Most likely, few have wondered how Germany was able to build a war machine during the 1930’s, especially when reparation payments from WWI broke its economy and sent millions into unemployment. But the story is actually quite fascinating. Hitler, in cahoots with German’s central bank president, Hjalmar Schacht, built a parallel fake currency to fund […]
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding, let us not forget how deeply our Founders believed in the guiding hand of Divine Providence. In the Declaration of Independence, they staked their project on a theological claim, insisting that “we hold these truths to be self‑evident, that all men are created equal, [that] […]
Christians and Jews have faced recurring waves of persecution from the first century to the present, sometimes even twisting their own traditions to persecute each other. In every era, shifting political, religious, and social pressures have found ways to target those whose ultimate loyalty is to God rather than the state or the dominant culture. […]
The year 2026, this year, marks the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. While the Founding generation sought for and prayed for prosperity and a land of liberty for themselves and their posterity and even understood the scope of what a nation blessed with liberty could accomplish, at least to some degree, they could […]
Since the founding of the United States, over 1.3 million Americans have died in wars, and more than 1.1 million people have died from drug overdoses since 1970. The total number of U.S. military deaths from all wars—including both battle deaths and non-combat related causes—exceeds 1.3 million. Of these, approximately 666,000 died in battle, and […]
As Americans look back on our country’s history, they should clearly see the wisdom of our forefathers who came up with the not so crazy idea that men could govern themselves. We should all be grateful to those who had the foresight to see the future of our country, although I’m sure there were some […]
If you’re not part of the Solution, you’re part of the Problem Where do you think America is today? I ask that question because I’m not sure most Americans have an answer. We have been and continue to be attacked whether it be the corrupt society we live in with continued deterioration of our moral […]
I watched a speech translated into English days after it was given by John Paul II in Warsaw Poland in June of 1979. At the end of the speech hundreds of thousands of Polish people who for thirty years were not allowed to openly worship God under the atheistic communist regime in Poland shouted for […]
A welcome change of venue for America: As President Trump took the reins of America on Martin Luther King’s birthday, we once again can celebrate the freedoms bestowed upon us by our forefathers who gave us the foundation that our country has been built upon. In my lifetime I cannot remember when I have seen […]
Over the past several weeks my lovely wife Lynn has decided to “streamline” my library. I love my books—every one of them. I have well over a thousand books and at the end of the exercise we removed a total of seven books from the inventory. One, a book written by Douglas South Hall Freeman […]
The issue of RACE that has come up increasingly in our politics this election year is intimately connected to the issue of what has been called our “great American sin”. Slavery, however, in all its various forms, is as old as history itself. In experiencing this great crime against humanity America is not unique. From […]
I have never been very interested in the “soft sciences” of sociology or psychology, but I have been interested in their distant cousin, economics. Transactions—financial and otherwise, and commerce, bring people together and ultimately form the basis of our growing societies. Unquestionably feelings of love and loyalty have a very important place in our lives […]