Opinion

The Family Loses A Major Battle

by Piero Tozzi, J.D. May 15, 2012

My colleagues reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that they came away “empty handed.” With respect, I disagree with this assessment.
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and…

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Afghanization

by Dr. Earl Tilford May 9, 2012

President Barack Obama’s five-point plan for turning the war back to the Afghans is designed to cover the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces and “forge a just and lasting peace.” What does the plan involve, and can it work?…

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Remember Victory in Europe Day!

by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma May 8, 2012

December 1941 is usually remembered by Americans as that fateful month when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, thus thrusting the United States into World War II. However, consider an alternate scenario: Adolf Hitler appears triumphantly before the Reichstag announcing the destruction…

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The Siren Song of “Economic Justice”

by Dr. R.B.A. Di Muccio May 1, 2012

With churches and clergy ever more frequently inserting themselves into politics, the faithful among us must deal with cognitive dissonance now and again. Even devout congregants can be deeply troubled when their own politics are at odds with those of…

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Lessons for the War on Terror

by Dr. Earl Tilford April 30, 2012

After the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975, military and civilian strategists sought “lessons learned.” Many were tactical or technical, such as the operational effectiveness of precision-guided munitions and the continuing need for guns on jet fighters. At the…

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The Disoriented Catholic Left

by George Weigel April 27, 2012

One does wonder, sometimes, just what goes on at Catholic News Service (CNS), an agency that wouldn’t exist were it not for the U.S. bishops and the bishops’ conference. This past April 16, CNS distributed a lengthy interview with Rep.…

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Why I Am Not a Libertarian

by Nathan Schlueter April 10, 2012

The contemporary Tea Party Movement, like its revolutionary ancestor, looks to principles for guidance. Yet an old but active fault line runs just beneath the surface of the movement that has the potential to cause a fatal rupture. Tea Partiers…

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President Obama: Time to Try Again on Trayvon

by James Locke April 3, 2012

Can anyone, anywhere, please ask President Obama to speak to the country, invoke Lincoln and appeal to “the Better Angels of our Nature?”
We need it. Now.
It’s time for you to speak about the Trayvon Martin tragedy again.
On…

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Shut Up and Obey the Leftists

by Matt Barber April 2, 2012

Liberal theologian William Ellery Channing once observed, “The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”
War has indeed been declared. Channing’s contemporary…

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A Mile Wide and a Foot Deep

by Fr. George W. Rutler March 26, 2012

Lent is a time for serious thinking. That does not mean morose thinking. Quite the opposite. Melancholia and even despair issue from living life superficially without engaging the profound mysteries that God sets before us. Serious thinking means that we…

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