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The task of unpacking just one portion of President Obama’s recent convoluted speech at the UN is eerily reminiscent of Winston Churchill’s famous description of Soviet foreign policy: “a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma.” For certifiable proof take a look at the following bizarre series of thoughts that collectively reveal a president without much in the way of an anchor – historical, intellectual, or moral: “Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect. Each country will pursue a path rooted in the...

However the real story is the failure of much of the world’s media to report this story in context, and to see it for the pure evil that it really is. Moral relativity has caused an amazing inability to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys in this story. Most media pundits see the attack as part of a larger and endless cylce of violence, with each side, the Israelis and Palestinians constantly hitting back at each other. The NY Times worried that the attack “seemed likely to continue or intensify the surge of hostilities between Palestinians and...

A 13-YEAR-OLD student was failed after she refused to write an assignment on life in a gay community, because of her religious and moral beliefs. Her outraged mother, Christian groups and the State Opposition want an investigation into the treatment of the Year 9 student at Windaroo Valley State High School, south of Brisbane.

A master of theatrical timing to the very end, it is worth noting that John Paul II II, 264th successor of St. Peter and Vicar of Christ, died two days after Terri Schiavo, a small and seemingly insignificant member of his enormous flock. There is no doubt John Paul II will go down in the history books as one of the finest of Popes. There has been for some time talk of him as only the third Pope to deserve the title “Great,” after Leo I († 461) and Gregory I († 604), and even the most conservative assessment will...

Low blows and dirty tricks in grand tradition By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 18/09/2004) If the feverish chatter among Washington's Democrats is anything to go by, the 2004 election campaign amounts to the death knell of American democracy. Since the August launch of devastating advertisements attacking Senator John Kerry's record in the Vietnam War, desperate Democrats have taken to fulminating that President George W Bush's campaign team has brought politics to a new low. The latest edition of Newsweek laments that the campaign is now in "slime time". It declares: "Fuelled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and...

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEW townhall.comLike It or Not: Cardinal Arinze at GeorgetownChuck Colson (back to web version) June 4, 2003Parents and students attending this year’s commencement at Georgetown University, a Catholic school, would surely expect to hear a commencement address that took Catholic teaching seriously. And that’s what they got. But many in the crowd were offended, even outraged. The commencement speaker was Francis Cardinal Arinze, the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. The dean who invited Arinze expected him to speak about the relationship between...

Public education in America is a mess. No amount of money or fixing is going to turn it around. Humanists, cultural Marxists, the psychologically oriented social engineers and gurus are in charge. Those who seek to deconstruct America, its values, its institutions and its history, as well as its future as a sovereign state, are running the show called American public education. The Intellectual 'Gods' of the American Educational WastelandIn order to achieve a temporary teaching certificate back in the late '80s, I experienced what nearly every teacher in the U.S. today has to learn or absorb. Included in my...

Egads. I was aware that mainstream Feminists, such as the members of the National Organization for Women, NARAL, and Voters For Choice enjoyed defending filicide and abortion. Whether it's a baby being drowned, a la Andrea Yates, or Planned Parenthood dismembering prenatal innocents, Feminists are really into the whole killer mom motif. They like it, it thrills them. Thankfully, there are millions of good women like those at the extraordinary Concerned Women for America, whom I adore, who are better than that.  But the nihilistic Feminist crowd still obsessively plunges into degeneracy. Just recently, their deified icon, Gloria "I...