Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony, established the American tradition of self-government freely agreed among those governed. While not a full-fledged constitution, it established a framework for a civil body politic–a self-governing community. It is considered a milestone in American democracy. The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on 21 November […]
[v=hfLsSg9wZlE] Love him or hate him, you don’t know Barack Obama. Analyst Dinesh D’Souza, an immigrant from India and contemporary of the President, has taken the time to examine Obama as a person, his background and his ideology, in his new book, Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream. A documentary movie based on the book, […]
Remarks for Slayton, Minnesota, Memorial Day Service 2012 -John C. Shepard Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. President Abraham Lincoln spoke these words in the Autumn of 1863, on the battlefield […]
Some 80 odd citizens of Southwest Minnesota gathered tonight from across nine counties all or part of Minnesota’s Senate District 22 for the local GOP legislative endorsing convention at the Fulda American Legion Hall. This is grassroots politics nitty-gritty. The flash of the Presidential beauty race at the February Caucus is long gone. Even the […]
The Berlin Wall went up in 1961, to keep the people in. [v=hH6nQhss4Yc] And we said “Let them come to Berlin.” There are many people in the world who really don’t understand, or say they don’t, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There […]
