Category: American Society & Heritage

By Dr. Alejandro A. Chafuen

Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com.

“If it matters, measure it” is the motto of the Fraser Institute, the leading Canadian think tank, where I have been a trustee since …

New Year’s observances blend recollections of the past, celebrations in the present, and anticipation of the future. For a variety of reasons, I’m feeling nostalgic this year. I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the decade of my childhood—the …

It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world … ~ The Kinks

Through the secular-”progressive” looking-glass, the term “sexual orientation” has, in a few short years, evolved to accommodate an ever-expanding fruit basket of carnal appetites.

First it was …

It’s freedom from government, not free stuff from government.

Barrack Obama is a radical and Americans will not vote for him. Boy was I wrong — twice! November 6, 2012 is a day that will live in infamy.

What …

A few days after the election of 2012 the very talented Michael Ramirez published a political cartoon that perhaps conveyed a more profound meaning than he anticipated. He depicted a pair of hands extending from star-studded sleeves (presumably from a …

Glenn Beck put together a book with an associate which is quite interesting. The Original Argument is a re-make of the Federalist Papers. If you are interested in reading what the founding fathers wrote to sell the constitution …

Among political philosphers throughout the ages, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Madison, and Hamilton just to name a few, it was an article of faith than in order for a republic to survive it had to be small and homogenous. The …

Dr Wayne Dyer describes people as eagles and ducks.

With a majority of Americans voting to give the undeserving Obama a second term, I felt like the odd-man-out voting against him. It occurred to me that I have a history of …

For example, on Oct. 2, 2012, a false alarm from a ground sensor sent U.S. Border Patrol agents to a remote canyon in Arizona shortly after midnight. For some unknown reason agents opened fire on one another which left one …

In our current confrontation with Radical Islam the battle lines are portrayed as those between a secular society, us and a religious society, them. I reject this portrayal as a betrayal of the faith of our Founders and of …

California is now instituting laws prohibiting a therapist from counseling a child confused by same sex attractions. Parents are unable to legally find help. But a teacher can arrange for the child to be taken off campus to see a …

The travails of black conservatives are not new to most observers. While Condoleezza Rice garnered raves, even from the likes of MSNBC, for her rousing GOP Convention speech, she has been the subject of racially …

V&V: Dr. Columbus, why did you write this book?

Dr. Craig Columbus: The financial-scandal genre is a very crowded shelf. These books do a fine job of recounting Wall Street’s misdeeds. But no one had addressed the topic of fixing …

Preserving heritage means… honoring, obeying, defending and respecting the Constitution of the United States of America. This precious document must be forever preserved, because if it is lost, manipulated, forgotten or abused, our heritage will be destroyed. – William P. …

School bells ring across the nation as students make their Pavlovian responses, cracking open the textbooks that pimp the Darwinian delusion known as the evolutionary model. They are fed on missing links, faulty science and piles of pompous prior philosophic …