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Wait’ll Dominant Media . . . Discover Trump Kidnapped Three-Headed Giraffes From Mars

May 20, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Wait’ll Dominant Media . . . Discover Trump Kidnapped Three-Headed Giraffes From Mars

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — A dominant left-wing U.S. media hungry to destroy Donald Trump will whip up issues from nothing against him, including the so-called scandal that he had two scoops of ice cream for dessert when other diners got just one dollop. Trump’s just lucky that he didn’t have whipped cream on top. In these hysterical media days, it’s not hard to imagine the headline, “Trump had chef beaten.” Huh? Oh, it’s the cream that was tortured? Huh? Oh, the cream was whipped. It’s all the same! Impeach this man who eats tortured animals. Well, the cows were killed, then ground up, then roasted. Monster! Cannibal! But we recall when Barack Obama passionately wanted thousands of babies brutally…Continue Reading

Truth At The Crossroads At Our Lady’s University

May 19, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Truth At The Crossroads At Our Lady’s University

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Today’s academic climate might be described as a mixture of infantilism, kindergarten and totalitarianism” — Professor Walter Williams. + + + Vice President Mike Pence will speak at Notre Dame’s commencement on May 21, but the occasion makes many students feel “unsafe” — so supporters of sodomy and their allies will demonstrate on campus with the blessing of the administration, as America’s stalwart future Catholic leaders decry Pence’s “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, offensive, or ostracizing” past. As our beloved Fr. Rutler wryly observes, many of these students are older than those kids who stormed the beaches at Normandy, who dared to fly the flimsy fighter planes over Imperial Germany…. Ah, but they feel “unsafe.” And yet they…Continue Reading

Comey & The Saturday Night Massacre

May 18, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Comey & The Saturday Night Massacre

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, said Marx. On publication day of my memoir of Richard Nixon’s White House, President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Instantly, the media cried “Nixonian,” comparing it to the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre. Yet, the differences are stark. The resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Bill Ruckelshaus and the firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox came in the middle of an East-West crisis. On October 6, 1973, the high holy day of Yom Kippur, in a surprise attack, Egyptian troops crossed the Suez Canal and breached Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Syria attacked on the Golan Heights. Within days, 1,000 Israeli soldiers were dead,…Continue Reading

St. Anthony’s Closes Its Doors

May 17, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on St. Anthony’s Closes Its Doors

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK My guess is that some readers of this column will know a great deal about St. Anthony’s High School in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, while others will never have heard of the school. The determining factor is whether you are a basketball fan. The school is a high school basketball powerhouse. Its coach since 1972 has been Bob Hurley, a now-retired New Jersey probation officer, arguably the most famous high school coach in the country. His teams, made up of players from throughout the New York metropolitan area, have won more than two dozen state championships. Some 150 of his players have gone to college on athletic scholarships, including his son…Continue Reading

Bioethics Seminar Sees… Pressure Increases For War Against Medical Conscience

May 16, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Bioethics Seminar Sees… Pressure Increases For War Against Medical Conscience

By JAMES ASHER and DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — St. Thomas More, who was executed in 16th-century England for his fidelity to religious conscience, was cited at a two-day seminar here for health-care professionals, presented by the Philadelphia-based National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC). More, a Catholic who had risen to become Lord High Chancellor of England, later was beheaded for treason, in 1535, after he refused to acknowledge King Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church in England and the king’s invalid attempt to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The bioethics center’s website says its seminars “are intended to benefit health-care workers, clergy, those involved in research in the life sciences, members of ethics committees, and others who…Continue Reading

Left-Wing News Media More Radical Than Ever

May 15, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Left-Wing News Media More Radical Than Ever

By REY FLORES I am a news junkie. I no longer listen to music in my car, but only conservative talk radio. Therefore, people like me are especially angered by the fact that in our lifetime, we’ve seen journalism devolve into one big, awful joke. Thank God for the Internet as well. Before that we were pretty much at the mercy of broadcast and print media, having to take their word that they were reporting factual news and not just delivering propaganda to the masses. When I was in high school, my father had a subscription to Time Magazine. Since I was usually the first to get home from school, I would look forward to the day of the week…Continue Reading

The Problem Of Evil… C.S. Lewis Takes On Bill Maher

May 14, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Problem Of Evil… C.S. Lewis Takes On Bill Maher

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK The term “theodicy” was coined by Gottfried Leibniz in 1710 in his “Essay on the goodness of God, the liberty of man and the origin of evil in the world.” It was his attempt to refute Pierre Bayle’s theory that it was impossible to reconcile the existence of a loving and omnipotent God with the presence of evil and suffering in the world. The medieval scholastics wrestled with the problem as well. It is the same dilemma that the angry modern atheists — Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins, for example — trot out when they seek to discredit religious belief. Maher is especially fond of the ploy. He will lean back in his chair…Continue Reading

In A Fraction Of A News Cycle… Comey Goes From Being Dems’ Villain To Persecuted Hero

May 13, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on In A Fraction Of A News Cycle… Comey Goes From Being Dems’ Villain To Persecuted Hero

By DEXTER DUGGAN Back in the days of Franklin Roosevelt in the White House, it’s said, the president would gather a few favored reporters around his desk and decorously dispense his news for the next day’s papers. Mass-circulation metropolitan papers in the 1930s may have had multiple daily editions with screaming headlines from the wider world — Nazis, Reds, Mobs, Scandal, Sex — but manipulative Washington politicians managed their own news pipelines, better to control the flow for them back then. It was more like feeding the fish with a few worms in a rippling stream, where fish practiced etiquette in eating, as compared to today’s 24-hour news cycle of throwing chunks of bloody meat into a turbulent shark tank,…Continue Reading

Nixon And Trump, Then And Now

May 12, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Nixon And Trump, Then And Now

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects. First, the presidency of Richard Nixon, in whose White House I served from its first day to its last, covered in my new book, Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever. The second has been the astonishing campaign of Donald Trump and his first 100-plus days as president. In many ways, the two men could not have been more different. Trump is a showman, a performer, a real estate deal-maker, born to wealth, who revels in the material blessings his success has brought. Nixon, born to poverty, was studious, reserved, steeped in history, consumed with politics…Continue Reading

A Book Review…. Fatima’s Mysteries And The “Errors Of Russia”

May 11, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review…. Fatima’s Mysteries And The “Errors Of Russia”

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Fatima Mysteries: Mary’s Message to the Modern Age, by Grzegorz Górny and Janusz Rosikon. Ignatius Press, 2017, 400 pages, $34.95, hardcover. Visit ignatius.com or call 1-800-651-1531 Fatima Mysteries: Mary’s Message to the Modern Age is a large and heavy book, and not only in the physical sense, but also in terms of the subject it covers and the pain and suffering it describes, and which were the lot of so many people under Communism during the 20th century. It is a joint work by author, Grzegorz Górny, and photographer, Janusz Rosikon, and they have certainly produced an engaging and physically attractive book, full of beautiful and informative photos. In that sense it could be described as…Continue Reading