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Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street Movement has been with us sufficiently to register on the national consciousness. Many are surprised the Movement has lasted this long. True, many of the “demands” that have...
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Blood Libel, Part 2
A Biased Court The UN purports to be an objective forum based on the principle of equality of rights for all nations. The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a nonpartisan conflict management...
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The New Colossus
” ‘Listen to Me, My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me, and I will make My justice rest as a light of the peoples’ ” (Is. 51: 4). The Jewish American poet, Emma...
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Elected
“We elected you as our representatives. Our taxes pay your salaries. That means—like postal employees—you work for us. Every last one of you: president on down. You wanted these positions, thankless...
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Mayflower Compact
A foundation stone for democracy on this continent, the Mayflower Compact was the first document under which the Plymouth Colony was governed. The agreement, which established an elected authority all...
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Not Democracy
“Then Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her robe of many colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head and went away crying bitterly” (2 Sam. 13: 19). For those who may not be familiar with...
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The Big Tent
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Beatrice Hall, summarizing Voltaire’s view “…[F]alse brethren… came in by stealth to spy out our liberty...
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As Old as Scripture
With the civil unrest over a police shooting in Ferguson, MO still fresh in memory, a scandal involving racist police video and texts in Fort Lauderdale, FL [1], and a questionable police shooting...
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Imperfect Justice, Part 2 – At Large
The American system of justice is the foremost in the world. We pour enormous resources into federal, state, and local investigative and law enforcement agencies, and the associated court structures....
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Christian Identity
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits” (Matt. 7: 15-16). The Southern Poverty Law Center currently...
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Auction
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” — Abraham Lincoln We are rapidly losing something precious in this...
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Democracy
Lincoln Memorial, Photo by Jeff Kubina, Source http://flickr.com/photos/95118988@N00/1372774027 (CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic) “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God...
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Integrity and Voter Rights
“Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You” (Psalm 25: 21). Last week Republican Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina signed into law a bill requiring state approved voter...
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Not Dismayed
Most of you will recall Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis”. The series of essays was written during one of our country’s darkest hours, with enlistments in the Continental Army about to run out. Paine must...
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Self-Government
The ability of men and women to govern themselves was tested this week, not only in the United States but overseas. One can argue that it passed muster. But only by a razor thin margin. Here are a...
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Nepotism
“A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or...
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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden...
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A foundation stone for democracy on this continent, the Mayflower Compact was the first document under which the Plymouth Colony was governed. The agreement, which established an elected authority all...
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“American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be...
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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a...
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