TOM BETHELL: INTERREGNUM—AND A TRANSITION
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- My old friend Joe Sobran died on September 30, age 64. He was the best man at my wedding. He worked for 20 years for William F.…...
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CHARLES G. MILLS: AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
GLEN COVE, NY -- If we really want to make commercial air travel totally secure, why don't we simply require everyone to be completely naked to clear security? Passengers could…...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: HOW TO HANDLE A WOMAN
How to Handle a Woman by Joe Sobran fitzgerald griffin foundation How do you get to first base with the ladies? It may be easy if…...
Thursday, December 02, 2010
CHARLES G. MILLS: FEDERAL AID TO SCHOOLS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
GLEN COVE, NY -- Some "conservative" governors seem eager to get the usual dose of federal "aid" to education. Similarly, some "conservatives" want to cut the budget of every federal…...
Monday, November 29, 2010
THOMAS F. ROESER: BENEDICT’S CONDOM REMARK DOES NOT CONTRADICTED AN ARTICLE OF FAITH
CHICAGO, IL -- Joy among militant secularists and enemies of authentic Catholicism knew no bounds on Monday as a loosely structured remark by Benedict XVI, brimming with particularized theological meaning,…...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
JON BASIL UTLEY: HOW THE EPA CRIPPLES THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Barack Obama seems more concerned with appeasing environmental extremists in his administration than he is with the lost jobs of poor Americans. He's letting the environmentalists…...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: PENUMBRAS, EMANATIONS, AND STUFF
You could easily get the impression that the U.S.Supreme Court has banned public displays of the TenthAmendment. Actually, this hasn't happened, at least notyet. Anyway, adults can still read it…...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE FOSSILS
The lead story on the front page of the New York Times on April 6, for once, wasn't political. It was about fossils. "All the news that's fit to…...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
PRESS CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS SUSPENDED DOCTOR’S ROLE IN 35 LATE-TERM ABORTIONS
Mass and Laying of Roses at Abortion Mill to follow in evening ELKTON, MARYLAND - DEFEND LIFE will hold a Press Conference and a Mass of Remembrance on Thursday, October 21,…...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
CHARLES G. MILLS: JOE SOBRAN AND HAMLET
GLEN COVE, NY -- Robert Royal concludes his obituary of Joe Sobran (see http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/a-noble-heart.html) with Shakespeare's words to the dying Hamlet, "Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince, and…...
Thursday, October 07, 2010
R. J. STOVE: AN AUSSIE REMEMBERS JOE SOBRAN
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - These words are being written en route from Adelaide, home to a Melbourne whose already thuggish public culture has been rendered that little bit more desolate by…...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: HERITAGE OF SAVAGERY
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- Through no fault of their own, most Americans study American history in school. This is why they have so many misconceptions about American history.One of these misconceptions…...
Friday, September 17, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: THE END OF A MAD CENTURY
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- Well, the Y2K apocalypse has failed to occur. By now we were supposed to be devouring our children (or being devoured by them). The Third Millennium is…...
Thursday, September 16, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: THE USES OF “HATE”
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- A reader who says he usually likes my columns took strong exception to the one I wrote criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court for striking down the Texas…...
Monday, September 13, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: CLONING PSYCHO
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- I've spent much of this summer with a grandson who, at age eleven, already has, to my dismay, an encyclopedic knowledge of slasher movies. In some obscure…...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: WILDER AND HIS BETTERS
FGF: Joe Sobran's column, "Wilder and His Betters": The Re <!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --> ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- Billy Wilder's death…...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
JON BASIL UTLEY: CONFRONTING WASHINGTON’S JOB-KILLERS
"Confronting Washington's Job-Killers": a Reason magazine <!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --> WASHINGTON, D.C. - Washington itself causes much of the high…...
Friday, August 06, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: THE STATE AND HERESY
FGF: Joe Sobran's column, "The State and Heresy": The Reac DUNN LORING, VIRGINIA -- In recent weeks I've been debating with people I usually agree with: conservative Christians. Many of…...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
CHARLES G. MILLS: RONALD REAGAN AND THE COLD WAR
GLEN COVE, NY -- The victory of the West in the Cold War was an accomplishment of the American people, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Venerable John Paul II, and…...
Thursday, June 24, 2010
JOSEPH SOBRAN: ALLAH IS NOT GREAT
FGF: Joe Sobran's latest column, "Allah Is Not Great": The DUNN LORING, VIRGINIA -- Robert R. Reilly's The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist…...
Friday, June 18, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: WASHINGTON’S NEW CONFEDERACY
DUNN LORING, VA -- In the American pantheon of "great presidents," the first is still George Washington, even though he has been somewhat tarnished by the now-mortal sin of having…...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
JOSEPH SOBRAN: ABORTION AND HATRED
DUNN LORING, VA -- According to a recent article in the New York Times, scientists have found that the frolicsome dolphin, the most intelligent and beloved of marine mammals, has…...
Monday, June 14, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: FAREWELL TO MAYBERRY
DUNN LORING, VA -- Newsweek ended 2005 with a cover story hyping the forthcoming movie version of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's huge bestseller, to be directed by Ron…...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: JEFFERSON WAS RIGHT
FGF: Joe Sobran's "Jefferson Was Right": The Reactionary U <!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --> DUNN LORING, VA -- In the Kentucky…...
Friday, May 28, 2010
JOSEPH SOBRAN: CANDOR ANYONE?
FGF: Joe Sobran's "Candor, Anyone? ": The Reactionary Utop <!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --> DUNN LORING, VA -- In an age…...
Monday, May 17, 2010
CHARLES G. MILLS: VIRGINIA’S CONFEDERATE HISTORY
Wetlands Quality Assurance Project Plan Guidance GLEN COVE, NY -- Last month was Confederate History Month in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This commemoration was met with resistance by some who…...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
FRANK CREEL: THE MEREST CHRISTIANITY
FGF: "The Merest Christianity"; The Unrepentant Traditiona ARLINGTON, VA -- The lower house of Belgium's Parliament voted unanimously on April 29 to outlaw full-face veils. The Senate must also pass…...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE SUPREME COURT, THE COMMON LAW, AND THE NATURAL LAW: PART II
GLEN COVE, NY -- When Western man stopped believing in God, he needed an alternative jurisprudence to the Natural Law. The first and greatest challenge to the Natural Law was…...
Monday, April 26, 2010
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE SUPREME COURT, THE COMMON LAW, AND THE NATURAL LAW: PART I
GLEN COVE, NY -- There is a Jewish tradition that Noah established the first court of law. Certainly such courts existed from prehistoric times in all classical civilizations. Something in…...
Monday, April 12, 2010
JOE SOBRAN: SMIRKING AT VIRTUE
DUNN LORING, VA -- One sin you don't hear much about is envy: the hatred of the good for being good. Yet it's one of the most basic human temptations,…...
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