Tag Archives: Founding Fathers

Obama’s utopia

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

Tweet The following post is a transcript of a weekly radio commentary aired on several Utah radio stations: With the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, his speech was impressive – even Reaganesque. He began by citing the Declaration of … Continue reading →

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Tonight on PBS: ‘First Freedom’ documentary by Utah filmmaker

Posted on December 18, 2012 by

Tweet “First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty,” a film by Utah filmmaker Lee Groberg on the history of religious liberty in America, airs tonight at 7 on KUED as well as on hundreds of PBS affiliates across the country. … Continue reading →

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Spending our children’s inheritance

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

Tweet One of the gems in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is his description of the tradition threatened by the social engineering of the French Revolution as an “entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and … Continue reading →

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Celebrate Constitution with contest, concert, McCullough

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

Tweet On Monday, Sept. 17, we mark the 225th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution – the foundation, along with the Declaration of Independence, of the American republic. Of this remarkable and most significant document, William R. … Continue reading →

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Independence declared with beauty and civility

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

Tweet   To prepare for our celebration of Independence Day, I took a minute to re-read the Declaration of Independence. One thing stood out especially to me as I read: The beauty and civility of the language of our forefathers … Continue reading →

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