Politics

Enough Chirping

by Tom Purcell April 13, 2010

I hate birds when they chirp. It’s the government’s fault.
I am sitting by an open door, with a nice spring breeze, the sun shining, the birds chirping. But I cannot enjoy this beautiful day.
I am surrounded by a…

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The Real Reason They Hate Us

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. April 10, 2010

For the first time in its history, the United States is trying to wage and win a war without accurately identifying the enemy or its motivations for seeking to destroy us. That oversight defies both common sense and past military…

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Buchenwald and the Totalitarian Century

by Dr. Paul Kengor April 10, 2010

This spring 2010 marks some sordid anniversaries: 65 years since the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps that facilitated the slaughter of six million Jews and four million various others deemed “misfits” and “undesirables” by Hitler and his henchmen.
The…

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Tea Anyone?

by Ken Connor April 9, 2010

It’s been almost a year since America’s Tea Party protesters first gathered to voice their opposition to Washington’s profligate ways.  What began as a loosely organized campaign against government spending has evolved into a highly motivated, highly organized, politically potent…

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Who Lost Iraq?

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. April 6, 2010

Back in February, Vice President Joseph Biden declared: “I am very optimistic about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration.”  Even for a politician much given to strategic ineptitude compounded by foot-in-mouth disease,…

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Springtime in Washington

by Tom Purcell April 6, 2010

Ah, springtime has arrived in Washington, D.C.
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is under way. The cherry trees, 3,700 of them given to America by the Japanese in 1912, are in full bloom.
It reminds me why Americans are so…

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Tan and Tax

by Tom Purcell April 3, 2010

My family and I are taking the new tax personally.
One of the many items tucked into the government overhaul of America’s health care system is a 10 percent sales tax on tanning salons.
According to The Wall Street Journal,…

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False START

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. March 31, 2010

President Obama announced last Thusday that he had concluded a follow-on to the 1989 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia.  He characterized the cuts that it would make in the two nations’ nuclear arsenals as a major step towards…

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“Window War”: an Open Letter

by Robert Struble, Jr. March 29, 2010

Mr. Michael B. Vanderboegh of Birmingham, Alabama, has posted an appeal to begin the process of civil disobedience by means of a “window war.”  He quotes John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government (1690): “Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away…

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Health Care Rights, and Wrongs

by Dr. Donald P. Condit March 26, 2010

As Speaker Nancy Pelosi promoted passage of Sunday’s health care reform bill, she invoked Catholic support. However, those who assert the right to health care and seek greater responsibility for government as the means to that end, are simply wrong.…

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