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Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers virtual address at CIT’s Conference, Endowed by Their Creator: Catholicism, the Declaration of Independence, and the American Experiment at 250On Thursday, April 9th, Catholic Law’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, together with Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and Catholic University’s Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life, co-hosted a symposium celebrating the nation's semiquincentennial. The day brought together leading scholars and public intellectuals from across the country to explore the relationship between the Catholic intellectual tradition and the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect...

KrisAnne Hall, LibertyAddict@RealKahallAmerica is about to celebrate 250 years of Independence.But most Americans were never taught what actually happened in 1776.They taught you to celebrate the fireworks.They never taught you the meaning of liberty.America’s REAL Independence Day was July 2nd, 1776, when Congress legally severed ties with the British Crown.The Declaration of Independence was the announcement.Not the act itself.As America approaches its 250th birthday, this isn’t just about correcting history.It’s about remembering:• Why America became a Constitutional Republic• Why rights come from God, not government• How we lost our understanding of liberty• And how we reclaim what generations sacrificed to...

Dr. William Federer unpacks who Muhammad actually is and the dark history of Islam. This was during a morning service at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills this past Sunday morning.

How commonplace is political violence these days? A man shooting at federal officers near the White House as JD Vance's motorcade passed by was barely mentioned in the papers. Still, the timing could not be better for Noah Rothman's new book, Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America. Ian Haworth returns to the Weekend Beacon with a review. “’This is a book about the assassins, the vandals, the small-cell terrorists, and the lizard-brained mobs that mete out destruction, violence, and death in the name of political causes and in the pursuit of political outcomes,’ Rothman declares, before...

A Kentucky black history museum known for “shackling” patrons and posting “white guilt” videos is expected to receive a $1 million grant from the local city government. The Roots 101 African-American Museum in Louisville is set to receive the large sum from the local government as a part of a recently proposed budget. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said the funds will be used to establish a permanent home for the black history museum. “With this budget, we’re sharing more of our history, with all of its depth and complexity,” Greenberg said last month. The museum aims to “to empower visitors...

From a stunning report that confirms, again, skeptics’ concerns over the deadly impact of the COVID-19 shots created by pharmaceutical companies and sold for billions of dollars to the American government during the pandemic, it’s known that federal officials linked those shots to child deaths at the time – and the Biden administration kept it a secret. Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has reported online the Joe Biden administration “suppressed” details about COVID shot pediatric deaths as well as the total death count. She cited a study done on children who died, of which a number died of the effects “possibly”...

The shipwreck of a WWI US combat vessel has been discovered off the Cornish coast by a team of divers – 108 years after it sank. The US Coastguard Cutter TAMPA has been missing since being torpedoed by a German U–boat in 1918. Now, it has been found, 50 miles offshore in Newquay by the Gasperados Dive Team. All 131 lives on the vessel were lost including those from the American navy and coastguard, and British civilians. Dominic Robinson, 54, a member of the Gasperados Dive Team, says they have been searching for the last three years for the ship...

For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair. We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home while, at the same time, stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals... We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own...

HISTORIC PHOTO 10:15PM, President Donald Trump rushes into the Oval Office after an assassination attempt — analyzing intel on what happened Flanked by Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Stephen Miller and more

Summary: During the period of the Revolution, slavery was much closer to being banned in America than most people realize.

One of the great strengths of Abraham Lincoln was his ability to take complicated concepts and boil them down into an easily digestible argument that even his most basic audience could understand. This was an invaluable resource for Lincoln whether addressing a jury or a gathering of potential voters and he used it frequently throughout his life. One of the best examples of this unique talent in his own handwriting comes to us from a document entitled “Pro-slavery Theology” here in the collections of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Undated, though likely written in October of 1858 during...

For ages, legendary rulers and thinkers have remained trapped within museum glass and stone. We have gazed at frozen busts and fading oils for generations, struggling to glimpse the living souls hidden by myth. Traditional art honored their memory but masked their actual features, making them feel unreachable and remote. Today, that distance vanishes. Times change. Equator AI is shattering the wall separating our era from the past. Using advanced machine learning, we peel back layers of paint to showcase these legends with stunning, lifelike cinematic clarity. In this video, we span the ages to introduce you to James K....

It's been ages since I started a thread. These two pages seemed worthy of a read and discussion for those who might be interested. They are from family archives, an assignment in Sociology for the winter term 1944-1945 at Dartmouth College. Just discovered. They address many of the topics that are being discussed today.

Hey, y'all down there in Texas! Did you know that the Alamo really was Islamic? That stunner was included in a letter to state education officials warning them against the "false history" that some interests are trying to inject into the state's history. "It has come to our attention that an extensive lobbying effort is underway to have the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) alter curriculum standards in a way that would diminish American and Texas history," Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, and other Texas Republicans wrote to education officials. "The petitioners' efforts claim that Islam influenced our founding, culture,...

Discover the story behind Beethoven’s revolutionary ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3 – an extraordinary masterpiece which changed the musical world.Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, the ‘Eroica’ Symphony, changed the musical world and is perhaps his defining work. At a stroke, orchestral music moves into another dimension with a breadth of conception and emotional freight and range beyond anything previously dreamed of. Beethoven originally dedicated his ‘Eroica’ Symphony to Napoleon –but removed his name in a rage on hearing he had made himself Emperor. The symphony’s first public performance took place on April 7, 1805 at the Theater an...

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with...

President Trump's suggestion that the US might withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) drew criticism from former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Conn), both members of the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee, who asserted that "Americans are safer when NATO is strong and united. NATO troops fought and died in Afghanistan and Iraq alongside American forces." Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) pointed out that "NATO stood by America and came to our aid after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Remember, the obligation of NATO members is to aid each other...

With the State Board of Education set to consider changes to Texas’ public school curriculum on social studies, Muslim activists are...planning to push for more inclusion of Islamic history and dogma.

So I was searching out a school a relative attended in Tuscany in the 30s. The nuns wore a distinctive wimple. As I searched on the wimple, I discovered that according to the first website brought up, that of course wimples were brought back by the Crusaders to the benighted women of the Western culture. Muslims taught western women to use wimples. Because of course Western women were too darned stupid to cover their heads themselves, although they had been doing it for millennia. I have noticed recently that many historical reads say that Islam and Muslims have taught the...

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