“A LONG AND EVENTFUL LIFE” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com, ©2017 (Oct. 1, 2017) — Marquis de Lafayette served passionately during America’s Revolution. Along with Benjamin Franklin, Lafayette helped to obtain France’s involvement in our Revolution. Lafayette also helped secure a victory at Yorktown. During his final visit to America in 1824, Lafayette became the first […]
“HE WHO TRANSPLANTED SUSTAINS” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com, ©2017 (May 1, 2017) — If found guilty in a court of law, an accused has a right to appeal to a higher court. Prior to the American Revolution, the Colonists presented their grievances to the court of King George III many times and pleaded for justice. […]
“EXPULSION FROM PARADISE IS LESS THAN ONE GENERATION AWAY” by RoseAnn Salanitri, TPATH Contributor, ©2017 (Feb. 27, 2017) — The two competing factions in these United States have ideological differences that motivate them that are as different as the serpent’s and God’s in the Garden of Eden. While God made the right way of living […]
“WHAT CAN’T MEN DO WHEN ENGAGED IN SO NOBLE A CAUSE?” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com (Dec. 1, 2016) — It was 3:00 a.m. when the last piece of artillery crossed the Delaware. General Washington gathered his troops and, in the unrelenting storm, began the nine-mile march to Trenton. Despite arriving after daylight and three hours […]
“AND WE DON’T EVEN KNOW THEIR NAMES” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 25, 2016) — In a special Thanksgiving edition on Thursday, constitutional scholar and instructor KrisAnne Hall devoted her radio show to the many unnamed heroes of the American Revolution, some of whom were once slaves but achieved their freedom for agreeing to fight with […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Nov. 6, 2016) — At the start of this great country, around 1776, there might have been 3 million inhabitants of the Continental United States, mostly concentrated along the East Coast in the original thirteen colonies, not including the native population. Now at 320,000,000, […]
THE NATURAL BORN CITIZEN – WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016 (Oct. 11, 2016) — As the nation enters the final days of the 2016 presidential election, Democrats have once again resurrected the “birther” issue, charging that Republican candidate Donald Trump is somehow unfit to serve because he once raised questions about Barack […]
“I CALL NOT UPON A FEW, BUT UPON ALL” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com, ©2016 (Oct. 10, 2016) — In the fall of 1776, the American army lost to British forces at Long Island (NY), White Plains (NY), Ft. Washington and Ft. Lee. Historians estimate over 500 Americans were killed and over 4000 American soldiers were […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Jul. 17, 2016) — In our recent article entitled, “What Was That 4th of July Freedom Again?” we described what happened to freedom since Patrick Henry uttered those immortal words, “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death.” We laid out the details on […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jul. 2, 2016) — As Patrick Henry’s cry of freedom, “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death” echoes across the passages of time, has it not become meaningless in the 241 years since it was uttered at the Virginia Convention on March 23, […]
IS TRYING TO “FIX” GOVERNMENT THE ANSWER? by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jun. 9, 2016) — To paraphrase an ancient Greek, society will often survive the evil that men do for evil purposes, but a society’s downfall can often be attributed to the evil done in the name of good intentions. […]
“PHILOSOPHICAL REPUBLICANS” by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2016 (May 14, 2016) — From the left-tilted magazine “Politico” comes this: “Do the Democrats Have a Next Act? Forget the Republican squabble—it’s Hillary’s party that needs to find new ideas,” by Todd S. Purdum,1/15/2016. “Search “Todd S. Purdum-Politico” for more on this writer. The content […]
AN “UNRESPONSIVE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY” by Dr. Tom E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret), ©2016 (Mar. 21, 2016) — [Editor’s Note: The following was sent by fax to the Washington, DC office of the FBI.] Few, if any good, God-worshiping patriotic Americans would deny the obvious. We are saddled with a feckless, implacable and unresponsive federal bureaucracy. […]
“THE PRICE THEY PAID” by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Colonel, USA (Ret), ©2016 (Mar. 12, 2016) — I remember a time, in fact a specific day. That day was Sunday, December 7, 1941, “A day that will live in infamy.” I was just a kid, a sixteen-year-old skinny senior in Cut Bank, Montana High School. The […]
“RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Feb. 11, 2016) — “It is not the firearm in the hands of the Patriot the tyrant fears, it is the spirit of the person who possesses that firearm.” “The death of the spirit is the price of progress.” ~ Eric Voegelin The spirit […]
“I AM AMERICAN RACIST” by Cody Robert Judy, Presidential Candidate, ©2016 (Jan. 13, 2016) — Between 1765 and 1783, a Revolution took place that parted the British Crown from the United States of America. The strangest thing that has ever occurred is that while America opened her arms to immigrants for a new nation, a […]
NO “FOREIGN ALLEGIANCE” by Creg Maroney, ©2016 (Jan. 11, 2016) — It is a well-known fact that the first Article II “natural born Citizen” United States President was Martin Van Buren of New York. Even though he was a U.S. citizen alive “at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution” as Article II required […]
“THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT…” by Dwight Kehoe, Editor, TPATH, ©2016 (Jan. 9, 2016) — This past week, as much in support of his buddy Mark Levin as for Ted Cruz, Rush Limbaugh spent a very long time telling his audience that they knew not what they knew. He spoke of every aspect of the […]
“A RUNAWAY TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Jan. 7, 2016) — Imagine with me if you will, it is April 19, 1775 and you are standing with 69 farmers, shopkeepers and others of your militia unit on the Green in Lexington opposing almost one thousand Redcoats who are on their way to Concord to […]
“RETRACE OUR STEPS” by James Still, ©2016, RetraceOurSteps.com (Jan. 1, 2016) — Lacking artillery in the Continental Army, Washington approved Henry Knox’s bold plan to transport 60 Tons of captured British artillery from Ft. Ticonderoga to Boston. During the dead of winter and over the course of 56 days, Colonel Knox transported the artillery 300 […]