On April 12 of this year CBS News released the story that four in ten millennials either don’t know about or aren’t sure if they’ve heard about the Holocaust. One of the most evil things ever done on planet Earth–the…
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, just recently pronounced that he knows what you need and don’t need. He said, “No excuses, there is never a reason to carry a knife.” And then he threatened the full force of the…
It’s such a catchy phrase: “If you’re gonna have a gun on our campus, you’re gonna have a badge.” That is the statement of the Leon County School Board in Tallahassee, Florida. They voted to NOT permit teachers or school…
The other day I was driving my daughter somewhere and she commented on the recent “March for Our Lives” protest around the country. She actually knows some people who attended the rally in DC. She commented: “You know Daddy, I…
The New York Times has an op-ed from former Justice John Paul Stevens yesterday. In the article, he clearly states his belief that the Second Amendment was a relic from the eighteenth century, and should be repealed. Interestingly enough, he says…
Did you watch the CBS interview on Sunday night? We did. The story is inescapable. But does that make it true? Furthermore, the lawyer for plaintiff Daniels claimed that his motivation in this matter is “righteous”. Here is the quote…
The special election for the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania District 18 is over, or sort of over. The election results are so close that a recount is likely and it is quite possible that the outcome may…
We are posting this blog on Sunday March 11, a few days BEFORE the special election for PA House District 18. We are doing this as evidence of our analysis BEFORE the outcome of the special election for a single…
The South African parliament recently voted 241 to 83 to seize without compensation all the land owned by white farmers. Whites own about 72% of all farmland in South Africa– in some cases these farms have been in same family…
President Donald Trump attended the funeral service for Dr. Billy Graham. He was the only living president to attend. Where were the others? Why did the others choose not to be there? This is a much bigger question than at…
I have been listening intently the past two weeks in the ever increasing intense debate between the right to keep and bare arms, and the desire of many for more “gun control”. I heard Senator Feinstein yesterday speak of the…
Every so often we just cannot absorb any more of the world’s insanity, right? Well that’s how I feel right now. I know I cannot stop the world and get off. But I have hit my saturation point (for now)…
Did anyone see this story? Two shooters. Two guns. Same day but very different outcomes. Here is the story of Tony Garces and his colleagues at the Faith City Mission in Amarillo Texas. Over 100 lives were at risk on…
The lessons of Parkland are a portal into the real problem of active shooters and soft targets in the United States. The real problem is not courage or physical ability or resources. The real problem is denial. As the layers…
Back in 1980 my parents and I went camping. A relative came with us…she was a hardened atheist. An admitted communist, actually. Yes, that did make for an interesting camping trip; so long as we steered clear of politics or…
I can hardly measure the effect this man has had on my life. I vaguely remember hearing about Billy Graham or seeing just a snippet of his TV special when I was a little boy. I know that whenever the…
Listener response to our recent broadcast on the State of the Union address was…mixed – to say the best. One listener wrote in and blasted us for being racists and in the tank for Donald Trump. Another wrote in accusing…
If we could halt the drama queens on cable news just long enough to get a serious question into the “Memo Debate,” the question would be:”What authority does the FBI have to abrogate the rights of a U.S. Citizen and…
Dr. Nathan Busenitz documents very well in his book “Long Before Luther” (Moody, 2017) that the idea of justification by faith alone was most definitely believed and taught by many of the early church fathers in the first five centuries…
I don’t like long speeches. I don’t like making them and especially listening to them. When I heard that President Trump’s first State of the Union address would hit an hour and ten minutes I prayed for a rain out.…
Were the main ideas of the Protestant Reformation (sola fide and sola scriptura) novel ideas unheard of before Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses in 1517? One Protestant historian, Alistair McGrath claims that the idea of justification by faith alone…
I saw the movie “12 Strong” starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Pena. Pretty good war flick. Not as good as “Lone Survivor” or “American Sniper”– it definitely needed more character development– but still a pretty good movie that kept me…
A little over two weeks ago a teenager at Perry High School, near Canton Ohio, committed suicide. That is the SIXTH suicide in that school district in the past five months. Last week at the same school a teenager was…
The great political shell game is in full swing. Please dear friends, let us all be careful to not get caught in the politics of the hour and miss the point. What is happening on Capitol Hill right now is…
We got a hot one here! Just a few days on the air and the email responses are flying into our studio. We are talking about the legalization of marijuana this week on The Public Square and we have clearly…
Funny, how in an age of over-inflated self-esteem, the acts of kindness that really matter, that are really important are so often overlooked. We somehow look at the “crowd” of mass media and see our reflection as small and unimportant.…
After watching “Darkest Hour” the other day with my family, I am reminded of this quote by Winston Churchill: “…Still, if will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when…
What is the day AFTER Christmas like for you? A day to take unwanted presents back to the store? A day to clean up or go back to work or just a day to lazily putz around the house? It…
What a difference a year can make. Only twelve months before the United States and Britain were reeling from massive defeats at the hands of the Japanese. The Pacific was a Japanese lake. The Germans were at the gates of…
The Republican Leadership, the Freedom Caucus, The Republican Study Group and the Trump Adminstration all decided to give non-profits, Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, schools and colleges and thousands of ministries and missions a collective lump of coal this Christmas. Regardless…
This will take a while. The story has several pieces and parts. Lets begin with this: Conservative Republicans refused to put up a fight or barely even a whimper on one of the most important challenges to the Constituion in…
Today the U.S. Supreme Court is arguing about a wedding cake. Is this another sequel in the “Father of the Bride” film series? Where is Franck the wedding planner when we need him? For just a moment let us take…
We live in the digital information age. There is more information now available on our smart phones than in many of the college libraries of a generation ago. Yet we are in a desperate race against forgetfulness. Each day a…
It was not a merry Christmas. Pearl Harbor was still digging out from the drubbing the Japanese Imperial Navy had delivered to our Navy and Army. The Japanese were running rampant all over Asia, and our Army in the Philippines…
On July 4, 1776 our nation the United States of America was born. It sure was a great day. Followed by months of relentless defeat. Under the command of General Washington, the Continental Army was driven out of New York…
Tax reform smax reform… Who cares about tax reform if the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans are destroyed in the process? That unfortunately is what the Establishment Republicans and their Progressive Democrat friends are about to do to…
“By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore…
It was October 3, 1789. Our first president had been in office for only eight months. Everything was so new and different in a new Republic operating under a new Constitution. Both houses of Congress had just recently urged President…
Congress just might blow another golden opportunity. This time it is a simple task that atheists and believers can agree upon: the defense of free speech, regardless of where that speech is being conducted. The Johnson Amendment is thirty words…
It has come to this. The historic Christ Church has removed the plaque commemorating the membership of George Washington, the First President of the United States. The sight of his name and the history of his attendance in the Alexandria…
This October 31 is the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg. He had no idea that day that he was sparking a titanic revolution;…
Over 25 years ago a pastor friend of mine introduced me to a book called “The Valley of Vision”. It is a collection of prayers by Puritans from 300-400 years ago. What beautiful expressions of faith to God! The Puritans,…
Notice the title of this article. It is clear that with the recapture of Mosul a few months ago and Raqqa just the other day, the Islamic State is finished in Iraq and Syria. But for how long? Nobody knows…
My wife and I have just returned from a missions trip with Samaritan’s Purse in Houston. We witnessed first hand some of the devastation in southeast Texas. We went past hundreds of homes and businesses that may have looked fine…
We have been talking about this a lot on radio stations across the nation. Something about the behavior of Mandalay Bay and those in charge of the investigation of the horrific shooting there is NOT right. This is a conspiracy…
Yes, Paper is back and yes we told the world it would happen. In the quest to spend money and look cool politicians all surged to convert voting machines to magical electronic booths. Only problem is, voters only use the…
I was at Gettysburg the other day. I had not been there in about 20 years. It is an incredibly moving part of the American landscape. Warren Wiersbe told me, “It was the greatest slaughter of teenagers in American history.”…
I have finally gotten around to reading the book “12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northrup. I have only seen snippets of the movie on YouTube…now I know why it earned an Oscar. The book is mighty compelling. It is…
The other day I ran in the Akron Marathon. I ran the half (13.1 miles); my son ran the full (26.2 miles). It was tougher than usual because of the heat. Twenty thousand people ran in one of the most…
Wapo, Huffpo and “the Times” will miss the point and the moment. They have to miss the real story behind Roy Moore’s election win to run for the U.S. Senate in a special December election. The fact that Roy Moore…
His coach does not like it. His “owner” does not like it. The US Media does not like it. But what else could Alejandro Villonueva do? After three tours of duty, under fire, in Afghanistan, how could this decorated veteran…
The Philippines is the only country in Asia in which the vast majority professes belief in the Christian faith. However, their is a sizable minority of Muslims, living primarily on the southern island of Mindanao. The Muslims there far outnumber…
Major League Baseball is in an uproar over Apple technology being used to steal signs. The Commissioner of Baseball is reviewing the constitutional requirements to issue rulings and punishments against the Red Sox for an alleged complicated high-tech scheme at…
If you could sit down with someone from Antifa and ask them “What is fascism? What, historically speaking, has fascism believed for the last 100 years?”, what would they say? As I have been scanning the videos of the numerous…
Who are these people? They call themselves “Antifa”, and they seem to have just popped up recently. The media has broadcasted numerous riots across the country, showing black-clad people (usually in their 20s and 30s) brandishing shields, baseball bats, and…
Wrap up all the protest, the marches, violence, smoke and blood. The people in the streets and their spokespeople on cable news all boil down their mission to a single word: Justice. What a word, what a concept what a…
Well all the hype is over and the dust has settled, and Floyd Mayweather is still undefeated in his twenty year boxing career. He’s still the champ, and Conor McGregor should learn a lesson in humility. (But he probably won’t.)…
My wife and I were recently traveling through the great state of Pennsylvania. While we were there, we noticed that the Flight 93 Memorial was just off the highway. On the spur of the moment, we decided to go. We…
“The problem with the world is America. So the person who ‘discovered’ this place and all the Europeans that followed are really to blame. In other words, the answer for modern man is remove all the white people or at…
“Donald is not from around here, right.” That sort of sums up the comments of Senate President Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. In a recent speech back home, McConnell lamented that Trump’s expectations of the Legislative process are simply unrealistic and…
So what do you think of Facebook now? The founder of Facebook, at 33 years of age, is hiring up the consulting experts who made Barack Obama President. Why would he do this? To run for public office? This claim…
I just saw the movie “Dunkirk”. If you have not seen it yet, go. Go now–before it leaves the silver screen and you are forced to watch it on DVD. You need to see it on a very large screen…
There is no way to put a pretty picture on this one. There is no hidden, better strategy that can justify the actions of the U.S. Senate on healthcare. We can all see the man behind the curtain so there…
I guess I am always amazed at how some people (usually those living in Europe) can be fluent in multiple languages. I have studied several ancient and a few modern ones, but I am not “fluent” in any of them.…
We saw what happened in the wee hours of this morning. We saw the Progressives keep Obamacare on the books, led by Senator John McCain. By one vote the law no one ever read stays on the books. That was…
In a recent speech, made public (in edited fashion) by the Washington Post, former Speaker of the House John Boehner attacked conservatives in Congress describing them as the “knucklehead caucus” and “anarchist”. There is a whole lot that could and…
Sometimes, the happiest events are the ones you don’t expect. Such was our experience in Montreal with a restaurant called “Chez Thony”. Alice and I had walked for miles, uphill from the downtown area to go see a spectacular looking…
When we travel, we love to sample the delicious food of the different cultures we encounter. You can really find out how people think and what is important to them when you sit and eat what they eat. It’s best…
We just came back from a trip to Montreal. My wife and I like to travel to really different places, experience different cultures, and sample really different food. We’ve been to Canada a few times (Niagara Falls, Toronto) but never…
The ads are on the radio. “Call your Senator. Tell him/her to oppose the Republican healthcare plan.” But here is the question: have any of these people read the Republican plans in either the House or Senate version? Has a…
We celebrate this document every year. We can never talk about it too much. Sadly, we have stopped teaching this foundational element to America’s children. The 4th of July comes and goes as a picnic with fireworks but we forget…
I have recently come across a discussion about the influence of certain ancient and medieval books upon C.S. Lewis…. particularly in relation to his conversion to Christ. Lewis loved reading the classics, whether it was Virgil’s “Aeneid” or Caesar’s “Gallic…
As I am currently reading Helen Castor’s book “Joan of Arc” I am struck by the wide variety of people whom God uses as He orchestrates history. Literary geniuses such as Boethius or Dante, theologians such as Augustine or Aquinas,…
I don’t know why I missed this ancient Roman in my studies of history. But Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius is a fascinating character from the past who teaches us today. He’s also simply known as “Boethius”– a Roman senator, consul,…
As I am reading more and more in Medieval and Renaissance history, I continue to have my pre-conceived ideas overturned. I am still reading (and re-reading) Thomas Cahill’s “Mysteries of the Middle Ages” (2006). I have been fascinated with some…
It was a political shooting. A hate crime against Donald Trump and against Republican members of Congress. The Facebook page stated it in print. The shooter specifically asked if the people on the field were Republicans. This cannot be covered…
Progressives are out of ammo. Their signature policy of the 20th Century is marooned on the island of misfit toys. The fantasy that centralized government can do much of anything well is now hemmed in by a 20 trillion dollar…
We just left The Public Square® studio after a long conversation about the proposed Trump budget. The first question we asked was basic math. Which is bigger: 3.7 Billion or 4.1 billion? The answer does seem pretty obvious, right. Then…
Recently we have witnessed yet another terrorist attack from the jihadists. Those who want to create a world wide caliphate and impose Sharia on us all blew up 22 people at a concert in Manchester England. Dozens more were dismembered…
Europe has been invaded, colonized, and attacked by savages who call themselves jihadists. Their goal is the enslavement of the world in submission to Sharia. They immigrate, refuse to assimilate to European custom or laws, intimidate others to “respect” their…
If he broke the law, prosecute. If guilty, convict and throw him in jail. Those are the rules. We live in a land based upon the rule of law. No one is supposed to be above the law in America.…
You know I am a “history-nut”. I read books about Medieval history or the history of World War II or the history of ancient Mesopotamia just for fun. Well, I gotta tell ya…I have just discovered the GREATEST youtube channel…
He is a big opportunity, this President. Lots of people can’t get past making him the object of their discontent. Sometimes he makes it easy to criticize. But this conversation is not about all the current hubbub in the world…
“We have to pass this law to find out what is in it.” Yes, that was Nancy Pelosi advising the nation on why Obamacare had to pass in the middle of the night with no time to read the 2400+-page…
There is a lot more work to do. Yes, we tried to remind everyone that Congress governs the nation. We tried to expose the fallacy that a single election of a President would fix it all. The delusion of our…
A few years ago a friend of mine who is Roman Catholic gave me a bookmark to put in my Bible (I have umpteen dozen bookmarks stuffed in various Bibles I use.) This bookmark has a prayer written by St.…
I have just read that the city council of New Orleans has finally begun the removal of a memorial and three statues that they deem offensive. The memorial is to the Battle of Liberty Place (a bloody riot between the…
I usually read about six or seven books at once. I can’t help it. So, right now I am also reading Thomas Cahill’s “Mysteries of the Middle Ages” in which he tells several fascinating stories about real people in real…
Here is a great place to start. Gather up your loved ones and friends. Pour a generous serving of your favorite beverage. Turn on your phone app or laptop or tablet or home computer and log onto thepublicsquare.com. Then take…
I am currently reading some books about the Italian Renaissance. One book is “Death in Florence– the Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City” by Paul Strathern (2015). Much of the book is about the…
Lots of people are asking this question, including a whole host of Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley billionaires, and giants in high tech. They are thinking about living forever – here. They are spending hundreds of millions to develop hardware and…
Cloture is the term. The rule began in 1917 in the US Senate in the era of Woodrow Wilson. The idea of ending a filibuster in the Senate with a supermajority of 60 votes has turned into a blockade, regardless…
So the other day we took a “business trip” to the great city of Philadelphia. We decided to end our visit by running up the steps of the impressive Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Cue the theme song to “Rocky”.) My…
No contest. I know Jim Jordan. I have known him since before he was in politics, when he was a wrestling coach and a home school dad. Wrestlers around the nation know the Jordan boys. They are more than survivors.…
I go to my local public libraries on a regular basis to check out books and read up for these blogs. So one day I found a really nice colorful book by National Geographic. Aside from their belief in macro-evolution,…
Adolf Eichman was an “Oberstrumbannfuhrer” (Lt. Colonel) in the SS in World War II. He was hand picked by SS General Reinhard Heydrich to manage the logistics of transporting millions and millions of Jews to be murdered in the Nazi…
A law is not repealed when it is left on the books and you reserve the right to utilize over 1100 provisions contained within that law. So can we please quit pretending. The current bill on Obamacare in the House…
I watched Dr. Tom Price on a CNN “Town Hall” the other night. Who is Tom Price? He is a Physician, former member of Congress and now the Secretary of Health and Human Services in charge of Obamacare. No, Congress…
I just recently came back from a visit to Dallas Texas. An unusual city. . . no shopping area filled with restaurants in the downtown area (unlike New York or Chicago). We wandered into a Western Wear store where I…
Music often notes a change of heart or mind. Music even notes changes in culture. We sing Yankee Doodle and teach it to our children when they learn of the War for Independence. We sing Yankee Doodle Dandy because of…
So the Democrats had to come up with a response to President Trump’s first address to Congress. How easy should that have been? After eight years of the most elegant rhetoric from President Obama surely the Democrats would have someone…
They were Americans, willing to fight and die for America. And they were “nisei”– “second generation” Japanese who were born and raised here in the USA. Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt had all of the…
It was a conference of 15 high ranking Nazis, lasting only an hour and a half. But it was a meeting that sealed the fate of millions of Jews in Europe who were enduring Nazi occupation. Reinhard Heydrich, second in…
Many, many years ago as I studied World War II my mind was filled with stories of the Allies valiantly fighting the evil Nazis and Imperial Japanese and in the end we vanquished all the evil empires and brought the…
Unit 731. Unit 1644. Unit 100. These were the main killing units of the Imperial Japanese military’s experiments in biological and chemical warfare. From 1935 to 1945 Unit 731 and it’s “siblings” murdered an estimated 250,000 human beings in some…
Is it all a distraction designed to destroy a Presidency? It is driven by deep psychological needs and a profound hatred of an individual. If you stare at it or focus upon it you will be wasting a lot of…
Once again the media, the parties, and the partisans are playing silly games with national defense and serious constitutional questions This time the contest is over the President’s Executive Order calling for vetting for immigrant refugees. Sadly, the federal Court…
Who knew Betsy DeVos was a part of Lucifer’s legion of soul snatchers? Who could have imagined that this women was secretly hiding in the woods stirring a cauldron of potients and spells to destroy public education as we know…
The Radical Progressives would destroy President Trump. That is their plan and they have millions to do it. They are organized and their attacks on Republican members of Congress have begun. Their hero and voice is Rachel Maddow. She describes…
An elite force within an elite force? It was quite the radical idea over 70 years ago in the early years of World War II. But President Franklin Roosevelt had been captivated by the success of newly formed British commandos…
Donald Trump kept his word. He nominated an outstanding candidate for the US Supreme Court. The folks at FOX News are spinning the story as if Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation by the US Senate is inevitable. But wishing does not make…
Donald Trump fired someone tonight. An Obama appointee in the Justice Department caught a break and was being held over in her job as “acting Attorney General”. She was being held over because Chuck Schumer and the Progressive Left members…
She was offered a blindfold, but refused it and looked straight ahead at the firing squad as they were given the order to fire. Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian young lady who had emigrated to Israel (called the British Mandate…
What would you call publishing a recording of a private meeting where the press and the public were specifically prohibited? Would you call that hacking into the content of a confidential meeting? Those darn Russians. Or not… This time is…
By 1942 the US military saw the need for an elite light infantry unit that could penetrate deep behind enemy lines, destroy supply depots, intercept enemy convoys and communications, and seize key airfields. In 1943 the US Army created the…
This has to be written for the record. Please listen to this week’s edition of The Public Square®: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Please pay careful attention to the discussion of Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) visiting the Lincoln Memorial. We…
The biggest lie of the past eight years has been the passage of Obamacare because it was a bill that not one of the Democrats read. The bill was passed in the Senate and the House with only the votes…
Otto “Scarface” Skorzeny was a legend in his own time. As an SS Commando he was a fearless hero to his men. To the British and Americans he was “the most dangerous man in Europe”. Otto Skorzeny was an Austrian,…
If Americans had only known… How could the media and Congress ever let a President-elect get away with this? How could such business and land holdings ever be permitted outside of a conflict of interest? How could the people have…
For Democrat leaders the election of Donald Trump means war. Listen to their statements. Listen to Jerry Brown, the Governor of California. Listen to the threats and the rage. Listen to Chuck Schumer pledging to stop any and every Trump…
I love reading and writing about little known heroes who creatively did their job, and whose work had great impact. Rex Applegate is one of the unsung American heroes of World War II. He developed what would become the standard…
They say it was the strangest battle of World War II. On May 4, 1945, just days before the German surrender, SS troops abandoned the Castle Itter which had been holding a number of high level French VIPs: former prime…
One of the weirdest and funniest and most touching stories to emerge from World War II is the story of Wojtek (pronounced “Voy-chek”) the beer-guzzling, cigarette-smoking warrior-bear of the Polish II Corps that fought with the Allies in Italy. Yes,…
Yep. Another forgotten story of World War II is that Brazil sent it’s tiny little army, navy, and air force to help us in the fight against Nazism. The United States had been pressuring Brazil to join the Allies. Brazil…
In the spring of 1940 Nazi Germany burst through the French and British armies and forced them to evacuate at Dunkirk. One French naval officer, Philippe Kieffer, fled to Great Britain in order to carry on the fight against the…
The government of France was knocked out of World War II in 1940, but not all of its fighting men. Charles De Gaulle (along with a few other French generals) led the charge to keep Frenchmen fighting against the Nazi…
I just saw the latest Mel Gibson film “Hacksaw Ridge.” Very well done movie. It tells the story of the devout Seventh Day Adventist and pacifist Desmond Does and his incredibly heroic actions on Hacksaw Ridge at the Battle of…
The French military was humiliated in the spring of 1940, with the German armies rapidly cutting off their army and the British at Dunkirk. The French government collapsed, and those remaining in power quickly signed an armistice with the Germans.…
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) used by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) has allegedly enabled a calculation of the age of the universe and plotted the curvature of space. It mapped the cosmic microwave background radiation and,…
Diabetes may either be a risk factor in, or a symptom of, pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is two times more likely to occur in people who have diabetes than in people who do not have diabetes. In pancreatic cancer patients…
The following article, copied and pasted from the internet, affirms what we have been averring here at APR for the past five years. The continued waste of funds on embryonic stem cell research must come to an end. NFL quarterback…
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical building block that is used in the manufacturing of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. Polycarbonate plastic is a lightweight, high-performance plastic that possesses an exceptional balance of toughness, optical precision, high heat resistance, and…
