PerspicacityPress.com is an independent internet journal devoted to the defense of freedom and the strengthening of America's foundational principles by bringing CLARITY, ACUITY, VERACITY, and fresh perspectives to vital issues and events at home and around the globe.

PerspicacityPress.com was launched in 1999 (in conjunction with an ink-on-paper version of Perspicacity Press) by Randall L. (Rand) Green, founder and executive director of Rand Green Communications, as a counterbalance to the deliberate distortions promulgated by many in politics, in Big Media, in academia and in the entertainment industry who have chosen to join in common cause with the enemies of freedom.

A career journalist, author, publisher, speaker, lay minister, and American businessman who has spent a lifetime studying world history, cultures and religions, Rand has been engaged in various projects over the years in an effort to counter with factual, well-reasoned, carefully documented and clearly-stated arguments the pervasive fallacious and insidious propaganda perpetrated by those whose agenda is the radical transformation of American society in a way that would be anathema
to our country's Founding Fathers.

However much we may will it to be otherwise, there are gathering forces of evil in the world  — cruel, heartless men whose thirst for power knows no bounds, who harbor intense loathing for the freedoms we so dearly cherish, who will stop at nothing to destroy us and all we hold dear, and who have indoctrinated the masses under their domination for more than a generation with a frenzied, murderous hatred of America and America's allies.

But even more dangerous are those individuals in our own midst who are driven by political ambitions to transform the United States from a free society into a socialist state under which they, as the "all-wise" governing elite, decide who gets what, who can express what opinions or beliefs, and even what we are allowed to eat! While the rest of us have gone about our business, those who pursue this subversive agenda have infiltrated our nation's institutions to the degree that they now dominate most of our public schools and colleges, most major newspapers and broadcast media, most of the entertainment industry, much of the government's burgeoning bureaucracy, many state and federal courts, and one of our major political parties (and they're making strong inroads into the other). In relentless pursuit of  their agenda, they are promoting a doctrine of divisiveness in the name of diversity, they are changing our laws through judicial fiat, executive order and bureaucratic rule-making in flagrant violation of the Constitution, they are rewriting history, and  they are engaged in a massive and relentless propaganda blitz that turns truth on its head, glorifies self-indulgent lifestyles, repudiates the ennobling and empowering principle of personal responsibility, denigrates men of good character, and makes heroes of America's enemies.

The only defense against mendacity is the sword of truth, and for the past eleven years, PerspicacityPress.com has been wielding that sword in the ongoing battle to preserve the freedoms granted by God and protected by the Constitution. Those rights — among them, freedom of speech and freedom of religion — and even the Constitution itself are threatened by demagogues, pedagogues, pundits and other elites who consider themselves wiser than the Founding Fathers and wiser, even, than the founders of the Jewish and Christian faiths. They are astonishingly arrogant men and women, these elites who look with distain on us "ordinary" Americans desperately "clinging to" our beliefs and our freedoms. But they are not so wise as they suppose, and their lies cannot withstand the light of truth.

As PerspicacityPress.com begins its twelfth year in publication, it does so with a renewed resolve on the part of its editor and publisher, Rand Green, and its small but dedicated volunteer staff, to keep up the good fight and "to do our part to assure the preservation of liberty and the sovereignty of the United States of America as a nation in which that sovereignty remains in the hands of the people."

IT IS OUR MISSION to provide fresh, rational, insightful, principle-centered and uncommonly intelligent ideas, perspectives, commentaries and analysis on a broad spectrum of timely and timeless political and social issues for the edification of concerned citizens, opinion leaders, policy makers and all who share our goal of preserving liberty and keeping America strong.

We take upon ourselves, to the degree our limited resources will allow, the daunting task of filling some of the voids left by the often narrow and too frequently biased coverage of the mass media. We will highlight stories we consider important or relevant that may have been buried, glossed over or underplayed. We will attempt to balance or to rectify stories that have been distorted or received a one-sided treatment by the networks and the mainstream press. And we will provide in-depth, thoroughly researched reportage on selected critical subjects that we feel have been inadequately or inaccurately addressed.

Our scope is broad. Believing that all men are brothers and all the children of God, we care as much about the plight of peasants in an obscure rural village half way around the world, for example, as we do about how an increase in the prime lending rate is going to affect our pocketbooks. When America's Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence, they declared that "all men are created equal," not just those living United States, and that all have been "endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights." That means all men and women everywhere, wherever they live and whatever their race or tradition, have the God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that no governance is legitimate that deprives its people of such rights. But we also believe in America's role as the shining city on a hill, and we believe that America must be kept strong and free or freedom will not be safe anywhere.

Recognizing that there is much to learn from the past, we take a strong and factual historical focus, endeavoring to clarify misconceptions and correct distortions where they exist, and to extract from the historical records some perspectives and lessons that have valid application in today's world.

We are unalterably opposed to tyranny and political oppression, by whatever name. We abhor racial bigotry of all forms and in all directions and we believe that hate mongering is reprehensible. We denounce any disregard of human rights and we deplore human suffering. We take a strong and scientifically sound position on environmental issues, affirming that the irreplaceable treasures of the natural world can and must be protected, that any economic model which does not factor in environmental costs is flawed, and that sustainability (a word widely misused by those with an anti-business agenda) is a critical objective. But that objective, we firmly believe, must be achieved through sound policies rooted in solid science, not pursued with blind fanaticism and with callous disregard for the human costs. We decry social policies and government programs that reward indolence while punishing diligence and industriousness, but we favor a compassionate approach by private individuals and privately-funded religious and charitable organizations, to assisting those who are incapable of providing for their own needs.

It is our mission to argue passionately and persuasively in favor of what is good and right, ennobling and uplifting, and to expose articulately and oppose vehemently the wrong, the unjust, the degrading, the self-serving, the deceitful, the corrupt, the exploitive, the tyrannous, the iniquitous, the inequitable.

To these ends, we pledge our diligence and our most valiant efforts. To borrow the words of William Lloyd Garrison: We will not equivocate ... and we will be heard!

Perspicaciously Yours,

Rand Green
Editor & Publisher
Perspicacity Press