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  • Journalism 101: Orwell Revisited

    11/02/2016 12:03:22 PM PDT · by Academiadotorg · 5 replies
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 1, 2016 | Malcolm A. Kline
    Pity the poor journalism student: He, or she, has to keep up with so many ways to spin a story that it would make George Orwell dizzy. "During Republican administrations they prided themselves on being 'adversarial' toward government, or at least toward the presidency," the author Joe Sobran noted before he passed away. "They were actually much less adversarial toward Congress, which was more liberal than the presidency in those days." "Now things are different. The media have become much less critical of the presidency and much more critical of Congress. The reason is obvious: they see the presidency as...
  • Whence Comes the Special Resistance to Christ? A Meditation on a Teaching from Joseph Sobran

    11/24/2015 7:45:41 AM PST · by Salvation · 34 replies
    USCCB.org/RNAB ^ | 11-23-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Whence Comes the Special Resistance to Christ? A Meditation on a Teaching from Joseph Sobran Msgr. Charles Pope • November 23, 2015 • I have started reading through a recently published book called Subtracting Christianity: Essays on American Culture and Society. It is an anthology of the writings of Joseph Sobran (1946-2010), long-time editor at National Review and a keen observer of culture and its intersection with faith. I recommend it highly, for its penetrating observations and its sober portrait of what happens when we remove Christianity from our culture, the same Christianity that was fundamental in our making.I'd like...
  • Sobran: My Obsession with Jews [for all who mistakenly think he is a valuable contributor]

    10/30/2003 8:04:40 AM PST · by Chancellor Palpatine · 254 replies · 4,697+ views
    Federal Observer ^ | maybe 10/30/03 | Joe Sobran
    <p>Now and then I get letters and e-mail messages asking why I am so "obsessed" with Jews and Israel. The question amuses me. It would be one thing if I often wrote about Mali, or Honduras, or Borneo, or any other nation or country most people remember only as a name from geography class.</p>
  • Beloved Utopian

    10/04/2010 9:56:57 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 4, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline
    Accuracy in Academia has lost a dear friend and peerless contributor with the passing of modern-day man of letters Joe Sobran. That old-fashioned sobriquet suits him as his interest in, and knowledge of, the literary masters was one of his trademarks. Less well known are the breadth of interests he had that even his admirers were unaware of. The last time that I saw him was at a book party for John Berlau, author of EcoFreaks, and quite the scholar and scribe himself. Sobran was a bit frail even then and sat with a cane and his back to the...
  • Joe Sobran's Timeless Lesson on America's Role in the World

    10/01/2010 7:41:48 PM PDT · by Bokababe · 13 replies
    Chronicles ^ | 10/1/10 | Srdija Trifkovic
    ...Sobran’s diagnosis of the domestic malaise started with the notion that “the regime we live under” derives its legitimacy from a blatant distortion of the United States Constitution. On the basis of a compact among the sovereign states, the federal government was to be a service confined to the specific enumerated powers the people delegated to it, pursuant to their general welfare and common defense. Over the past century and a half, however, the federal government has usurped all kinds of powers neither the people nor the states had delegated to it. It has become a “consolidated” or centralized government....
  • Dr. David Allen Whilte Embracing Joe Sobran's Alleged Antisemitism?

    09/22/2010 7:04:42 AM PDT · by jcpryor · 1 replies
    Mountain View ^ | September 22, 2010 | J. Christopher Pryor
    Joe Sobran's impending death was made known by Dr. David Allen White. Dr. White was a frequent guest lecturer at Bishop Williamson's St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary and is an endorser of John Sharpe's Neo-Conned series. Yesterday, Dr. White sent a public note to the Catholic Family News concerning Joe Sobran's ill health. White made a heartfelt appeal for prayers for Sobran. In addition to this, White wrote: "We thanked him for his good work over the years, especially for being a truth-teller about you-know-whom and for having suffered for it. We then prayed the rosary together. (Emphasis Supplied.)"
  • The Honor of Ron Paul - Joseph Sobran

    06/27/2007 9:21:18 AM PDT · by NHGOPer · 237 replies · 3,033+ views
    Patrick J. Buchanan Blog ^ | June 26, 2007 | Joseph Sobran
    The Honor of Ron Paul by Joe Sobran "He may have become at last what he has always deserved to be: the most respected member of the U.S. Congress. He is also the only Republican candidate for president who is truly what all the others pretend to be, namely, a conservative. His career shows that a patriotic, pacific conservatism isn’t a paradox."
  • The Limbaugh of the Left

    07/31/2004 11:53:04 PM PDT · by SEA · 41 replies · 1,405+ views
    Joseph Sobran's Washington Watch ^ | 7-8-04 | Joseph Sobran
    Leftists have been yearning for an answer to Rush Limbaugh for some time, and they may have found him, not in radio, but in movies: the odious Michael Moore. Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 is smashing box-office records for a documentary film, outgrossing the competition in the first weekend of its release. The film has even become a news story. The Disney studios backed out of distributing it — too controversial — but it won the first prize at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, where its anti-war, anti-Bush message got a warm welcome. Moore, capitalizing on the publicity, found another distributor. Moore...
  • Sobran: "Is the Pope Square?" (for opposing gay "marriage")?

    08/19/2003 12:01:43 AM PDT · by churchillbuff · 23 replies · 658+ views
    sobran.com ^ | Aug 19, 03 | Joe Sobran
    Is the Pope Square? August 5, 2003 Speaking as a Catholic, I wish the Vatican would say nothing about same-sex “marriage.” It’s beneath its dignity to enter into debate with a sick joke, and when it does so it only allows progressive-minded fools to change the subject. Such fools, some of them nominal Catholics, argue that the Church is a bunch of hypocritical old men nervously obsessed with sex and Jesus told us to be nice to each other and refusing to let homosexuals marry isn’t very nice because they don’t bother anyone and anyway what about all those pedophile...