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For a tragically short time, the Spirit of the Prince of Peace drowned out the murderous demands of the State. In August 1914, Europe's major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium,...
Originally published December 5, 2014 In 1768, amid escalating tensions between the British government and independence-minded "radicals" in New England, two full regiments were deployed in Boston as peacekeepers. Their presence was, in historian David...
Originally published November 13, 2014, at Will Grigg's Pro Libertate blog. “His name used to be Don Jarrett,” long-time federal asset John Matthews told FBI Special Agent Adam Quirk during a July 9 phone call. Matthews was concerned that he would have to testify in a...
Republished from Will Grigg's Pro Libertate. Originally published August 23, 2006. John Witmer's lifeless body was returned to the tiny town of Colombiana, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1918. Those gathered to receive the 21-year-old's mortal remains included his father...
This article, written by our colleague, Will Grigg, is republished from December 20, 2006. “Turn with me to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes,” instructed our pastor.“Let's leave,” I whispered tightly to my wife Korrin. She quietly but firmly shushed me, and she had a...
Update re: The Last Full Measure of Malice: Bonneville County Seeks Plea Deal with Christopher Tapp "A deal has been reached in the Christopher Tapp case," reports today's Idaho Falls Post-Register. Appellate attorney John Thomas, who will discuss the details of the...
"I can’t wait for the liberal genocide to begin,” exclaimed a demonstrator at a March 4 rally in Phoenix on behalf of President Trump, as an expression half-way between a sneer and a smirk creased his corpulent face. Asked by left-leaning independent journalist Dan...
(See the update below) Idaho Falls resident Christopher Tapp has spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted on the basis of a confession extracted from him through psychological torture -- a fact that even the Bonneville...
