Without an ounce of doubt in my mind, Abraham Lincoln is America's absolute worst President. He did not free a single slave; but what he did do was begin the process of enslaving free men. It is no hyperbole to say that Lincoln truly governed as a
My last article about United States history left out one of the government's greatest achievements: A civil war that was the bloodiest and heaviest in casualties than any other war in U.S. history.
Researchers who have investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for 30 or more years have concluded that he was murdered by a conspiracy of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the Secret Service.
Our forefathers built the education reform movement on a foundation that all reformers shared: We need to hold schools accountable, so they'll give kids the education we want them to get.
Several SurvivalBlog readers wrote in concerning the top note yesterday about CBS' claim that Orlando was the "deadliest" shooting. CBS really missed the mark with that claim, underscoring the mainstream media's inability to do even the most
A few years ago, I sadly discovered that it was next to impossible to find our nation's great historic documents together in one volume, so I decided to fix that problem. It took us a full year to research and compile over 50 of our country's gre
It's been an open secret that the US organized and enabled two of the three major events in modern Iranian history: the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 and the Shah's subsequent reign of terror (a
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him.
The Barack Obama Justice and Education departments have declared that all public schools be required to institute gender-neutral bathrooms where boys can freely enter girls' bathrooms and vice versa. Failure to comply threatens federal funding. But
Newly declassified documents reveal how David Ben-Gurion's mumbles and a trick sightseeing tour helped Israeli officials pull the wool over Washington's eyes on the real purpose of the Dimona reactor.
James Monroe was born today (April 28) in 1757. He is one of the more misunderstood and maligned Presidents of the United States. Historians typically rank him as no better than "average."
The first instance occurred in the 1920s when Charles "Sunshine" Mitchell became president of what was then National City Bank. The bank was the largest in the U.S. and its securities affiliate, under his aggressive management, had also become the
Two massive comet or asteroid strikes in the past 1500 years altered Eastern North America's history. The one in 539 AD devastated the South Atlantic Coast and permanently changed its geography. It left the South Atlantic Coastal Plain almost un
"Our safety and happiness lie in obedience to law by every man, woman and child," pontificated Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty in his keynote address to the 1921 annual conference of the American Bar Association in Cincinnati.
Editor's Comment: How far we have fallen! The American Dream used to be attainable to all who worked hard, and freedom was still a tangible thing that many experienced. People used common sense and wisdom from experience to make it through life.