Posts Tagged ‘ history ’

National Law of the Harvest

2010-10-12
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National Law of the Harvest

This was common belief two centuries ago. God chooses to delay individual rewards and punishments to the hereafter; nations reap here and now.

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Common Sense and the Debate on Minimum Citizenship Requirements at the Constitutional Convention

2010-08-10
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Common Sense and the Debate on Minimum Citizenship Requirements at the Constitutional Convention

And so, the question remains, comes back to us, haunts us: In that there are minimum legal standards for citizenship in this the greatest country on earth, and even higher legal standards for those who hope to serve in high places in this the greatest government on earth, based on common sense moral and...

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“When They Dropped the Bomb”; Remembering August 1945

2010-08-04
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This week marks 65 years since the United States dropped the atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman delivered a “rain of ruin” upon Hiroshima, Japan, with Nagasaki hit three days later, killing 100,000 to 200,000.Truman’s objective was to compel surrender from an intransigent enemy that refused to halt its naked aggression....

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Climategate: ‘The Science is Settled,’ They Told Copernicus

2010-03-13
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Climategate: ‘The Science is Settled,’ They Told Copernicus

The overwhelming reaction of the sixteenth century scientific community to Copernicus’ new book On the Revolutions, first published in 1543, was contemptuous rejection. The Greek astronomer, Aristarchus of Samos, had proposed in the third century B.C. that the Earth was the third planet from the Sun, and not the center of the universe. The...

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Barack and the Buchanan Precedent

Presidential comparisons that greeted Barack Obama’s election ranged from the sublime to the transcendent. He was variously described as the second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment of Franklin Roosevelt, and even a budding Abraham Lincoln—a sort of Savior-in-Chief to rescue an aggrieved nation from the Dantesque tribulations of his predecessor. Mr. Obama’s...

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