The following are exclusive feature articles by RenewAmerica analysts. The views expressed generally reflect the values and philosophy of RenewAmerica although each writer is responsible for the accuracy of individual pieces, and the position taken is the writers own.
June 17, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST We have been trying in this series to point out the seemingly never-ending chain of lies and deceit to keep Americans in the dark regarding deliberate plots to tear down the United States of America... (more)
June 13, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST Frances Schaefer once said, "There are not many men in the house." What he meant was there are not many worldviews, and most worldviews are ancient. The youngest worldview I am aware of is two hundred and fifty years old. Half of the extant worldviews were in existence by 400 B.C. There are hundreds of philosophies, but most of them can be categorized under the heading of perhaps eight to ten worldviews... (more)
June 6, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST In this essay, we shall consider the nature of moral reasoning and why it essential to the health of a republic. We shall also take a look at natural law theory to find a basis for clear moral reasoning in a religiously diverse Democracy... (more)
May 27, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST For three years - - including the full length of the 2012 election cycle - - members of Tea Party groups and other conservative voices were silenced - - unable to mix it up in the political give and take. They were effectively shut up every bit as much as if a Soviet-style regime had reached out and warned them, "Ve haf vays of re-educating you, Citizen."... (more)
May 23, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST In 1921, Karel Capek wrote the play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots), about machines that became intelligent and turned against their human masters. The 1984 Hollywood movie The Terminator was based upon the same theme. Intelligent machines, both malevolent and friendly, are standard fare in science fiction, of which Star Wars (1977) and the The Matrix (1999) are perfect examples... (more)
May 16, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST This nation, and those the world over who yearn for freedom, suffered a loss last week. Herbert Romerstein, easily one of the world's foremost experts on the evil deeds of Communism and other of America's enemies, passed away May 7... (more)
May 16, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The war by America, Britain, and Israel against Islamist terrorism is destined to be a long war in which all the depths of good and evil will be sounded. This essay concerns the question of whether or not Islamist terrorism is a "cosmic evil."... (more)
May 19, 2013
SUBMITTED BY A FRIEND OF RENEWAMERICA We the People, by the authority vested in us by the Declaration of Independence and secured as unalienable rights by the laws of the U.S. Constitution, do hereby respectfully request the Supreme Court of the United States uphold and defend the self-evident truths by which our authority as a nation is founded... (more)
May 9, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST During part one of this essay, we took a tour of history, beginning with the birth of European civilization and finishing with the high watermark in Western culture (1100-1750). We discovered how Europe began with an excellent foundation for reason and how false ways of thinking and knowing began to creep into Western thought during the seventeenth century... (more)
May 6, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST The Benghazi hearings that should have been held before the November election will now be gaveled to order on Wednesday of this week... (more)
May 2, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST Every civilization has a theory about what man knows and how he knows it. The theory of a particular civilization will influence every area of human thought and action. Such fields as science, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, education, religion, and popular morality will be directly affected. Fields like art, music, poetry, and literature will be deeply, although indirectly, influenced, as well... (more)
April 29, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST This will be denied - - again. But the Obama administration has become so obsessed with covering up its own dereliction of duty in the Benghazi case (where four Americans died) that its top officials are all over town desperately attempting to derail witnesses to the Benghazi attacks who want to tell their story... (more)
April 25, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST In advance of the 2006 World Cup football (soccer) games in Germany, 40,000 women were estimated by several major internet news services to be headed to Germany to sexually service the fans. The predicted transformation of the World Cup into a sexual Valhalla received very little coverage by the mainstream media... (more)
April 18, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST American Muslims tell us that Islam is a religion of peace. Jihadist leaders abroad describe Islam as a religion of war against infidels. Who is correct? Both are correct. If both are correct, does this mean there are two Muhammads and two Qurans? Yes, in the sense that Muhammad was like two different persons at two different times and the Quran is like two contradictory books pasted together... (more)
April 11, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST In my prior essay, I described seven historical waves of bad ideas for education that are responsible for the American educational crisis. In this essay, I will outline seven historical waves of good ideas that are a gold mine for digging up tried and true ways to revive education... (more)
April 8, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST Amongst the myriad twists and turns and subplots of World War II was the amazing efficiency with which Soviet agents in the U.S.O., Japan, and elsewhere around the globe coordinated to steer the imperial Japanese government away from an attack on the Soviet Union - - a multi-year effort that resulted in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941... (more)
March 28, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST In an earlier essay, I called for a national conversation on illegal aliens. Thankfully, we are finally having that conversation and debate in the Congress, the press, and other public forums. One question that is being asked is whether heavy illegal immigration from Mexico and Latin America is good for America. This is a complex question and it is being considered from the aspect of politics, economics, security, and compassion. Oddly, the effect of illegal aliens on American culture has been somewhat neglected... (more)
March 21, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST We, the men of America, are still here in spite of forty years of gender warfare against us. We are still here because God designed us to be men, placed us in this land, and expects us to lead. We are here because America needs us. We are here because our communities need us. We are here because women and children need us. We know that we are needed, in spite of the foolish popular denial of that rather obvious fact... (more)
March 18, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST Six months after a terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, survivors of the savagery that left four Americans dead the night of Sept. 11, 2012, still have not been permitted to tell their story in a public forum. So now, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are threatening to subpoena them... (more)
March 14, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The culture war is in part a fight against evil. This essay will focus upon the nature of evil, how we should confront evil, and the agendas and tactics of evil we may encounter in the culture war... (more)
March 7, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST War is hell. Everyone knows that. It's just that some chapters of any war imposed on innocent civilians are so hellish as to leave lasting psychological scars on those fortunate enough to survive... (more)
February 28, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST Last fall, I had extended e-mail debates with two credentialed scientists. One was a defender of Einstein, and the other a defender of the global warming theory... (more)
March 7, 2013
STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT The single most disconcerting problem with the Mormon church is not its extreme authoritarianism, unsurpassed among modern religious cultures; or any of its unscriptural traditions, particularly those that defy its own professed canon... (more)
February 14, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The cultural war debate often centers on life and death issues such as abortion and euthanasia, and the question of whether we are living in a culture of life, or a culture of death. However, we seldom talk about whether our aesthetic culture of art, music, poetry, and literature is life-enhancing or life-debilitating... (more)
February 7, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The traditional definition of a sociopath is one who is "morally insane." When a culture becomes morally insane, it descends into barbarism, and the civilization moves towards collapse. The sudden collapse of the Soviet Empire is an example of how a system can eventually fall apart after the culture sinks into depravity... (more)
January 31, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST When President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court in Oct. 2005, it was a prototypical example of how multiculturalism has a deadening effect on quality. Miers was a woman and an evangelical, the image bearer of two groups in the identity politics smorgasbord... (more)
January 28, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST It is impossible to exaggerate the impact that infiltrators in the U.S. government have had with regard to advancing Soviet interests. Before, during and after World War II, their outsized influence was pivotal to Moscow's war machine that for most of the rest of the 20th century would threaten the globe with slave-state governance or a worldwide conflagration... (more)
January 24, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST In my last issue analysis titled The Revolt against Reason, I wrote, "It is up to the conservative movement and doctrinally-orthodox Christianity to rescue the floundering cause of reason."... (more)
January 21, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST During and after World War II, Communists and their sympathizers right here in the United States agitated to bolster Soviet interests throughout the entire planet... (more)
January 17, 2013
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST Alger Hiss, Soviet agent inside our State Department, had far more influence at the Yalta Conference than previously imagined... (more)
January 10, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST Those who believe that man has an innate nature and design generally oppose abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, stem-cell research, and cloning, because these things are contrary to nature and the value of life... (more)
January 3, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The culture war is deadlocked. Conflicts between contradictory worldviews generally produce clear winners and losers, instead of going into extended deadlock. In contrast, family quarrels within a worldview tend to go on indefinitely... (more)
January 3, 2013
PATRICK GARRY, RA ANALYST There has been no shortage of analysis, advice, and accusations among conservatives over the 2012 presidential election. Much of that analysis and advice concerns demographics... (more)
December 27, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The California legislature voted to legalize gay marriage on Sept. 6, 2005. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill because it contradicted Proposition 22, a referendum passed by California voters that marriage shall be defined as a union between a man and a woman... (more)
December 20, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST I am writing a book about Western culture, and I also write essays about the culture war. Obviously, I am interested in whether a necessary link exists between the culture of the arts and literature, and the culture war of good and evil... (more)
December 13, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST President George Bush once said that public schools should expose students to both evolution and intelligent design science and discuss the scientific controversies as the two models clash. The press unleashed a flurry of editorials that claimed this would involve a comparison of science with religion and a comparison of facts with faith... (more)
December 10, 2012
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST Americans may think that in casting their ballots, as millions of us did last month, they have given the winning candidates policy directions that will be respected. Maybe... (more)
November 29, 2012
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST Capturing the "see no (or little) evil" mentality that plagued a war-weary America in 1949 requires no small amount of research. That was post-war America. Both peace and prosperity had returned for the first time since the 1929 market crash... (more)
November 29, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The issue of patriotism has become unusually contentious in American politics. To gain perspective of our present partisan quarrels over patriotism, an examination of patriotism in history is helpful... (more)
November 26, 2012
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST Taken page by page, this book is a fun read. Taken as a whole, it remains entertaining but acquires a deeper meaning. One must add up all "50 Things Liberals Love to Hate" to appreciate fully the huge canyons that have divided us into two nations in terms of worldview... (more)
November 15, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The fight between the right-to-life movement and the right-to-die camp has all the ferocity and bitterness of two opposing orthodoxies. "Orthodox" is a word of Greek origin which literally means "right opinion." If there is such a thing as truth, there can be a body of right opinion... (more)
November 12, 2012
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST This is a scholarly work. When you read it, prepare to focus. It is a valuable reference source, a relatively thin volume of modest page count, but huge in the volume of information. If one undertakes the process of untangling all the propaganda bombarding the West (especially the United States) defining radical Islam as mainstream, clearly documented information is a must... (more)
November 8, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST By coincidence, both Terri Schiavo and Pope John Paul II, the great advocate of the value of life, had feeding tubes inserted by doctors. Both Terri and the pope evidenced the desire to live: Terri did so by her sunny attitudes, and the pope did so by his writings about the sanctity of life... (more)
November 8, 2012
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST It is said the iconic songwriter George Gershwin's talent had reached such overwhelming proportions in the twenties and thirties that, along with popular acclaim and respect, he had generated deep envy amongst his peers... (more)
November 5, 2012
STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT In a contested race for political office, it's impossible to vote against someone. The ballot doesn't allow it. That reality has somehow gotten lost in this year's election, due to the intensity of disapproval for Barack Hussein Obama... (more)
October 29, 2012
STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT About three years ago, a graduate of Brigham Young University — a large Mormon institution heavily populated by "positive-thinking" returned LDS missionaries (see last week's column) — said he was dissatisfied with politics as usual, and undertook to create a "one-stop political website" that would effectively and reliably educate voters... (more)
October 25, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST When a controversial issue in science is politicized and seems to become a fad, does an ordinary person have the tools to judge whether it is likely to be good science, or junk science carried along by scare headlines and politically-correct institutional group-think?... (more)
October 25, 2012
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST We Americans don't like to think the unthinkable: a massive attack on our homeland - - one that kills millions of Americans. But we have been credibly warned... (more)
October 22, 2012
STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT Mitt Romney and I went on our Mormon missions exactly the same time. Born in March 1947, we spent a week together - - along with 200 other new LDS missionaries - - being trained in a converted hotel in downtown Salt Lake City that is now the site of the church's 21,000-seat Conference Center... (more)
October 18, 2012
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST The seminal idea of western music is that music reflects the harmonies and moral order of the universe and, therefore, has a divine origin. This idea came to the Greeks in the eighth century AD, endured through the centuries, stimulated a vast musical repertoire, and sputtered out during the decadent twentieth century... (more)
