[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdRVbr1OfKc] Fellow Illini alumn Michael Fumento delivers a pithy defense of the F-22 Raptor combat aircraft in the Defense News this week. The Russia bear has awakened from hibernation to rebuild its lost empire. China continues its inexorable military expansion. Iran desperately wants The Bomb, while North Korea revels in unpredictability. Yes, Virginia, we really do […]
Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was one of my first heroes. Growing up in the rural Midwest, he was a man of my people. As a young conservative, he was the founding father of the Republican Party. As an American, he was the man my ancestors fought forâthe man who saved the Union. Get the books, and read and study […]
Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan
[v=hpPt7xGx4Xo] Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it’s not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it workâwork with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. If we […]
Vigilantes 1864
Cold cruel winds blow down intent upon the Bannack mining camp…