My View
BY DON SORCHYCH | MAY 8, 2013
NO amnesty
I have said before that Sen. John McCain is a Democrat in Republican clothes. He and his RINO and Democrat friends have formed the Gang of 8 and are trying to force a Senate vote for “comprehensive immigration reform” with the real meaning of amnesty for somewhere between 11 and 30 million illegal aliens. They lost the first round and are trying again.
Guest Editorials:
BY DWIGHT KEHOE | MAY 8, 2013
America's watchdogs of freedom have become lap dogs of obedience
It's no secret nor is it difficult to find, with just a cursory brush with American history, to what extent the Founding Fathers understood the vital importance of a free press and the right of the people to be informed. The Bill of Rights, consisting of the 10 most important requirements for an enduring, prosperous and free society, listed first, the number one condition, freedom of speech.
BY SHELDON RICHMAN | MAY 8, 2013
What if the Tsarnaevs’ motive was revenge for U.S. Foreign Policy?
On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, President Obama stood in the White House briefing room and said, “We will find out who did this; we’ll find out why they did this.”
BY DR. PAUL KENGOR | MAY 8, 2013
The Progressive Income Tax turns 100
Maybe it’s a measure of progressives’ refusal to look back, to always move “forward.” Otherwise, they should be celebrating right now. In fact, President Obama and fellow modern progressives/liberals should be ecstatic all this year, rejoicing over the centenary of something so fundamental to their ideology, to their core goals of government, to their sense of economic and social justice – to what Obama once called “redistributive change.”
BY DR. GARY L. WELTON | MAY 8, 2013
Academic freedom, civility, and the name of Jesus
Recently, a self-proclaimed Christian instructor at Florida Atlantic University asked his students to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper and step on it. The exercise was from a textbook manual and was designed to teach that “even though symbols are arbitrary, they take on very strong and emotional meanings.” The instructor indicated that he would not have stepped on the paper if he had been asked.
