Founding Fathers

The Founding Fathers, having signed the Declaration of Independence, committed their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to liberty. 

Former President Donald Trump correctly predicted years ago that the far-left would eventually go after the Founding Fathers — something that came to fruition Tuesday, as officials in New York City considered a measure which would remove works of art depicting those who owned slaves or benefitted from slavery. That, of course, would include the Father of the Nation, George Washington.

More than half of Americans (55 percent) rank the Fourth of July as one of the nation’s “most important holidays” while six percent view it as one of the least important, a Rasmussen Reports survey found.

The recent indictment of former President Donald Trump is “very much in line” with what America’s Founders “envisioned,” according to an MSNBC contributor who described the move as “very much in the American tradition.”

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said Tuesday on “CNN’s This Morning” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson were rewriting history like the Nazis or the Soviets did.

In a Tuesday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) sounded off about the July 4 shooting at Highland Park, IL, that killed six people and injured at least 30 more.

Teachers in Florida will now learn more American history for civics courses, including the importance of religion in the public square.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan incorrectly stated on Friday that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan compared the Afghan Mujahidin to the “Founding Fathers” of the U.S. while hosting some of the group’s leaders at the White House in 1983.

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) reluctantly repeated its tradition of staff reading the Declaration of Independence, this year framing its report to point out the “flaws” and racist elements of one of the most cherished U.S. documents.

With over one-third of U.S. states having adopted constitutional carry laws, it seems apropos to point out the Second Amendment was the Founding Fathers’ carry permit. 

Historian and author Jon Meacham said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that America’s Founding Fathers wanted ideas like critical race theory and “The 1619 Project” to be part of the national conversation.

A Texas lawmaker introduced a bill to stop “critical race theory” from being incorporated into schools’ curricula in the state.

Talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh understood gun rights and was keenly aware that the Democrats had politicized those rights in hopes of extending their support from voters around the country. 

Frank Gaffney invited Americans to use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to rededicate themselves to American values of freedom and liberty.

House Republicans launched an investigation into Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposal to rename or remove historical monuments such as the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. 

The Citadel, a military academy in South Carolina, has announced that it will require all students to take a course on the United States Constitution. The decision comes in the aftermath of discussions by state lawmakers to enforce a decades-old law that requires public institutions to teach a course on the Constitution.

A new poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of college democrats support the removal of statues of America’s Founding Fathers. Students around the nation have launched campaigns that call for the removal of campus statues of American icons such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Only four percent of college republicans agree.

University of Maryland-Baltimore County Professor William Blake argued that the Electoral College is the product of “white supremacy” in a recently published opinion column. Blake, a political science professor, argues that “the founders’ only remaining justification for the Electoral College is structural racism.”

Students at the University of Florida told a reporter this week that America’s Founding Fathers are “villains.” Many of the students that were interviewed were unable to name positive contributions that the Founding Fathers made to the world.

Student protesters at the University of Missouri have circulated a petition that calls on Mizzou officials to remove a “racist” Thomas Jefferson statue from campus grounds.

A theater director at Harvard University announced this week that she will produce an all-female and LGBT version of the classic musical, 1776. The production is scheduled to debut on Broadway in the spring of 2021.

By recalling George Mason’s definition of impeachment, back in the 18th century, but not recalling that Mason’s definition was rejected at the time, the Democrats are doing some misleading language-chopping.

Left-wing Grammy-winning singer Barbra Streisand Streisand attempted to channel the Founding Fathers in a tweet on Monday, claiming that they envisioned the impeachment process as a way to counter the threat of aspiring despots such as, she suggests, President Trump.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr observed America’s Framers believed in religious freedom “not just as a nod in the direction of piety,” but as “indispensable to sustaining a free system of government.”

Self-help guru and author Marianne Williamson said at the Democrat debate on Tuesday in Detroit that corporations have become “a false god.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Thursday that she and three other freshman Congress members are relaunching the civil rights movement.

It is increasingly popular to question America’s greatness and status as a “Shining City on a Hill,” but the Founding Fathers showed that patriotism is not a bad thing, and U.S. freedom should never be taken for granted.

Stephen P. Halbrook’s The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms is a history lesson in freedom.

Former Navy SEAL Eli Crane observes that the Second Amendment is not just about bearing arms but defending freedom within our own borders.

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced Monday that he will introduce a resolution to formally censure Rep. Steve King (R-IA) after the Iowa Republican questioned why the terms “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” were offensive.

Film director and left-wing activist Rob Reiner thanked America’s Founding Fathers in a Thanksgiving message Thursday, arguing that the Constitution will help hold ‘mentally unstable’ President Donald Trump accountable for a “lifetime of crime and corruption.”

The Los Angeles Times published an editorial on July 26, 2018, claiming the Ninth Circuit’s pro-open carry ruling is fraudulent and reiterating their position that the ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) is fraudulent too. 

Houston police chief Art Acevedo used a May 18 Facebook post to call for followers to share their views on the Second Amendment while making clear that he has yet to receive supernatural instruction confirming gun rights come from God.

During a Thursday night rally in Elkhart, Indiana, Trump warned of Democrats’ relentless attacks  on the Second Amendment and made clear that he and Republicans will “defend the right to self-defense.”

With President Trump and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) voicing support for Congressional term limits it is important to remember that enacting artificial limits plays into the hands of gun control proponents. 

Organizers said the press conference held at the Phyllis Schlafly Center was to announce to the nation and the world that mothers want to take back America from the grip of feminism and liberalism and return it to a country focused on family, freedom and the principles embraced by its founding fathers.