When honoring and remembering those who have died in the military, most think of a connection they have to a loved one or someone who has made an impact on them.
One person, who might not come to mind right away but has made an influential difference in JBS Founder Robert Welch’s life, is our namesake, John Birch. Most of his heroic, meaningful life has gone unnoticed to the average eye, but as Welch discovered, this young man stood up for what he believed in and fought diligently for our country until he tragically died.
For the past several years, talking tough on China has been a core message of Donald Trump's on-again, off-again campaign for the White House.
"The most dangerous man in the House," said late Congressman Larry McDonald in describing Newt Gingrich whose Congressional district had neighbored McDonald's. Gingrich had been first elected to Congress in 1978, and McDonald said that Gingrich's background had raised many red flags for him. He said Gingrich supported the New Age religious movement and was an internationalist.
Over the weekend,Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the commencement address at Northeastern University in Boston. Among many, many other things, he told the class that they are "about to graduate into a complex and borderless world."
Did you hear the latest from California? The state legislature decided to devote time and resources to debate a resolution to honor late-actor and California-resident John Wayne. However, instead of voting it quickly down to turn their attention to more pressing matters, the legislature voted it down based on political correctness amid so-called racist comments the actor made in a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine.
In June 2014, delegates from many nations gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York to continue their work on a program that would disarm civilians in America and throughout the world.
On this day, 226 years ago, 39 of the original 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document they’d been debating during the summer of 1787.