with a white sheet. The arrests came an hour into the latest in a series […]

Sen. Maria Chapelle-Nadal, a Democrat, wrote on her personal Facebook page Thursday, “I hope Trump is assassinated!” She later deleted the post. Chapelle-Nadal has balked at calls for her resignation. “I am not resigning,” she tweeted Thursday. “When POC [people of color] are respected by this WH & they are willing to do real work, I’ll sit down with them. […]

August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year. Holidays Christian feast day: Bernard of Clairvaux Blessed Georg Häfner Maria De Mattias Oswine of Deira Philibert of Jumièges William and Catherine Booth August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Feast of Asmá’ (Bahá’í […]

I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. – 2 Peter 1:12  How can people who experienced the same event have radically different recollections of what happened? An Associated Press article summarized the results of dozens of studies on human memory: “Far from being an indelible […]

I can’t think of any better illustration (a picture is worth a thousand words) to portray current events in America. Jackie Juntti WGEN   idzrus@earthlink.net WGEN message board    https://www.voy.com/19385/ http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-17/tearing-down-liberty Absurdity Number 1: The reason Wall Street, Washington DC and corporate America are allowed to continue their non-stop economic gang bang of the American middle class, including in particular, economically distressed […]

Most people reading this column probably know that I have been in the Gospel ministry for over 40 years. I am a lifelong student of the scriptures; I began learning the Bible from my father before I started kindergarten. Before I could read, my dad saw to it that I had the books of the entire Bible memorized. I have […]

By Walter E.Williams The victors of war write its history in order to cast themselves in the most favorable light. That explains the considerable historical ignorance about our war of 1861 and panic over the Confederate flag. To create better understanding, we have to start a bit before the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The 1783 Treaty of Paris ended the […]

“They had found a leader, Robert E. Lee — and what a leader! … No military leader since Napoleon has aroused such enthusiastic devotion among troops as did Lee when he reviewed them on his horse Traveller.” So wrote Samuel Eliot Morison in his magisterial “The Oxford History of the American People” in 1965. First in his class at West […]

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes. – Psalm 119:71  I was in my early thirties, a dedicated wife and mother, a Christian worker at my husband’s side. Yet inwardly I found myself on a trip nobody wants to take—the trip downward. I was heading for that certain sort of breakdown […]

August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on […]

Three major charities canceled fundraisers at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Thursday, in fallout against his business empire over his response to deadly violence at last weekend’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. The American Cancer Society said it was moving an upcoming gala, citing its “values and commitment to diversity.” The Cleveland Clinic, another longtime Mar-a-Lago customer, […]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) issued a statement Thursday calling for removing Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol. There is “no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of the men of the Confederacy” in “places of honor” such as the Capitol, Pelosi said. “The Confederate statues in the halls of Congress have always been reprehensible,” Pelosi said in a […]

As President Trump faces an intensifying backlash over his response to white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, he is coming under increasingly biting criticism from Republican lawmakers, whose support he needs to pass his agenda. “The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to be successful,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) […]

President Trump on Thursday tweeted a fresh defense of Confederate monuments, claiming, “You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson — who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!” Trump added that “the beauty” being removed from towns and parks will be “missed.” Opposition to the monuments has surged since Saturday’s deadly violence at a […]

A van plowed into pedestrians along Barcelona’s busy Las Ramblas district on Thursday, killing at least 13 people. Witnesses said the white van zigzagged through an area filled with tourists. At least 80 people were taken to hospitals. Spanish authorities arrested two people. Police also fatally shot five men in a car attack that injured pedestrians in a town outside […]

Good morning, it’s Friday, August 18, 2017. I’m taking a week’s hiatus from this daily newsletter, and will be back in the saddle on August 28. My sidekick, RCP copy chief Tom Kavanagh, will send out next week’s emails touting the original coverage on our pages, but you’ll have to make do without the daily history lesson until then. Yesterday, […]

A couple emails that were sent to me this morning that I think many of you will appreciate and I would like to think all of you would agree with. The media and the RINO’s alongwith the Far left Dems will not tell the TRUTH or even get within a thousand miles of TRUTH as they are allergic to it […]

Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors and their little girl stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said she wanted to be President someday. Both of her parents, […]