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One Vatican official warns of a plan to supplant Christianity with a “global ethic”, while a pontifical council calls for “a sense of community among people of different religious beliefs who work together as a human family to achieve a world peace.” Something for everyone—isn’t it wonderful?

News from the “world government” front:

• Brussels elite engaged in “federalist coup” in which, under the draft text of the European constitution, member nations will lose control of foreign policy and defence and will be stripped of their sovereign power to legislate in almost all areas of national life.
• Six of 7 judges on international

Rigoberta Menchu wasn’t the first: the leading first-person account of the “Middle Passage” endured by slaves brought to the New World turns out to be about as authentic as Roots or Martin Luther King’s scholarship. The ex-slave author of the narrative was in fact born in South Carolina. Quite naturally, a lot of people are … More ...

So here’s the meaning of the welfare state: MPs call for full ban on spanking because if social service agencies have to supervise everything it’s easier for them if no one’s allowed to do anything. Once you leave the interior of government offices, though, you find that it’s difficult and troublesome to supervise disorderly people … More ...

A sign of where we are: a video presented at the Lincoln Memorial suggests that Lincoln would have supported such modern-day causes as homosexual and abortion rights. That’s the meaning of America now, folks, and those who instruct us in patriotism and citizenship aren’t about to drop the point.

The new religion is that claims of victimization trump everything. Here’s more evidence: Judge Declines To Sentence 3 Catholic Gay Activists. Three members of an activist group protesting at the annual Conference of Catholic Bishops were denied communion at one of the masses there. The next day they went to the conference site, made … More ...

A Christian activist who became HIV positive after his wife was infected by a blood transfusion is withdrawing from the presidential AIDS advisory panel under pressure because it came out that he had called AIDS the “gay plague” and homosexuality a “death style” that could be cured by Christianity. As Ari Fleischer said, “The views … More ...

What planet is the Pope on? What kind of people and what sort of movement does he think he’s been dealing with all these years? And what did he think the result of his enthusiasm for immigration would be? Pope wants EU to call itself Christian.

Some people find there are things that take precedence over even observing the MLK holiday. Take for example the Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend that just finished, which annually brings thousands of homosexual leather fetishists to the streets and hotels of the nation’s capital. Not all was perfect. Major hotel chains offered the usual concessionary rates, but … More ...

I’ve revised the text of my recent draft essay on tradition and conservatism in response to comments. Any further comments would be very welcome.