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“[P]oint by point Joe McCarthy got it all wrong and yet was closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him.” — Nicholas Von Hoffman

That was the conclusion of one liberal journalist following the release of the Venona decrypts. But, folks on the far left kept up their defenses of the traitors even after […]

Check out the extensive discussion ocurring in the comments section on Mark Elrod’s blog. James Wiser and The Baron are searching for a definitive list of Joe McCarthy’s innocent victims, among other things.

BACKGROUND: Good Night and Good Luck, The Poor, The Communists, and Harding

Terrorism is an illegitimate act of war intentionally targeting civilian non-combatants. It’s wrong when small, relatively weak collections of individuals do it, and it’s wrong when powerful nation states do it. This principle shouldn’t be controversial, but defending it has gotten me into a few arguments with some conservative friends of mine.

I used to […]

There are several posts on The Corner today about the popularity of products featuring the image of Che Guevara. What an interesting irony and sad commentary. The image of this Communist murderer is being exploited by capitalists to make money from people who, we can only pray, know nothing about the man […]

Prompted by the discussions about Harding University, Americanism, and anti-communism here, here, here, here, here and here — I recently went looking online for more information about Harding’s National Education Program (NEP) and found a gold mine of videos at the Prelinger Archives.

In the 1940s and 50s, Harding College became nationally known for […]

I planned to do other things this evening, but got caught up in this discussion at Larry James’ blog. He started by re-posting on why we should not be content to always have the poor with us, citing Deuteronomy. It went from there to the question of who are “the poor” anyway? […]

I need to add another book to my must read list. This one was suggested by James Wiser and prompted by a discussion about originalism on this post at his site.

It’s Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution by Jaroslav Pelikan. There are no customer reviews, but the editorial review at Amazon says:

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In the spirit of Jonah Goldberg’s quote about cliches starting arguments rather than finishing them, let’s address this deism nonsense. The Founders were, generally speaking, not deists. Here is the evidence from Gregory Koukl:

The phrase “Founding Fathers” is a proper noun. It refers to a specific group of men, the 55 […]

I recently heard Rodney Stark on the Dennis Prager show and have added his book, For the Glory of God : How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery, to my “must read” list.

It sounds fascinating. He does a lot of myth-busting (e.g. most people knew when Columbus set sail that […]