Judge Roy Moore’s decision to place a monument of the Ten Commandments in the state court building simply reflected the oath of office he took when he became Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, as well as the platform he ran on.
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A recent report by Human Rights Watch accuses the MEK of abusing its own, dissident members. The French rejection of the European Union Constitution reflects a natural, patriotic desire to preserve one’s own country in the face of forces that would obviate its sovereignty. Newsweek’s false story on an American interrogator flushing a Koran down a toilet is part of a journalistic tradition that stretches back to the Vietnam War. John Lukacs’ work rejects Descartes’ idea that history can be defined as a science, or even a social science, that it is reducible to raw data much like physics. Rather, the historical imperative is “understanding.” The alternative to religious dogmatism on the right and the emotionalism of the egalitarian left is a code of moral absolutes based on reason and individualism. Liberals want you to be entirely dependent on the Federal government. Otherwise, you might not have to vote for them. The natural tendency of matter and of all of energy is toward greater disorder — not toward greater order or complexity as evolution would teach. In his book M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America, H. Bruce Franklin attempts to establish that the POW "myth" was created by the Nixon White House in order to extend the Vietnam War. His first speculations about potentially unaccounted for servicemen suggest that they may have been deserters who formed new families, got involved with drug [...] Pro-lifers on all levels of the fight must demand a clear, medical definition of what constitutes a threat to a mother’s life. Stretches by mainstream media, such as likening the war in Iraq to one in Vietnam, rely on false premises. In a case that threatens to impact the reproductive options available to infertile couples, Ivonne V. Ferguson has filed for child support against sperm donor Joel McKiernan. On some level the fear that Eurosclerotic Europeans nurture of the “Anglo-Saxons” is similar to the resentment that drives Islamists. How does opposing teacher salary incentives for high job performance help children? Belinda Stronach’s switch to the Liberal Party enraged conservatives and allowed Paul Martin’s government to survive a no-confidence vote. Pat Buchanan is correct in his observation that the conservative movement has passed into history. Regardless of the number of people who died in the Afghani riots incited by its article, there won’t be any criminal or civil prosecutions at Newsweek. Harry Reid and friends have thrown down the senatorial gauntlet in the face of the voting public who elected the majority. Fathers 4 Justice has just landed on American shores with the creation of F4J-US. Adam Smith’s philosophy of human sentiments and moral conduct can be fitted into a Judeo-Christian moral framework; it can also be fitted into any other religion, or none. A reply to Thomas Brewton. History suggests that FDR played a marvelous Washington two-step on Congress and the American people to generate support for something that ended up being quite different than originally depicted. Global warming “solutions” would devastate poor people and countries. Decades have passed since the “liberal” agenda became the status quo for most of the country. It is conventional wisdom that what you really value is what you are willing to spend your money on. The main issue with Newt Gingrich is that intellectuals do not often make good political leaders. |
 
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