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It is difficult to value something when its worth is unknown. This truth brings to mind the old adage about two children who had received the same bike, one given the bike, the other made to earn the bike. Invariably, the child who was given the bike was more prone to neglecting it, not understanding its worth, while the child who was made to earn the bike, who understood its worth, maintained it. This basic truth applies to our American Heritage and the continued welfare of our nation. Without a solid understanding of the basic principles used by our Founding Fathers in establishing our Constitutional Republic it is sometimes difficult for Americans to recognize the worth of the American ideal. When the full value of freedom and liberty are not realized it becomes easy to incrementally relinquish rights guaranteed under the Constitution. Today, our country faces both a threat from abroad and a threat, in the form of ideological conflict, from within. While some among us choose to accentuate the imperfections of our nation, others condemn our culture or literally champion our nation’s defeat and demise. We at BasicsProject.org understand that there is a direct correlation between understanding the principles, ideology, history and meaning behind our founding documents – the Charters of Freedom – and the proclivity to value and, therefore, advance our American Heritage to the next generation and beyond.

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Pillar Issues
Constitutional Literacy
Many Americans know the preamble to the United States Constitution and the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. They also may be able to recite at least some of the enumerated Bill of Rights. But few know these documents are considered our Founding Documents, documents that carry equal importance in the creation and execution of our government. Even fewer understand the principles, history and philosophy surrounding the creation of these remarkable documents. To be an American is to understand and to have a reasonable commitment to the ideas in America's founding documents. It is the mission of Basics Project to make sure that every American is afforded the opportunity of understanding these remarkable documents, the covenant between citizen and the uniquely American form of government. We believe that through a greater understanding of the principles on which our government was built our citizenry will better understand that e pluribus unum, the idea that we are out of many, one. Read more...	¨Reading: Keeping a Republic by Nancy Salvato This book by Nancy Salvato, the Director of Constitutional Studies for BasicsProject.org, examines the issue of American sovereignty and how it relates to the continued well-being of our Republic. From the deliberations undertaken during the framing of the US Constitution to the challenge of maintaining national sovereignty in a time of Progressive globalization, Keeping a Republic examines the philosophy and ideology that served the Framers in creating the United States of America, ideals valid to this very day. ¹Viewing: Understanding Our Government Many people in the United States -- and around the world -- believe that the United States is a Democracy. It is not, and for good reason. Our Framers and Founders bequeathed to the citizens a Constitutional Republic, doing so for some very good reasons, chief among them was to avoid the tyranny of the majority, or mob rule.
Islamist Terrorism
There can be little doubt that terrorist organizations have arrived on the shores of the United States of America. The thousands of lives lost on September 11, 2001 stand as testimony to this undeniable fact. But the truth of the matter is that terrorists have been migrating to the United States, establishing their organizational cells, infiltrating and fading into our communities for decades; laying in wait for the correct moments to strike. These are precisely the events that preceded the flights that delivered the nineteen 9/11 hijackers and thousands of innocent people to their destinies. Today, 72 terrorist organizations with thousands of operatives exist and operate within the borders of the United States. Many counterterrorism experts, including former CIA Director James Woolsey and founding member of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, Dr. Bruce Tefft, agree, it is not a question of “if” there will be another attack on American soil, it is a question of “when.” The only questions left unanswered about this future attack are how lethal it will be, where it will take place and whether we will have had enough foresight to have acquired the information needed to literally help save our own lives. Read more...	8CD: The Beginning of the End: The American Hiroshima The beginning of the end of Planet Earth occurred on September 27, 1991, when President George H.W. Bush announced that the United States would withdraw its nuclear weapons from NATO sites throughout the western world if the Soviet Union would follow suit. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev agreed and a deadline was set. The task was to be completed by May 1992. Withdrawing the tactical nuclear weapons in order to place them in secured places seemed to be a great idea that no one in his right mind could oppose. But truth be told, it was a horrendous mistake... ¨Reading: A God Who Hates by Dr. Wafa Sultan For the first time, Dr. Wafa Sultan tells her story and what she learned, first-hand, about radical Islam in A God Who Hates, a passionate memoir by an outspoken Arabic woman that is also a cautionary tale for the West. She grew up in Syria in a culture ruled by a god who hates women. She believes that the god who hates is waging a battle between modernity and barbarism, not a battle between religions. She also knows that it’s a battle radical Islam will lose.
The American Fifth Column
With roots emanating from the ideology of the Marxist/Leninist Era, the American Fifth Column presents a menace from within; a threat to the longevity of our uniquely American way of life. These roots, nurtured and further developed during the counter-culture revolution of the of the 1960s and 1970s, and now taught in classrooms across America as “tolerance,” "multiculturalism" and "diversity", have evolved into a unique yet visionless ideology, which holds that our most basic constitutional tenets are the central cause for many of the social ills here in the United States and around the world. The Secular Progressive, Democratic Socialist and/or neo-Marxist American Fifth Column ideology embraces the philosophies of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. It is a product of the Frankfort School of pre-World War II Germany and employs the democratic process to promote moral relativism, multiculturalism and political correctness, in an effort to silence fundamental American ideals and pursue an American form of socialism in their place. Read more...	¹Viewing: The The Cloward-Piven Strategy First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. ²Podcasts: Demonizing the Tea Party the Chicago Way One way to tell how effective the Tea Party movement has been is to gauge the severity of the attacks on the movement by its detractors. It is fair and logical to deduce that the more severe the attacks, the more threatened the attackers feel. Judging from the most recent attacks on the Tea Party movement, those opposed to limited government and the constitutional rule of law are feeling quite threatened. BasicsProject.org examines and analyzes the attacks on the Tea Party movement.

Analysis

Yes, Mr. Obama, Words Do Matter
SPOTLIGHT: During the run up to the 2008 Presidential Election, then-candidate Barack Obama made it very clear that “words matter.” In fact, he thought so much of this notion that he plagiarized from a speech made by one of his friends, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. During a stop in Wisconsin to chat with some of the Democrat Party and Progressive movement faithful, Mr. Obama pilfered Mr. Patrick’s words every so eloquently as he tried to convince potential supporters that he was a candidate that said what he meant and meant what he said. Truth be told, candidate Obama has turned out to be nothing more than a Progressive operative born of the Chicago Machine and a devout Alinskyite.

When Justice Serves an
Ideology Instead of a Nation
SPOTLIGHT: As I was reading about the proceedings in the trial of impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, it struck me as odd that the prosecution was relying so much on the profanity-laced wiretap audio and not going, instead, straight to the source of incriminating information in the many witnesses they could call. Why aren’t they calling Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, David Plouffe, David Axelrod, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Tony Rezko, their staff, relations, acquaintances and business partners to testify instead of relying on sensationalism? The answer could be that they don’t want a conviction and/or a thorough investigation.

Holder’s Justice Department
Has a Racism Issue
SPOTLIGHT: If there was any question as to whether or not there was an ideological agenda infused at the US Justice Department with the arrival of Eric Holder as the US Attorney’s General, all doubt should now be removed. A cursory examination of Mr. Holder’s personal statements and instituted departmental policy reveals, without doubt, that Mr. Holder is in fact executing an “affirmative action” policy towards “justice” in the United States. The major problem with this is that justice wears a blindfold.

A Brief History of the
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
SPOTLIGHT: It was around 1400 B.C., when Moses led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt into Palestine, the “promised land”. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the Jewish state came to an end and the Hebrew (Jewish) people were dispersed. In the 1890’s, Jews driven by Zionism to establish a modern Jewish nation-state and flocking back to their ancient biblical homeland in British controlled Palestine, eventually became embroiled in a modern day conflict between themselves and Palestinian Arabs. During WWI, British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration; Britain would view establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, favorably.

Al Taqiyya: The Islamist
Terrorist's Weapon of Deception
SPOTLIGHT: Western civilization’s delinquent knowledge of the Islamic faith leaves us naïve to many of its tenets. Many among us would be hard pressed to explain the differences between the Sunni and the Shi’ite, let alone the reasons why they have remained in conflict for almost the entire existence of the Islamic faith. This delinquency in understanding Islamic culture and doctrine makes those they consider non-believers – or kafirs – vulnerable both individually and collectively. This is especially true when we examine the Islamic concept of taqiyya.

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