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The Most Important Founding Father You May Not Remember
Thursday is the birthday of the most important Founding Father Americans may not even remember. He doesn’t have a musical written about him. He doesn’t have an HBO series. But he is one of the most significant Founders in the history of the United States. Thursday is the 272nd anniversary of James Madison’s birth. More…Rep. Mark Green -
Don’t Worry, BLM Founders Aren’t Corrupt. They’re Capitalists.
If you’re a woke journalist, how would you frame allegations of financial misconduct against the main Black Lives Matter organization? You could ignore these financial questions about the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, sure. Or you could frame the allegations the way New York magazine has in a recent article: by absurdly quoting people…Mike Gonzalez -
Celebrating Founding Fathers Is ‘Structural Racism,’ National Archives Says
Venerating and celebrating the Founding Fathers is an example of “structural racism,” apparently. That’s the conclusion of a recently released document created by a National Archives and Records Administration task force on racism. The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency charged with taking care of our country’s governmental and historical records, including…Jarrett Stepman -
Less Is More: Restoring the Founders’ Original Vision for Our Constitutional Republic
One of the main objectives of the great American experiment was to move away from a system of top-down rule by the powerful elite over the powerless. Instead, our Founders understood that power belonged to the people, and was entrusted by the people to those elected to govern. Recognizing humanity’s fallible nature, the Framers structured…Rep. Michael Cloud -
3 Quotes From Founding Fathers Remind Us Why We Are a Constitutional Republic (Not a Democracy)
We have all heard the common talking point from the left that conservatives are destroying democracy. The response to this claim is the same time and time again: “We’re not a democracy, we’re a constitutional republic!” This leads us to ask an important question: Are there any differences between the two, and if so, why…Seth Griffin -
San Francisco Aims to Strip the Names of Founders, Abraham Lincoln, and an Abolitionist From Public Schools
San Francisco takes the war on history very seriously. Forget the pandemic, rising crime, economic uncertainty, and the buildup of human waste and tent cities on the streets. That can all wait. San Francisco’s real priority is changing school names to ensure that they all conform to the ever-evolving standards of the woke left. The…Jarrett Stepman -
Founders’ Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor Still Our Foundation
In recent weeks, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of America to declare that the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor of the Founding Fathers no longer should be considered the true foundation of the United States of America. The death of George Floyd in police custody May 25 sparked a wave of already-simmering…Sarah Williams -
Why MLK Is America’s Last Founding Father
“These are the hard, brutal facts of the case,” wrote Martin Luther King Jr. from a Jefferson County jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 16, 1963. Birmingham saw more “unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches” than any other American city. Racist posters decorated the storefronts of its businesses. State officials worked overtime to…Dion Pierre -
What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery
One of the ironies of the current American “elite” is that, rather than actually being elite, they have the smug self-assurance of knowing much that isn’t so. Recently, a video surfaced of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard University graduate and Rhodes scholar, explaining to a group of high school students why the…Jarrett Stepman -
These ‘Founders’ Aim to Improve How Schools Teach History and the Constitution
Many students and educators agree that the history of America’s founding is sorely lacking in high school curriculums across the country. The philosophy behind the founding and the United States Constitution often gets the boot when competing with STEM-focused subjects in today’s classroom. But one Florida organization is hoping to change that with an after-school…Aaron Credeur -
What Our Founders Really Thought of Slavery—and Why The New York Times Is Wrong
For those who want to fundamentally transform our nation, the first order of business is to thoroughly discredit our past. For decades, progressives have claimed that our foundations are so cracked and broken by the original sin of slavery that reverence paid both to our Constitution and its Framers is undue. While the left has…John York -
What the Founders Had to Say About National Debt
The Founders of the United States of America warned against massive federal debt, but, to our detriment, their political descendants are not paying attention. The Founders speak to us from their graves to condemn and warn of the consequences now that President Trump and Congress have come to an agreement about lifting the meaningless “debt…Cal Thomas -
Pompeo: ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Is What the Founders Envisioned
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put forward a compelling case for an “America First” foreign policy last weekend, speaking as the featured guest at the Claremont Institute’s 40th Anniversary Gala in Beverly Hills, California. The nation’s top diplomat argued that, rather than deviating from American norms, the Trump administration’s foreign policy is exactly the kind…Daniel Davis -
CNN Smears Electoral College, Lies About the Founders
Many on the left are calling for the nation to get rid of the Electoral College. And it appears that many in the media support this notion. Unfortunately, progressives and their media allies at CNN and elsewhere have waged a disinformation campaign to bury the intentions of the Founders, or distort the Founders’ views on…Jarrett Stepman -
Rep. Gowdy: Paul Ryan a Modern-Day Founding Father
Shortly after Rep. Trey Gowdy’s new lawmaker orientation as an elected member of the House of Representatives in 2011, he went to his hero Paul Ryan’s office and asked for his autograph. Ryan, who was slightly embarrassed, according to Gowdy, decided to take the opportunity to have a quick chat with his new colleague from…Ginny Montalbano -
America Has Strayed From Founders’ Vision for Economic Freedom and Limited Government, Walter Williams Says
An author and economics professor warns that America must return to the Founders’ vision of limited government to preserve the economic future of the country. “I think we can safely say that we have made a significant departure from the constitutional principles of individual liberty and limited government that made us a rich nation in…Rachel del Guidice -
College Student Calls Out Women’s March Founders for Not Allowing Unscreened Questions
A conservative college student is making waves over a requirement for prescreened questions at an event featuring leaders of the left-leaning Women’s March. Kassy Dillon, a senior at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, says she is irked that the march activists didn’t call on students and let them ask whatever they wanted. Dillon, president of…Chrissy Clark -
Right Side of History: The Founders Had an Answer to the ‘Fake News’ Problem
“The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past. On this week’s episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal, and Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal’s White House correspondent, discuss the fake news phenomenon, the history…Jarrett Stepman -
In the Pronoun Wars, Be Thankful for the Founding Fathers
It is sometimes astounding the kind of foresight the Founding Fathers had in protecting future generations from tyranny. The current international push to criminalize free speech in the name of various social movements should make us thankful that we have the First Amendment. Most other nations, even in the Western world, don’t have nearly the…Jarrett Stepman -
What the Left Hopes to Achieve by Attacking the Founders
Our nation’s leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Though typical Democrats and Republicans do not have this leftist hate for our nation, they have been willing accomplices in undermining the most basic value the Founding Fathers sought to promote—limited government. Leftists have had…Walter E. Williams
