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It’s Who We Are
Sunday is Constitution Day. Has it been a while since you’ve read it? Our friends at the Ashbrook Center have an easy-to-read transcription. It begins with these amazing words: We the…
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When in the course of human events …
Been a while since you’ve read the Declaration of Independence? When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have…
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New Carolina Journal Online features
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features Ashbrook Center executive director Roger Beckett’s insights about the importance of studying original historical documents. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal explains North Carolina’s…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
North Carolinians are still a year away from their first trip to the ballot box in high-profile 2016 election races, but Rick Henderson analyzes the latest polling data and election-related…
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The importance of studying original historical documents
Original documents tell a much better story than textbooks, when it comes to understanding the key issues in American history. That’s the argument Roger Beckett of the Ashbrook Center made…
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Scalia and Thomas part company over violent videos
Ken Thomas writes about Justice Thomas’ dissent in the violent video game case on the “No Right Turns” blog at the Ashbrook Center here. Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion…
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No matter how hard they tried, communist regimes could not take references to Christianity out of classic works.
Peter Schramm over at the Ashbrook Center blog “No Left Turns” celebrates Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birthday with this post. He read Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Hungarian because he spent the…
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The Tea Party definition of “victory”
Another excellent analysis of the Tea Party movement by William Voegeli at the Claremont Institute. Please note the swipe at Frum below. (HT Julie Ponzi at the Ashbrook Center) A…
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The best 37 seconds you will see all week
Thanks to our friend Steve Hayward over on the Ashbrook Center blog, No Left Turns. “Deepak Chopra, one of those self-levitating frauds so common in our age, gets schooled.”
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Liberal tolerance explained
This post from the Ashbrook Center blog “No Left Turns” tells us about our future under a liberally tolerant regime: Free Speech and ?Liberal Tolerance? A Christian preacher in England…
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Another reason to honor Madison
This post from the Ashbrook Center blog “No Left Turns” by Ken Thomas highlights the wisdom of Madison’s explanation of the Constitution. The Supreme Court needs to listen to Madison.…
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Is the millenial generation quietly Hayekian?
Thanks to John Marshall over on the Ashbrook Center blog “No Left Turns” for this review of Joel Kotkin’s new book. The Next Hundred Million Joel Kotkin’s book The Next…