DR. MICHAEL COULTER: MARTIN LUTHER KING’S DREAM AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 26 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am

August 28 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at that great rally is rightly honored as one of the greatest speeches in American history. All Am...

CHARLES G. MILLS: AMERICANISM, YALE, CATHOLICS, AND PROTESTANTS 26 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am

GLEN COVE, NY - American Catholics are particularly tempted to compromise with their fellow citizens. It is in our history. It would be wrong to deny the Catholic contribution to the founding of the U...

SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 26-2013 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am

In recent years ND educators and media smugly reported that the state’s students performed well above the national average. Over the same period I have argued the view is delusional and the state’s st...

SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 26-2013 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am

In recent years ND educators and media smugly reported that the state’s students performed well above the national average. Over the same period I have argued the view is delusional and the state’s st...

SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 26-2013 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am

In recent years ND educators and media smugly reported that the state’s students performed well above the national average. Over the same period I have argued the view is delusional and the state’s st...

DR. JOSEPH J. HORTON: WE NEED TO STOP EATING THE MARSHMALLOWS 26 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

In a classic psychological study, hungry four-year-olds were offered a marshmallow. They were told that if they could wait about 20 minutes before eating, they could have two marshmallows instead o...

DENNIS M. PATRICK: THE PEOPLE’S POET 26 Aug 2013 | 01:31 am

What better way to conclude summer's reading program than by browsing through the poems of James Whitcomb Riley. I've written about him before.  Few writers capture the sense of nostalgic Americana as...

DR. JASON R. EDWARDS: THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG - A THREE-PART SERIES, PART ONE 24 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm

Editor's note: This three-part series commemorating the 150-year anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg first appeared at TheBlaze.com.D Part one-Gettysburg: Day one In the first week of July, tens o...

TIM LUND: A RACIST AT THE BEER SUMMIT 19 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm

SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 16, 2013 17 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am

“State coffers are overflowing” into “a quirky, idiosyncratic system for allocation.” -- Quotes from the “fedgazette,” a newspaper of the Federal Reserve in Minneapolis. The July issue is largely devo...