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The Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to approve new standards for social studies classes. The 11-4 vote was a preliminary approval for a curriculum that will serve as the framework in Texas classrooms for the next 10 years. Texas has the second largest school system in the nation, behind California, and is the second-largest textbook market in the country. The Lone Star state can thus have influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide. Read more »

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on national currency. The pledge does not constitute an establishment of religion, Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “[T]he Pledge is an endorsement of our form of government, not of religion or any particular sect.” Read more »

This is a nice video which puts recent planetary warming in perspective with temperatures of the last few hundred years…and the last few thousand years. When we examine the historical record, any warming that may have been occurring recently (and appears to have leveled off) is pretty tame. Claims of climate doom are nothing but a hysterical hoax. Read more »

Because you know that sooner or later you’ll hear them again, Robert Moon debunks 10 liberal lies about Iraq. From the alleged thousands of Iraqi civilians killed by Americans, to the unilateral “rush to war,” to the claim that Saddam had no terrorist ties, to deceptions about WMDs, it’s all here. Read more »

“Nearly every important office in Washington is occupied by someone with an aggressive dislike for our heritage, our freedom, our history, and our Constitution.””Nearly every important office in Washington is occupied by someone with an aggressive dislike for our heritage, our freedom, our history, and our Constitution.” – Dick Armey Read more »

The Sam Adams Alliance has done a study of the Tea Party movement. The study is called “The Early Adopters” and it examines why people got involved with the Tea Party movement, what they seek to accomplish, and some interesting dynamics about the people and politics of the phenomenon. Read more »

Bill Whittle takes us on a trip to examine some of the noble ideals that formed the foundation of our great nation. As Whittle explains, the U.S. Constitution is the “how” of our country while the Declaration of Independence is the “why” of our country. Read more »

Patriots, it’s time to dust off your Bibles and put your emphasis on the Word of God. Let us never forget that God established the greatest nation in the world. When we think of freedom, remember that it is The Almighty who has given us the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What America needs is a change of heart that is faithful, true, and enduring. Read more »

There will probably never be another generation like the one that founded the United States. Grounded in a Biblical worldview and educated in history, this group of men had a handle on the noble possibilities of which humans are capable…and of the great evil we can sink to when we get sloppy.
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America once stood on the foundation of God’s Word. But that foundation is crumbling – even in the church – and being replaced by man’s word, observed one Christian apologist. Whatever we (America) once were, we are no longer. We have changed” Read more »

Conservative leaders have released an excellent statement today which articulates our loyalty to the founding principles of America–the principles that produced the greatest, most affluent, most tranquil and free nation in all of human history. It is called the Mount Vernon Statement. Read more »

Loving your country does not mean being satisfied with the status quo or the way government is being administered. Government invariably, possibly inevitably, oversteps its authority. Love of country, it must be emphasized, is always strengthened by both a knowledge of history and of the Constitution and, when need be, acting on that knowledge. Read more »

The principles of the Founders are neither dead nor irrelevant; they are necessary if we are to preserve our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The seven principles of the American republic are: Unalienable rights, Ordered Liberty, Private Property, A Free Market Economy, Limited Government, The Rule of Law, and Personal Responsibility. Read more »

Liberals are wailing that former congressman Tom Tancredo is a racist, based on comments he made about the intellectual prowess of the body that elected Barack Obama. So is Tancredo really a racist…or are his critics only proving Tancredo right once again? Read more »

The Tennessee State Board of Education approved guidelines Thursday on how to teach the Bible in public high schools. Under the new law, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Roy Herron, the state is authorized to create a course for a “nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible.” Read more »

Peaceable or not, the United States has a long history of revolutionary and reactionary behavior. Once a citizenry that generally fomented a rebellion and founded a country, Americans are no longer the people they once were. Quite simply, most Americans, having been beguiled by materialism and technology, are more or less compliant lambs, only protesting when someone takes away their cell phone or causes them material discomfort. Read more »

Have you (as a patriotic, freedom-loving American) ever wondered how Americans could elect corrupt leaders who make it fairly obvious even in their campaigns and through their records that they don’t understand or don’t care about the U.S. Constitution? There is a one-word explanation: ignorance. Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education has delayed its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that would examine America’s Christian heritage and the role of Christianity in the foundation of our nation. Read more »

The usual Palin bash-fest at MSNBC this morning saw Mika Brzezinski, in her zeal to hit Palin again, revealed herself as something less than the brightest bulb in the pack. It seems Palin has a considerably better grasp of history surrounding the Founders than does Brzezinski. Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education on Wednesday begins hearing testimonies regarding proposed revisions to the social studies curriculum. Much of the debate has centered on proposals highlighting the religious beliefs of the nation’s founding fathers. Read more »

Excavators for the first time have found the remains of a home from the time of Jesus in Nazareth, Israel’s Antiquities Authority announced Monday. Up until now, archaeologists only found tombs but not remains of homes from the time of Jesus in Nazareth, where he spent most of his life. Read more »