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– February 3, 2012
Joe Sobran comments on John McCain's views on the State during the 2000 GOP presidential primaries (he lost to George W. Bush). See The Autonomous State– February 2, 2012
After Bill Clinton served two terms, the campaign for the Democratic nomination in the year 2000 had several contenders, including Al Gore, Bill Bradley, and Bob Kerry. See Sobran's The Courtier Who Would Be King– January 27, 2012
Joe Sobran's review of the 20th century is still prescient today. See The End of a Mad Century– January 25, 2012
Paul Gottfried muses that Ron Paul is the only candidate who would not be providing a Bush-third term or the McCain presidency that we missed in 2008. See The Irrepressible GOP Conflict– January 19, 2012
What greater power can the state claim than the
power to redefine human life itself? See Joe Sobran's How Killing Became a "Right"– January 18, 2012
Joe Sobran compares the Gipper's role in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall to Bill Clinton's refusal to stand up to Fidel Castro in Reagan v. Clinton– January 13, 2012
The myth of fanatical support for slavery in the South is unfounded according to Charles Mills in Did the Old South Change its Mind?– January 12, 2012
Joe Sobran discusses the change in the conservative movement over the past few decades in Defining Conservatism Downward– January 6, 2012
Charles Krauthammer is one of the few commentators who understands that Ron Paul is a force to be reckoned with. See Paul Gottfried's new column The Paul Phenomenon– January 4, 2012
Will U.S. college campuses have a Watermelongate scandal in the near future? See Paul Gottfried's new column Politically-Incorrect Fruit– December 30, 2011
Once Christ had left this earth, did Christianity immediately adopted a doctrine totally alien to Him? See Joe Sobran's Christ the Culprit?– December 29, 2011
Charles Mills provides a recent history of the influence of Moslem regimes from Morocco to Pakistan to India and Turkey in Islam and Idealism– December 22, 2011
Joe Sobran discusses the relationship between liberty and the right to own property in A Commie Christmas Gift– December 22, 2011
The release of a film of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 2005, brought about a vicious attack on C.S. Lewis in The New Yorker. See Joe Sobran's C.S. Lewis in the Dock– December 16, 2011
Life is far more than mere survival. It involves love, beauty, and truth. See Joe Sobran's Is Darwin Holy?– December 15, 2011
Christ remains the most hated and the best loved man in history writes Joe Sobran in Can God Speak to Us?– December 12, 2011
Joe Sobran recounts C.S. Lewis' warnings on the dangers of the tyranny of the state in The Prophetic C.S. Lewis– December 9, 2011
Mark Wegierski discusses politics in our northern neighbor, still recovering from the Trudeau revolution, in Harper’s 2011 Victory in Canada May Prove Hollow– November 30, 2011
Charles Mills presents a state-by-state look at Reconstruction in the second part of his series on Rewriting Southern History– November 28, 2011
Charles Mills looks at the causes of the War Between the States in a two-part series, Rewriting Southern History– November 23, 2011
He argued that the holocaust was done behind Hitler's back and lost a $3 million libel suit. See Joe Sobran's, The “Dangerous” David Irving– November 23, 2011
If we enjoy truly full “freedom of expression,” why should anyone be afraid to say anything? See Joe Sobran's classic column, Courage and Fashion– November 19, 2011
The warrantless seizure of Elián Gonzalez, ordered by Attorney General Janet Reno, is recounted by Joe Sobran in The Weirdest Sister– November 18, 2011
The ideas learned in school used to provide a common basis with which to communicate with others. Alas it is no more. See Classical Education– November 11, 2011
Joe Sobran looks at how today's perception of Pius XII's efforts to help Jews during World War II is different from reality in Smearing a Pope– November 11, 2011
Castro has created the kind of society progressives everywhere dream of. See Joe Sobran's Fidel’s American Friends– November 2, 2011
People who like to bemoan hate actually thrive on it. See Joe Sobran's Punishing “Hate”– October 28, 2011
Joe Sobran discusses papal infallibility and the distinction between the human and divine aspects of the Catholic Church in The Papal “Apology”– October 27, 2011
Joe Sobran was the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Constitution Party in the year 2000. He wrote this column at that time. Plugging Myself– October 20, 2011
President Clinton's 8-year legacy of permanent enlargement of government and assaulting the Constitution is discussed by Joe Sobran in A Large Whiskey– October 18, 2011
Charles Mills discusses how the changes in the Catholic Mass since Vatican II destroyed the architecture of once-beautiful places of worship in Fixing Broken Churches– October 13, 2011
Kevin Lamb reviews Pat Buchanan's new book, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? in A Nation Disintegrates– October 11, 2011
The case of the boy whose mother drowned while they were escaping from Cuba is recounted in Joe Sobran's article, What About Elián?– October 10, 2011
Joe Sobran explores politically-incorrect terms in, The Nickname Game– October 7, 2011
Each state should determine the rules on eligibility for college in-state tuition. See Charles Mills' column Educating Texans
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The Autonomous State
A classic column by Joe Sobran
February 3, 2012John McCain is that rare candidate who has a way of making people believe in him even when they have only the vaguest idea of what he stands for. Ross Perot inspired similar enthusiasm in 1992, until he suddenly withdrew from the race. Likewise Colin Powell in 1996, though he never actually became a candidate.
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The Courtier Who Would Be King
A classic column by Joe Sobran
February 2, 2012Nobody would say of Al Gore what Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska once said of Bill Clinton: that he’s “a good liar — unusually good.” Gore’s notorious stiffness is due to his discomfort in presenting a false public image on all the occasions when he feels it’s required of him. If the secret of success is to be able to “fake sincerity,” Gore is a failure. Relentlessly wooden in demeanor and formulaic in verbal expression, he has made it nearly impossible to imagine him in a spontaneous moment.
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The End of a Mad Century
A classic column by Joe Sobran
January 27, 2012Well, the Y2K apocalypse has failed to occur. By now we were supposed to be devouring our children (or being devoured by them). The Third Millennium is off to a smooth start.
The Second Millennium ended with a pretty lousy century. Let’s hope we can put it behind us and move on. The three men most often named as “Person of the Century” — Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein — were benefactors, allies, and admirers of one of the bloodiest men of the millennium, Joseph Stalin. It’s as if the three most distinguished men of the Middle Ages had all been pals of Genghis Khan.
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The Irrepressible GOP Conflict
by Paul Gottfried
January 25, 2012The Republican presidential candidate who is the most divisive is Ron Paul. Pat Buchanan observes (syndicated column, January 9) that Paul is the only candidate whom his rivals, and most emphatically Gingrich, would never vote for, even if the Texas Congressman were the Republican presidential nominee.
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Reagan v. Clinton
A classic column by Joe Sobran
January 18, 2012
Even those who consider Ronald Reagan something less than the ideal conservative must miss him as they observe Bill Clinton’s handling of the Elián Gonzalez case.
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Did the Old South Change its Mind?
by Charles G. Mills
January 13, 2012GLEN COVE, NY — It is sometimes claimed that the South’s attitude about slavery changed from the time of American Independence to the War Between the States, becoming more pro-slavery. History does not bear this out.
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Defining Conservatism Downward
A classic column by Joe Sobran
January 12, 2012In the late Sixties, the liberal cartoonist and wag Al Capp suddenly turned against the Left. People were startled by his apparent rightward swing. "I haven't changed," he insisted. "Liberalism has."
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The Paul Phenomenon
by Paul Gottfried
January 6, 2012
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA — Listening to Charles Krauthammer on TV explaining the surging popularity of Ron Paul, I was deeply impressed by the prudence displayed by this usually partisan commentator. Unlike other neoconservatives, Krauthammer recognizes that the Paul-phenomenon is not about to go away. Least of all can it be made to disappear by dumping toxic waste on the congressman’s reputation, a tactic being pursued by National Review, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, and predictably assisted by the liberal national press.
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Politically-Incorrect Fruit
by Paul Gottfried
January 4, 2012
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA — Even in this progressive age, religious uncertainties still abound as we approach Holy Season, which begins with St. Martin’s Day on January 16 and extends throughout Black History Month. This was made dramatically clear last week at a college near where I live, a place that has demoted the ancient Christian holiday that falls on December 25 and the weeks leading up to it as “holiday season.”
Meanwhile the institution is making every effort to commemorate MLK’s trials and martyrdom.
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Christ the Culprit?
A classic column by Joe Sobran
December 30, 2011Time magazine has just hailed an intellectual breakthrough: “A new book claims that Christianity, not just bad Christians, is to blame for persecution of the Jews.”
What an original idea! This must be only the fortieth book to come up with it.
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Islam and Idealism
by Charles G. Mills
December 29, 2011GLEN COVE, NY — A streak of unrealistic idealism has tinged American policy ever since the New England Calvinists won their war of aggression against the Confederate States. It reached its apogee in the disastrous administration of the Calvinist Woodrow Wilson. Nowhere has this unrealistic idealism fueled more disasters than in our policy toward Moslem states.
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A Commie Christmas Gift
A classic column by Joe Sobran
December 22, 2011Christmas this year is brightened by the news that nominally Communist China has taken a big step toward enshrining private property rights in its constitution. For some reason it reminds me of a Christmas story told by the late Leonard Read, a champion of property rights and market economics.
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C.S. Lewis in the Dock
A classic column by Joe Sobran
December 22, 2011Forthcoming next month* is a film of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first of C.S. Lewis’s popular children’s stories of the land of Narnia. Lewis, of course, was a noted Christian apologist, and these books are informed by religious allegory that drives liberals nuts.
*Note: this column was originally released in November 2005.
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Is Darwin Holy?
A classic column by Joe Sobran
December 16, 2011“The great sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim called the contrast between the sacred and the profane the widest and deepest of all contrasts the human mind is capable of making,”
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Can God Speak to Us?
A classic column by Joe Sobran
December 15, 2011Flash! Just in time for the Christmas season, Newsweek reports this week that the Gospel accounts of Christ’s nativity aren’t “fully factual.”
Do tell. Talk about investigative journalism!
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The Prophetic C.S. Lewis
A classic column by Joe Sobran
December 12, 2011Deep political wisdom can be found in a writer who took very little interest in politics: C.S. Lewis, a scholar who achieved his greatest fame as a popular Christian writer.
Lewis was sometimes laughably ignorant of current events. His friends were once amused to discover that he was under the impression that Tito, the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia, was the king of Greece. But the very distance he kept from politics enabled him to see large outlines invisible to those preoccupied with the daily news.
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Harper’s 2011 Victory in Canada May Prove Hollow
by Mark Wegierski
December 9, 2011TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA — Despite winning a solid majority in the Canadian federal Parliament in May 2011, Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada, and the Conservatives face huge obstacles in their efforts to turn around the ship of state. For long decades since the 1960s, left-liberals in Canada have been carrying out programs of sustained, radical transformation of the Canadian polity, society, and culture. In the process, they have attempted to stomp on, without compunction, one tradition after another.
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