ROBERT L. HALE: THE BIGGEST LIE IN AMERICAN HISTORY?
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA -- "If you look at my track record over the last two years, I cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011." - President Barack Obama,…...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Monday, May 06, 2013
ROBERT L. HALE: WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT BORROW MONEY?
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA -- Why does the government have to borrow money? Doesn't it have taxing power? Shouldn't it be able to raise the money it spends as it spends…...
Thursday, April 18, 2013
CHRISTOPHER MANION: SHOULD THE CHURCH ABANDON HUMANAE VITAE?
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Pope Paul VI promulgated Humanae Vitae on July 25, 1968. It has had a rough ride ever since. Bishops admit that they've been reluctant to teach…...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
ROBERT L. HALE: “WHAT’S YOURS IS OURS” - THE GOVERNMENT
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA -- Cyprus, following the longest enforced bank holiday in European history, has just confiscated (stolen, to put it bluntly) the majority of the funds of the country's…...
Friday, March 29, 2013
CRAIG TURNER: NERO, THE ROMAN EMPERORS, AND SAME-SEX “MARRIAGE”
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the Supreme Court takes up two cases regarding the legalization of same-sex "marriage," Americans may be surprised to learn that same-sex marriage was legalized once before.…...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
DAVID COKER: SOVIET HISTORY TEACHES US WHAT BECOMES OF A DISARMED POPULATION
EVANSVILLE, IN -- The gun control hysteria and propaganda emanating from President Barak Obama, members of Congress, state legislators, mayors of major cities and assorted interest groups finds them in…...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
CHRISTOPHER MANION: THE RETURN OF THE CONSERVATIVE CONSCIENCE
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- In just thirteen hours, Rand Paul's constitutional marathon established him as one of the best stump speakers in the senate. His easy-going, spontaneous, and cogent extended…...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
CHARLES G. MILLS: “CONSERVATIVE” REPUBLICANS
GLEN COVE, NY - The media often quote pundits who claim that the Republican Party has moved too far to the right. The contrary is true; it has moved too…...
Friday, March 08, 2013
CHRISTOPHER MANION: SAINT BENEDICT XVI?
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- A Jesuit friend remarked recently that, while several modern popes have been canonized, the last cardinal to be so honored - Saint Robert Bellarmine, S.J. -…...
Friday, February 22, 2013
CHRISTOPHER MANION: THE MEDIA CATHOLIC CHURCH
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Three days after announcing his retirement, Pope Benedict met with the clergy of Rome, whom he serves as bishop. His unscripted remarks were surprisingly candid. In…...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
CHARLES G. MILLS: WOMEN WARRIORS
GLEN COVE, NY - The latest regulation on the deployment of women in the Armed Forces is a perfect example of the evolution of a fad into a madness. This…...
Thursday, February 07, 2013
CHRISTOPHER MANION: THE CLINTONS: CAUSE AND EFFECT
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- During his years in the White House, Bill Clinton's "boiler room" brought damage control to a new level. His serial scandals -- their number is legion…...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
CHRISTOPHER MANION: HOAXES AND HOKUM
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- The sad specter of deception that is haunting my alma mater, Notre Dame, these days brings to mind another hoax, more disastrous by far than a…...
Thursday, January 24, 2013
CHARLES G. MILLS: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION, PART I
GLEN COVE, NY - For the most part, our society does not try to force people to do things they are determined not to do. Three hundred years ago, we…...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
CHRISTOPHER MANION: A TIME FOR TRUTH - BEYOND POLITICS
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Before the election, American bishops were united more than ever before in defending the First Amendment rights of Catholics from the Obama Administration's frontal attack. But…...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
PAUL GOTTFRIED: THINKING ABOUT IDENTITY POLITICS
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- For several years I've been hearing that American minorities acquired a new sense of human worth with Barack Obama's elevation to the presidency. From all reports, Obama…...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
CHRISTOPHER MANION: SCANDALS AND THE SCANDALOUS
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Here's our laugh of the day: The Petraeus Scandal isn't really scandalous at all. That's according to the Washington Post, published in the city where "I…...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
ALLAN BROWNFELD: THANKSGIVING: A TIME TO REFLECT ON THANKSGIVING AMERICA’S UNIQUENESS
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Now that the 2012 election campaign has come to an end, it would be good if Americans could set aside partisan acrimony as the nation prepares to…...
Saturday, November 10, 2012
CHRISTOPHER MANION: AFTER THE DELUGE
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- The rubble hasn't cleared, but some realities have come into view.On the Friday before the election, President Obama proposed a new civic virtue for our body…...
Monday, November 05, 2012
ROBERT L. HALE: THE CASE AGAINST PUBLIC EDUCATION
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA -- The Florida State Board of Education (FSBE) has adopted its new education goals. These goals hold Asian, white, Hispanic, and black students to different academic standards…...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
CHRISTOPHER MANION: PROGRESS, PROGRESSIVES, AND PERVERSION
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- The last Rubble column examined change. Heraclitus feared it and longed for the unchanging logos. Only with the Incarnation did the logos get a name: Jesus…...
Monday, October 29, 2012
CHRISTOPHER MANION: CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN
"The old order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."--Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King …...
Friday, October 19, 2012
CHRISTOPHER MANION: TOUGH TIMES
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- It's been a tough ten years in many ways for America. Catholic and conservative principles alike have been attacked, ignored, even betrayed. Bewildered conservatives watched a…...
Thursday, October 18, 2012
ROBERT L. HALE: GIVING THE BIRD TO TAXPAYERS
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA -- The first presidential debate that put "Big Bird" in the news also helped to put in perspective the challenge of reining in federal spending before it…...
Friday, October 12, 2012
WES VERNON: AMERICA’S LAST FREE ELECTION?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ever since George W. Bush won the 2000 election through the Electoral College, liberals have been on a warpath to abolish the Electoral College. You understand, or…...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
PAUL GOTTFRIED: THE LATE, GREAT JOE SOBRAN
Joseph Sobran: The National Review Years. (Vienna, Virginia: FGF Books, 2012.) ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- Recently I received the galleys for the anthologized essays and book reviews by the late,…...
Monday, October 08, 2012
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: AN ECONOMIST TAKES A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SO-CALLED DROP IN UNEMPLOYMENT
Last week's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows 114,000 new jobs in September and a drop in the rate of unemployment from 8.1% to 7.8%. As…...
ALLAN BROWNFELD: CHICAGO TEACHER STRIKE REFLECTED A “PUBLIC-BE-DAMNED” ATTITUDE
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The Chicago teachers' strike, with almost no warning, canceled classes for 350,000 students who had just returned from summer vacation. It forced tens of thousands of parents…...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: THE REAL CAUSES OF THE ATTACK ON THE EMBASSY IN LIBYA, 9-11-2012
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA -- Try to imagine more deluded reporting than this by America's Presstitute "free press." For 11 years Washington in pursuit of its rightful hegemony has been sending troops,…...
Monday, September 24, 2012
MARK WEGIERSKI: THE CRISIS IN ART AND CULTURE 11 YEARS AFTER 9/11
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA -- For millennia, art has reflected the values of societies. Have modern values and technology made great art impossible?Massive advances in technology have given us instruments that…...
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