August 16, 2010
In 1962, the SDS released their “Port Huron Statement.” The Port Huron Statement established the SDS as an “anti-anti-Communism” organization. Indeed, the SDS was largely an anti-Western-Civilization organization. They expressed their opinion of Western values in this way: “The conventional moral terms of the age, the politician moralities — free world, people’s democracies — reflect realities poorly, if at all, and seem to function more as ruling myths than as descriptive principles.”
According to the FBI’s files, leaders of the SDS were heavily influenced by North Korea’s National Liberation Front and traveled to Cuba especially to receive training in methodology for their revolution. These extra radical members of the SDS called themselves the Weather Underground Organization (WUO). The Weathermen eventually shut down the SDS and devoted themselves to the WUO. (Continue Reading…)
August 4, 2010
Submitted by: Chris Johnson
One morning, when I was 12, my mom was going through the usual difficult routine of coaxing me into starting my morning math lesson. I was homeschooled and math was my least favorite subject, therefore, in my mother’s wisdom, it was our first class of the day so we could “get it out of the way.”
When I was lucky, mom would have unexpected company, or an errand to run, or a phone call from a talkative friend. I would take the opportunity to read whatever Redwall book I was into or go outside and skateboard. The trick was to not attract attention so she wouldn’t remember what it was she was doing before the phone call and get off the phone.
Therefore, on this particular morning, that familiar hope began to rise in my chest when the phone rang. Excellent! It’s one of mom’s friends!
But that was where the excitement stopped. Because that phone call was the first we heard about the radical Muslim terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. (Continue Reading…)
June 29, 2010
Yesterday, the Supreme Court made a disturbing decision which could be a severe threat to religious liberty in the future. Whether or not it threatens our freedom in the future, it is a depressing indicator of where our current Supreme Court judges stand on the issue of our free expression of religion. (Continue Reading…)
