http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/founding/ en-us Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:04:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985244/posts Indian DNA links to 6 'founding mothers' By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer NEW YORK - Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests. Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said. The finding does not mean that only these six women gave rise to the migrants who crossed into North America from Asia in the initial populating of the continent, said study co-author... Yahoo News/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985244/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:04:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956497/posts HOW LONG DOES THE USA HAVE? This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming. I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting and concerning to see it in print. God help us, not that we deserve it. How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 'A... Recieved via Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956497/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:58:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954439/posts LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's intelligence services are investigating an Islamist Web site that says it is establishing a branch of al Qaeda in Britain, BBC television reported on Tuesday. According to the report, security experts fear a posting on the site, www.alekhlaas.net, declaring "the creation of the al Qaeda organization in Britain" may be genuine. "You don't ignore this sort of thing," Pauline Neville-Jones, the former head of the British joint intelligence committee, told the program. "It may not be a threat from an existing cell... but it does represent a move in the propaganda game and the propaganda game... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954439/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1893627/posts h A revolt in an undeveloped colony on the fringe of civilization, led by a big landowner and slaveholder with little education or military experience, brought to success by help from France in its feud with the British colonizers. That's how a cynical European might have described the American Revolution. Jay Winik's new account of the period takes a different view in American Revolution presented as source of worldwide political changes ever since "The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800" (Harper Collins, 659 pages, $29.95). He feels that history may never have seen a group... Philadelphia Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1893627/posts#comment Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:26:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797316/posts 'Celebration' banned for Jamestown's 400thEvents marking settlement's anniversary condemn its 'holocaust' Posted: March 8, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern By Bob Unruh© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com This year is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of settlers in Jamestown, 13 years before the Plymouth Pilgrims appeared on America's shores. And there will be discussions on the environmental impact of the settlement and its impact on African-Americans and Native Americans. But there will be no celebration. "You can't celebrate an invasion," Mary Wade, a member of Jamestown 2007 organizing committee, has stated. After all, Indian tribes "were pushed back off of their land, even killed. Whole tribes... Worldnetdaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797316/posts#comment Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:24:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1752350/posts "We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Virginia Baptists, 1808. ME 16:320 "The constitutional freedom of religion [is] the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights." --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes, 1819.... Thomas Jefferson on Government and Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1752350/posts#comment Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:34:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1663388/posts ROCK HILL, S.C. - A research facility is planned for York County that will focus on the role of Southern states in the Revolutionary War. Historian Michael Scoggins said the Southern Revolutionary War Institute will be used to educate people about the South's contributions to the war. It's a field he says has been neglected in the past. "There's been various fields that downplay the role of the South," Scoggins said. "When you look at most history textbooks, we are generally given the short treatment." The institute will be based at the McCelvey Center in York and local officials hope... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1663388/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:25:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643194/posts  David McCullough was born in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was educated there and at Yale University. Author of 1776, John Adams, Truman, Brave Companions, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, The Great Bridge and The Johnstown Flood, he has twice received the Pulitzer Prize and twice the National Book Award, as well as the Francis Parkman Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The following is adapted from a public lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on March 31, 2006, during Mr. McCullough's one-week residency at the College to teach a class on “Leadership and the History... Hillsdale College http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643194/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:53:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628347/posts There is opposition to a plan by Israeli Arabs to march in the center of the Israeli city of Lod to mourn the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation. Residents of Lod filed a request with Lod Police Commander Amichai Eshed to prevent a public observance in the city on May 15th (the anniversary of the end of the British Mandate) of Al-Nakba – which is Arabic for "The Catastrophe," a reference to the founding of the State of Israel. They wrote in their letter that, "Nakba Day testifies more than anything to the disloyalty of Palestinians in Israel to the right... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628347/posts#comment Mon, 8 May 2006 00:14:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609740/posts In 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty, including people from right here in the Marlborough area, dumped tea into Boston Harbor in protest against the British. It was one of the seminal events of the Revolutionary years. So how is that event presented in today's high school history classes? Metrowest Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609740/posts#comment Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609299/posts A common and false impression about America’s Founding Fathers is that they were deists -- that is, they believed in a "watchmaker" God who set the universe in motion and then stepped aside to let it run itself. The deist god lacks the interest, or the power, to intervene in human affairs. Michael Novak, a celebrated theologian and author, convincingly rebutted this misconception in his book, "On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding." In "Washington's God," Novak and his daughter Jana turn their attention to the religious beliefs of America's first and greatest President. The... HUMAN EVENTS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609299/posts#comment Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:13:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508984/posts Published online: 24 October 2005Charlotte SchubertY chromosomes reveal founding fatherDid conquest and concubines spread one man's genes across Asia? The Manchu warriors took control of China in 1644. © Punchstock About 1.5 million men in northern China and Mongolia may be descended from a single man, according to a study based on Y chromosome genetics1. Historical records suggest that this man may be Giocangga, who lived in the mid-1500s and whose grandson founded the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. The analysis is similar to a controversial study in 2003, which suggested that approximately 16 million men... Nature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508984/posts#comment Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:02:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1439440/posts In a more perfect United States there would be a separation of politics and government rather than an illegitimate separation of church and state. The fact that there is absolutely no mention of the latter in the US Constitution hasn’t stopped ideologues and activists from forcing that bit of fiction down our collective throats. Neither has the constitutionally derived authority of We the People thwarted them from hijacking the act of governing for the benefit of politics. I don’t blame those who haven’t a clue as to how our government is supposed to work for their lack of knowledge. US... THE RANT.US http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1439440/posts#comment Sat, 9 Jul 2005 01:25:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435058/posts In this modern age, when we commemorate the 229th birthday of these United States, we may recite the rightness of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People... FEDERALIST PATRIOT.US http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435058/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jul 2005 02:02:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430722/posts In a recent Supreme Court decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "If the peasants sow the fields poorly, they should be helped – and this particularly applies to the poor peasants – by means of collective cultivation of the large estates. There is no other way of helping the poor peasants." Therefore, "the landed estates must be confiscated immediately." Actually, that was Vladimir Lenin writing in an issue of the Communist publication Pravda on June 2, 1917. I've compiled a small list of quotes for use in this article, but at times it can be hard to remember who used... WORLD NET DAILY.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430722/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:19:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1428665/posts Opinions vary on the topic, between those with religion and those without. They vary between the politically motivated--those who believe in morality based self-governance versus those who seek man’s dominion over men through man-made, man-interpreted and man-enforced laws. They even vary among believers, some of whom believe in an unwritten separation of church and state versus others who believe only in that which was actually written into our Constitution by the founders. If you are looking for a debate, few topics will so readily attract opposition. Is it a question of faith or historical fact? It’s hard to get folks... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1428665/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423809/posts It is at this time of the year that some sentimental Americans reflect on the greatness of the Founding Fathers. Albeit, in the face of “political Correctness,” the “pop culture” mindset, and a government school system that has abandoned American history, the numbers who ponder such topics is shrinking. Nevertheless, several profound essays have been written on the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and their fates in the wake of that momentous occasion. It is worthwhile to consider just a few from among those perhaps greatest of Americans, how their examples spoke to the nation at its inception, and... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423809/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:57:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409580/posts Founding fathers & mothers: How many crossed the land bridge?Contact: Joseph Blumberg blumberg@ur.rutgers.edu 732-932-7084 x652 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Programs on the Discovery Channel and PBS have sparked fresh interest in the prehistoric peopling of the New World. Now, for the first time, we have a realistic estimate of how many ancients made that ice age trek across the long-lost land bridge from Asia to become the first Native Americans. Jody Hey, a professor of genetics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has developed a computational method that uses genetic information... Eureka Alert/Rutgers State University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409580/posts#comment Tue, 24 May 2005 17:47:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405310/posts Educating the Children of Illegal Immigrants By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal (Warner Robins, Perry, GA) May 18, 2005 When the United States finally became a union in 1789, one of the primary concerns of our founding fathers was the preservation of the sovereignty and protection of State Rights. Unlike Britain and Canada, the United States of America embraced a republican form of government rather than an all powerful parliamentary system. The formation of the United States Senate was not a throwback to the Roman Senate, but a unique historical creation which protected States with small populations from domination... Houston Home Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405310/posts#comment Wed, 18 May 2005 03:20:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366385/posts The American Founding as the Best Regime The Bonding of Civil and Religious Liberty By Harry V. Jaffa Posted May 15, 2002 In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than... The Claremont Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366385/posts#comment Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:06:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348053/posts In God We Trust Patriotic Flash Movie Finished and posted just in time for Washington's Birthday! (BTW, it's hard to swallow polls that find Washington ranked as America's 7th greatest president.) The presentation features quotes from Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Henry, Lincoln, Reagan, and more on the subject of God and morality in government. Many of these quotes were taken from their own speeches to the American people as elected officials (sorry ye Newdows and ACLUers of the world)! Enjoy and spread freely! I created two versions--one for high bandwidth (T1, DSL, Cable), and another for those trapped in dialupland.... InterviewwithJesus.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348053/posts#comment Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:29:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342369/posts Tsunami Tyranny On February 2nd, 2005 US President George W. Bush said in his State Of the Union Address: The only force powerful enough to stop the rise of tyranny and terror, and replace hatred with hope, is the force of human freedom. (1) The attack on freedom in our world has reaffirmed our confidence in freedom's power to change the world. We are all part of a great venture: To extend the promise of freedom in our country, to renew the values that sustain our liberty, and to spread the peace that freedom brings. (2) How can we define... Neoperspectives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342369/posts#comment Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:31:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308829/posts The founding fathers never envisioned direct election of the president by the people. In the beginning the people voted for state representatives and congressmen. State legislatures selected two men to represent the state in the Senate. Each state legislature selected a man (from anywhere in the country) to be president and another (not from the same state) to be vice president. There was no campaign and no presidential candidate to select his own vice president. These names were given to electors who journeyed to Washington to meet with the electors from the other states. This was the original electoral college.... THE RANT.US http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308829/posts#comment Mon, 27 Dec 2004 04:19:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303497/posts I've heard liberals express their dismay at all the fuss conservatives make over judicial activism. Some even claim to be unclear about the meaning of the term. Perhaps a recent remark of Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the incoming Senate minority leader, will serve as an illustration. Appearing Dec. 6 on Meet the Press, Reid was asked to comment on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a possible replacement for ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist. "I think that he (Thomas) has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written," said Reid. Rocky Mountain News column http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303497/posts#comment Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:26:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286431/posts I was doing reasearch this evening for a debate tournament I am participating in a couple of weeks when I came upon this quote: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams It seems to me this just nails the aclu argument about separation of church and state. Here we have a founding father stating that the constitution does not work if the people are not moral and religious. It seems to me we should be using this quote much more often in debates with... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286431/posts#comment Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:39:41 GMT