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Bishops: Only Whites Can Be Racists

August 27, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Bishops: Only Whites Can Be Racists

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Some 30 years ago, Mrs. Alice du Pont Mills invited me to visit her in her expansive Virginia horse farm — several thousand acres of it — about an hour west of Washington. At the time, I was staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and Mrs. Mills told me that she was very concerned about the situation in Central America, where Communist-inspired revolutionaries were creating chaos in several countries at the time. Mrs. Mills was also an avid horsewoman. Since I had grown up around horses myself, I was glad to take the drive out into the country. In our conversation, it quickly became clear that Mrs. Mills was not…Continue Reading

Is Trump’s Agenda Being Eclipsed?

August 26, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Trump’s Agenda Being Eclipsed?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire,” said Winston Churchill to cheers at the Lord Mayor’s luncheon in London in November 1942. True to his word, the great man did not begin the liquidation. When his countrymen threw him out in July 1945, that role fell to Clement Attlee, who began the liquidation. Churchill, during his second premiership from 1951-1955, would continue the process, as would his successor, Harold Macmillan, until the greatest empire the world had ever seen had vanished. While its demise was inevitable, the death of the empire was hastened and made more humiliating by the wars into which Churchill had…Continue Reading

The Truth Held Hostage

August 25, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Truth Held Hostage

By JOSEPH MATT We are reaching a flashpoint or tipping point in this country when it comes to honest public debate or dialogue about any topic that involves politics, religion, or the moral direction of our country. As the influence of those unwilling or unable to address the truth in these matters reaches a majority, the survival of our republic comes into question. Every totalitarian tyrant, dictator, and despot has known that if you can control the media and dictate your own “truth,” you control the citizenry. The truth today is being held hostage by the media elite, the provocateurs of thought control, the willing participants of its citizenry and the puppet masters of the progressive left who are all…Continue Reading

Rush Vs. “Mac”

August 24, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Rush Vs. “Mac”

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I am a great admirer of Rush Limbaugh, and have been since I first heard his program on WABC in New York City in the 1980s. I can’t think of anyone who has done a better job of communicating an informed brand of conservatism to the American people. There have been commentators more erudite and scholarly, to be sure. Joseph Sobran and Victor Davis Hanson come to mind. But no one else has been as effective in communicating with the masses, not even William F. Buckley. That said, there is one thing I have noticed about Rush that might be considered a chink in his armor: He does not fare well in a direct give-and-take with…Continue Reading

Thanks To Media Advice… Democrats Debate How To Win While Insisting On Losing Strategy

August 23, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Thanks To Media Advice… Democrats Debate How To Win While Insisting On Losing Strategy

By DEXTER DUGGAN The long newspaper story about the abortion issue and Republican Party followed the dominant media’s script: an unfriendly view of “Christian conservatives,” “hard-line abortion language,” “unyielding opposition to abortion,” “can’t build a political majority,” “being intolerant,” “radical religious right,” “not real voting strength.” “That battle is now lost.” As so very usual, the blame for political problems was put on pro-lifers, not on those pushing for more latitude to end preborn infants’ lives. One political activist’s prediction in the article sounded strange, however. As time passes, he said, Republicans will move a bit away from abortion restrictions while Democrats will move a bit in favor of limits, so the two parties “will probably be in the same…Continue Reading

Rename Margaret Sanger Square In New York City

August 22, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Rename Margaret Sanger Square In New York City

By REY FLORES Twentieth-century Spanish philosopher George Santayana once wrote the aphorism: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In America 2017, there is a movement to erase the names of any historical figures deemed racist from all monuments, roads, highways, and schools. So, by the way things have gone in Charlottesville, Va., and in many other parts of our nation, it certainly looks like we are destined to repeat the past. If this is the way we are going, then I say that two can play this game. If we are going to do away with any public symbol of the Confederacy, then we must also do away with all public monuments of racism everywhere. I…Continue Reading

Interview With Cardinal Burke (Part 3) … Discriminating Mercy: Defending Christ And His Church With True Love

August 21, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Interview With Cardinal Burke (Part 3) … Discriminating Mercy: Defending Christ And His Church With True Love

By DON FIER (Editor’s Note: His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wis., graciously took time out of his busy schedule to grant The Wanderer a wide-ranging interview during a recent visit to the Shrine. Included among the topics for which he provided his illuminating insights are the Message of Our Lady of Fatima, an appraisal of the situation in which the Church finds herself in contemporary times, and the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy. (This interview has appeared in three parts in The Wanderer. This part is the conclusion.) + + + Part 3 Q. Recently, Robert Cardinal Sarah…Continue Reading

Venezuela A Harbinger?. . . Hostile Leftists Use Any Weapon Trying To Cripple Trump’s Challenge

August 20, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Venezuela A Harbinger?. . . Hostile Leftists Use Any Weapon Trying To Cripple Trump’s Challenge

By DEXTER DUGGAN A nation’s descent into disaster needn’t begin with the outburst of a horrific war. At least not a conventional war with aerial battles and troops massing on the ground. Indeed, in a nuclear-missile age, these sorts of confrontations may be bypassed. Think of sudden-death threats from North Korea. But a giant of a nation like the United States can be crippled in other ways, too. On the non-military front, the removal of checks and balances in a system can dangerously overload its proper functioning. And lack of social restraints can unleash the forces of mob psychology, inducing people to do what they wouldn’t if held to account for their individual actions. Think of photos of lynchings, with…Continue Reading

The Seitz Syndrome

August 19, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Seitz Syndrome

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The Wanderer reported last week that Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso treats pro-abortion Catholic politicians with kid gloves even as he harshly condemns pro-life officials who oppose Obama’s amnesty for illegal aliens. Within days of our report, the bishop doubled down, insisting that, since Jesus agrees with him, anyone who opposes amnesty “cannot call himself or herself Catholic” because they don’t express “the compassion of Jesus.” On the other hand, seen through the complex lens of the Seitz Syndrome, the bishop’s congressman, state senator, and state representative can call themselves Catholic, even though they are 100 percent pro-abortion “rights.” In Bishop Seitz’s alternate reality, supporters of abortion “express the compassion of Jesus,” but opponents of amnesty…Continue Reading

If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?

August 18, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When the Dodge Charger of 20-year-old Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields Jr., plunged into that crowd of protesters Saturday, August 12, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer, Fields put Charlottesville on the map of modernity alongside Ferguson. Before Fields ran down the protesters, and then backed up, running down more, what was happening seemed but a bloody brawl between extremists on both sides of the issue of whether Robert E. Lee’s statue should be removed from Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park. With Heyer’s death, the brawl was elevated to a moral issue. And President Donald Trump’s initial failure to denounce the neo-Nazi and Klan presence was declared a moral failure. How did we get here, and where are…Continue Reading