Politics

Arsenal of Roguery

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. May 4, 2010

Sixty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced to the nation in one of his famous “fireside chats” that America must be “the great arsenal of democracy.”  It was a visionary and, at the time, controversial declaration that a nation…

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The Palestinian Authority Celebrates Terrorists Who Killed Israelis

by Daniel Pipes May 4, 2010

While the U.S. government has a faith in Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that borders on the mystical, some of us see them merely as the “good terrorists” (good because willing to talk to Israel) as opposed to the…

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The Consequences of Religious Apathy

by Ken Connor May 3, 2010

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.” Alexis de Tocqueville
In his treatise, The Christian Manifesto, published in 1981, Francis Schaeffer suggests that the gradual shift away from a Judeo-Christian (or at least a Creationist) worldview towards…

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One-Sided Arms Control

by Sean Varner April 26, 2010

President Obama signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Prague on April 8—and did so to global accolades. It was the culmination of years of negotiations and a major triumph to finally achieve agreement with Moscow. Unfortunately, President…

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Free to Choose What’s Right

by Ken Connor April 24, 2010

“We can breathe the air of liberty only to the extent that we are ready to bear the burden of moral responsibility associated with it.” Wilhelm Roepke
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions…

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When Ed Meese Speaks

by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. April 22, 2010

There is arguably no more influential conservative in America today than former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese. To paraphrase an old marketing slogan, when Ed Meese talks, people listen.  Rarely has such attention been more warranted than now, as President…

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Obama and American Muslims: How Different?

by Daniel Pipes April 21, 2010

The New York Times ran a story today, “White House Quietly Courts Muslims in U.S.,” that contrasts the Obama and George W. Bush administration records with regard to American Muslims. The reporter, Andrea Elliott, sums up her argument with a…

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Pledge of Allegiance Revised

by Tom Purcell April 20, 2010

“Billy Johnson, stand at the head of the class. I want you to help us conduct an exercise on the Pledge of Allegiance.”
“Yes, Ms. Smith.”
“Billy, last week the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it is…

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Brewing Community to Calm Anger

by Fr. John Rausch April 19, 2010

Wages stagnate. Unemployment hovers near 10 percent. Jobs trickle overseas. Wall Street gets bailed out. CEOs divide billions. Folks feel anger. The result: Tea Parties.
Based on the Boston Tea Party, an historic icon of resistance to an imposed British…

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Barney and Barack’s Anti-religion Agenda

by J. Matt Barber April 16, 2010

Still suffering indigestion from an Obamacare forced feeding, America may yet have to choke down some bitter dessert. Democrats’ characteristically mislabeled Employment Non-Discrimination Act or ENDA (S. 1584 in the Senate and H.R. 3017 in the House) apparently will be…

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