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Friday, August 01, 2014
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- From the beginning of recorded history to the present time, very few societies have lived in freedom. The Founding Fathers understood very well that freedom was not…...
Thursday, July 31, 2014
[CLASSIC] -- The pro-life movement is often accused of being "self-righteous." This word is rarely defined, and it's rarely directed at advocates of abortion and homosexuality.Why is this? No doubt…...
Saturday, July 26, 2014
GLEN COVE, NY - Bowe Bergdahl went absent without leave from, and apparently deserted, his infantry unit in Afghanistan. He and his father have adopted the language and other external…...
Friday, July 18, 2014
APPLETON, WI -- Let's go back a few years to 1983. It was then after two years of gathering information, a prestigious federal panel known as "The National Commission on…...
Thursday, July 10, 2014
GLEN COVE, NY - There is a saying among old Iraq hands in the State Department that there are no good results in Iraq, only less bad ones. Recent events…...
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Over the years I've met countless folks in the federal bureaucracy who hate their jobs.But they love their country.And now is their time.Alexander Butterfield was a…...
Thursday, July 03, 2014
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- In recent days, the Obama administration appears to be in the process of dramatically expanding executive power, threatening our system of representative government.Whatever the merits of the…...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
GLEN COVE, NY - Most people have heard that a priest was killed in Phoenix and another priest was badly injured. They have heard almost nothing about the victims. The…...
Thursday, June 26, 2014
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- The Red-Team, Blue-Team cacophony has reached a crescendo, and its intensity rises in direct correlation to its frivolity.Now it's "Who lost Iraq?"Red blames Blue: "Bush warned…...
Thursday, June 19, 2014
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- I still remember the day - June 2, 1964. My new banjo arrived in the afternoon (on Railway Express - this was pre-Woodstock, remember), and, late…...
Friday, June 06, 2014
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Voluntary Christian charity results in the natural gratitude of both the benefactor and the beneficiary."Thank you," says the man robbed and thrown in the ditch; "No,…...
Thursday, June 05, 2014
GLEN COVE, NY - Fixing the problems of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (V.A.) will be a long, difficult, and complex undertaking.The greater use of private hospitals is a step…...
Monday, June 02, 2014
"Messenger of the Truth" is a new documentary about the amazing life Fr. Jerzy Popielusko (1947-1984), chaplain to the Solidarity labor union movement, who motivated tens of thousands of Poles…...
Thursday, May 29, 2014
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- "Many leftists cheered when Benedict issued his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, in 2005." So writes Rocco Buttiglioni, one of Europe's foremost Catholic lay leaders. "They…...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
GLEN COVE, NY The two largest components of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (the VA) are the Veterans’ Health Administration (VHA) and the Veterans’ Benefits Administration (VBA). Both are…...
Monday, May 19, 2014
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! --Rudyard Kipling* GLEN COVE, NY The gods of the copybook headings are, indeed, haunting the Obama foreign…...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
The liberal universe abounds in intellectual antimatter. The media is no exception.This week, the L.A. Times breathlessly announced that the upcoming Special Synod on the Family “could herald a new…...
The secular moralizers at the United Nations are at it again. This time its “Committee Against Torture” flaunted its swaggering ego by attacking the Catholic Church for its defense of…...
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Long ago, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum won the admiration of conservatives for his unstinting support of human life. His memorable speeches in opposition to partial-birth abortion…...
Monday, May 12, 2014
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Russell Kirk's landmark book, The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Eliot, was published 60 years ago. TIME magazine devoted its entire book section to The Conservative Mind,…...
Saturday, May 10, 2014
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- In a major decision last week on the role of religion in government, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution allows town boards to start their sessions…...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
APPLETON, WI -- NATO was sold to the American people and the U.S. Congress in 1949 as an alliance needed to prevent the Soviet Union from gobbling up more nations…...
Friday, May 02, 2014
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- In early April, Pope Francis warned Catholics that proclaiming the Gospel comes with a price, the price of persecution. "There will always be persecutions, misunderstandings,"…...
Monday, April 28, 2014
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- In the Rubble's constant effort to cull unnecessary stuff, a brief student paper saw the light of day for the first time since the pre-Woodstock era.…...
Thursday, April 10, 2014
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- During the Reagan years, a story circulated about a meeting between Henry Kissinger and a newly-appointed Assistant Secretary of State."I have finally met a man more…...
Sunday, April 06, 2014
GLEN COVE, NY - The United States government is planning to abandon its role in regulating the Internet in 2015. It promises that no government or international organization will have…...
Thursday, April 03, 2014
FAIRFAX, VA, 4/3/14 -- The Honorable Robert K. Dornan, Congressman (R-CA, 1977-1997) has endorsed Bob Marshall for Congress in the upcoming April 26 primary to fill the vacancy left by…...
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Dr. Richard Bishirjian serves as president of Yorktown University, an outstanding online graduate school. An advocate of innovative education for years, he recently shed light on…...
Thursday, January 16, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. - James Bamford, the world's leading expert on the National Security Agency (NSA), will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 16, at the National Press Club (529…...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
[CLASSIC] --In the land of the blind, they say, the one-eyed man is king. Maybe Americans are now so ignorant of history that they need Katie Couric, the gratingly perky…...
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