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Responding to Littleton: A Tale of Two Philosophies Shortly after the nation’s attention was captured by the school shootings in Littleton (and also in Conyers, preceded by those in Paducah, Springfield, Edinboro, Pearl, Leesburg, Jonesboro, and near shootings in Ohio and Wisconsin), the “Juvenile Justice Bill” came to vote in Congress. [...]

Thanksgiving in America This month, America will continue a tradition begun centuries ago: the celebration of a Day of Thanksgiving. The origin of this tradition is commonly attributed to the Pilgrims in 1621, even though some Thanksgiving services did occur elsewhere in America as early as 1607. While Thanksgiving celebrations became [...]

Will We Go Forward or Go Back? The primary purpose of The WallBuilder Report has been to educate and to inspire. Therefore, it is our practice to examine current issues through an historical lens, and to report from across the nation victories which typically do not receive much mainstream coverage. We [...]

A Note From David Barton Dear Friend, The alleged scandals surrounding the Presidency over recent weeks have again raised the question of whether character matters in a leader. For a Christian, the only answer to this question must be an emphatic "Yes! Character does matter." Scriptural passages setting forth the characteristics [...]

Inside the 1996 Elections Last November 5th, President Bill Clinton, the 17th President of this century, became only the 7th of the century to receive a second term (the others were Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan). Interestingly, President Clinton's recent victory was secured [...]

Judicial Accountability Update In our continuing efforts to educate citizens on how to restrain renegade judges by constitutional means, we authored Impeachment: Restraining an Overactive Judiciary. Originally researched in response to the request of several U.S. Congressmen, the 64-page book contains the declarations of the Founders and the Constitution on this [...]

What Happened to the School Prayer Amendment? At the beginning of the 104th Congress, there was public excitement surrounding a promised congressional effort to protect public religious expressions. That anticipation began in September 1994 with Representative Newt Gingrich's speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, dc. The soon-to-be Speaker of the [...]

Religious Founders? Read Their Writings Among the liberties protected by our Constitution is the First Amendment's “free exercise of religion.” Yet, over the past half-century, that once inalienable liberty has been greatly subjugated to the arbitrary whims of the Justices by a series of hostile and absurd Court decisions. In fact, [...]

Thanksgivings in America The tradition of Thanksgiving celebrations as a time to focus on God and His blessings has deep roots, dating back almost four centuries (e.g., the thanksgiving services in Virginia at Cape Henry in 1607 and Berkeley Plantation in 1619, the traditional Pilgrim's thanksgiving in 1621, etc.). In the [...]

The Runaway Branch The government established by our Founding Fathers included unique provisions virtually unknown to other governments of that time. Of those provisions, the "separation of powers" between the branches was probably the feature which contributed most to America's becoming the world's longest ongoing constitutional republic. Regrettably, much of that [...]