by Benjy Sarlin Just remember this when you hear yet again someone condescendingly say “Nobody is trying to take your guns.” A Democratic congressman has proposed outlawing “military-style semiautomatic assault weapons” and forcing existing owners to sell their weapons or face prosecution, a major departure from prior gun control proposals that typically exempt existing firearms. […]
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
by George Reisman, Mises Institute My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship. The […]
Harvard Declares War on Orthodox Christianity
by Sohrab Ahmari The culture wars heat up, and are not likely to die down. Harvard is now determined to ostracize, censor, and ultimately root out Orthodox Christianity. That’s okay, Christianity has faced oppression and persecution before. We always win. Drive down Massachusetts Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in the tony, hyper-educated city of […]
How the Nazis Used Gun Control
by Stephen Halbrook The perennial gun-control debate in America did not begin here. The same arguments for and against were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not. In […]
5 Reasons Socialism Is Not Christian
by Julie Roys Please don’t read this if you prefer to remain in a state of delusion about your Christian faith, or about socialism itself. Jesus confronted the money-changers and challenged believers to give to the needy. But, would he support socialism? Increasingly, Americans think he would. In fact, a recent Barna poll found that […]
UK Court Rules Student can be Expelled for Quoting Bible on Facebook
Remember when England was a country of Christians? Do you think it can’t happen here? A Christian student who was expelled from university after posting on Facebook in support of Biblical teaching on marriage and sexual ethics has today lost his case in a judicial review of the university’s decision. Felix Ngole was studying for […]
Murder by Government: The Primary Fact of the 20th Century
by Brad Birzer “Arrest! Need it be said that it is a breaking point in your life, a bolt of lightning which has scored a direct hit on you? That is it an inassimilable spiritual earthquake not every person can cope with, as a result of which people often slip into insanity?,” Solzhenitsyn asks in […]
On Western Civilization
by John Rhys-Davies “Western Christian civilization, of which you’re a part, is one of the great glories of mankind. These are the things we stand for. We stand for liberty, liberty of association, freedom of speech. We stand for the equality of everyone in our society before the law, men as well as women. We […]
France: 5,000 Euro Fine for Bible Quote
A court has ordered a French politician to pay a fine of 5,000 euros for Bible quotes regarding homosexuality during an interview, reports Noticia Cristiana. In April 2014 former deputy of the French Parliament and leader of the Christian Democratic Party of France, seventy-year-old Christine Boutin, gave an interview to the journal “Charles” in which […]
Mike Rowe Advises a Fan
Mike Rowe isn’t going to tell his fans to vote this fall, but once you see why it will only make you respect him all the more. The country doesn’t need voters who have to be cajoled, enticed, or persuaded to cast a ballot. Wisdom. Let us attend. Mike Rowe, star of Dirty Jobs, recently received […]