By Charlton Heston I remember my son when he was 5, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. “My Daddy,” he said, “pretends to be people.” There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities …
The Founding Fathers were strong advocates of republican values, particularly Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton,[11] which required men to put civic duty ahead of their personal desires. Men had a civic duty to be prepared and willing to fight for the …
My friend sent me an email about a secret plot to make Americans register their guns on their 2010 tax returns. Some quick research indicated that while someone did try to get such a law passed, the effort failed. The “ban guns” crowd misses the point that guns in the hands of responsible civilians is …
I think they should have slapped the cuffs on her. Why? According to Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein, [now retired] Rep. Jane Harman (D – California), long involved in intelligence issues and who pushed for warrantless wiretapping of Americans, was caught in her own net on a NSA wiretap (oh the irony!) telling a suspected Israeli …