From CIS.org WASHINGTON (November 2005) — As riots engulf France’s immigrant communities and threaten to spread across Europe, government leaders there are learning — perhaps too late — that immigrant numbers and integration matter. The United States, with its more successful history of immigration and assimilation, still has time to avoid going down the...

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“Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.” —Harold Evans Mr. Evans is right – and propaganda surrounds us everywhere. The latest example – in this researcher’s readings – is Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton. A well written, enjoyable, even inspiring book — at...

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All eight members up for re-election to the Pennsylvania school board that had been sued for introducing the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in biology class were swept out of office yesterday by a slate of challengers who campaigned against the intelligent design policy “We are all for it being...

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“If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue.” –James Madison

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We’re Post-Christian, And we’re happy In our Secular Reteat… Mon Dieu!…What’s all that burning?! What’s that smoke-smell in the street? Mon frere! Put down that gas-bomb! We’re the French who know-it-all! This is NOT how we do French Fries… Torching towns!?….. Of all the Gaul! Mon ami…Let’s be Enlightened! W’e'll convert if you insist…...

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NUMBER 4 THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED John Jay, Federalist No. 4, p.97 MY LAST paper assigned several reasons why the safety of the people would be best secured by union against the danger it may be exposed to by just causes of war given to other nations; and those reasons show that...

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Alito sends signal, so says Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), that precedent is apparently more persuasive than principle – and this from a nominee to the court who is being packaged as one who will oppose legislating from the bench. But Mr. Alito, isn’t that how Roe v. Wade became law in the first...

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NUMBER 3 THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED John Jay, Federalist No. 3, p.94 IT IS not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and well-informed) seldom adopt and steadily persevere for many years in an erroneous opinion respecting their interests. That consideration naturally tends to create...

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Touting studies on the benefits of pre-schooling, San Diego moves toward universal free pre-school for 3 to 5 year olds. Sounds good, but something is missing from this discussion. In this writer’s opinion we ought to be asking ourselves, “Are we moving toward the land of Plato and Marx with cradle to grave education...

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NUMBER 2 CONCERNING DANGERS FROM FOREIGN FORCE AND INFLUENCE John Jay, Federalist No. 2, p.90 WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which in its consequences must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking...

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INTRODUCTION Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, p.87 AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the...

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PREFACE TO THE 1788 EDITION The Federalist Papers, Preface, p.85 It is supposed that a collection of the papers which have made their appearance in the Gazettes of this City, under the Title of the FEDERALIST, may not be without effect in assisting the public judgement on the momentous question of the Constitution for...

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“This misfortune affects me less than others, because it is not in my temper to repine at evils that are past but to endeavor to draw good out of them, and because I think our safety depends on a total change of system. And this change of system will only be produced out of...

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Dear Readers: Liberty Letters is not gone. But I am rethinking and expanding the site – so that it will be better than ever before. Included will be a Liberty Classics Library for your enjoyment, and a vigorous attempt to bring in some of the best writers and thinkers on the subject of liberty...

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