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– July 29, 2010
Why all the fuss about the Confederate flag? Charles Mills takes up this question in The Conquered Banner– July 28, 2010
Charles G. Mills reminisces about Bill Buckley, Joe Sobran, Pat Buchanan, Brent Bozell, and National Review magazine in A Venture in Triviality– July 22, 2010
The West won the Cold War because of Ronald Reagan. See Charles Mills' The Cold War, Part VII: Reagan, Bush, and Victory– July 20, 2010
The Jimmy Carter years (1976-80) are described in the continuation of Charles Mills' series The Cold War, Part VI: Carter’s Dark Night before Dawn– July 15, 2010
Washington’s reaction to the Gulf oil spill caused greater damage than the event itself, according to Jon Basil Utley's latest article, The Government’s Catastrophic Response to Oil Disaster– July 15, 2010
Charles Mills discusses the politics of the oil spill in British Petroleum, the Tar Baby, and the Briar Patch– July 8, 2010
President Richard Nixon's foreign policy legacy is examined by Charles Mills in The Cold War Part V: Nixon Stabs Free China in the Back– July 7, 2010
Charles Mills' series continues with a description of President Lyndon Johnson's Administration. See The Cold War Part IV: Johnson Brings the Cold War Home– June 30, 2010
Charles Mills' series on the Cold War continues with a look at “mutually assured destruction" (MAD), the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis. See The Cold War Part III: Kennedy’s Twilight Zone– June 30, 2010
Charles Mills series continues with The Cold War Part II: The Lost Opportunities of Eisenhower– June 24, 2010
In the first of a series of columns on the Cold War, Charles Mills recounts the Truman Administration, the Korean War, and the daring strategies of General Douglas MacArthur. The Cold War Part I: Truman and a Bad Start– June 22, 2010
Joe Sobran reviews Robert Reilly's new book, The Closing of the Muslim Mind in Allah Is Not Great– June 17, 2010
Rand Paul's comment about the 1964 Civil Rights Act sends a once-friendly media into a feeding frenzy. See Paul Gottfried's latest column, Clarifying the Negative Impact of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Rand Paul Starts Much-Needed Debate– June 16, 2010
Divine law is true, even if no one believes it. See Joe Sobran's classic column, Legacy of Lies– June 9, 2010
Joe Sobran takes a look at the views of our first President in Washington's New Confederacy– June 7, 2010
The inability to love is often the reason that mothers abort their own children. See Joe Sobran's classic, Abortion and Hatred– June 4, 2010
In a classic column, Joe Sobran looks at the popularity of the fictitious The Da Vinci Code and Darwinism. Farewell to Mayberry– June 4, 2010
There is tolerance, diversity, and freedom only for those views of which the elite media approve as Sam Francis shows in a classic column Media Elite versus Christian Heritage– May 28, 2010
Is the Constitution dead? Joe Sobran defines the problem in Jefferson Was Right– May 27, 2010
Calling a homosexual union a marriage doesn’t make it a marriage. See Joe Sobran's Candor, Anyone?– May 20, 2010
Charles Mills, The Confederate Lawyer, analyzes Lincoln's Gettysburg Address from the point of view of the South in Lincoln’s Hypocritical Address– May 18, 2010
The pro-Communist legacy of FDR, who was president from 1933 to 1945, is examined by Charles Mills in Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Age of Evil– May 12, 2010
The word "Confederate" has unfairly taken a bad rap, according to Charles Mills in Virginia’s Confederate History– May 11, 2010
Banning burquas is not the answer to the diminishing Christian population of Europe. See Frank Creel's The Merest Christianity– May 6, 2010
Satirizing the euphemisms of the abortion lobby, Charles Mills offers his latest column, Terminating Human Abortion Instrumentalities
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The Conquered Banner
by Charles G. Mills
July 29, 2010
GLEN COVE, NY — A campaign of hatred and vilification of the Confederate flag is underway on the grounds that the flag does not conform to 21st-century standards of racial equality. The flag in question was never actually a national flag of the Confederacy. It was officially designated as the flag of regiments of the Confederate States Army and called the “Battle Flag.” Ironically, after a protracted battle to get the Battle Flag removed from the state flag of Georgia, Georgia finally adopted a new flag. This new flag, which was acceptable to the haters of the Confederate flag, was closely modeled on the first flag of the Confederacy, the Stars and Bars.
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A Venture in Triviality
by Charles G. Mills
July 28, 2010
GLEN COVE, NY — In August 1945, Time Magazine published a letter from William F. Buckley, Jr., that made a connection between Catholicism and anti-communism. Buckley eventually became chairman of the Yale Daily News and founder of National Review, the catalyst for late-twentieth-century conservatism. Many people believe that the magazine’s mission ended with the election of Ronald Reagan as President; the truth is that its mission faded long before that.
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The Cold War, Part VII: Reagan, Bush, and Victory
by Charles G. Mills
July 22, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — The victory of the West in the Cold War was an accomplishment of the American people, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Venerable John Paul II, and above all, Ronald Reagan. George H. W. Bush was President when the Berlin Wall was torn down and the Red flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time, but these were the fruits of Reagan’s policies. Bush did not waver from his predecessor’s policies because he knew that, if he did, Baroness Thatcher would be on the telephone.
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The Cold War, Part VI: Carter’s Dark Night before Dawn
by Charles G. Mills
July 20, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — In 1976, when faced with a choice between Gerald Ford and James Earl Carter, Jr., America chose Carter. Ford was demonstrably inept, and Carter was an Annapolis graduate and a former governor of Georgia. People doubted that Carter could be as bad as Ford. Unfortunately, he turned out to be worse than anyone could have imagined.
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The Government’s Catastrophic Response to Oil Disaster
by Jon Basil Utley
July 15, 2010WASHINGTON, D.C. —Incompetence has turned the Gulf oil tragedy into “Obama’s Katrina.” As more and more startling facts emerge we are finding almost criminal ineptness by Washington compounded BP’s almost criminal negligence. As with many crises, Washington’s reactions cause greater damage than the event itself. Yet lurking in the mess are the extreme environmentalists staffing the Obama Administration with their declared agenda of shutting down all offshore oil drilling.
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British Petroleum, the Tar Baby, and the Briar Patch
by Charles G. Mills
July 15, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — Those who remember the animal stories told by Uncle Remus will remember the tar baby. Bre’r Fox built a tar baby to trap Bre’r Rabbit. Bre’r Rabbit said hello to the tar baby; when the tar baby did not tip his hat or answer Bre’r Rabbit’s demands for common courtesy, Bre’r Rabbit struck the tar baby and got stuck to the tar. The more the rabbit struggled, the more parts of his body stuck.
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The Cold War Part V: Nixon Stabs Free China in the Back
by Charles G. Mills
July 8, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — By 1968, Richard Nixon came to believe that no Republican could be elected President without the support of both Liberal and Conservative Republicans. He was nominated for President because the party’s Conservatives were afraid of Rockefeller and the party’s Liberals were afraid of Reagan. The problem with the Nixon theory is that putting it into practice is more likely to anger both factions than to appease them.
Nixon’s foreign policy legacy is devastating.
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The Cold War Part IV: Johnson Brings the Cold War Home
by Charles G. Mills
July 7, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — When President John Kennedy was killed by a communist, Lyndon Johnson became President. Growing dissatisfaction with our gradual losses to the Soviets led to the 1964 Republican nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater, a man firmly committed to victory in the Cold War.
Johnson waged one of the most dishonest and vicious campaigns in American history.
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The Cold War Part III: Kennedy’s Twilight Zone
by Charles G. Mills
June 30, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — John Kennedy was elected President as an anti-communist, but his administration invented the term “twilight struggle” to describe the Cold War. As L. Brent Bozell pointed out, twilight is followed by night.
The alleged anti-communism of the Kennedy election campaign was built around a “missile gap” that never existed.
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The Cold War Part II: The Lost Opportunities of Eisenhower
by Charles G. Mills
June 30, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — Eisenhower was not the first or second choice of anti-communists. Senator Robert Taft and General Douglas MacArthur were. Eisenhower may not have even been the third choice; Senator Richard Russell may have been that. Eisenhower was, however, a five-star general and a midwesterner. How bad could he be?
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The Cold War Part I: Truman and a Bad Start
by Charles G. Mills
June 24, 2010GLEN COVE, NY — The Cold War officially lasted over 46 years, from September 2, 1945, to December 26, 1991. Neither the duration nor the extent — hundreds of millions of people living under terrible tyranny — was inevitable. During the first 35 years, many opportunities for victories were turned into humiliating defeats for liberty. Only in the last years of the Cold War did the tide turn in favor of freedom.
The first Cold War President was Harry S. Truman, who inherited a world war in which the Soviet Union was our ally. He also inherited a State Department that Roosevelt had packed with over 80 communist party members, spies, and collaborators.
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