Posts by Col. John Eidsmoe

In the war of ideas, the battle for the minds of men, the library is a central field of conflict, because the library is a repository of ideas. 

The Christmas Wars – at root a worldview conflict between those who want to celebrate Christmas as a Christian holiday and those who want to secularize or ignore it – continued this year.

Four things to learn from Luther, Tyndale and Bradford as we celebrate Thanksgiving.

The simple words of the Mayflower Compact convey the basic principles of law and government that influenced future generations to draft colonial charters and, later, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. 

“The 1619 Project” gives the impression that slavery began with the American colonies. Nothing could be further from the truth. 

The Pilgrims did not choose a communal living experiment; it was forced upon them just before their voyage.

Religion has always permeated public life. Now that government also permeates the public arena, interaction between religion and government is inevitable.

Some globalists still insist that treaties supersede the Constitution, but legal precedent clearly says otherwise.

Alabama’s State Motto is “Audemus jura nostra defendere” – “We dare defend our rights.” Or have we amended our motto to read, “We dare defend our rights, unless a federal judge tells us we shouldn’t?" 

Alabama already has the best abortion law in the nation, but let’s ramp it up.

State agencies may not discriminate against religious people or religious expression. The principle of equal access for religion must be honored. 

A new school of constitutional interpretation has arisen in the last 150 years called the “Living Constitution” approach. Followers of this school argue that each generation must be free to read new meanings into the Constitution, recognizing new “rights” the Framers never imagined.