On February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln was born. From humble beginnings, Lincoln rose to be the 16th president of the United States. Remembered for emancipation, Lincoln’s legend looms large in our history. How much of it is legend, however, and how much is true?
Was Lincoln really a simple country lawyer? This is [...]

Is the U.S. Constitution outdated? Is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg right to suggest other nations not model their constitutions after ours?
An article in the New York Times on Monday wrote of the U.S. Constitution dismissively, saying plainly, “Our Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights.”
Is it important for a [...]

Source of this article: History.com
Ronald Reagan, former Western movie actor and host of television’s popular “Death Valley Days” is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.
More than any president since the Texas-born Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan’s public image was closely tied to the American West, although he was raised in the solidly [...]

With all the (well deserved) buzz surrounding Meryl Streep’s latest award-winning role in The Iron Lady, we thought it might be useful to provide a short profile on Great Britain’s longest-serving prime minister in the 20th century.
Margaret Thatcher served as Britain’s head of government for 11 and a half years because she had both the aspirational vision [...]

This past week, all eyes were on Iowa and Iowan voters. Why? Because Tuesday, January 3rd was the Iowa Caucuses, the first step in winnowing down the field of GOP hopefuls. The last man (or woman) standing will be the Republican nominee and will, of course, be up against Barack Obama in this year’s general [...]

I received an email this morning from an organization called GuideStar. They publish information for and about non-profit organizations online, making some (but not most) of it available at no charge. Before they arrived, there was very little financial information on non-profits available to people who didn’t have the time and patience to request it [...]

Last week I attended a lecture on the notion of Italian identity–what does it mean to be Italian? The speaker was a professor and a member of the European Parliament. At one point, someone asked him whether an attempt should be made to disallow the entry of new foreign words into the Italian language.
I was [...]

BET founder Robert Johnson on the “FOX News Sunday” program: “Well, I think the president has to recalibrate his message. You don’t get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. You know, I grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college, and I’ve earned my [...]

Last weekend, I attended the 2011 Students For Liberty Chicago Regional Conference. In a few short years, this organization has changed the entire cultural dialogue for college students interested in the ideas of free markets, individual liberty, and limited government. The group has made it acceptable–even laudable–to be a libertarian on campus. Students now have [...]

I recently made an observation on Facebook that got a whole bunch of “likes.”
Not that that’s a regular thing. I don’t know how to use Facebook as well as many, and certainly don’t know what makes a successful Twitterer. I’m not a luddite–I know how to use the technology perfectly well. There’s just something about [...]

The following is an unedited transcript of Gov. Christie’s speech at AEI, provided by Governor Christie’s press office.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Thank you very much for the introduction and for the invitation to be here today. I came today because I really think it’s extraordinarily important for those of us who believe that our country is off [...]

This weekend is the Ames Straw Poll – sometimes known as the Iowa Straw Poll, though not to be confused with the “Iowa Caucus (that comes later)” – and the official kickoff of the 2012 election season. I’m not entirely sure we’re ready for another Presidential campaign just yet (didn’t we just get done with [...]

Over the past decade, Detroit has been in the news for it’s rapid and dramatic disintegration. With the Census reporting a lost of nearly a quarter of a million people, and it’s boundaries rapidly shrinking (with entire neighborhoods disappearing off the map into a wasteland ruled by prairie grasses and wild dogs), Detroit has been [...]

The Casey Anthony trial has had a dramatic effect on the American psyche. For those unfamiliar, a Florida mother who’s daughter went missing and whose remains were later found just steps from her grandparents home was acquitted of her daughters murder after a month-long jury trial that tested the boundaries of patience. When the dust [...]

The mid-term election will go down in history as the election no one won. Many lost, but no one won.
The biggest loser was President Barack Obama. He and his “transformational” program were rebuked in the most dramatic way since the Republicans won 81 seats in the 1938 off-year election to end Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. [...]