Politics
David Mamet's remarkable journey from liberalism to conservatism
A liberal, Jewish intellectual becomes a conservative. Doesn’t happen every day, does it? It happened to playwright and Hollywood director, David Mamet. Mr. Mamet lives in an elite New York neighborhood where everyone is a liberal…
Read MoreThe triumph of a 'charismatic demogogue'
By Tom Quiner Turn the clock back six years. I just finished reading an essay written by the always compelling Mark R. Levin which appeared in the National Review Online on October 25th, 2008. The title: “The Obama Temptation.” Mr. Levin described the then-upcoming first presidential election for Barack Obama like this: “but I sense…
Read MoreAmerica needs a change in direction
The president has two serious problems…
Read MoreThe global warming theologians lose even more credibility
Iraq post-mortem
We should not have gone to war in Iraq on March 18, 2003.
Knowing what we know today, few Americans would disagree with that statement.
The Congress at the time disagreed. In bi-partisan votes, both the House and Senate supported the resolution put before them to go to war.
At the time, honorable people did disagree, such as Pope John Paul II:
Obama's IRS gives the American public the finger. Thank-you, Paul Ryan, for standing up for us.
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Read MoreCan Republicans be trusted?
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaWBs46USqE] No, Republicans cannot be trusted much more than Democrats. Political parties tend to be about power more than principle. Politicians are willing to fudge (and ‘evolve’) ideology in order to win elections … and reelections. To some extent, this is reasonable. After all, this nation was built by compromise. I recently…
Read MoreHow to handle Pelosi
On Thursday, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco spoke publicly in defense of marriage in Washington, DC in spite of a letter from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi asking him not to. She wrote her archbishop asking him not to show “disdain and hate towards LGBT persons” by speaking at a National Organization for Marriage march to the Supreme Court.
As Catholics of the United States, we have arrived at a moment in our history when the articulated defense, or even explanation, of the sacrament of marriage is called a hate crime by the House Minority Leader and a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, one of the nation’s most prominent “Catholic” politicians …
Megyn Kelly beats up on Dick Cheney and Barack Obama
“In your op-ed, you write as follows: ‘Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.’ But time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well, sir. You said there were no doubts that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would be greeted as liberators. You said the Iraq insurgency was in its last throes back in 2005. And you said after our intervention, extremists would have to “rethink their strategy of jihad.” Now with almost a trillion dollars spent there with 4,500 American lives lost there, what do you say to those who say you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?”
Read MorePolitically-correct school censors conservative websites
By Tom Quiner What is political-correctness? Censorship. Thought-control. Coercion. It is a critical weapon used by liberals in shutting down political debate with competing ideologies and theologies. You’ve read a lot about it this Spring on college campuses, where one conservative speaker after another was disinvited from speaking. Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are false platitudes…
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