Tag Archives: Declaration of Independence

Divided!

Posted on November 12, 2024 by David E Smith

The United States of America is unique. We were not established from an ethnic group, or a tribe, or a religion, or an aristocracy, or a race. Such things do not define us. We were forged from an idea. We were founded as a constitutional republic on the principles of federalism, individual liberty, limited government, and separation of powers.

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Remembering the Gettysburg Address

Posted on November 9, 2024 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

As you know, Lincoln was our first Republican president and served during the entire course of the Civil War. The war ended on April 9, 1865. Lincoln fell to an assassin’s bullet in Ford’s Theatre 5 days later.

Posted in Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality | Tagged 13th Amendment, Abraham Lincoln, Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump, Edward Everett, Emancipation Proclamation, Eric Metaxas, faith, Freedom, General Meade, General Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg Address, Religionless Christianity, repentance, Revolutionary War, Slavery, The Civil War | Comments Off

You DO Have God-Given Rights

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

In her interview on MSNBC, the Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla said this about Christians who look to God for their rights.

Posted in Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged Christianity, commands, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, God-given rights, governing officials, government, Heidi Przybyla, laws, rulers | Comments Off

No God, No Rights

Posted on February 4, 2023 by David E Smith

When Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech on the 50th anniversary of “Roe v. Wade” about a week ago, she infamously left out the Creator—when talking about our rights. One wag told me, “Hey, at least Kamala didn’t say, we ‘are created by … you know, the thing,’” as did her boss on the campaign trail.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Adolf Hitler, American Revolution, Charles Darwin, Clay Christensen, Creator, Declaration of Independence, Dennis Prager, French Revolution, Kamala Harris, Richard Weikart, Thomas Jefferson | Comments Off

Killing Newborn Babies

Posted on January 14, 2023 by David E Smith

America’s two founding documents have important bearing on the subject of abortion. The Declaration of Independence acknowledges that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. The first right enumerated is the “right to life.” The founders didn’t grant this right. They simply acknowledged it and spelled it out in our founding documents.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Declaration of Independence, Dobbs v. Jackson, Eric Scheidler, Micaiah Bilger, Pro-Life Action League, Right to Life, Roe v. Wade, safe harbor laws, Safe Haven Laws, U.S. Supreme Court | Comments Off

Big Foundations Unleashed Collectivist ‘Revolution’ via U.S. Schools

Posted on April 6, 2021 by David E Smith

It may seem counterintuitive, but massive tax-exempt foundations funded by some of America’s most prominent capitalists and industrialists helped foment what congressional investigators described as a collectivist “revolution” in the U.S.

The goal was to “so alter life in the United States that it could be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.” Many tools were used, but the public education system was the most important and effective.

Posted in Education | Tagged Aaron Sargent, Alan Gaither, Alger Hiss, Anthony Sutton, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Carnegie Endowment, Chicago University, Columbia University, Common Core, David Rockefeller, Declaration of Independence, Dewey Laboratory School, Fabian socialism, Ford Foundation, Frankfurt School, Frederick Gates, G. Edward Griffin, Harvard, John D. Rockefeller, John Dewey, Norman Dodd, oligarchical collectivism, Reece Committee, Rockefeller foundation, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, United Nations, United Nations Educational, University of California | Comments Off

In Chicago, Schools Re-Write History With “1619” Lies

Posted on February 6, 2020 by David E Smith

In Chicago Public Schools, captive students are being indoctrinated to believe that one of the very first societies in the world to end slavery was actually a monster defined by the evils of slavery — almost as if this monstrous nation had invented it.

Posted in Education | Tagged 1619 Project, Alex Newman, Chicago Public Schools, Declaration of Independence, Fidel Castro, Herbert Matthews, James Madison, Janice Jackson, Mauritania, New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Sarah Jeong, Slavery, Walter Duranty, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

Media Effort Distorts True History of America

Posted on August 30, 2019 by David E Smith

The New York Times has embarked on an effort to rewrite the history of the United States as a nation built upon slavery. Calling it the “1619 Project,” the opening article is a whopping 7,600-word effort to look at 18th Century history through a liberal 21^stcentury lens. Joshua Lawson has written an excellent rebuttal to this effort in The Federalist. Because much of the NYT’s ideology is already being inserted into the narrative of schools and universities, I wanted to pass along some portions of this important article for your consideration.

No, America Wasn’t Built On Slavery,

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Posted in Media Watch | Tagged 1619 Project, Alexander Hamilton, Declaration of Independence, Founding Fathers, John Jay, Joshua Lawson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, racism, Revolutionary War, Slavery, The New York Times, The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Thomas Jefferson | Comments Off

Score Three for American Conservatism

Posted on July 12, 2019 by David E Smith

Three Points to Draw out of the Flag-Kneeling Spectacles in Sports

“Psh … I’m not going to the f***in’ White House,” sneered U.S. Women’s National soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe, barely letting the reporter finish his question. “No, I’m not going to the White House,” she said again, just in case there was any doubt.

This took place before the team had won its fourth World Cup championship amid sophomoric Twitter squabbles between Rapinoe, her lesbian girlfriend Sue Bird, and President Trump over Rapinoe’s national anthem protests. In 2016, she’d followed Colin Kaepernick in kneeling during the …

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American War for Independence, Colin Kaepernick, Declaration of Independence, Donald J. Trump, Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, White House, World Cup | Comments Off

The Attempt to Tear Down Images of George Washington—a Tale of Two Revolutions

Posted on May 13, 2019 by David E Smith

Could a contrast between the American Revolution and the French Revolution be relevant to today’s conflicts? I think so. The attempt to demote historic icons, like George Washington, is a case in point.George Washington grew up as a gentleman farmer in Virginia and was a fourth generation slave-owner. But by the end of his life, he had decided slavery was immoral and so at his death, he freed his slaves and made provision for them.

Posted in Education | Tagged Cultural Marxism, Declaration of Independence, George Washington High School, George Washington’s Sacred Fire, James Madison, King George III, Notre Dame Cathedral, Peter Lillback, The American Revolution, The French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny, U.S. Constitution, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

The Mind of Godless Man is Both Silly and Dangerous

Posted on August 2, 2018 by David E Smith

How could a dude from 1926 have nailed the state of 2018 American culture so accurately in just one simple quote?

Posted in Faith, Sexuality | Tagged Brett McCracken, Brian D. McLaren, Declaration of Independence, Emergent Church, G.K. Chesterton, J.R. Daniel Kirk, Scopes Monkey Trial, The Gospel Coalition | Comments Off

Creating the Declaration of Independence

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Benjamin D. Smith

Historian David Shestokas says “the principles that are found nation’s founding documents are not Republican or Democrat. And rather than divide us, those principles can unite us.

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