“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”—Gore Vidal The countdown has begun. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election, and…

Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, hundreds of people, if not more, have used the horrors of Nazi tyranny to defame their opponents. The GOP compares the overreach of Democratic politicians to the Nazis. Liberals compare…

In 1935, the year that FDR signed the Social Security Act into law, the birth rate was 18.7 per 1,000. In 1940, when the first monthly check was issued, it had gone up to 19.4. By 1954, when…

Usually when politicians apologize, it’s because they have been caught doing something wrong, or they are about to be caught. Such was likely the case with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who recently offered an “apology” for…

From the “In Case You Missed It” files… President Obama was on the CBS News show “60 Minutes” a few weeks back when the topic turned to Putin and Russia’s role in Syria. Interviewer Steve Kroft pointed out that…

Ben Carson, as a corporate board member, supported aggressive sodomite rights policies at both Costco and Kellogg. This news, just surfacing this week, is bound to give social conservatives pause as they decide whom to back in the…

The right to keep and bear arms may be the single most controversial and most contentious right listed in our Bill of Rights. Much of the root of that contention is in understanding what the founders and framers…