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In the conservative spirit of William F. Buckley asserting that “gratitude” for our national blessings should be a year-round and lifelong attitude, not just an afterthought while eating turkey, please accept this day-after-Thanksgiving appreciation.

Progressive policies and positions are supposed to be rooted in reality and hard evidence. But thats not always the case when it comes to the culture wars that have such an enormous impact on our politics — especially not since the unexpected evangelical embrace of Donald Trump in 2016, culminating...

Leaders at religious private schools across Northern Virginia report enrollment is growing amid controversies over public schools' curricula.

Beth Macy, a nationally known writer who honed her craft as a longtime staffer for The Roanoke Times, has been named the 2021 George Mason Award recipient for outstanding contributions

America’s Declaration of Independence on its 245th Anniversary* Are the postmodernists and critical race theorists correct when they say America and some of its founders should appear with an asterisk behind their names from now on? The legacy of the Enlightenment and the American Experiment is in the balance. June 11, 2021 •  (James Byard/WUSTL Photos) You can listen to the companion audio version of this and other essays - using the player below or on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast...

SUMMARY The Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the General Assembly on January 16, 1786, before being signed into law three days later. The statute affirms the rights of Virginians to choose their faiths without coercion; separates church and state; and, while acknowledging the right of future assemblies to change the law, concludes that doing so would “be an infringement of a natural right.” Jefferson’s original bill “for ...

Rick Santorum could teach CNN a lot about honor, decency, and American history.

The Constitution. The Constitution associated with united states may be the law that is supreme of usa Ratification The method put down into the Constitution for the ratification given to much debate ...

The great seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia is described in detail in § 1–500 of the Code of Virginia. The description has changed very little since it was adopted in July 1776: The great seal of the Commonwealth shall consist of two metallic discs, two and one-fourth inches in diameter, with an ornamental border one fourth of an inch wide, with such words and figures engraved as follows: On the obverse, Virtus, the genius of the Commonwealth, dressed as an Amazon, resting on a spear in ...

Summary: Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical interest, has important implications for how we conceive of the role of religion in the American republic. Mark David Hall begins by considering two popular answers to the query—“Of course not!” and “Absolutely!”—both of which distort the Founders’ views. After showing that Christian ideas were one of the important intellectual influences on the Founders, he discusses three maj...