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Make America Great Again… It’s A Mission, Not Just A Slogan

January 15, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Make America Great Again… It’s A Mission, Not Just A Slogan

  By REY FLORES This week, like it or not, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States of America. For the record, I am very happy about this. There are, however, a large number of malcontent elitists, from those who live in mansions in Beverly Hills and Hollywood to the high-rollers who dwell in the penthouses of New York City and the pricey real estate in Washington, D.C., who are beside themselves. There is nothing worse than the hypocrisy of “limousine liberals” who like to imagine that they are “down with the people,” but in reality they are completely out of touch with the real Americans who help pay for their expensive…Continue Reading

John McCain Embarrasses Himself . . . Trump Wins Big After “Fake News” Media Attack Backfires Badly

January 14, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on John McCain Embarrasses Himself . . . Trump Wins Big After “Fake News” Media Attack Backfires Badly

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, many U.S. conservatives were skeptical that its end had arrived. Was the sight of the apparently crumbling empire an intentional deception, to put the Western world off guard? Had the aggressive atheist power center really fallen to its own decay? Or was this a Moscow ruse to make Washington relax its vigilance so the Soviet bear could pounce? The term “Potemkin village,” after all, came from the creation of massive fakery by 18th-century Russian military man Prince Grigory Potemkin to deceive the viewer. But as the old 20th century was replaced by the new 21st, the situation actually appeared to be improving in Russia, the heart of the…Continue Reading

Iran Nuclear Deal — Alive Or Dead?

January 13, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Iran Nuclear Deal — Alive Or Dead?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, “Tearing it up…is not going to happen,” says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Hopefully, the chairman speaks for the president-elect. During the campaign, Donald Trump indicated as much, saying that, though the U.S. got jobbed in the negotiations — “We have a horrible contract, but we do have a contract” — he might not walk away. To Trump, a deal’s a deal, even a bad one. And we did get taken. In 2007 and 2011, all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies assured us, “with high confidence,” that Iran did not have an atomic bomb program. Yet our folks forked over $50 billion…Continue Reading

It’s Not Just The Four Cardinals Who Need An Answer

January 12, 2017 Frontpage 8 Comments

By JOSEPH MATT It seems another prelate has abandoned his post. In an interview on January 8, Gerhard Cardinal Mueller, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, rejected making any correction of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, effectively joining some of his fellow German cardinals in a slight to Cardinal Burke and his three colleagues. The very title of the congregation which this cardinal heads implies the importance of the office and its crucial role — especially as it relates to the current situation with the four cardinals and the dubia. Cardinal Mueller’s words in this interview are a critical blow to the current dubia situation. What is the relevance of such a congregation if it cannot offer…Continue Reading

Who Is Betsy DeVos?

January 12, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Who Is Betsy DeVos?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK It was almost 50 years ago, but I can still remember how exasperated an editor of one of my books became when I argued that Richard Nixon must be doing something right because of the left-wingers in the media and the academy who were aligned against him. My editor insisted that American conservatives who made that case were too willing to overlook Nixon’s failings, setting back the conservative cause in the process. It was a sound argument. But I felt then, and continue to feel the same way today, that the nature of a person’s enemies is not irrelevant. That thought came to mind as I listened to the teacher union leaders fulminating against Donald Trump’s…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Republican In The White House Stands On The Shoulders Of Pro-Lifers

January 11, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review… A Republican In The White House Stands On The Shoulders Of Pro-Lifers

By DEXTER DUGGAN Racketeer for Life: Fighting the Culture of Death From the Sidewalk to the Supreme Court, by Joseph M. Scheidler with Peter M. Scheidler, TAN Books, Charlotte, N.C., ISBN 978-1-61890-850-6, 470 pages hardback, $24.95, 2016. As the world prepares for the new Republican administration taking office, pro-lifers and others speculate about how President-elect Donald Trump will bring to fruition his pro-life pledges. What will Trump say, and how will he say it? What will he do? Who will help him? In a memoir issued in December, Racketeer for Life, Chicago Catholic Joseph M. Scheidler, who helped pioneer national pro-life activism at abortuaries beginning in the 1970s, happened to quote Republican President Ronald Reagan commenting about abortion in his…Continue Reading

Culturally Catholic France

January 10, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Culturally Catholic France

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK On December 8 of last year, The Washington Post featured an article by James McAuley entitled: “In secular France, Catholic conservatism makes a comeback.” It sounds good, no? Maybe. McAuley begins by pointing to the success enjoyed by François Fillon in the presidential primaries in France. McAuley describes Fillon as a man viewed in France as “a crusader in the throes of a holy war,” who “campaigned mostly on a genteel conservatism of economic restructuring and strengthened national security,” appealing to “a wave of nostalgia for a nation of traditional families and quaint village churches” that feels itself “under siege from the dual threats of multiculturalism and Islamist terrorism.” It is a pattern that is emerging…Continue Reading

French Parties Woo Catholics

January 9, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on French Parties Woo Catholics

By JOHN BURKE (Editor’s Note: John Burke is a Catholic journalist based in England.) + + + PARIS — There are six Sunday Masses, all in the old Latin rite, at Saint Nicolas du Chardonnet, a classical pile almost within sight of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Two blocks away stand propagandists (the Lefebvrist priests have warned them off) with royalist and other right-wing pamphlets. Such incidents have long lent themselves to a myth, promoted equally by liberal Catholics and secular left-wingers, that the St. Pius X Society (SSPX) and the National Front (Front National) were ultra-reactionary allies. In fact, the political preferences of the French, whether baptized or not, have always been far more complicated, but there is now an…Continue Reading

McDonald’s And Hard Rock Café At The Vatican

January 8, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on McDonald’s And Hard Rock Café At The Vatican

By REY FLORES In Matt. 16:18 Jesus said: “You are Peter and upon this rock I shall build my Church.” It’s unlikely that at that time Jesus was thinking of any franchising opportunities for His Church by including a fast food restaurant. When He gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom, He didn’t give him keys to a McDonald’s. Well folks, if you have not heard about this yet, McDonald’s has just opened one of its newest franchise locations just steps away from where the center of all Catholicism sits. Just before 2016 came to a close, McDonald’s started serving up its world-famous Big Macs, Happy Meals, and Quarter Pounder with cheese hamburgers on Vatican City property. In return for…Continue Reading

Close To Home . . . Terrorism, Bold Thievery, And Border War Hang Their Black Wreaths

January 7, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Close To Home . . . Terrorism, Bold Thievery, And Border War Hang Their Black Wreaths

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Against a backdrop of terror plots and attacks in the United States, Europe, and Asia, an Arizona grand jury shortly after Christmas indicted a Phoenix man on charges of supporting a foreign terrorist organization. Having been arrested on December 20, the man reportedly had done online searches for topics including Midnight Mass, suicide, and martyrdom. Derrick Thompson, 30, A/K/A Abu Talib Al-Amriki, “allegedly solicited, incited, or induced others to promote or further the criminal objectives of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),” according to a December 30 news release from the Arizona attorney general’s office. “Thompson is also alleged to have…Continue Reading