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• Michele Bachmann’s Recommended Reading

  Posted February 23rd, 2010 at 4:00pm in First Principles with 6 comments

  What author wouldn’t cherish a plug of his book by an attractive, poised public speaker who really knows how to excite and inspire a crowd? And we don’t mean President Barack Obama citing “The Defining Moment,” Jonathan Alter’s book on FDR. This was Rep. Michele Bachmann, revving up CPAC with a speech that wound up quoting, [...] More

• Morning Bell: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen

  Posted February 15th, 2010 at 9:00am in First Principles with 45 comments

  This season’s snow falls and Snowpocalypse presents a great opportunity to remember our president who also suffered through the cold to save the Republic. Happy William Henry Harrison Day! No wait. That is not right. Failing to wear a coat in cold weather is not the same as defeating the British during a blizzard. The third Monday [...] More

• It Will Be as if the American Founding Never Happened

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 3:59pm in First Principles with 80 comments

  Forget George Washington, James Madison, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln—nothing meaningful happened in America before 1877. That’s the lesson North Carolina public high schools may start teaching. Under proposed changes in their high school history curriculum, the U.S. History course (which seniors take) will cover events from 1877 forward only. It will be as if the American Founding [...] More

• Morning Bell: Remembering the Providential Gift of America

  Posted December 25th, 2009 at 9:00am in First Principles with 13 comments

  Christmas, 1776. Summer had begun with strong declarations of noble ideals, but by winter the cause of liberty seemed to be at low ebb. Having suffered defeat after defeat, many had all but given up hope. It looked like freedom would succumb yet again, as it had throughout history, to the forces of authoritarianism and tyranny. Then, [...] More

• We Still Hold These Truths: Stemming the Tide of Progressivism

  Posted December 9th, 2009 at 3:59pm in First Principles with 6 comments

  This is the final video on Matt Spalding’s new book, We Still Hold These Truths. The battle against Progressivism is not lost, counsels Spalding. Properly educating our children to know and appreciate both the founding principles of America and the importance of the free enterprise system are two ways to combat the growing threat to personal [...] More

• We Still Hold These Truths: The Rise of the Czar State Impedes Liberty

  Posted December 8th, 2009 at 10:02am in First Principles with 0 comments

  This is the third in a four part series. Matthew Spalding’s new book, We Still Hold These Truths, examines the timeless principles and practical wisdom that have been the source of America’s monumental success. In this video segment Spalding details how the rise of Czars in American government – unelected bureaucrats with great regulatory power - pose [...] More

• We Still Hold These Truths: The Progressive Assault on America

  Posted November 19th, 2009 at 12:26pm in First Principles with 11 comments

  This is the second of a four part series. Matthew Spalding’s new book, We Still Hold These Truths, examines the timeless principles and practical wisdom that have been the source of America’s monumental success. In this video segment Spalding discusses the progressive assault on the Founders’ principles that began more than a century ago and that continues—indeed, [...] More

• ‘At the Heart of Our Common Defense’

  Posted November 12th, 2009 at 9:58am in First Principles, Protect America with 0 comments

  Heritage constitutional scholar Matthew Spalding has quite a few things to say about Americans’ love of liberty in his book,  “We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future.” Some of the passages stand out all the more this week as the nation again saluted its defenders on Veterans Day, which this year [...] More

• We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering America’s Founding

  Posted November 10th, 2009 at 11:45am in First Principles with 11 comments

  This is the first of a five part series. In the midst of frenzied efforts to remake our nation—of endless government initiatives involved in virtually every aspect of our daily lives—Americans are increasingly concerned: How did we get so far off track? And how can we get America back on course? Matthew Spalding answers these questions [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on ‘We Still Hold These Truths’

  Posted November 5th, 2009 at 9:36am in First Principles with 6 comments

  I’m looking forward to Heritage’s celebration on Thursday, November 5, of Matthew Spalding’s new book, “We Still Hold These Truths.” Our most underappreciated President, Cal Coolidge, wrote: “We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. They did not create our Declaration [of Independence]. Our Declaration created them. The things of [...] More