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I have written so much about this dynamic, at this point it seems like I am continuing to repeat myself. However, against the formal declaration of President Trump being labeled as an official “enemy of the state,” perhaps it’s worth a refresh.The entire reason why CTH supported Donald J Trump in 2015 and forward was because he was a disruption to the DC system that few understood as deeply as an assembled bunch of politically homeless people right here on these pages and across America. Since that original moment, Trump’s presence has done exactly what we always knew it would...

While we were students of the state education apparatus, how many of us had to write research papers where we were asked to "change the world"?I'm sure we can all remember a writing prompt similar to this: "If I could change one thing about the world, it would be …" or "How I can make the world a better place."Often, these writing prompts were given to us when we were not even old enough to think about abstract concepts like war and politics.Were these assignments teaching us to think critically? In some cases, this is possible. For the most part,...

[SNIP] Born in 1533, Montaigne lived through the massacres and mayhem of France’s Wars of Religion. The child of a wealthy Catholic father (his grandfather made a fortune in the herring trade) and a wealthy Jewish mother, he grew up as a skeptical Catholic with Protestants as companions and associates. Surveying the barbaric excesses of his time, he came to believe that the state was mostly an institution in which pride and ambition contested for power – yet, nevertheless, enforced an elemental discipline. It was this discipline alone that separated mankind from savage butchery. [SNIP] When evil and barbaric acts...

Industry, Corporate and Local Moves Leave Paper, Community Suffering As workplace environments go The State newspaper would seem to offer a certain appeal, at least as far as its external atmosphere is concerned, and at least to those who enjoy the quiet and nature of a place somewhat removed and somewhat green. Granted, situated at 1401 Shop Road, conveniently just outside the border of Columbia so as not to be subject to city property taxes, The State publishes day in and day out among the steely operations of a strong industrial presence encircling the paper. And of late, the noise...

The State newspaper will stop delivery and newsstand sales along the coast and Upstate next Friday. Facing increased delivery costs, The State’s management decided to discontinue sales in 18 coastal and Piedmont counties — about 3,500 copies or 3 percent of the paper’s 107,000 daily circulation. The paper will deliver in 25 of South Carolina’s 46 counties. The State will be available statewide by mail subscription and free through its Web site, www.thestate.com. “Our world is changing at a rapid pace, and new technology is affecting everything we do,” publisher Henry Haitz said in a written statement. “The cost to...

good or evil: who decides?Dr. Raymond DeSouza Who decides what is good or evil? The state? Society? The individual? Join Dr. Raymond De Souza as he teaches about the Natural Law and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.Contact:Dr. Raymond De Souza http://saintgabriel.com.au PO Box 111 Western Australia 6058 Telephone:[61] 08 9202 1300  Back to Series List

 Vatican official decries lack of public funding for Catholic schools WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The lack of public funding for religiously sponsored schools in the United States is an injustice and an "incredible anomaly" in the world, a Vatican education official said Sept. 14. Archbishop J. Michael Miller, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, said Europeans "are absolutely amazed at the situation in the United States," one of the few nations in the world that provides little or no public funding for the education of children in religiously run schools. That policy puts the United States "in the company...

Earlier this week in Amsterdam, a 43 year old lady killed a 19 year old Marrocan boy in his attempt to steal her handbag from the backseat of her car. She tried to stop him and his companion in escaping on their scooter taking the bag. Hence she drove her car backwards in a spur of the moment. The boy unfortunatelly died between her car and this tree -the second robber made a narrow escape for it when finding his friend death on the deck. Nothing unusually one would say -happens everyday- a tragic accident with consequences for all those...

PRESIDENT BUSH WENT to the Pentagon on Monday to publicly tell Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that he is doing “a superb job.” A superb job? Mr. Rumsfeld has been overseeing a Defense Department where such outrages as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal have taken place, and there are disturbing hints that it is not an isolated incident. The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has been frustrated for months in trying to get Pentagon action on prisoner abuse problems. As the independent Army Times newspaper observed: “This was a failure that ran straight to the top.” The impact...

<p>LONDON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Britain's government is moving toward outlawing the spanking of children, even if it is done by parents in their own home.</p> <p>Officials plan to tack an amendment onto the Child Protection Bill to outlaw parental spanking because too many parents cover up abuse by claiming their children's bruises are the result of normal discipline, the Sunday Observer reported.</p>

How I Changed My Left-Wing High School By Steve Miller FrontPageMagazine.com | July 8, 2003 I just graduated from Santa Monica High. My teachers compared this country to the worst regimes in world history while excusing the atrocities of its enemies. And the well-entrenched left-wing bias seemed to take its most extreme forms in the classes most responsible for teaching students about civic behavior: History and Government. SMHS history courses routinely omitted essential components of U.S. history—everything from the pioneers to the Second Amendment—but spent an inordinate amount of time condemning this nation's past. My own U.S. history teacher instructed...

November 14, 2002 ?Men quarrel because they do not know how to argue,? wrote G.K. Chesterton. One of the pleasures of this job is that I get into so many arguments with readers. Intelligent arguments keep me on my toes and help me sharpen the points I?m trying to make. Sometimes they force me to eat my words. (The taste is awful.) In any case, I usually learn something. One recent correspondent takes issue with my argument that society would be better off without the state. She argues that the state is a natural institution, found even among animals, and...

The State: Evil and Idol October 29, 2002 by Joe Sobran For some time now I've been advocating the idea of society without the state, or anarchism. This is no more than an affirmation of the principle of the Declaration of Independence: that no man can be justly ruled by another without his consent. To be ruled by force is to be a slave. So far, I've encountered only one serious argument against this principle: that it's utopian. It can't work. An utterly free society would be quickly overwhelmed and enslaved or annihilated by a ruthless neighboring society, or by...

SCANA IS A private business, and can do what it wants, within limits. Since it is granted a monopoly in its service region, there are certain areas in which the public has a vital interest in its policies -- rates, bus fares, the Lake Murray dam all come to mind. But when it comes to setting internal policy as to what sort of political expressions are deemed appropriate on company property, that's SCANA's business. The company can discourage Confederate flags in its parking lot or not. That's up to SCANA. Somebody needs to tell Sen. Glenn McConnell that. The Senate...