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Friday, January 27, 2012
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on January 27, 2012 at 06:15 am
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- The Republican presidential candidate who is the most divisive is Ron Paul. Pat Buchanan observes (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48685) that Paul is the only candidate whom his rivals, and most…...
Friday, January 20, 2012
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on January 20, 2012 at 04:08 pm
Nearly three decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that abortion is constitutionally protected. Ostensibly libertarian, the ruling was actually one of the most tyrannical acts in American history.What greater…...
Friday, January 13, 2012
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on January 13, 2012 at 10:45 pm
In the late Sixties, the liberal cartoonist and wag Al Capp suddenly turned against the Left. People were startled by his apparent rightward swing. "I haven'tchanged," he insisted. "Liberalism has."Today…...
Monday, January 09, 2012
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on January 9, 2012 at 10:07 pm
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- Listening to Charles Krauthammer on TV explaining the surging popularity of Ron Paul, I was deeply impressed by the prudence displayed by this usually partisan commentator. Unlike…...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
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on December 22, 2011 at 02:47 pm
"The great sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim called the contrast between the sacred and the profane the widest and deepest of all contrasts the human mind is capable of making,"…...
Monday, December 19, 2011
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on December 19, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Flash! Just in time for the Christmas season, Newsweek reports this week that the Gospel accounts of Christ's nativity aren't "fully factual." Do tell. Talk about investigative journalism! Not to…...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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on December 13, 2011 at 10:21 am
Deep political wisdom can be found in a writer who took very little interest in politics: C.S. Lewis, a scholar who achieved his greatest fame as a popular Christian writer.…...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
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on November 8, 2011 at 10:35 am
The "progressive" community - news media, politicians, and various moralists at large - is in a lather about "hate crimes," demanding federal legislation to combat them. The trouble is that…...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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on August 24, 2011 at 08:45 am
GLEN COVE, NY - Most people believe that with the end of Reconstruction came the end of black participation in Southern politics until the Civil Rights era starting in the…...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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on August 16, 2011 at 05:56 am
A conservative legal scholar, who shall be nameless here, has illustrated the trouble with conservatism today: its profound ignorance of the Constitution it should be conserving. Conservatives habitually object…...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
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on August 2, 2011 at 11:56 am
Many years ago, a friend shocked me by saying: "If my wife got pregnant now, I'd make her get an abortion." His wife, who was present, shocked me by…...
Friday, July 29, 2011
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on July 29, 2011 at 10:27 am
One of man's favorite animals is the dolphin. This sportive sea mammal has long enjoyed better press than, say, Fred Astaire. In France it was a symbol of royalty; Shakespeare…...
Monday, July 25, 2011
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on July 25, 2011 at 08:57 am
Dogged readers of this space will observe that I habitually quote a handful of classic writings, chiefly the Shakespeare works, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, and The Federalist Papers.…...
Friday, July 22, 2011
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on July 22, 2011 at 09:16 am
Most educated readers are aware of certain basic fallacies - the non sequitur, the straw man argument, the ad hominem argument, and inferring causation from sequence (post hoc ergo propter…...
Monday, July 11, 2011
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on July 11, 2011 at 03:08 pm
The phrase stopped me in my tracks: "Government Greed." I thought I was the only one who ever used it, and suddenly there it was, the title of a Wall…...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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on July 5, 2011 at 09:59 am
Bernard Shaw's play The Devil's Disciple ends with an ironic exchange between two British officers who have just realized that Britain is about to lose her American colonies because…...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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on June 28, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at CatholicVote.org. With a critical vote in its state Senate, North Carolina has voted to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Republicans hold…...
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on June 28, 2011 at 11:22 am
GLEN COVE, NY -- Some believe that the recent Brown Shirt tactics of the public employee unions in Wisconsin and the unfair labor practice charges against Boeing for daring to…...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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on June 22, 2011 at 08:58 am
In his book, Papal Sin, Garry Wills contends that the Catholic Church is trapped by "structures of deceit" - commitments to false doctrines that can be sustained only by a…...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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on June 21, 2011 at 01:26 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes again. By a six-to-three vote it has ruled that student-led pre-game prayers at a public-school football game in Texas violated the First Amendment of the…...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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on June 14, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Deep political wisdom can be found in a writer who took very little interest in politics: C.S. Lewis, a scholar who achieved his greatest fame as a popular Christian writer.…...
Monday, June 06, 2011
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on June 6, 2011 at 08:44 am
Editors Note: Thomas Roeser died last Sunday, this is one of his last columns. CHICAGO, IL -- Many so-called "business approach" candidates -- especially liberal Republican ones -- fail to…...
Friday, June 03, 2011
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on June 3, 2011 at 09:10 am
Editors Note: Thomas Roeser died last Sunday, this is his last column. CHICAGO, IL -- Many presidents have, on occasion, done weird things-only one president of the 44 is Weird.…...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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on May 31, 2011 at 01:33 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court created a mild panic among liberals when it ruled that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution is finite. In striking down the Violence Against Women Act,…...
Monday, May 23, 2011
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on May 23, 2011 at 10:43 am
GLEN COVE, NY -- Bad Supreme Court decisions spread like cancer and are based on a form of idolatry. Consider Roe v. Wade, for example. Fifty years ago, Sweden was…...
Friday, May 20, 2011
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on May 20, 2011 at 09:36 am
As a Catholic, I can't get mad at Bob Jones University, except in the sense that I'm mad at Martin Luther. True, it's not nice to call the Pope the…...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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on May 17, 2011 at 08:22 am
In our official mythology, Winston Churchill, even more than Franklin Roosevelt, still symbolizes the epic struggle against tyranny in World War II. But correction of this myth is long overdue.…...
Thursday, May 05, 2011
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on May 5, 2011 at 10:34 am
As a Virginian (though born and raised in Michigan), I would like to remind my countrymen that Virginia is not a part of the United States. We withdrew from the…...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
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on May 4, 2011 at 11:41 am
Malcolm Bradbury died the other day, aged 68. Actually, he was Sir Malcolm. A knight. I didn't know that. I knew almost nothing about him, except that I liked him.I…...
Monday, April 25, 2011
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on April 25, 2011 at 10:27 am
The columnist Richard Cohen scolds the "arrogance" of certain common attitudes, which he sums up as "My way is the best way. My country is the best country. My religion…...
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