Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

If you haven't seen this, you owe it to yourself to watch it. Dr. Benjamin Carson is the director of the pediatric neurosurgery division at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He is the son of an illiterate, single black woman and is now a highly esteemed doctor. While not intending to offend anyone, notice that Mr. Obama doesn't applaud his words.

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Who would have ever thought Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor would share an opinion on the court. Yet this group formed the dissenting opinion in the controversial DNA testing case recently ruled on by the Supreme Court. But, then again, whoever thought that WWTFT would sing the praises of an articlewritten in the New Republic .. strange times indeed.

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Ideas Have Consequences is such dense book, that it would be impossible to review it in the normal mode. Indeed even treating each chapter as an entity unto itself may not be sufficient. And so, consider this a multi-part review.

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President Obama was right. He promised the most transparent administration ever and he kept his word. It is the most transparently political, transparently corrupt and transparently inept of any administration in recent American history, maybe in all American history.

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Logan Beirne, who's new book we recently reviewed here at WWTFT, has an excellent piece in the Washington Times. In this piece, as in his book, Beirne explains the relevance of founding principles and the precedents set by George Washington.

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Two stories in the news last week are a reminder that the left is like the Energizer bunny: It just keeps on keeping on.

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The IRS and Department of Justice scandals rocking the Obama administration make this a timely review. They demonstrate the consequences of Unlearning Liberty. The author is a First Amendment lawyer and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), an organization dedicated to defending free speech rights on college and university campuses. FIRE is politically ecumenical, encompassing conservatives, liberals and libertarian free speech warriors. It goes to war and to court to defend students’ and faculties’ First Amendment rights at institutions of higher education.

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Logan Beirne has written a book that connects the past with the present. It is a historical review of how George Washington conducted himself during the American Revolution and set precedents which all subsequent Presidents have felt the weight of, whether or not they chose to be guided by them. Fortunately for the people of the United States, most Presidents since Washington’s time have seen fit to conform to the outline of the role shaped by the Father of our country - at least to some degree.

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Reader discretion advised, book contains explicit content of a disturbing nature. This little book does not carry a warning label, but it should. It’s diminutive 5” x 7” format and 43 pages of large print belie the universe of disturbing information within. Martin previously reviewed another book in the excellent Encounter series. This one is Broadside 28.

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Author Eric Metaxas has written an unusual book. It is part biography, part history, and part philosophy. Ostensibly it is primarily the former more than the latter. However, it is much more than just the story of one remarkable man’s life. It is the story of choices and consequences. It is a depiction of brutal honesty and what it really means to stand for something.

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