Theodore Dalrymple on the underclass, doctors who write, retirement, and the French.
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As Pope John Paul II demonstrated, hope comes from moral conviction, and moral conviction comes from faith. [...] During the 1980s pope John Paul II worked courageously and relentlessly behind the scenes to topple Polish Communism. Now Cardinal Ratzinger is picking up where John Paul left off, publicly denouncing the scourge of socialism. [...] In his essay "The Bourgeois Interior," Professor John Lukacs argues that, in the past three hundred years, the people who have made the most significant and important contributions to society have come from a bourgeois upbringing. [...] One of the silliest criticisms leveled against John Bolton is that he doesn’t get along with the North Korean government. [...] Pope Benedict finds himself in the bullseye of the homosexual community, led by Andrew Sullivan, who seems to have let his gay identity subsume his religious one. [...] This year, in two separate referendums, Switzerland will decide whether to take steps in the direction of eventual membership in the European Union. [...] A lot of thoughtful conservatives are having serious second thoughts about George W. Bush. [...] In his book South Park Conservatives, Brian Anderson has powerfully introduced the larger world to the reality of a growing block of conservatives that clusterbomb liberal orthodoxies. [...] After the Vietnam War, a dovish Congress spent almost a quarter century undermining, mismanaging and debunking our military and our intelligence capabilities. [...] For all their professional advances, there are still a few things that women simply can’t do as well as men. [...] When it comes to the megaphones of public debate, Terri Schiavo remains a prisoner of power politics. [...] The John Bolton nomination would have already gone through if not for the actions of Republican Senators Lincoln Chafee and Chuck Hagel. [...] Ayn Rand left a legacy in defense of reason and freedom that serves as a guidepost for the American spirit. [...] Earth Day was originally about our planet and its people. Let’s restore that common-sense approach. [...] John Edwards is back in the news with his thoughts on Tom Delay, HillaryCare, and nuclear proliferation. [...] Where Peter is, there is the Church. [...] Can Palestinians create a civil, secular and legitimate government that will forsake terrorism as its raison d’etre? [...] Burt Prelutsky on Michael Medved, Al Rantel, Ronn Owens, Dennis Prager, and the whole gang of conservative talk show hosts. [...] The “invisible hand” should guide all aspects of our social and political activity, moral as well as economic. [...] The recent GOP split began with the elevation of social liberal Rudy Giuliani to god-like status by erstwhile conservative radio talk show hosts like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. [...] More than eight years after Californians approved Proposition 209 by a wide margin, government agencies in California are finally getting the message — it is illegal to discriminate or grant preferences on the basis of race, gender or ethnicity. [...] No one would doubt the important role baseball’s played in the last hundred years, but many argue that football has overtaken it. [...] Isn’t it amazing how many wonderful things former President William Jefferson Clinton would have done for this world if it wasn’t for the uncalled-for meddling of Special Prosecutor Ken Starr? [...] The people who should have spent the last four years explaining their position in a reasonable manner have instead chosen to vilify the opposition, bully their position, and shame America into supporting gay marriage. [...] |
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