Donate Join UFI Home Page UFI Projects Contact UFI February 20, 2007 UFI Addresses United Nations General Assembly, Calls Upon Commission to Address Family Issues Opportunity often presents itself to those who are observant, vigilant and prepared. Thomas Christensen, a longtime member of the Governing Board of United Families International, seized upon...
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The Uniform Holiday Bill, signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, moved the celebration of George Washington’s Birthday to the third Monday in FEBRUARY. Sometime after this, with Lincoln’s birthday also being in the month of February, people began referring to the holiday as “Presidents’ Day.” Of note is that Presidential tradition is to...
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istockphoto/Mike Elliot Those who stand up to protect marriage as the union of one woman and one man are sometimes slower to oppose civil unions. Isn’t the support of civil unions for same-sex couples just a comfortable, compromise? No. Civil unions are a slippery slope to same-sex marriage. Yesterday’s report from the New Jersey...
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Have you heard this one lately? “Don’t shove your religion down my throat!” In this hypersensitive age, who hasn’t? All too frequently, such denunciations come in response to the free exercise of religious speech in a public place or public forum or, even more often than we suppose, in protest to like speech in...
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A Revolutionary War Colonel, he built the fortifications at Breed’s Hill and commanded the militia at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. He fought in the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. His name was William Prescott, born FEBRUARY 20, 1726. After the Boston Tea Party,...
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: Since its founding, it’s been a tradition at Google to snub President’s Day. Follow this link to the original source: “Google Holiday Logos“ JBS.org COMMENTARY: Since their founding in 1999, the deciders in chief at Google.com have provided cute cartoons of their logo for such days as Earth Day, the 50th Anniversery...
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Among businesspeople, bankers, and investors, there is a growing fear that the economy is headed towards recession or already in one. But that alone is not the source of worry. After all, an economy if left alone to function in freedom can recover. The real problem has to do with the political response. There...
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Britain’s Daily Mail, Jan. 29, 2007, reported in the article “Multiculturalism drives young Muslims to shun British values”: Multiculturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found. In stark contrast with their parents, growing numbers sympathize with extreme teachings of Islam, with almost four in...
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The groans of a dying man kept him awake in the little inn outside New York, but he was hardened to the cries because a college friend at Brown University had persuaded him to be an atheist. The next morning he learned the man who died in the night was none other than his...
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Do you know the answer to these questions? · Did the federal government ever declare a “President’s Dayâ€Â? · Whose birthday was it supposed to honor? When was it changed to the 3rd Monday in February? · Which President was the youngest? Oldest? Tallest? Shortest? Heaviest? · Which Presidents declared war on the Muslim...
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Lacking the votes to restrict wiretapping by the executive branch, Democrats are instead trying to do it through the backdoor by punishing telephone companies Source: Wall Street Journal. Stiff Right Jab responds: The Wall Street Journal summarizes its position: We’ve long held that a President doesn’t need a court order under the Constitution to...
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USA Today. WASHINGTON – John McCain is known for his temper. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been dubbed “Senator Hothead†by more than one publication. Even his Republican Senate colleagues have not been spared his sharp tongue. McCain, who had a 22-year career as a naval aviator before launching his political career in...
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Wall Street Journal. Kosovo’s long-awaited declaration of independence triggered swift and furious responses from Moscow to Belgrade, launching a standoff that many politicians worry could end in destabilization in the Balkans and beyond. Ethnic Albanians celebrated across the territory — a Serbian province for centuries — after the unilateral declaration was signed on parchment...
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Regarding the new Bush Administration tax cutting stimulus package, professor George Reisman warns, Today, we have a credit crisis emanating from the collapse of the real estate bubble that the Fed launched in order to cope with the effects of the collapse of the stock market bubble that it had launched only a few...
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Liberty Counsel. Long Beach, CA – The Long Beach District School Board has approved a settlement agreement with Christopher Rand, a high school student who was denied credit for community service hours he completed at his church. Chris has now received full credit for the hours. The district administration also rewrote its community service...
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Liberty Letters Quote of the Day: Benjamin Franklin, Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ Nothing could more perfectly express the optimism of Benjamin Franklin’s simplified form of Christian piety mixed with Enlightenment thinking than his affirmation of the harmony between prudence and benevolence: … for self-denial is never a duty or a...
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Liberty Letters, 2008-01 In his 1832 work, “Democracy In America,” Alexis de Tocqueville reminds us that “Christianity, which has declared that all are equal in the sight of God, will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the eye of the law. … Religion … is the companion of liberty in...
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Are you old enough to remember the ice age threat? Well, I am. The pro-U.N., pro-globalist, rabid environmentalist crowd, warned of a coming end of times, global ice age (back in the 1970s if I remember right), and the solution was  you guessed it  big, big, and bigger government. Strange solution, since...
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Why are questions about Communist China asked only in the Democratic
presidential debates? We want to know what the Republican candidates
plan to do about China sending us poisoned foods and toys.
All presidential candidates should be asked what they plan to do
about the fact that free trade with China means acquiescing in gross
discrimination against U.S. products...
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… the advent of Jesus Christ upon earth was required to teach that all the members of the human race are by nature equal and alike. - Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy In America," 1835.
Liberty Letters Comment: Alexis de Tocqueville, who with a philosopher's and sometimes a prophet's pen understood so much about America and...
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