July 4, 2017

Lincoln's vital understanding of July 4th

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher famously once said, "Europe was created by history.  America was created by philosophy."  Nearly all European nations trace their beginning to a common ethnic kinship or a cultural characte...

April 6, 2017

WWI Anniversary: A Reminder of American Exceptionalism

One hundred years ago this week, the United States entered World War I after President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany to “make the word safe for democracy.” Unlike Europe, America did not enter the ...