Tag: character

BY GARY S. SMITH, INSTITUTE FOR FAITH & FREEDOM In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and in light of the scathing attacks...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP you see how I grow upon your goodness: but it is so frank that one cannot but grow on it. I do...

Grant’s Tomb—Dedicated April 27, 1897. Schofield, on Grant. ————— THE subject of this volume being limited to events of which I have had personal knowledge, and it...

Commentary A turn of the Twentieth Century editor—in the manner of a letter from a businessman to his son—offers advice to students just entering college. College...

LLOYD MARCUS, PROUD UNHYPHENATED AMERICAN The root cause of the major issues that are devastating America is Obama; an out growth of who he is...

Jim Bludso, Of the Prairie Belle. (Pike County Ballads.) ————— WALL, no! I can’t tell whar he lives, Because he don’t live, you see: Leastways, he’s got out of...

LIBERTY LETTERS OS GUINNESS, HERITAGE FOUNDATION Abstract In establishing a free republic, the Founders had to tackle three major tasks. The first task was winning freedom—the objective...

BY IZZY KALMAN "Love criticism. It will bring you to your highest level." — Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson "The road to hell is paved with good...

BY CHRIS CLANCY Before the emergence of the welfare state, some help was available for those in need – real need. It was provided voluntarily...

LLOYD MARCUS, PROUD UNHYPHENATED AMERICAN It sticks in my craw that Conservatives/Republicans are leaning toward, in essence, becoming immoral, stupid and un-American to win Low-Information-Voters....

They Were Believers, John Adams Oh! that I could wear out of my mind every mean and base affectation; conquer my natural pride and self-conceit;...

Daily Dabble in the Classics, Herman Melville Any philosophy that, being in operation contradictory to the ways of the world, tends to produce a character...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III Novelist Martin Amis marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of A Clockwork Orange in this week’s New York Times...

A Way of Life, Elder D. Todd Christofferson In reality, there aren’t many things in a day that are totally without significance. Even the mundane...

Called Unto Liberty, 20th Century Sermons, Kenneth W. Sollitt, 1960 Two youngsters from London were enjoying a holiday in the country. They romped and played...

Democratic Thinker, Weekly Story T.A. McNeal—early Kansas newspaper man—relates a story of early day Medicine Lodge, Kansas. A Border Justice. ————— WHEN the town of Medicine Lodge had...

Democratic Thinker, Weekly Story Abraham Lincoln left home in 1831 to work in New Salem, Illinois. The brag of Denton Offutt, his employer, that young...

Democratic Thinker, Weekly Story An ancient philosopher illustrates the common human weakness of befriending others.   Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy...

Democratic Thinker, American Thought In 1830, William Wirt—late retired as U.S. Attorney General—delivers a speech before a group of students at Rutgers College. The...