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FFQF: Can Legislation and Reason Change America's Moral Climate?

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

To hear so many public figures, or even ordinary people who publicly sound their opinions, say it, many might answer “yes” to the above question. So many people, on all sides of any issue, see so many wrongs in a country, including ours, that need to be corrected. It seems to be the fashion these [...]

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FFQF: Posterity! (That's us)

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Allow me to relieve my fellow bloggers and loyal readers: no, I have not yet been deported for sedition, thankfully. I am quite alive and well. A bit under the weather, and certainly very much preoccupied with an increased number of projects, but well. I would like to heartily thank those who have kept up [...]

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FFQF: Does One Size Fit All?

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:12:00 +0000

After an absence from this blog, and from my own meme “Founding Father’s Quote Friday,” I now resume my pen typewriter. I also apologize (do I do that more than I blog, I wonder?) to my readers and to FFQF participants. My absence was the result of necessity. Today, we pose the question “Does one size [...]

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FFQF: America Was NOT Self-Made

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:41:00 +0000

If there is one thing America could use now, it’s an attitude of gratitude. Maybe a major factor in America’s straying is the thinking that we have entertained for several decades, is that we made ourselves great, and that therefore, America’s destiny and purpose was ours to carve. Contrary to what our humanist history books [...]

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FFQF: What Was the American Revolution?

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Today, John Adams will answer that question for us. His answer comes from a letter written to an early American historian by the name of Hezekiah Niles, dated February 13, 1818. Several of Niles’ invaluable texts on American history are available for reading and searching here. But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do [...]

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FFQF: Ben Franklin

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:36:00 +0000

Ben Franklin died this day, on April 17, 1790. So today we will cite a great quote from him: Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. From Poor Richard’s Almanac (1734) Loss of liberty was no accident in our country. Nor was it the fault of corrupt politicians alone. We sold our virtue [...]

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FFQF: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:13:00 +0000

Everyone knows the famous saying by Ben Franklin, that the only things that are certain in life are death and taxes. Which one is worse? Heh. (Hat tip: Patriot Humor) My FFQF today comes from an email I recently received from Wallbuilders, David Barton’s group. As usual, his stuff is choc-full of quotations from the Founding Fathers. [...]

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FFQF: Benjamin Rush, 'Christocrat'

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:51:00 +0000

Founding Father Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and “father of American education” (until about 100 years ago) brings things in perspective. I have been alternately called an aristocrat and a democrat. I am now neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe all power … will always fail of producing order and happiness in [...]

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FFQF: John Adams on National Liberty

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:29:00 +0000

I hope to continue posting my series called “The Law of Liberty.” I’ve only posted my first installment, and that was some time ago. But, I promise to continue it, and also to continue my exciting series of posts unfolding the relationship between the Founding Fathers, and the Illuminati. Today’s quote somewhat reflects the theme that [...]

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FFQF: The Bible in Schools

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:32:00 +0000

In a day and age when our society embraces moral relativism and religious relativism, in a day and age when these demented philosophies have produced more major problems than we seem to be able to grapple with, and in a day and age that refuses to turn to God in the midst of escalating licentiousness [...]

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