Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn't much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was paramount, and there were no grocery stores, malls, hospitals, trains or planes. Since the liberalization of western law, a relaxation of ...

Nearly 40 years have raced by since my first exposure to Roe v. Wade, abortion and the slaughter of the innocents. In America alone, tens of millions of unborn babies have had their lives snuffed out in the free-fire zone of the womb. Globally, the body count is astronomical. The United States of America now funds global abortion. Looking back, ...

Six years ago my daughter cornered me and stated, "Hey dad, there's a new school opening next year and I want to go there!" My 6th grader's enthusiasm was obvious, and I didn't want to ignore it. We spent the next couple of hours on Google, researching "BASIS schools" which yielded a hefty 20,000,000 instances. That alone got my attention ...