How far the president will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin. — Thomas Sowell If Obama acts like a marxist, talks like a marxist, and looks …
USSR, 1959: I am a “young pioneer” in school. History classes remind us that there is a higher authority than our parents and teachers: the leaders of the Communist Party. USA, 2009: “Progressives” control the government. Children in some public schools sing songs about the president and study his directives. …
If you have not read the great encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pius XI, it is worth your time to do so. The Holy Father wrote to warn the world about the dangers of Communism, dangers that are the more dangerous because they are insidious. Of course, to some, even using …
When Honduras’ President Zelaya was deposed from power by order of the Supreme Court of that country, and with the majority support by the congress, Honduras was fast moving toward a Chavist dictatorship, transgressing the constitution and the laws. In addition to Honduras’ highest judicial body, the most prominent political …
It’s a sad commentary on the quality of our educational system that so many Americans seem to think that Bastille Day is simply the French version of our own Independence Day. It is nothing of the sort. The American Revolution was a fight for individual liberty and against oppressive government. …
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, an imposing black box of a building in the heart of Riga, tells the story of Latvia’s time inside the Soviet Union. The Soviet soldiers, glorified as heroes in Moscow, are portrayed as criminals and occupiers, no better than the Germans they defeated. …
A careful review of history should convince any objective student that there has never been an age that was not dominated by conspiracies. But we need not be scholars to reach this same conclusion. We need only open our eyes to see conspiracies all about us. — “Right in Your …
When the scholars of the 21st or 22nd Century write the story of our time, they may chuckle at the documents of our diplomats, the public statements of our politicians, and the final words of our historians. But, if they want to get at the truth, or to get as …
The selections in Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag by the Critchlows should be required reading in our schools. While only a few nations remain Communist, we should not forget that these regimes maintain nuclear arsenals that threaten the security of their neighbors and the United States. …
It’s not a pleasant thought, but we all know that there exists in America today an anti-religious element whose antipathy for our fervor rivals that of foreign tyrants. We can be thankful that the militant atheists and antitheists among us have not yet clutched the power they crave to harness …
