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When Social Liberals Take Controls . . . No One Is Safe From Being Smashed Against Rocky Law

April 5, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on When Social Liberals Take Controls . . . No One Is Safe From Being Smashed Against Rocky Law

By DEXTER DUGGAN Exactly ten years before the dominant media’s enmity exploded against Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act as Holy Week arrived at the end of March, there had been another media storm carrying over into Holy Week at the end of March 2005. A disabled Florida woman, Terri Schiavo, was being agonizingly starved and dehydrated to death as her estranged husband wanted, and the dominant media judged this to be wonderfully fine. She was an unwanted burden to his future. Any other consideration was irrelevant in these media’s calculus in 2005, including the fact that the faithless husband, though still married to her, fathered two children while living with another woman. Crucially missing was any verification that Terri…Continue Reading

Stand Up For Indiana!

April 4, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Stand Up For Indiana!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN (Editor’s Note: This editorial by Patrick J. Buchanan was released shortly before Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana said at a March 31 press conference that he stands by his state’s religious freedom law and that there was never any intent to create a “license to discriminate.” Given the uproar over the policy, however, he said: “We’ll clarify that in the days ahead, and we’ll fix this and move forward.” Pence called for additional legislation that would stipulate that the law does not allow businesses to deny anyone services. (Creators Syndicate provided this commentary. All rights reserved.) + + + In what has been called the “Catholic moment” in America, in the late 1940s and 1950s, Catholics…Continue Reading

Fired Chief’s Career Up In Smoke . . . Sounding The Alarm About Imposing Invented Values On People

April 3, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Fired Chief’s Career Up In Smoke . . . Sounding The Alarm About Imposing Invented Values On People

By DEXTER DUGGAN A 20th-century novel whose title was only a number, 1984, written by George Orwell, warned of a future where people themselves were reduced only to numbers, little digits under the oppression of an utterly arbitrary ruler who claimed to know what was best. Another cautionary 20th-century novel with a number, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, pictured a future where books were considered so dangerous that people designated as “firemen” were assigned not to extinguish fires but to burn the books, sparing potential readers from having to consider uncomfortable thoughts. Now that the 21st century has arrived, it appears that the forecasted oppressive future has begun to be realized, too. Ironically, in reality in one such case, a…Continue Reading

Is This Why Liberals Are Liberal?

April 2, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Is This Why Liberals Are Liberal?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I realize that it is naive to think that a single author could have the power to change the thinking of American liberals. Still, I went through a time in my life when I thought Charles Murray’s books Losing Ground and Coming Apart might do just that. Murray presented empirical evidence that things have become worse for the poor and minorities since the welfare state and the panoply of Great Society programs were put into place. Specifically, that the more the government has tried to solve the economic dislocations of the lower classes, the more it destroys self-reliance and the inner disciplines necessary for those on the lower rungs of society to thrive as free men…Continue Reading

A Potpourri . . . In Defense Of Heraclitus, And Other Matters

April 1, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on A Potpourri . . . In Defense Of Heraclitus, And Other Matters

By GEORGE A. KENDALL Perhaps the greatest joy that has come to me in the last 73 years, the thing for which I feel the deepest gratitude, is the gradual emergence, over those years, of a clearer and clearer consciousness of the order of all things, the consciousness of the universal community of beings, an ordered whole, which has beauty, unity (in multiplicity), goodness, and truth — in short, what we call being. The knowledge reflects many years of analysis and struggle to find clarity but in the end is something I know, intuitively, as a presence. Along with that has grown the appreciation of the goodness of human community to the extent that is achieved in this world, as…Continue Reading

The Armenian Genocide: Not An Isolated Episode

March 31, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Armenian Genocide: Not An Isolated Episode

By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN (Editor’s Note: April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Dr. Kalpakgian is a professor emeritus of humanities. His father was a survivor of the genocide of Armenians.) + + + During World War I, when the world’s superpowers were engaged in the main arena of battle in Europe, the Ottoman Turks exploited the crisis of the war to pursue their own personal agenda of jihad in eliminating the Christian (Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant) Armenians from their land as they pursued their ideology of Pan-Turkism. Recognized internationally as the Armenian massacres or the first genocide of the 20th century, these unspeakable atrocities annihilated an estimated 1.5 to 2.0 million Armenians — men, women, and children…Continue Reading

Catholic Students As Leaven In Public Schools

March 30, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Catholic Students As Leaven In Public Schools

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK An article in the Mach 6 issue of The American Conservative brought back memories of a question I haven’t thought about in decades: whether it would be a noble undertaking for Catholic parents to “save” their local public schools by enrolling their children in those schools, rather than in Catholic schools. The article by Rod Dreher was entitled “The Missionary Approach to School.” Dreher used his article to respond to a seminarian who wrote on his Facebook page that he disagreed with Christian parents “who try to mandate and/or justify sending their kids or others’ kids to public school so that their children can ‘be a witness’ in an otherwise hostile environment.” The seminarian argues that…Continue Reading

The Culture Wars Invade The Church

March 29, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Culture Wars Invade The Church

By REY FLORES The bully pulpit of the radical homosexual left has absolutely jumped the proverbial shark. Spokesperson Dan Savage reduced his argument to the level of a schoolyard taunt by challenging the well-educated and normally well-respected Dr. Ben Carson to perform a sex act on him as a way to disprove that homosexuality is not a choice, as Carson contends. Carson was interviewed earlier in March on CNN and when asked about homosexuality, Carson stated that he thinks that “a lot of people who go into prison, go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay.” Carson’s slightly strange answer gave Savage the opportunity to lambaste Carson in a very public and very ugly manner in his…Continue Reading

What Would Ike Do?

March 28, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on What Would Ike Do?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In November 1956, President Eisenhower, enraged he had not been forewarned of their invasion of Egypt, ordered the British, French, and Israelis to get out of Suez and Sinai. They did as told. How far we have fallen from the America of Ike and John Foster Dulles has been on painful display this March. An Israeli leader told a joint session of Congress that President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is stupid and dangerous and must be rejected. Congress gave him 40 ovations. Bibi Netanyahu then went home and told the world there will be no Palestinian state, and was re-elected in a smashing victory. “Perhaps it’s time for Americans, especially those in the White House,…Continue Reading

Justice And Peace And People Of Good Will

March 27, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Justice And Peace And People Of Good Will

By PHILIP TROWER Some weeks back, in an article called “The New Creation” (see The Wanderer, February 5, 2015, p. 5A), I sketched the outlines of the Church’s recently developed teaching on the role of civilization, culture, and science in God’s overall plan. The development, I explained, as has so often happened in the Church’s history, has been provoked mainly by criticisms or misunderstandings from outside, the chief being that the Church is only interested in the salvation of souls. This article will deal with a parallel criticism: namely that her preoccupation with the individual’s salvation has made her indifferent not only to cultural progress, science above all, but to what could be called “social progress”; that is, improving the…Continue Reading