Tag Archives: George Washington

Is Biology Insensitive?

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Academia is being infected with the virus of absurdity. Theology, philosophy, arts, and social sciences have all been infiltrated with truth-denying ideologies which, starting out as seemingly innocent statements, eventually turn into denial of some of the most basic and objectively verifiable statements known to man. And while it's one thing for the arts and the humanities to fall victim to modern fallacies, it's extra shocking when "hard" sciences start to cave as well.

Posted in Education, Faith, next gen, Sexuality | Tagged academia, Biology, education, George Washington, human biology, Illinois Eagle, Is Biology Insensitive?, Sarah Eddy, sexuality | Comments Off

The Greatest Story Ever Distorted

Posted on August 8, 2023 by David E Smith

A powerful story of forgiveness is found in John 8, involving Jesus and the woman caught in adultery, wherein He famously said, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” Her accusers quietly leave, one after another. Jesus then tells her that neither does He accuse her, “But go and sin no more”—a part often ignored today by our “tolerant” society.

But now, if the Chinese Communists have their way, the whole story of Jesus and the adulterous woman will be completely turned on its head.

Posted in Faith | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Ben Franklin, Bible, Bob Fu, Chairman Mao, China Aid, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Communists, Christian Freedom International, George Washington, Jesus, Mao, Mike Gallagher, Ten Commandments, Thomas Jefferson, Wendy Wright | Comments Off

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death?

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Kings and others have used the Bible and assumptions based upon narratives in it to support the divine right of monarchs, but their arguments were weak. History is largely the story of governments coming and going, kings and rulers rising and falling. It is a rather bleak narrative and is not complimentary to humanity. It begs the question, “Does the Bible address human government?”

Posted in Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality | Tagged America, Constitution, Founders, George Washington, Gettysburg Address, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death?, Great Britain, John Adams, John Wycliffe, King George, Lincoln, right to liberty, Right to Life, right to pursuit of happiness, The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny | Comments Off

Trying to Defrock George Washington

Posted on May 19, 2022 by David E Smith

First, they came for the George Washington mural in a school in San Francisco—because our first president had been a slaveowner. Later they came for his name on the same school, and as of last count, the name survived. Then, they came for the statues of the father of our country during the summer of statue-toppling.

Now, the left wants to strip his name from his eponymous university.

Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Constitution, George Washington, George Washington University, Marxist iconoclasts, Nick Nolte, Slavery, Washington Post, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?, William Wilberforce, Winston Churchill | Comments Off

Schools As “Religion-Free Zones”?

Posted on May 10, 2022 by David E Smith

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a new case related to school prayer. This story began in 2015 when high school football Coach Joe Kennedy got on his knee at mid-field after a game and thanked God quietly. Some of the players voluntarily joined him in this huddle.

Posted in Education | Tagged "Memorial and Remonstrance", Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Coach Joe Kennedy, Darrell White, First Amendment, First Liberty, First Liberty Institute, football, George Washington, James Madison, Judge Darrell White, Rachel Laser, religion-free zones, school prayer, U.S. Supreme Court | Comments Off

The U.S. Constitution Under Fire

Posted on October 2, 2021 by David E Smith

By God’s grace, the American experiment has lasted for 232 years now, since the Constitution went into effect on April 30, 1789. Every political leader that is sworn in agrees to uphold the Constitution.

But now in our day of rampant political correctness, of Marxist revisionism, of “egg shell plaintiffs,” of “safe spaces,” of “hate speech” (which is often just the other guy’s opinion), even the Constitution has recently been labeled as “harmful.” It might offend someone.

Posted in Federal | Tagged "harmful content", Campus Reform, Constitution, Dan Crenshaw, Federalist, George Washington, James Lankford, James Madison, John Witherspoon, Marxist, National Archives, Ophelie Jacobson, Peter Lillback, Thomas Sowell, William Gladstone | Comments Off

Tear Down this Statue, But Don’t Look Over There

Posted on July 6, 2021 by David E Smith

I recently read a very interesting, and brave, editorial from Bill Donohue of the Catholic League. It appeared on AFA’s national news service - One News Now. He points out the contradiction in the efforts to remove statues all across America because of how the culture now views the words or actions of certain individuals which can often cloud how they are remembered today for their larger contributions.

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, ACT-UP, Barack Obama, Bill Donohue, Brenda Howard, Catholic League, Christopher Columbus, Communist Party, George Washington, Gilbert Baker, Harry Hay, Harry Truman, Harvey Milk, Larry Kramer, Martin Luther King, Mattachine Society, NAMBLA, One News Now, Pride month, Theodore Roosevelt | Comments Off

Court Packing—Destabilizing and Unnecessary

Posted on November 6, 2020 by David E Smith

The idea of expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court, also known as “court packing,” has surfaced once again, as it did after the Brett Kavanaugh appointment. Often mentioned is a proposal by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California Berkeley’s Law School. He favors increasing the size of the court to 13 instead of its current nine. There are other calls for a larger court, such as those produced by organizations like “Take Back the Court” and “Demand Justice.”

Posted in Federal | Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andrew Johnson, court packing, Donald Trump, Erwin Chemerinsky, George Washington, Jimmy Carter, Judiciary Act of 1789, Judiciary Act of 1869, SCOTUS, U.S. Supreme Court, University of California-Berkeley, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor | Comments Off

Chicago Public Schools Want to Replace Columbus Day

Posted on March 3, 2020 by David E Smith

The Chicago Board of Education voted 5-2 on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, to stop celebrating Columbus Day and replace it with “Indigenous Peoples Day.” This latest example of political correctness comes on the heels of calls for paintings in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) that contain images of white people to be removed. CPS has the largest collection of early 20^th century murals in the U.S. Most of them were commissioned by the Work Projects Administration as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.

CPS has created a new educational steering committee to evaluate all future artwork displayed …

Posted in Education | Tagged Bateman Elementary, Chicago Public Schools, Columbus Day, Ethel Spears, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, New Deal, Patrick Henry, Percy Julian Middle School, Sarah Dennis, Social Justice Club, Thomas Jefferson, Work Projects | Comments Off

It’s the Morality, Stupid

Posted on August 14, 2019 by David E Smith

Everyone is scratching their heads trying to figure out what has gone wrong when disturbing stories break of more attacks by young men killing strangers at random. We are reeling as a nation in the wake of these mass shootings and wondering what has gone wrong. Our cultural elites have led us down a path of unbelief, and now we are reaping the consequences.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Bill Clinton, Brothers Karamazov, French Revolution, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, Jerry Newcombe, John Winthrop, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Robert Charles Winthrop, Voltaire, William J. Murray | Comments Off

America’s Historical Ignorance

Posted on February 23, 2019 by David E Smith

U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Ny), the darling of the new socialist Democrats in this country, recently referred to the three branches of government. She said, they are the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. John Roberts, call your office.

Posted in Education | Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American history, Bernie Sanders, George Washington, History, James Madison, John F. Kennedy, Karl Marx, Marilyn Monroe, Mel Gabler, Norma Gabler, Peter Lillback, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Constitution, Wall of Misconception, Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Comments Off

The Revival of “In God We Trust” in Schools

Posted on February 5, 2019 by David E Smith

An Illinois lawmaker’s bill to publicly display the motto “In God We Trust” in public schools is the latest challenge to the secularism that is the status quo in many public schools across the country. Though displaying the motto would not be mandatory, State Representative Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) says his legislation (HB 341) would encourage a return to Christian principles: “As a God-fearing Christian, I believe that the lack of such is the problem in our country today.”

This bill has three co-sponsors in the Illinois House thus far: State Representatives Andrew Chesney (R-Freeport), Chris Miller (R-Robinson) and …

Posted in Education | Tagged Andrew Chesney, Brad Halbrook, Chris Miller, Danbury Baptist Association, Darren Bailey, Garrett Epps, George Washington, Hemant Mehta, In God We Trust, Jefferson County, Roger Williams, Thomas Jefferson | Comments Off

The Wisdom of Washington

Posted on February 19, 2018 by David E Smith

The father of our country understood something important about education—and we would do well to heed his wisdom today

Posted in Education | Tagged George Washington, Jonathan Lewis, Worldview | Comments Off

Post-Christian America Needs Radical Help STAT

Posted on February 5, 2018 by David E Smith

America’s founders believed in God and His word, and predicated our founding documents on those immutable, biblical principles.

Though Leftists love to spout revisionist nonsense about many of the Founders being deists or worse, those accusations don’t hold water when faced with the weight of those early patriots’ own words and actions.

Thomas Jefferson, often upheld as vying for the least religious spot amongst the Founders, wrote:

I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.¹

And Jefferson’s worship habits speak even louder:

Many people are surprised to learn that

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Posted in Faith | Tagged Atheism, Barna Group, Eric Metaxas, Generation Z, George Washington, John Stonestreet, Noah Webster, Thomas Jefferson, Worldview Conference | Comments Off

George Soros Gets It: When Will More Wealthy Conservatives?

Posted on November 9, 2017 by David E Smith

Here was the headline: “Soros Shifts $18 Billion To Foundation He Uses To Fund Left.” That is not a typo. $18 billion with a B. This guy is serious about seeing Leftism advanced. The facts about that “shift” of dollars are presented by Aly Nielsen at NewsBusters.org.

By now, most people who follow politics are aware of George Soros and his generous funding of radical Leftist issues and organizations around the world.

Here are the opening paragraphs of Nielsen’s article:

Left-wing financier George Soros just nearly tripled the size of his foundation by adding an additional $18

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Posted in Illinois Politics | Tagged Aly Nielsen, Charles Cornwallis, Count de Rochambeau, George Soros, George Washington, Haym Salomon, J.B. Pritzker, Revolutionary War, Rick Moran, Tom Steyer | Comments Off