Articles by Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson is an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.
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Conservative Pushback On Campus

Young America’s Foundation vice president Kate Obenshain and film director Stephen K. Bannon attended Tuesday’s Bloggers Briefing to discuss how the new film The Conservatives is a concerted effort to breathe fire back into the conservative movement.

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Whose Higher Power?

Phyllis Schlafly and George Neumayr, in their book No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom, make a clarion case that freedom of religion in America is endangered.

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Social Darwinism Deconstructed

David Gordon, of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, argues that President Obama has fundamentally misapplied Darwinism to free market economics.

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Comprehensive Abstinence

In a report put out by this month by majority staff of the U. S. House of Representatives’ Committee of Energy and Commerce, Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) has been lauded as the best approach to avoiding teenage pregnancy.

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Unmasking The Occupiers

Citizens United President David Bossie and conservative activist Brandon Darby visited the Heritage Foundation for the Bloggers Briefing  on July 17, 2012 to promote the documentary Occupy Unmasked, which attempts to shed light on the leftist media’s involvement in the promotion of the OWS movement.

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Barack & Hard Place

The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama’s War on the Republic depicts President Obama as a leftist ideologue who is opposed to any kind of constructive reform.

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Virtue of American Spirit

In The American Spirit: Celebrating the Virtues and Values that Makes Us Great, Dr Edwin J. Feulner and Brian Tracy remind us of the defining principles that make the United States incomparable to any other nation.

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Interest on Spiritual Capital

America’s Spiritual Capital, by Nicholas Capaldi and Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, offers a refreshing reminder of the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage and how this heritage has led to American prosperity, and from a pair of academics, no less.

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Obamacare Reckoning Begins

The recent Supreme Court verdict on Obamacare has been the cause of much head-scratching throughout the United States.

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Rogues That Are Not Lovable

Dr. Thomas Henriksen, in his book America and the Rogue States, explains the emergence of these terrorist states and how the U.S. should deal with them.

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Lessons From Bain Capital

Edward Conard, in his book Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About The Economy Is A Lie, discusses America’s swift economic growth over the years and how this is a good thing.

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Mood on the Hill

As unemployment continues to rise and military funding becomes gradually depleted,  members of Congress seem content with twiddling their thumbs and doing nothing to establish a feasible budget plan.