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  • Profundity: Chesterton on Philosophy

    From G.K. Chesterton's St. Thomas Aquinas (1933): Since the modern world began in the sixteenth century, nobody’s system of philosophy has really corresponded to everybody’s sense of reality; to what, if left to themselves, common men would call common sense. Each started with a paradox; a peculiar point of view demanding the sacrifice of what…

  • Guest Commentary: And That’s The Way it Wasn’t – Walter Cronkite

    By Bruce Walker By all accounts, Walter Cronkite was a kindly, almost avuncular figure.  Many members of the journalist community have written eulogies of his decency and humility.  He had a long, happy marriage.  These things should count to us conservatives, who yearn for human life to be more about how it is lived than…

  • Guest Commentary: Who Should Build America’s Rail System?

    By Marilyn Barnewall Why is high speed rail important to economic recovery? Why should you care about it? There is one primary reason and a large number of secondary ones.

  • Guest Piece: The Murder of Civil Life

    By Bruce Walker The putrid comments by Letterman about Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the dethronement of Carrie Prejean for the vice of honesty bring home just how savagely civil life has been murdered by the Left.  We no longer have a civil public life.  It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism…

  • Guest Piece: The Biggest Problem of the Mainstream Media

    By Bruce Walker The media – newspapers, magazines, book publishing, radio, television, and film – have never at any point in the history of our nation been impartial.  Newspapers were once the whole heart and substance of our media.  They provided news, opinion, entertainment, advice, humor, advertisements and information.  Newspapers were often unabashed partisans.

  • Guest Piece: Pondering Reagan-Kemp in 1980

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  • Guest Commentary: War is Hell

    By Bruce Walker Sherman was right:  War is Hell.  The current war against the Judeo-Christian world waged by al-Qaida and other radical Moslems is no different.  War is Hell and Hell is full of torments.  Our role, as children of a Loving God, is to make that Hell and those torments as quick, as slight,…

  • Guest Piece: Paradigms and Tea Parties… and Dreams

    By Marilyn Barnewall People are worried about our government, our currency, our indebtedness. They are worried about losing their jobs and paying their bills. Most of all, they are worried about the direction in which they see America moving. It does not reflect their values or their dreams.

  • Guest Piece: Finance Capitalists and Scapegoats

    By Bruce Walker The doctored outrage at AIG executives raises one of the ugliest specters in modern political history:  mindless fury directed at “Finance Capitalism.”  The profits of men who create goods and services is easy to defend.  Bill Gates gave us Windows.  T. Boone Pickens and Ross Perot drilled for oil.  Sam Walton retailed…

  • Barnewall: Where’s the Beef at AIG?

    By Marilyn Barnewall If the way Congress has mismanaged "The AIG Affair" doesn't tell you what a bunch of clowns represent you, nothing will. If you believe Congress is really trying to solve the AIG problem (which, to be totally truthful, Congress created) you should not read the rest of this article. It will make…