Will Obama Be a Peacemaker?

John W. Whitehead January 21st, 2009

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

–Dwight D. … (Read More)

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The Greatest Christmas Gift

John W. Whitehead December 22nd, 2008

When my dad returned to Pulaski, Tennessee, after serving in World War II, he couldn't find a decent-paying job. My birth barely a year later only reinforced what my parents already knew–they had no choice but to leave their home and family and this small southern town behind.

Factory towns were booming in the north. So, like hundreds of other desperate families, my parents packed their meager belongings and we moved to Peoria, Illinois, where my dad got a factory job at Caterpillar … (Read More)

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We Are the Heirs of the First Revolution

John W. Whitehead November 5th, 2008

"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."–Thomas Paine

The year was 1961. I was fourteen years old, the only child of blue-collar workers living in Peoria … (Read More)

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The Change Manifesto - John W. Whitehead on SBE

Erik Guzman September 26th, 2008

Don't miss this edition of SBE with one of our heroes, a man who has been called, "the Tom Paine of our time," John W. Whitehead. Use one of the options below to listen.

America needs change, but Whitehead says the president isn't the answer. Instead, he calls us back to what the Founding Fathers of America originally intended: A nation whose ultimate power base is the will of its citizens.

In Whitehead's new book, The Change Manifesto, he goes beyond alarmist rhetor … (Read More)

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The Constitution Is the Issue

John W. Whitehead September 16th, 2008

“In America, the law is King. For as in absolute governments, the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”—Thomas Paine

As usual, the contenders for the White House are making a lot of promises about what they will change if elected. They’re singing the siren song all politicians adopt by telling us exactly what we want to hear: reduce taxes, lower gas prices, reform Social Security and provide us with more and more benefits. In other w … (Read More)

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