(Washington Stand) Less than a century ago, the American was not defined by their status or possessions, but by their capacity to endure. The darkest years of the Great Depression had our citizens rationing food, stretching pennies, and weathering immense hardship just to provide for their families. Generations before that, our ancestors dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to defy a tyrannical king, bled on battlefields to protect human dignity, and conquered the frontiers of both science and space.

They did these things because of a deep-seated conviction. As President John F. Kennedy famously reminded the nation as it furiously competed against the Soviets in the space race, we choose to do monumental things “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

(California Globe) Investment is not coming to our state warned Steve Hilton Thursday at a press conference at the Capitol. “If we don’t change the direction, we are headed for economic disaster in California,” he added, noting that many business owners and entrepreneurs tell him this explicitly and regularly.

“There is a dangerous complacency in this town especially and among the people who are in charge of our state about our economy in California,” Hilton said as me [sic] motioned to the State Capitol behind him.

(Washington Stand) In the face of public backlash and devastating consumer boycotts, many corporate entities have backed away from the public celebration of Pride Month over the past two years, but some corporate forces still haven’t learned the lesson. On Thursday night, one group of businessmen were given a lesson when the players on the baseball team that they own and operate rebelled against a planned Pride Night event.

(Harbinger's Daily) Have you ever wondered where “In God We Trust” originated? Was the phrase, word-for-word, coined by the Founding Fathers? Technically? No. Influenced? Absolutely.

God’s presence is all throughout the founding of America. In 1776, the Second Continental Congress met at the Pennsylvania State House to pass a resolution declaring May 17 a “Day of Fasting, Prayer, and Humiliation” – a day of national repentance.

The Declaration of Independence was written with God in mind in June of 1776. The second paragraph states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

(Harbinger's Daily) Students at a government high-school in Denver were reportedly pressured by a lesbian teacher to engage in same-sex kissing during a graded class assignment, sparking outrage from parents and victims. The scandal resulted in the educator’s dismissal. So far, however, there is no indication that the teacher will be prosecuted.

According to complaints filed by multiple students and other faculty, high-school foreign-language teacher Jennifer Honka at Northeast Early College had female students act in “plays” and kiss other females. The bi-weekly skits included titles such as “The Neighbors Saw Everything” and “The Boring Kiss,” which featured three homosexual kissing scenes.

(PJ Media) In 1961, Hannah Arendt, already well known among the intellectual elites of America as an expert on the Nazi atrocities, was commissioned by The New Yorker to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the man who had organized the logistics of the Holocaust. Eichmann had been captured the previous year in Argentina in a daring Mossad operation and smuggled out of the country so that Israel could put him on trial for his crimes.

As Arendt watched the trial, she realized in horror that the smug, evil, monstrous character she had expected to see was in fact a petty, banal, and sometimes silly bureaucrat, a man of little creativity and no real moral agency. Eichmann was an apparatchik who spouted bureaucratese and blamed “the system” for actions that led to the cold-hearted murder of millions of Jews and other innocent people.

This was not the dramatic villain of popular imagination. Eichmann did not foam at the mouth with ideological fury. He did not radiate demonic charisma. He was ordinary. He was shallow.