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– March 14, 2012
Joe Sobran looks at the legacy of Nat "King" Cole and that of the Beatles in, Celebrity and Mortality– March 14, 2012
The chief business of the U.S. Government is to fleece us — through taxes, spending, and creating debt. See Joe Sobran's column, What Do We Owe the State?– March 9, 2012
The discussion of birth control needs a national conversation. See Wes Vernon's The Birth Dearth and Contraception Need More Public Scrutiny– March 5, 2012
The drum beat for war is more important for many evangelical Christians than social issues. See Jon Utley's column War, Social Values, and Ron Paul– March 1, 2012
Joe Sobran examines the thesis of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's book, Democracy — The God That Failed, in The Myth of “Limited Government”– February 29, 2012
It could be the sanest country on earth. See Joe Sobran's column, Hail, Switzerland!– February 24, 2012
Why was Pat Buchanan fired from MSNBC? See Wes Vernon's take on it in Conservative Voice Silenced at the Liberal Fox– February 23, 2012
The chief business of the U.S. Government is to fleece us — through taxes, spending, and creating debt. See Joe Sobran's column, All We Like Sheep– February 16, 2012
Charles Mills addresses Catholic schools in America from 1877 to 1918 in The Golden Age of Parochial Education– February 14, 2012
Is it discriminatory or prejudicial to outlaw certain marital unions? Craig Turner examines this issue in Homosexual Marriage: The Debate– February 9, 2012
The President has no power to tell state governors what to do. Charles Mills elaborates in The Wagging Finger– February 7, 2012
Charles Mills reviews Richard Broookhiser's recent book on our nation's fourth president in James Madison– February 3, 2012
Joe Sobran comments on John McCain's views on the State during the 2000 GOP presidential primaries (he lost to George W. Bush). See The Autonomous State– February 2, 2012
After Bill Clinton served two terms, the campaign for the Democratic nomination in the year 2000 had several contenders, including Al Gore, Bill Bradley, and Bob Kerry. See Sobran's The Courtier Who Would Be King– January 27, 2012
Joe Sobran's review of the 20th century is still prescient today. See The End of a Mad Century– January 25, 2012
Paul Gottfried muses that Ron Paul is the only candidate who would not be providing a Bush-third term or the McCain presidency that we missed in 2008. See The Irrepressible GOP Conflict– January 19, 2012
What greater power can the state claim than the
power to redefine human life itself? See Joe Sobran's How Killing Became a "Right"– January 18, 2012
Joe Sobran compares the Gipper's role in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall to Bill Clinton's refusal to stand up to Fidel Castro in Reagan v. Clinton– January 13, 2012
The myth of fanatical support for slavery in the South is unfounded according to Charles Mills in Did the Old South Change its Mind?– January 12, 2012
Joe Sobran discusses the change in the conservative movement over the past few decades in Defining Conservatism Downward– January 6, 2012
Charles Krauthammer is one of the few commentators who understands that Ron Paul is a force to be reckoned with. See Paul Gottfried's new column The Paul Phenomenon– January 4, 2012
Will U.S. college campuses have a Watermelongate scandal in the near future? See Paul Gottfried's new column Politically-Incorrect Fruit– December 30, 2011
Once Christ had left this earth, did Christianity immediately adopted a doctrine totally alien to Him? See Joe Sobran's Christ the Culprit?– December 29, 2011
Charles Mills provides a recent history of the influence of Moslem regimes from Morocco to Pakistan to India and Turkey in Islam and Idealism– December 22, 2011
Joe Sobran discusses the relationship between liberty and the right to own property in A Commie Christmas Gift– December 22, 2011
The release of a film of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 2005, brought about a vicious attack on C.S. Lewis in The New Yorker. See Joe Sobran's C.S. Lewis in the Dock– December 16, 2011
Life is far more than mere survival. It involves love, beauty, and truth. See Joe Sobran's Is Darwin Holy?– December 15, 2011
Christ remains the most hated and the best loved man in history writes Joe Sobran in Can God Speak to Us?– December 12, 2011
Joe Sobran recounts C.S. Lewis' warnings on the dangers of the tyranny of the state in The Prophetic C.S. Lewis– December 9, 2011
Mark Wegierski discusses politics in our northern neighbor, still recovering from the Trudeau revolution, in Harper’s 2011 Victory in Canada May Prove Hollow
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Celebrity and Mortality
A classic column by Joe Sobran
March 14 , 2012
Toward the end of his all-too-brief life, the great pop singer and jazz pianist Nat “King” Cole phoned his record company. The switchboard operator answered: “Capitol Records, home of the Beatles.” Cole slammed the phone down in disgust.
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What Do We Owe the State?
A classic column by Joe Sobran
March 14 , 2012I’ve had a lot of response to my column on Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s new book Democracy — The God That Failed, most of it enthusiastic. A surprising number of citizens of this democracy have lost faith in the state, democratic or otherwise.
It’s amazing how seldom we ask the most basic questions. What is a state, anyway? Where does it get its authority? Might we be better off without it?
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The Birth Dearth and Contraception
Need More Public Scrutiny
by Wes Vernon
March 9 , 2012Many viewers scratched their heads during a Republican presidential candidate debate when George Stephanopoulos, an erstwhile Clinton administration official, suddenly brought up the question of contraception.
Not a single state in the nation was considering the idea of banning the birth-control practice, nor was it a matter of national debate, raging or otherwise. Why then was it raised? Mitt Romney, after trying to navigate the seemingly never-ending cross-examination from the Democrat with press credentials, declared the line of questioning to be "silliness."
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War, Social Values, and Ron Paul
by Jon Basil Utley
March 5 , 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Is supporting war more important for evangelicals than their social values? Isn’t Ron Paul a social conservative? He opposes abortion, gay marriage and promiscuous sex, he has never been divorced and certainly supports family values, but he believes in limited government. Two of his brothers are ministers. Why then are evangelical leaders now opting for Santorum, and before him Gingrich?
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The Myth of “Limited Government”
A classic column by Joe Sobran
March 1 , 2012We are taught that the change from monarchy to democracy is progress; that is, a change from servitude to liberty. Yet no monarchy in Western history ever taxed its subjects as heavily as every modern democracy taxes its citizens.
But we are taught that this condition is liberty, because “we” are — freely — taxing “ourselves.”
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Hail, Switzerland!
A classic column by Joe Sobran
February 29, 2012Whenever I hear someone brag that America is “the greatest country on earth,” I want to ask, “Have you ever been to Switzerland?”
Well, I have. I spent a whole week there once. Very dull.
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Conservative Voice Silenced at the Liberal Fox
by Wes Vernon – new columnist for FGF Books
February 24, 2012
Wes Vernon
new columnist for FGF BooksWASHINGTON, D.C. — Patrick J. Buchanan has been fired by MSNBC. For years, the longtime author/columnist/commentator had served as that network's lone conservative voice. That Buchanan is liked and respected of such liberal colleagues at the cable channel as Chris Mathews ("a smart guy" and "I miss him already") and Rachel Maddow ("Uncle Pat") speaks volumes of his charm and likeability, blending well with his straightforward, unabashed, take-no-prisoners advocacy of the conservative cause.
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All We Like Sheep
A classic column by Joe Sobran
February 23, 2012
Joe Sobran
February 23rd would have been
Joe Sobran's 66th birthday.Once upon a time, my father bought Time magazine every week, as I do now. He paid 20 cents per issue; I’m paying $3.95. In my teens I bought paperback editions of Shakespeare’s plays for 35 cents each; now they cost about five bucks.
I’m no economist; these are just some of my rough indices of how prices have risen in my memory. Things in general now cost ten to twenty times as much as they used to. Don’t even ask about groceries or cars. If prices increased 1000 per cent overnight, we’d notice. Spread over decades, it seems natural. We hardly notice, let alone suspect mischief.
What’s going on? Is America under the sway of an enormous counterfeiting ring? That’s one way to put it. The funny money operation is formally known as the U.S. Government.
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The Golden Age of Parochial Education
by Charles G. Mills
February 16 , 2012GLEN COVE, NY — The golden age of the American parochial school system (from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until the end of World War I in 1918) was a period of true heroism by America’s Catholics.
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Homosexual Marriage: The Debate
by Craig Turner – new columnist for FGF Books
February 14, 2012
Craig Turner
new columnist for FGF BooksWASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States government stated recently that it would withhold foreign aid from African nations that do not legalize homosexual marriage, thereby blackmailing African nations that refuse to surrender to western indecencies.
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The Wagging Finger
by Charles G. Mills
February 9 , 2012GLEN COVE, NY — Governor Jan Brewer has been criticized by some for an encounter on the tarmac of an Arizona airport with President Obama. She was photographed pointing — or wagging — a finger at him. The truth is that she was doing her duty to a degree that is rare among state governors today.
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James Madison
A book review
by Charles G. Mills
February 7, 2012
GLEN COVE, NY — For anyone who wants to understand the history of the American political system, Richard Broookhiser’s James Madison (Basic Books, hardcover, 304 pages, 2011), a biography of our nation’s fourth president, is necessary reading. It is concise and thorough enough for the beginner, with depths of research that will offer even seasoned historians new insights.
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The Autonomous State
A classic column by Joe Sobran
February 3, 2012John McCain is that rare candidate who has a way of making people believe in him even when they have only the vaguest idea of what he stands for. Ross Perot inspired similar enthusiasm in 1992, until he suddenly withdrew from the race. Likewise Colin Powell in 1996, though he never actually became a candidate.
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The Courtier Who Would Be King
A classic column by Joe Sobran
February 2, 2012Nobody would say of Al Gore what Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska once said of Bill Clinton: that he’s “a good liar — unusually good.” Gore’s notorious stiffness is due to his discomfort in presenting a false public image on all the occasions when he feels it’s required of him. If the secret of success is to be able to “fake sincerity,” Gore is a failure. Relentlessly wooden in demeanor and formulaic in verbal expression, he has made it nearly impossible to imagine him in a spontaneous moment.
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