2016 Obama's America

2016 Obama’s America, a film by Dinesh D'Souza, opens in theaters throughout America this week.  The expose takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the Marxist thug who wants to redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, “If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?”

Additional information about 2016 Obama's America, theater locations and show times are available here.

Remembering the Significance of VJ Day

From The Center for Vision & Values, Grove City College

Consider this fictitious scenario: In the summer of 1950, President Thomas E. Dewey faced a national security crisis of extraordinary proportions—one that his advisors agreed likely would define his presidency. After beating his Democratic opponent in 1948 by a comfortable margin, Dewey received news that Soviet-backed armies in Korea, Hokkaido, and Northern Honshu had mounted a massive invasion of Southern Honshu, with the goal of unifying Japan under a single government. He knew that American occupation forces—under strength, dispirited, and still fighting insurgencies loyal to the emperor in Kyushu and Shikoku, as well as other scattered parts of the former Japanese empire—were hardly in a position to resist.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2012 Finale

The Cadet Glee Club of West Point Performs "Jerusalem"

At the conclusion of the magnificent London Olympics, we can think of no more appropriate hymn this Sunday morning than the great British anthem, "Jerusalem," performed here by cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

The hymn is based on a poem by the English romantic poet, William Blake.  Blake was inspired by the legend that young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a maritime trader, traveled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury.

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy lamb of god
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear: o clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight;
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

A Proud Nation Should Not Be Bashful of Its Past

An Australian View of the Anglosphere

From The Age
By Chris Berg 

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr with Buddhist monks during a visit to Cambodia in March. Photo: AFP

 Our Foreign Minister can be very emphatic. Bob Carr told an audience last month it was ''too risky'' for Australia ''even to glance in the direction of talk of an Anglosphere''.

That is, to even think about talking about the deep relationship we have with the English-speaking world would be international relations suicide - like using the wrong fork at a dinner party. We would offend our neighbours and lose our friends.

It was clear who Carr was criticising. His speech didn't mention the Opposition Leader, but Tony Abbott is a big fan of the Anglosphere. Earlier this year, Carr's predecessor, Kevin Rudd, was explicit: Abbott's belief in the Anglosphere is one of the reasons he must be kept out of government.

Father Robert Barron: To Evangelize the Culture

One of the Church's best messengers, Fr. Robert Barron gave the John M. Kelly Lecture in Theology on September 28, 2011.

Fr. Barron is widely known as an acclaimed author, speaker and theologian. He is currently the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at Mundelein Seminary, near Chicago, Illinois. As the founder of Word on Fire, he is the creator and host of CATHOLICISM, a ten-part documentary series and study program about the Catholic faith.

He earned a Master's Degree in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America in 1982, before being ordained to the priesthood four years later. In 1992, he received his doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris. He then went on to teach systematic theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary.

Paul Ryan - At Last a Candidate To Cheer For!

Paul Ryan is bright, articulate, principled and consistently conservative - a perfect balance for the Romney ticket.