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Constitution Day, which falls on Sept. 17, is the national observance holiday that most have never heard of. Yet this year it may be our most important holiday to understand, for all our pressing national problems today flow from corruption…

Film portrayals of modern conservative figures tend to treat their subject matter as either horrifically evil, fodder for comedy, or both. That’s because conservatives are heavily outnumbered in Hollywood, and celebrities lend their fame…

History is a complicated subject and, as such, it's difficult to say who the true "bad guy" of World War II was. Was it the fat British man with a penchant for smoking cigars? Was it the guy that looked like Charlie Chaplin? Was it.... the…

The U.S. Navy isn’t just for fighting overseas or protecting the homeland. It’s also a basic tool of force projection, diplomacy, and protecting and regulating international trade. But today’s Navy is too small to meet the demands placed on…

The following was republished with permission from Armas. The coup d’état against President Biden illuminates the themes exposited in the essay on Sen. J.D. Vance’s thought and rhetoric, to which I refer the…

As of Saturday, the world knows definitively how President Donald Trump reacts under real fire. With blood dripping down his face and a tattered ear, the former and maybe future president raised his defiant fist into the air and shouted,…

Upon hearing Monday’s news that Donald Trump had selected Sen. J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate, commentators and history buffs were quick to notice that the veep choice breaks the longstanding “beard barrier” on American…

In the famed 1838 Lyceum Address at the beginning of his political career, Abraham Lincoln warned of the greatest threat facing America. The then-Illinois state representative declared: Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to…

The current media fight with Democrat Party donors over how to handle Joe Biden’s public senility recalls inter-Communist Party struggles just before the Soviet Union’s collapse. The President of the United States has made clear he’s not…

In 1777, Christopher Jefferson Loving Jr., a 14-year-old boy, enlisted in the Continental Army. Christopher was my paternal grandmother’s great-grandfather. During his service, he would fight in six of the most consequential battles of the…