JOE SOBRAN: THE DARK SIDE OF DOLPHINS
One of man's favorite animals is the dolphin. This sportive sea mammal has long enjoyed better press than, say, Fred Astaire. In France it was a symbol of royalty; Shakespeare…...
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Monday, July 25, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: READING OLD BOOKS
Dogged readers of this space will observe that I habitually quote a handful of classic writings, chiefly the Shakespeare works, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, and The Federalist Papers.…...
Friday, July 22, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: ARGUMENT FROM STATUS
Most educated readers are aware of certain basic fallacies - the non sequitur, the straw man argument, the ad hominem argument, and inferring causation from sequence (post hoc ergo propter…...
Monday, July 11, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: GOVERNMENT AND GREED
The phrase stopped me in my tracks: "Government Greed." I thought I was the only one who ever used it, and suddenly there it was, the title of a Wall…...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Joe Sobran: Lies, As Usual
Bernard Shaw's play The Devil's Disciple ends with an ironic exchange between two British officers who have just realized that Britain is about to lose her American colonies because…...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDING: JAMES MADISON VS. OBAMA AND THE PROGRESSIVES
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at CatholicVote.org. With a critical vote in its state Senate, North Carolina has voted to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Republicans hold…...
CHARLES G. MILLS: LABOR GOONS
GLEN COVE, NY -- Some believe that the recent Brown Shirt tactics of the public employee unions in Wisconsin and the unfair labor practice charges against Boeing for daring to…...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: STRUCTURES OF DECEIT
In his book, Papal Sin, Garry Wills contends that the Catholic Church is trapped by "structures of deceit" - commitments to false doctrines that can be sustained only by a…...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: IT’S POWER, NOT PRAYER
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes again. By a six-to-three vote it has ruled that student-led pre-game prayers at a public-school football game in Texas violated the First Amendment of the…...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: THE PROPHETIC C.S. LEWIS
Deep political wisdom can be found in a writer who took very little interest in politics: C.S. Lewis, a scholar who achieved his greatest fame as a popular Christian writer.…...
Monday, June 06, 2011
THOMAS F. ROESER: CAN ROMNEY OVERCOME ROMNEYCARE?
Editors Note: Thomas Roeser died last Sunday, this is one of his last columns. CHICAGO, IL -- Many so-called "business approach" candidates -- especially liberal Republican ones -- fail to…...
Friday, June 03, 2011
THOMAS F. ROESER: SIZE 44 WEIRD
Editors Note: Thomas Roeser died last Sunday, this is his last column. CHICAGO, IL -- Many presidents have, on occasion, done weird things-only one president of the 44 is Weird.…...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: RAPE, SLAVERY, BOOZE, AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE
The U.S. Supreme Court created a mild panic among liberals when it ruled that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution is finite. In striking down the Violence Against Women Act,…...
Monday, May 23, 2011
CHARLES G. MILLS: CANCER AND IDOLATRY IN THE SUPREME COURT
GLEN COVE, NY -- Bad Supreme Court decisions spread like cancer and are based on a form of idolatry. Consider Roe v. Wade, for example. Fifty years ago, Sweden was…...
Friday, May 20, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: IN DEFENSE OF BOB JONES UNIVERSITY
As a Catholic, I can't get mad at Bob Jones University, except in the sense that I'm mad at Martin Luther. True, it's not nice to call the Pope the…...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
JOSEPH SOBRAN: THE REAL CHURCHILL
In our official mythology, Winston Churchill, even more than Franklin Roosevelt, still symbolizes the epic struggle against tyranny in World War II. But correction of this myth is long overdue.…...
Thursday, May 05, 2011
JOSEPH SOBRAN: FREE VIRGINIA
As a Virginian (though born and raised in Michigan), I would like to remind my countrymen that Virginia is not a part of the United States. We withdrew from the…...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: WHY CAN’T THE AMERICANS?
Malcolm Bradbury died the other day, aged 68. Actually, he was Sir Malcolm. A knight. I didn't know that. I knew almost nothing about him, except that I liked him.I…...
Monday, April 25, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: THE CRITICS OF CHRIST
The columnist Richard Cohen scolds the "arrogance" of certain common attitudes, which he sums up as "My way is the best way. My country is the best country. My religion…...
Monday, April 11, 2011
WILLIAM S. LIND: U.S. MUST PREPARE FOR MIDDLE EAST “FAILED STATES” AND “FOURTH GENERATION WARFARE”
U.S. must prepare for "failed states" and "fourth generation warfare" in the Middle East, according to new article in The American Conservative: Noted war historian, William S. Lind, urges Defensive…...
Thursday, March 03, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: BEFORE THE HIVE (PART I)
Over the past twenty years I've often written about "the Hive" - my nickname for the informal body of opinion comprising liberals, socialists, outright Communists, and various other strains…...
Monday, February 14, 2011
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE SUPER BOWL AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
GLEN COVE, NY - In the pre-game show at the 2011 Super Bowl, some prominent people read what was claimed to be the Declaration of Independence. In fact, they read…...
Thursday, February 10, 2011
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE FASCISTS OF SAFETY ARE OVER-PROTECTING OUR YOUTH
GLEN COVE, NY - When we were very young, two of my sisters and I played a game in which we had alternate identities with magical powers. These powers were…...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PART I
GLEN COVE, NY - The United States Constitution enshrines the principle that there will be no national religion and no religious test for federal office, and the First Amendment prevents federal…...
Monday, January 17, 2011
JOE SOBRAN: THE BARD IN RETIREMENT
Anyone can make a silly mistake, but not all of us find our blunders rewarded with lucrative Harvard and Oxford professorships. Listen, then, to the shocking story of Shakespeare scholarship.Shakespeare…...
Thursday, January 13, 2011
JOSEPH SOBRAN: THE COURT VERSUS FEDERALISM
The U.S. Supreme Court has done it again, striking down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual acts. I haven't read the opinion yet, but I think I get the idea. As…...
Thursday, January 06, 2011
CHARLES G. MILLS: SISSIES AND KILLERS
GLEN COVE, NY - American liberals have enthusiastically celebrated the passage of a law requiring the Armed Forces to recruit homosexuals. The celebration in some cases (for example, Rachel Madow,…...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
JOSEPH SOBRAN: RESISTING JESUS
As always in our time, Christmas is provoking dissent from people who don't want Christian symbols on public property or Christmas carols sung in public schools. Many Christians find this…...
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE 1874 ELECTORAL LANDSLIDE
GLEN COVE, NY - The 1874 election was like the 2010 election, only much bigger. It was a remarkable repudiation of Reconstruction. The Democrats took 85 Congressional seats away from…...
Friday, December 17, 2010
W. GEORGE KRASNOW: A NEW CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO FOR RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "The Manifesto of Enlightened Conservatism," published by the Oscar-winning Russian filmmaker and actor Nikita Mikhalkov on October 26, provoked quite a stir in Russia. It revived the…...
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