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We Are All Private Ryan

Last night while flipping through the channels one last time before bed, we were shocked and amazed to see a young man urinating into a snow cone and then taking big bites of it, much to the delight of his companions.  “So, that’s entertainment,” we thought disgustedly as we turned off the set. Earlier the [...]

Having No Money Does Not Mean You are Poor

There’s a proverb about sailing on the notoriously shallow Chesapeake Bay, “If you haven’t run aground at least once, either you’re not sailing or you’re lying.”  And so in every life, if you have never found yourself wondering where you’re going to get the money to meet your financial obligations, either you’re not responsible for [...]

Secular Spirituality: the New Legalism

“The new legalism is directed not at criminals but at the moral structure of private life,” says Michael D. O’Brien, author of “Father Elijah: An Apocalypse.”

Just the Ticket!

“Romney could have decided to run a vague and vacuous campaign based on the idea that the public would default to the out party in a bad economy. By selecting Ryan, he has ensured that the campaign will instead to a significant degree be about a conservative governing agenda.”
the Editors NRO

The Case Against Re-electing Obama

“Name one thing of any note created by Obama’s Niagara of borrowed money. A modernized electric grid? Ports dredged to receive the larger ships soon to traverse a widened Panama Canal? Nothing of the sort. Solyndra, anyone?”
Charles Krauthammer

What Wisconsin Means

Wondering what all the fuss in Wisconsin was about? As Charles Krauthammer explains, it’s a turning point in America.

Break the Spiral of Silence!

More than ever, it is time to speak truth with confidence. It was time when we gave our talk “http://youtu.be/hpzF-nIRJrY” way back in January 2008. It was time when Chuck Colson wrote this piece in November 2011. As we approach a fateful election in 2012 our only hope for a future that will not be a “Tyranny of Cliches” (Jonah Goldberg’s great new book) is to break the spiral of silence.

Liberals are losing the Fluke battle

“Sandra Fluke is a fraud, a professional leftist agitator posing as a college student. She enrolled at Georgetown with the specific goal of picking a fight over contraceptive funding.” John Hayward

Contraception Misdirection

“The notion that an all-powerful government would distract from its looming bankruptcy by introducing a universal contraceptive mandate would strike most novelists as almost too pat in its symbolism. It’s like something out of Brave New World.” Mark Steyn at his “it’s worse than you think” best.

Manhattan Declaration

Tony Perkins on the Manhattan Declaration

“We’re not going to change America by changing our laws. We’re going to change America by changing the hearts and minds of people. … We want to see people have the best life.”(see more interviews)

Robert George on the Manhattan Declaration

“Too few Christians understand how to defend what we believe. It’s great to believe, but we need to defend it, because it is under attack in the culture.”

See more interviews with signers of the Manhattan Declaration.

Chuck Colson on What’s Next after Signing the Manhattan Declaration

“Freedom of conscience… if it’s compromised for anyone, it’s compromised for everyone.”

See more interviews with signers of the Manhattan Declaration.

Fr Valery Shemchuk

“I was impressed by the spirit of this inter-confessional document…. Not being abusive, not being aggressive, but being firm.”
Fr. Valery (Shemchuk), Acting Dean at St Nicholas Cathedral, Washington DC

Jim Tonkowich on the Manhattan Declaration

“The Manhattan Declaration helps us address the critical question of the 21st Century, “What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be one of us?”
Jim Tonkowich