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Friday May 18th 2012

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First Annular Eclipse Since 1994 On Sunday

Judge Hears New York State’s Appeal on Open Meeting Violations »

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LIBERTY [...]

Classics, Western Civ, Hist, Sociol, Phil, Educ, Lit, Poetry, Reviews, etc... >>

Cities And Their Necessary Qualities »

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Aristotle: “Politics”, Book Seven, Part 11, 350 B.C.E. We have already said [...]

The Class Of Husbandmen In The State »

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Aristotle: “Politics”, Book Seven, Part 10, 350 B.C.E. It is not a new or [...]

Urban Decay Chic »

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III Will Doig writes in the online magazine Salon about “Rust Belt chic.” It seems that Rust Belt [...]

Using Earth’s blessings to better mankind and planet »

Rational thought underlies conservative Christian views on climate change and the environment By David R. [...]

California Educators Created an Educational Disaster »

BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY According to a study by the California Department of Education, almost one in six adults in that [...]

Column du Jour >>

Using Earth’s blessings to better mankind and planet »

Rational thought underlies conservative Christian views on climate change and the environment By David R. Legates Although he has rarely [Read More]

Alden's Flyover Country >>

American Crazy Quilt: Posse Comitatus »

By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #39 Still ON TARGET: September 26, [...]

Simple Gifts: Saints and Strangers »

By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #32 Still ON TARGET: November 20, [...]

Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds vs. The Stewards of the Darby »

by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #31 Still ON TARGET: August 18, [...]

Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Last week I held a hearing to examine the various proposals that have been put forth both to mend and to end the Fed. The purpose was to spur a vigorous and long-lasting discussion about the Fed's problems, hopefully leading to [Read More]

More Free Enterprise Zone Headlines

Judeo-Christian America >>

The Savior Suffers In Gethsemane »

Old World Witness For Christ The Gospel of Matthew contains the account of the Savior suffering in [...]

Charity »

American Scripture After the Nephite nation was destroyed, Moroni recorded some important teachings of his father, [...]

The Controversial Faith of Barack Obama »

GARY S. SMITH, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES President Obama’s recent statement on gay marriage has again thrust his [...]

Coming To Ourselves »

A Way of Life, Elder Robert D. Hales As our spiritual desires increase, we become spiritually self-reliant. How, [...]

Jesus Is Tried by Caiaphas, Peter Denies Knowing Him »

Old World Witness For Christ The Gospel of Matthew contains an account of how Peter denies knowing Jesus Christ at [...]

Islamic Indoctrination in Textbooks »

BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY An organization called ACT for America conducted an analysis of 38 textbooks used in the 6th- through [...]

State of Israel is Born »

American Minute with Bill Federer On midnight, MAY 14, 1948, the State of Israel came into being and was immediately [...]

Know Good From Evil »

American Scripture As he neared the end of the record, Moroni included his father Mormon’s teachings on the sources [...]

Founders Corner >>

Of The Use Which The Americans Make Of Public Associations

Americans Combat Individualism By Free Institutions »

Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Volume 2, Section [Read More]

More From Our Pundits & Guest Writers >>

The Modern Face of War

By Alan Caruba Saturday, May 19th is Armed Forces Day. I was eight years old when World War II ended. After that I lived through 46 years of the Cold War era until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. For a while, from February 5, 1960 until April 6, 1962, I proudly wore the uniform of the U.S. Army. It never occurred to me or everyone else [...]

Trial by Media and Chaos — T.F. Stern

By T.F. Stern, This new age of civil rights; is it a step forward or two steps back? The Houston Chronicle presented coverage of a trial in which a police officer was found not guilty after having been accused of official oppression for alleged use of excessive force while arresting a felony suspect based on a few seconds of raw [...]

Urban Decay Chic

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III Will Doig writes in the online magazine Salon about “Rust Belt chic.” It seems that Rust Belt cities, including Cleveland, St. Louis, and Detroit, have been drawing young people in the 22 to 34 year-old demographic. These new settlers, according to the article, tend to be “knowledge economy” workers, drawn by the [...]

Climate Nazis

By Alan Caruba What is it with the “warmists”, Al Gore and his clones who keep insisting the Earth is warming, that too much carbon dioxide (CO2) will be the death of us, and that we have to immediately stop burning “fossil fuels” if we are to save the planet? They are the most relentless liars on the face of the planet. They want us [...]

The Controversial Faith of Barack Obama

GARY S. SMITH, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES President Obama’s recent statement on gay marriage has again thrust his religious views onto the front pages. In defending his position, Obama stressed that he and his wife were “practicing Christians” and that his stance was supported by Christ’s teaching of the Golden Rule. Since his [...]

Cut Loose at Fifty: Chapter Eighteen – Groucho Hits Wuhan!

BY CHRIS CLANCY Thiti found settling in to China fairly easy – to begin with at any rate. We had a few major arguments along the way – but, as mentioned already, this was to be both expected and welcomed. While I was busy teaching etc. she divided her time between finding out where everything was on the campus and whipping the apartment [...]

Obama and Clinton ignore requests to name Haqqani as terrorist group

BY JIM KOURI The chairmen and ranking members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee are awaiting an Obama administration response to their request last week to name the Pakistani-based Haqqani Network a terrorist organization as quickly as possible, according to a U.S. counterterrorism source in [...]

California Educators Created an Educational Disaster

BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY According to a study by the California Department of Education, almost one in six adults in that state is "functionally illiterate" and most of those who can't read are native English speakers who went to school in the United States. So, you can't blame this statistic on the immigrants. That means more than 3 million [...]

Parental Rights Against Textbook Indoctrination

BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY We've been talking this week about examples of historical revisionism and Islamic bias in school history textbooks. Muslim imperialism is usually omitted or downplayed, and a completely false narrative about the Crusades is given. The books often falsely claim that Islam is tolerant of Jews and Christians. Back in the [...]

President Me

RORY COOPER, HERITAGE FOUNDATION Reflecting on his two terms in office, President George W. Bush said in 2010, “You realize you’re not it. You’re a part of something bigger than yourself.” This is a sentiment President Barack Obama did not inherit from his predecessor. Over the past month we have witnessed several displays of [...]

2012 Will Be the Tea Party Election Year

By Alan Caruba Bluntly said, the full weight of Tea Party members, their family members and co-workers who go to the polls in November will end Obama’s reign of terror. I think that 2012 will be known as the year the Tea Party movement changed the future of America away from its entrenched socialist drift to a renewal of the founding [...]

Former terrorist receives DOJ grant money, claims watchdog group

BY JIM KOURI The Obama Justice Department awarded a group headed by a domestic terrorist, -- and one-time FBI fugitive with close ties to President Barack Obama -- hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars "to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system," according to a leading Inside the Beltway watchdog group. "This is [...]

The Middle East Mess

By Alan Caruba I have a novel idea. Let’s just let the Middle East stew in its own Islamic juices. Along with the Maghreb, the northern tier nations of Africa, down into Nigeria, wherever you find an Islamic regime, you find millions of very unhappy people. I am not the only one who feels that way, a Monday, May 14 Rasmussen Reports poll [...]

Imported killers: Illegal aliens in sanctuary cities commit murders

BY JIM KOURI The residents of so-called sanctuary cities in California witnessed the trials of two illegal aliens who viciously murdered several victims in separate incidents, a law enforcement source in California told the Law Enforcement Examiner on Friday. In two unrelated cases that illustrate the high price communities pay for [...]

Islamic Indoctrination in Textbooks

BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY An organization called ACT for America conducted an analysis of 38 textbooks used in the 6th- through 12th-grades in public schools, and found that since the 1990s, discussions of Islam are taking up more and more pages, while the space devoted to Judaism and Christianity has simultaneously decreased. In 2011, NAEP (National [...]