Charles Krauthammer And The How Neocons Destroyed The GOP
Pop Quiz: When is a Neocon Not A Neocon? Answer. When he’s wrong. Which is most of the time. And that irks Charles Krauthammer. Dr. Krauthammer is an interesting character. For some thirty years he’s...
View ArticleIs There Hope For The GOP?
FRONT ROYAL, VA — In case Republicans haven’t noticed, Obama has declared war on them. Perhaps he recognizes that the party of Reagan is defenseless these days, having abdicated the principles that...
View ArticleHere We Go Again…
FRONT ROYAL, VA — According to the New York Times, America’s Catholic bishops are counting on the persuasive power of the pulpit this month to push “comprehensive immigration reform” – also known as...
View ArticleNancy’s Blind Spot
FRONT ROYAL, VA — When you’re one of the richest members of Congress and you represent San Francisco, the real world can seem as distant as the dark side of the moon. So it figures that House Minority...
View ArticleWords, Words, Words!
FRONT ROYAL, VA — A few weeks ago, Pope Francis asked us to pray, fast, and give alms on Saturday, September 7, for peace in Syria. We did; and on Monday, September 9, Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the...
View ArticleDefining Conservatism Down
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Every New Year, the usual suspects on the Left generously offer their advice on how to preserve and protect the Republican Party. This time around, two of the liberal media’s...
View ArticleHow Many Holocausts?
FRONT ROYAL, VA — On January 22nd, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators will take part in the forty-first annual March for Life in Washington. They will be dutifully ignored by Big Media (well, the...
View ArticleLessons In Tyranny
FRONT ROYAL, VA — In January 2009, two newly-elected Republican governors took the oath of office. Immediately, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell were touted as...
View ArticleIl Papa’s Not a Rollin’ Stone
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, has called the Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on Pope Francis superficial, negative, and crude. That’s a good...
View ArticleGet US Out!
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Remember that bumper sticker? How about the billboard – “Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.!” It makes more sense every day. Years ago, Bill Buckley suggested...
View ArticleLandmines In The Path Of Dialogue
FRONT ROYAL, VA — On August 20, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI insisted in Cologne that “Interreligious and intercultural dialogue between Christians and Muslims is, in fact, a vital necessity, on which in...
View ArticleThe Prophet, The President, And The Pope
FRONT ROYAL, VA — A critique of the president by a well-known jurist appeared recently in the American Spectator: “A man whose self-absorption is legendary, if not pathological. If the head of the...
View ArticleTime For Some Political Spring Cleaning
FRONT ROYAL, VA — From the fog of a long, hard winter, questions come stumbling out of the cold. First: does the U.S. really support democracy? Take Ukraine. For a decade and more, the United States...
View ArticleRace Hustlers Target Paul Ryan, And Michelle’s Forbidden Questions
FRONT ROYAL, VA — It’s an election year; and liberal pundits complain of listlessness, confusion, cowardice, and more in their ranks. Not to worry, says Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer. He tells “Meet the...
View ArticleIs Education A Social Issue?
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 a...
View ArticleIs College Football A Cash Cow Or A White Elephant?
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Fifty years ago, Father Ted Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame, launched a campaign to make the school measure up to “Ivy League” academic standards. Alas, students did not jump for...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Liberty Problem
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...
View ArticlePerversion’s Progress
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Robert Reilly spent years plowing through thousands of pages of turgid narcissism so that you don’t have to. The result is a truly important book that lays out the template and the...
View ArticleCatholics, Capitalists, And Cronies
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...
View ArticleGratitude, Government, And Gall
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, thank YOU,”...
View ArticleThe Party, The Plunderers, And The People
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 that evening, the news came in that...
View ArticleWho Really Lost Iraq? Democrats? Republicans? Or Both?
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...
View ArticleThe Unholy Alliance
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Let’s get one thing straight. Obama could care less about those Hispanic kids coming over the border. Here’s how we know: his administration has pushed the most savage pro-abortion...
View ArticleA Time For Truth About George W. Bush And His Disastrous Iraq War
FRONT ROYAL, VA – If there is one common theme in the religious, cultural, and political collapse which we see all around us, it is cowardice. Some people simply don’t want to know. And they don’t...
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