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Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping?

December 8, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Like a bolt of lightning, that call of congratulations from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to President-elect Donald Trump illuminated the Asian landscape. We can see clearly now the profit and loss statement from more than three decades of accommodating and appeasing China, since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger made their historic journey in 1972. What are the gains and losses? Soon after Nixon announced the trip in July 1971, our World War II ally, the Republic of China on Taiwan, was expelled from the UN, its permanent seat on the Security Council given to the People’s Republic of China’s Chairman Mao, a rival of Stalin’s in mass murder. In 1979, Jimmy Carter recognized the regime in…Continue Reading

Ideas Have Consequences

December 7, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Ideas Have Consequences

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK We continue this week with the discussion begun by our readers in last week’s edition of First Teachers. The discussion centers on whether Catholics with traditional views deserve to be charged with hypocrisy for opposing politically correct professors and administrators who prohibit conservative speakers and right-to-life representatives on campus, when we call for Catholic college administrators to not permit pro-abortion politicians such as President Obama and Joe Biden to speak on campus and call for an end to performances of The Vagina Monologues. In other words, how do we answer the charge that our side opposes censorship by the politically correct academics of today only because they disagree with us, but that we are fine with…Continue Reading

One Every Five Hours: NYC Late-Term Abortion Capital

December 6, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on One Every Five Hours: NYC Late-Term Abortion Capital

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY In New York City, where the Statue of Liberty stands, 1,752 unborn children — at least 21 weeks of age and still in their mother’s wombs — were killed in 2013. That means, on average, someone in New York City killed one of these unborn children every five hours. Legal abortionists were the perpetrators. Elected officials, Supreme Court justices, and elites who condone and rationalize such killings were the co-conspirators. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the number just before Thanksgiving. New York City has become the nation’s late-term abortion capital — at least among those jurisdictions that actually report their abortions and do so by gestational age. The entire states of New…Continue Reading

The Right-Wing Media Swamp

December 5, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on The Right-Wing Media Swamp

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK Before going further, let me make clear that I concede that there is an ugly extremist element on the American right, our version of the left’s Occupy Wall Street and the Black Muslims, if you will. There were mornings when I couldn’t believe the dishonest stories about Hillary and the Obamas that were posted on the Internet. Even if some of these stories, such as those about Obama’s ties to Arab extremists and Bill Clinton’s involvement with sexual activity with underage girls, turn out to be true, the point is that we have no proof at this point. It discredits the American right to be associated with those making the charges. There were some on the…Continue Reading

The Left’s Manufactured Racism

December 4, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on The Left’s Manufactured Racism

By REY FLORES Before we proceed any further with the topic in our headline, let’s explore some terms and definitions to make sure there is no confusion in our column. Racism is a prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. So racism is having intolerant beliefs based on our geographic, cultural, ethnic, language, and skin color differences; yes? We, of course, all belong to the human race, so the “racism” we hear so much about should actually be known as “ethnicism,” given the different ethnicities which make up the human race, be it Africans, Arabs, Asians, Caucasians, and others. Now a phobia is an extreme or…Continue Reading

Dems Expect Rewards Out Of Thin Air . . . GOP Expects Good Results From Santa Trump

December 3, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Dems Expect Rewards Out Of Thin Air . . . GOP Expects Good Results From Santa Trump

By DEXTER DUGGAN Both the Republican and Democratic Parties were taking things on faith as November ended. But there’s a difference between a child’s faith that gifts from Santa appear under the tree after her parents buy them, and a bad boy’s expectation that gifts materialize from nowhere on a dead-end street after he runs away from home. Sometimes one expects just too much. Republicans were learning to trust President-elect Donald Trump because he seemed to have a way of making results take root under the tree. Democrats seemed determined to keep going down the loser’s cul-de-sac by retaining failed leadership in power but hoping this would bring rewards. After Trump picked some personnel that represented the sort of establishment…Continue Reading

Christmas: A Profound Event

December 2, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Christmas: A Profound Event

By LAWRENCE P. GRAYSON Christmas is rapidly approaching. It is a time when we experience the joy and peace of God’s presence. The crèches in our homes, the decorations and tableaux in the churches, the sermons and joyous music help us recall the most memorable day in human history — when God became man. We are very familiar with the story of our Lord’s birth, especially as related in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: the census, Mary and Joseph’s trip to Bethlehem, the rejection at the inn, finding room in the stable, the angelic hosts, the guiding star, the shepherds and wise men, and most of all the babe lying in the manger wrapped in swaddling clothes. Yet, the…Continue Reading

An “America First” Trump Trade Policy

December 1, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on An “America First” Trump Trade Policy

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Donald Trump’s election triumph is among the more astonishing in history. Yet if he wishes to become the father of a new “America First” majority party, he must make good on his solemn promise: To end the trade deficits that have bled our country of scores of thousands of factories, and to create millions of manufacturing jobs in the USA. Fail here, and those slim majorities in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin disappear. The president-elect takes credit for jawboning William Clay Ford to keep his Lincoln plant in Louisville. He is now jawboning Carrier air conditioning to stay in Indiana and not move to Mexico. Good for him. But these are baby steps toward ending the $800…Continue Reading

Readers Respond On Censorship

November 30, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Readers Respond On Censorship

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK In the October 27 edition of this column I invited our readers to respond to what I called an apparent case of “cognitive dissonance” on our side of the culture wars: the manner in which most conservative Catholics, at one and the same time, express their disagreement with college leftists who shout down opposing points of view in the name of political correctness, while also protesting performances of The Vagina Monologues and campus appearances by pro-abortion speakers. I asked in the column in question, “Can’t it be said that the champions of modern political correctness are calling for universities to maintain standards of decency? That they are taking a stand against moral relativism in defense of…Continue Reading

A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead

November 29, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN After a week managing the transition, Vice President-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical Hamilton. As Pence entered the theater, a wave of boos swept over the audience. And at the play’s end, the Aaron Burr character, speaking for the cast and the producers, read a statement directed at Pence: “We are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values.” In March, the casting call that went out for actors for roles in this musical…Continue Reading