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Whether Trinket Or Honorific, Ploumen Deserves Neither

February 1, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By SHAUN KENNEY The scandal over pro-abort Lilianne Ploumen simply will not die, with the Vatican at first effectively denying that the honorific was ever awarded, then insisting in an ironic twist that the papal medal was intended as a slight — not as an award. That would indeed be news to Ploumen. Of course, for those who are consistent readers of this column, there is an interesting link that is worth exploring between honor and its forms and l’affaire Ploumen. Shakespeare’s Falstaff is quoted as observing honor as a mere scutcheon. One has to see the irony displayed here between Ploumen receiving a scutcheon of honor and Falstaff’s contempt for the same. What the Vatican bureaucrats intended or did…Continue Reading

Rally By State Capitol… Recognizes Arizona Being Rated Number-One Pro-Life State

January 31, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — As thousands of pro-life marchers headed west from downtown Phoenix, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, the chief prosecutor of the county where Phoenix is located, already had arrived at the park by the state capitol for the 2018 Arizona for Life rally when The Wanderer walked up to him. Among many marchers carrying posters here on January 20, one young woman wearing a pro-life feminist tee-shirt had a sign saying, “When our liberation costs innocent lives, it’s merely oppression redistributed.” This was one of many pro-life commemorations around January 22 across the nation regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s divisive invention of a national mandate for permissive abortion on that date in 1973. An Arizona for…Continue Reading

Can You Read Your Diploma?

January 30, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By MIKE MANNO Several years ago, while still teaching college, I usually tried to arrange the semester schedule to include at least three tests, and if the subject lent itself to it, a research paper. That should be enough, I reasoned, to evaluate each student’s understanding of the material. Not wanting to be an overly demanding professor, and since my students were mostly non-traditional and held jobs and supported families, my tests were usually multiple choice and the questions were taken right from the textbook; sometimes I would intersperse the test with a few short answer questions, but by and large, they were designed so that any student who read the textbook could answer them. Thus students with extensive family…Continue Reading

With Best-Ever Pro-Life Start For A President . . . Trump Shakes Up Settled Order On Abortion

January 29, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN Why does trying to save countless babies’ lives from abortion slaughter draw derision from upper-crusters as being socially embarrassing if not downright, um, deplorable? But the abortion industry’s full-bladed, bloody attack on the most innocent and defenseless is regarded benignly, if not as outright thrillingly marvelous. One need only think of the morally upside-down and inside-out world of, say, the radically pro-abortion New York Times to wonder whatever became of journalists’ moral compass. Donald Trump has a characteristically blunt way of dealing with such elitist delusions. Just brush them aside for being fake news. Some politicians still seem to think that having a pro-lifer with a rose for life knocking on their doors is bad manners. However,…Continue Reading

MCCL Rally… Pro-Lifers Battle A Blizzard To Continue The Fight For Life

January 28, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By PEGGY MOEN ST. PAUL — Weighted with a heavy snowfall and the Vikings’ crushing NFC loss, Minnesota pro-lifers nonetheless rallied impressively January 22 at the state capitol. They came to defend what makes weather forecasting and football playing possible: being born. Elaine Hertel, an MCCL volunteer, told The Wanderer, that “it’s amazing” so many turned out during a blizzard. Diane Springer of Grove City, Minn., said she ventured out because “I just want to protect life, defend life. . . . Today is my birthday.” From a distance, the bundled-up pro-lifers looked like fleeing refugees as they trudged up the snowy capitol steps. But inside the capitol rotunda, the pro-lifers, arrayed on all three levels, looked like part of…Continue Reading

Shutting Down The Shutdown

January 27, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The effort by Democrat Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) to use a federal government shutdown as leverage to pass an amnesty bill crashed and burned on January 22, when he caved to President Trump’s demand for a clean short-term spending bill. That bill then passed, but it’s good only through February 17, so we can expect considerable fireworks in early February from the Antifa Left, pro-amnesty forces, and the body of America’s Catholic bishops. All of these groups are demanding a massive amnesty and immigration bill that will add millions more to America’s legal population, and it’s no secret that many Establishment Republicans support the desire of the unanimous Democrat minority’s efforts to pass a…Continue Reading

Is Democracy On The Way Down?

January 26, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “The Western democratic system is hailed by the developed world as near perfect and the most superior political system to run a country,” mocked China’s official news agency. “However, what’s happening in the United States today will make more people worldwide reflect on the viability and legitimacy of such a chaotic political system.” There is a worldwide audience for what Beijing had to say about the shutdown of the U.S. government, for there is truth in it. According to Freedom House, democracy has been in decline for a dozen years. Less and less do nations look to the world’s greatest democracy, the United States, as a model of the system to best preserve and protect what…Continue Reading

Enthusiasm Strong . . . Media Doomsaying Doesn’t Perturb Annual GOP Meeting

January 25, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The dominant media’s growing drumbeat that Republicans are headed for electoral disaster this November didn’t perturb the annual business meeting of GOP precinct committeemen for Arizona’s most populous county, Maricopa, whose county seat is Phoenix. Despite predictions of doom by the same media that confidently said Hillary Clinton would thrash Donald Trump for the presidency in 2016, a veteran GOP local strategist told The Wanderer, “It is an unusually large number of tables and candidates” on sidewalks outside the meeting hall, where more than 800 committeemen carrying more than 600 proxies gathered. As committeemen listened to talks and voted on amendments, resolutions, and selection of at-large members on January 13, backers of candidates for various…Continue Reading

Tonic For Conservatives . . . Trump Tries To Heal A Sick Dominant Media, But Patient Fights Back

January 24, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN As the first anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration approached on January 20, the dominant media, which desperately wanted to free the world from him, themselves had become his captives. He dominated and shackled their every hour as they helplessly fixated on what rumors, leaks, gossip, and exaggerations they could inflate into the destruction of his presidency, the sooner the better. Trump’s presidency also provided a certain tonic to strengthen those causes whose news coverage had been anemic, like pro-lifers’. When Trump’s White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, explained the glowing results of the 71-year-old president’s full physical examination during a January 16 media briefing, reporters felt deathly ill. You mean he’s not on the verge of a…Continue Reading

The Third World And The Third Rail

January 23, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death” (Mark 3:6). + + + Senate Democrat Whip Richard Durbin (D., Ill.) told the media that President Trump used a dirty word when describing Third World countries, and American prelates quickly joined in the chorus of manufactured outrage. Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski found the Catholic Durbin’s report “disappointing,” and then added a curious observation: “[Trump’s] remarks laid bare the true motivation of those that want to close the doors of our nations [sic] to immigrants and hopefully his remarks have also discredited the restrictionists’ position and freed Congress to move ahead and ignore the restrictionists.” Archbishop Wenski’s remark to…Continue Reading

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