Did Pope Francis really lay a broadside into what he called “unfettered capitalism”? That is certainly what headline writers the world over would have you believe. Well, at least the ones that picked up Reuters’ account of the Pope’s new apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel,” a news story that was then syndicated globally. There is, however, one acute problem with the quote. Francis never actually wrote that.
Read more ›Archive for December 4th, 2013
Winning Battles in the War on Christmas
Yes, Christmas and Christianity are definitely under fire from rabid secularists in our culture. But there are many victories over these attack, too, and this CitizenLink report outlines some of them. Important, too, is the fact that sometimes all it takes for a victory is simply to educate good people who have been misled about our history, our Constitution, and what is right.
Read more ›Law, Lawmaking and Morality
All law and lawmaking is “religious” in the sense that it derives its authority to act from something outside of — above — itself. In this country, that “something” that our law is based on is the Bible. This is clearly apparent not only in the text of the Declaration of Independence, but it is also demonstrated in the texts of our earliest covenants, constitutions, law-codes, compacts and charters.
Read more ›FDR’s Destructive Raw Deal
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” was an all-out assault on the U.S. Constitution and the American way of life. Though few everyday Americans saw it at the time (media coverage that reached average Americans was relatively minimal in those days, and people still had an instinctive trust in our government), most of what FDR rammed down America’s collective throat during his four terms was blatantly unconstitutional. Burt Folsom, author of “New Deal or Raw Deal, spoke with Bill Whittle about FDR and how President Barack Obama’s policies seem to be a continuation of that same un-American, counterproductive socialist bent.
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