Paul Revere’s Ride

Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five; hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year.

Anniversary of Our English Dictionary

Yesterday, On April 14 in 1828, 185 Years ago, Noah Webster published his Dictionary containing 30,000 definitions. He had been working on it for 26 years. As a business venture, the Dictionary was not a success. The rights to it were bought after his death by George and Charles Merriam. But as a landmark in giving American English its unique identity, and even the American concept of individual rights, Noah Webster’s life work was very successful.

Is History Education A Thing Of The Past?

Each of the core subjects play an important part in a child’s education. Science teaches students how to think critically and analyze how the world around us works. Math teaches students logic and basic computation. English teaches students how to communicate and read. However, new research shows that history is quickly been pushed off in many public schools. A study from Perspectives on History magazine found that 88 percent of elementary school teachers consider teaching history to be a low priority. The sad reason for this is simple: teachers are forced to teach for the benefit of standardized tests, not for the benefit of students. History simply is not a tested Common Core standard in the early grades. Thus, elementary school teachers push history education further and further onto the horizon until young students fall hopelessly behind. This is why the curriculum of the public school system should belong to the parents, who always put the needs of the children first in the educational experience.

DeToqueville Admires Our Christianity

Alexis de Toqueville is a name well-known to educated Americans as a remarkable Frenchman who traveled our country in the mid-19th century and wrote his perceptive commentaries about what kind of country we had formed. His book, published in 1835 after nine months of traveling, was called Democracy in America. It has been described as "the most comprehensive ... analysis of character and society in America ever written."

Here are some words of wisdom from Alexis de Toqueville's book, which I think would be appropriate on the day after the great Christian feast of Easter: "Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention.... In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united." Alexis de Toqueville continued: "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.... They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion."

Then, in Book Two of Democracy in America, de Tocqueville added this: "Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America.... In the United States ... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it."

This is just more confirmation of the fact that the people who created America believed in their right and duty to call upon Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ in all kinds of public places and events.

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Celebrating Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: Making America “Safe – Not Sorry”

No one would dispute the fact that Phyllis Schlafly did not fit into the mold of Washington politicians. She knew that the issues facing Americans were not fuel for empty campaign promises. To Phyllis, they were real problems that she had to face like everyone else. When she wrote the May 1968 issue of the Phyllis Schlafly Report, the passion of personal experience can be clearly seen in the headlining article entitled “CRISIS IN LAW AND ORDER.” Without a doubt, her prophetic writings on the riots of 1968 very clearly apply to the protests that have swept the nation in recent years.

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: Reversing the "Pattern of Surrender"

“You had to get used to Phyllis being ahead of her time, all the time.” Those are the words of Helen Marie Taylor, Chairman of the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund. That could not be illustrated any better than with the very first Phyllis Schlafly Report to be released. In August of 1967, the first PS Report was released with “GIVEAWAY OF OUR PANAMA CANAL: Secret Treaties Imperil U.S. Rights” pasted in bold print across the top of the page. Just as her revolutionary 1964 book A Choice, Not an Echo exposed the secrets of the Republican kingmakers, her first PS Report exposed the secret treaties that promised to undermine American sovereignty and deliver us another humiliating foreign policy defeat on the world stage.

More Evidence about Washington’s Religious Faith

**Previously recorded by Phyllis Schlafly**

For many, many years, Americans observed today, February 22, as George Washington’s Birthday. Several years ago, under pressure from the unions, Congress made Washington’s Birthday one of our legal three-day weekends and passed a law that Washington’s Birthday should be observed on the third Monday in February. So we enjoyed our three-day weekend last week. But today gives us another opportunity to remind listeners about the true greatness of the man who is properly called “First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.”

American History Under A Plaque

Progressive liberals have made it their goal to erase or rewrite nearly every event that gives a positive view of American history. Liberal universities all over the nation have largely ignored the many life-saving advances of the Industrial Revolution so that they can focus in on slavery. They forget about the fall of Communism so that they can teach their students more about the poor treatment of Native Americans. They ignore the good and highlight the bad. In short, these universities have made it a part of their curriculum to convince students to hate America. Of course, we should not forget the dark parts of American history altogether. It is important for us to learn from the mistakes of our past so that we do not make those same mistakes again. However, it would be an equally grave mistake for us to keep the bad but throw out the good.