The Powers That Be
a classic by Joe Sobran
January 7, 2016
[Classic: 1/10/2002] — My most recent column, questioning the authority of the state, has gotten negative reaction from people I usually agree with: my fellow Christians.
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Good Winners and Bad Winners
by Charles G. Mills
December 30, 2015
GLEN COVE, NY — Christian morality requires that the victors in war show mercy to the losers. Mercy is a form of charity, the greatest of the virtues.
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Christmas 2015: A Time For The Introspection Our Society Desperately Needs
by Allan C. Brownfeld
December 24, 2015
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Christmas approaches at a time of increasing turmoil in the world and in our own society. The hope, once widespread, that with the end of the Cold War, we would embark upon an era of peace and tranquility, has long since been proven to be wrong.
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Education Disaster
by guest Walter Williams
December 18, 2015
[LewRockwell.com] — The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress report, also known as The Nation’s Report Card, shows that U.S. educational achievement, to put it nicely, leaves much to be desired.
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Our Chesterton
by Joe Sobran
December 10, 2015
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[Classic: 2/19/2002] — In 1961 a young writer named Garry Wills published his first book, an excellent study of the works of G.K. Chesterton. It was soon out of print and hard to find. I luckily came across it in a used book store. Now, I am happy to say, it has finally been reissued in paperback.
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Subtracting Christianity
by Joe Sobran
December 3, 2015
[Classic: 5/13/1999] — The Littleton murders are still provoking “solutions” for the problem of youths who choose to shoot their classmates. The usual method of these “solutions” is to imagine how this particular horror could have been prevented, and then to generalize the answer into some sort of national law or social program. More gun control, better counseling, spotting “early warning signals,” and so forth.
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Income Inequality: An Emerging Issue Once Addressed By The Founding Fathers
by Allan C. Brownfeld
November 30, 2015
ALEXANDRIA, VA — We have been hearing a great deal about income inequality in recent days, particularly from Sen. Bernie Sanders. Part of this interest is fueled by many examples of excess at the top.
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From Sun Tzu to Fourth Generation Warfare
by Jon Basil Utley
November 24, 2015
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — “We’re winning.” “We can win.” “We will win.” “We must win.” This was the constant talk of American generals in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria. The failure of U.S. strategy is obvious to the whole world. America violates nearly all the precepts of history’s lessons, wreaking chaos and misery upon more nations, but not “winning.”
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Conservatives Have Forgotten What They Want To Conserve
by Allan C. Brownfeld
November 19, 2015
ALEXANDRIA, VA — In his novel Coningsby, the great British Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli noted that the first thing a conservative must ask himself is what it is he means to conserve.
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A Warmonger's Guide to Militarism and Imperialism
(under the Guise of "Constitutionalism")
by guest columnist Thomas DiLorenzo
November 13, 2015
[LewRockwell.com] — When Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was an undergraduate at Harvard he took time out to become a “Publius Fellow” at the “Straussian” neocon Pentagon propaganda mill known as the Claremont Institute in Claremont, California.
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Do We Have Souls?
by Joe Sobran
November 4, 2015
[Classic: November 1994] — I’ve noticed that in the eternal debate over prayer in the public
schools, one issue is never even brought up: Does prayer work?
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