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Can We Finally Drop the SSPX Debate?  Kennedy Hall November 27, 2023 0 Comments It has been almost a year since the anti-SSPX crowd took yet another legalistic shot at the Priestly Fraternity of the Society of Saint Pius X, and it … Continue reading →

Election Integrity Takes Major Blow: 56% of Likely Voters Predict Cheating in 2024 By Laura Wellington The Western Journal November 20, 2023 The belief in election integrity has gone out the window, it seems. The majority of Americans no longer … Continue reading →

Can Europe Become Western Again? By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness November 23, 2023 For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it … Continue reading →

Can We Save Our Universities? By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness November 20, 2023 (Emphasis added) It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that their own hallmark universities are … Continue reading →

Squeezing the World’s Vulnerable Peoples By: Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness November 9, 2023 The population of Israel is about 10 million. This represents about half of the world’s Jewish people. The founding idea of modern Israel was to offer … Continue reading →

Pope Francis removes critic and firebrand Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland from diocese Claire Thornton USA TODAY In an unusual move, Pope Francis has removed an outspoken conservative bishop from his role governing the diocese of Tyler, Texas, the Vatican’s official … Continue reading →

The Strickland Saga charliej373Nov 15Bishop Joseph Strickland prays outside the US Bishop’s Conference in Baltimore with friends. (The man at the far right is a mutual friend, Patrick Comiskey. Yes, I checked with him before naming him here.) -Photo by … Continue reading →

The Strickland Saga charliej373Nov 15Bishop Joseph Strickland prays outside the US Bishop’s Conference in Baltimore with friends. (The man at the far right is a mutual friend, Patrick Comiskey. Yes, I checked with him before naming him here.) -Photo by … Continue reading →

e Gazan “War† and Their Strategies: Part Three: Turkey By: Victor Davis Hanson November 10, 2023 Then we come to the increasingly unambiguous role of Turkey. Ostensibly, Turkey is a critical U.S. and NATO ally. It possesses NATO’s largest military … Continue reading →

and Their Strategies: By; Victor Davis Hanson Part One: the Terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah November 7, 2023 Hamas Hamas was quite clever in lying to the IDF, Mossad, and the Israeli government that it was finally resigned to fostering … Continue reading →