Imagine reading an interview with the founder of a new Christian church.Ā As the interviewer points out, new denominations are scarcely a surprising story, so what makes yours so different and noteworthy?Ā Well, explains the prophet, we have a totally different attitude toward the Bible.Ā Our focus groups tell us that many modern people do...
11577 search results for: Practical C_THR81_2405 Question Dumps is Very Convenient for You - Pdfvce š¦ Open ļ¼ www.pdfvce.com ļ¼ and search for ā C_THR81_2405 ā to download exam materials for free š¦ C_THR81_2405 Valid Test Labs
Our Open (Borders) Secret
The long campaign of 2007-08, already sputtering out in fizzled squibs, childish ploys, and pointless personal recriminations, has offered few of the moments of drama or high comedy that Americans have rightly come to expect of our political candidates. The debates ...
The Post-Abortive Culture
The recent passage of the Texas Heartbeat Act, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott on May 19, has resulted in feverish alarums across the land. These came after the U.S. Supreme Courtās refusal to block the law in late September, following an emergency application made by over a dozen Texas abortion providers and their...
Descent into the Episcopal Church
Effective January 1, 1994, the right Reverend Clarence Pope, Episcopal Bishop of Fort Worth, not only retired but left the Episcopal Church for Rome. He is the highest-ranking Episcopalian to leave the denomination. Bishop Pope was one of a handful of bishops willing to stand against a liberal hierarchy. As is true of many Episcopalians,...
The Death of Satire
The absurdity of the modern left, and rise of victim culture, make quality satire impossible. Absurdity is now taken seriously and cannot be mocked.
Faith in the Hour of Trial
“Behold,” said the Lord, “I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.” With this statement and by the Testament of His Own Blood, Christ inaugurated the Age of Martyrsāthe first 300 years of the Christian era during which, in Jesus’s words, “They will deliver you up to the councils, and they will...
Christian NationalismāA Catholic Integralist View
Natural law, not liberalism, directs Man to his proper end.
A New Bottom Line
In his provocative book Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver offered some poignant observations regarding modern times. Western man, he wrote, has fallen prey to a “falsified picture” of the world, characterized by materialism and an egotism which assumes that “man’s destiny in the world is not to perfect himself but to lean back in sensual...
Plymouth Rocked
Far From Heaven Produced by Clear Blue Sky Productions Written and Directed by Todd Haynes Distributed by Focus Features and USA Films Auto Focus Produced by Propaganda Films Directed by Paul Schrader Screenplay by Michael Gerbosi from Robert Graysmithās book Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics Todd Haynesā Far From Heaven and Paul Schraderās Auto Focus...
Unnatural Causes
āFor me,ā wrote P.D. James in her āfragment of autobiography,ā Time To Be in Earnest, āone of the fascinations of detective fiction is the exploration of character under the revealing trauma of murder inquiry.āĀ Murder āis the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.āĀ As a writer...
A āWokeā Crusader at Germanyās Helm
Angela Merkelās unprecedented 16 years in power came to an end on Dec. 8 when Olaf Scholz was sworn inĀ as the new German chancellor, symbolically breaking with tradition by omitting āso help me Godā from the oath. Scholz steered his Social Democratic Party (SPD) to the dominant position in last Septemberās general election by presenting...
The Duopoly Wins on Trade, You Lose
Sometimes a bellwether issue isnāt the most important issue. Abortion is more important than this weekās U.S. Senate vote on Trade Promotion Authority. But abortion is a decades-old issue that has involved many battles, and still does. The TPA vote, which affirmed the House vote, is a clear issue that shows whoās really in power....
Screen
Seeing Red Ā Red Dawn; Directed by John Milius; Written by John Milius and Kevin Reynolds; MGM-UA Entertainment. Ā by C. P. Dragash Ā There is a common daydream among men who grew up in the years between the Berlin blockade and the Cuban missile crisis: the Russians have invaded the American heartland, and a...
A Muslim President? Was Ben Carson Right?
Beliefs matter. “Ideas Have Consequences,” as conservative scholar Richard Weaver wrote in his classic of that title in 1948. Yet, for so believing, and so saying, Dr. Ben Carson has been subjected to a Rodney King-style night-sticking by the P.C. police. Asked by Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” whether he could support a Muslim...
Late in the Day
This fine first collection of poems from William Bedford Clark, the renowned Robert Penn Warren scholar who, as the back cover announces, āabandoned poetry as an undergraduateā and returned to it āin late middle age,ā is a triumph of elegant formalism.Ā This volumeāwhich ranges widely in form and motif, from the sacred to the profane,...
Johnson in His Time
Every well-read person used to know Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, and, knowing that collection, knew who Richard Savage wasāor at least knew who Richard Savage told people he was. Richard Savage was a minor poet and convicted murderer, a charming rascal and rackety man about town entirely lacking normal instincts of prudence and self-preservation....
The Persecution of John Demjanjuk
Ā “John Demjanjuk Guilty of Nazi Death Camp Murders,” ran the headline on the BBC. The lede began: “A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in Poland.” Not until paragraph 17 does one find this jolting fact: “No evidence was produced...
The End of the Berlusconi Era
Ā Silvio Berlusconi has been around for so long that it is hard to imagine Italian politics without him occupying the center stage. The end of his era is nigh, however, to the relief of his opponents as well as many of his erstwhile supporters. Berlusconi announced on Tuesday night that he would resign as...
Hot, Cold, and Tepid
The only substantive change to my character that I have observed over time is in the workings of the spleen, the abdominal organ once regarded as the seat of what are now called the negative emotions.Ā When I was young, the objects of my hate were precious few, though, of course, I used to fulminate...
Getting Somewhere
Jackson Hole is burning up. Gerry Spence had to evacuate his ranch ahead of the wildfires, and Dick Cheney could be next. Here above timberline in the Snowy Range of the Medicine Bow Mountains, 400 miles to the southeast, the breeze is cool, the grass is fresh and green, and the ponds of standing water...
Retooling the Conservative Movement
Samuel Francis’s newest book, composed of 30 essays originally published in Chronicles between 1989 and 1996, is much more than a collection of articles about matters of passing concern. Rather it attests to Francis’s singular efforts in constructing a strategy by which Americans might recapture their nation from the decadent establishment now in power. He...
Enemies Within and Above
Within a few hours of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September, it had become commonplace for even high-ranking government officials and elected leaders to say publicly that Americans would just have to get used to fewer constitutional liberties and personal freedoms than they have traditionally enjoyed. Of course,...
Second Thoughts
These days everyone is having second thoughtsāabout Vietnam and the 60’s, about American history, about what it means to be a liberal and what it means to be a conservative. Rather than be left out of the rewrite, I too have been having second thoughts about what I did and did not do some 20...
Out of the Toxic Fog of Feminist Anger
Domestic Extremist is a book we desperately need, hitting all the right keys and in the breezy, entertaining tone familiar to anyone who has read its author online.
Bad by Design
A few months ago I went out into the Arizona desert to take photographs for a book of natural history I am writing. I had with me an expensive, late-model Japanese camera that might be advertised as “idiot-proof,” had the manufacturer been less guarded in the tone of its publicity. In fact, the camera turned...
Of Chance and Memory
Coincidence is the smile of luck, but it is also the laughter of misfortune.Ā A smile is singular, rather like tears; it appears meaningful insofar as it seems to have a precipitant cause.Ā Laughter, by contrast, is repetitive and mechanical; automatons may laugh, but they can scarcely be imagined smiling.Ā Thus, hysterical laughter is common...
E.P., Phone Home
My buddy Ben is a newspaperman in Wilmington, North Carolina. Like many in his trade, Ben is a connoisseur of the grotesque and absurd, and occasionally he sends along a bundle of clippings and wire service bulletins, worth of Elvisiana, and I thought some of you might be interested. After all, a column last year...
Brief Mentions
[The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, by Lynn H. Nicholas (New York: Alfred A.Knopf) 498 pp., $27.50] Lynn Nicholas has written the most comprehensive account of the Nazis’ attempt to steal, sell, dismantle, and destroy Europe’s artistic heritage, but her stunning illustrations nearly...
Schools Then and Now
The present agitation around Allan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind, reminds me of the many similar debates I have witnessed in this country during the last four decades. At almost regular intervals the mediocrity of our system of education, from grade school to university, is demonstrated, denounced, deplored, and pilloried. Committees are...
Crowned With Thorns and Glory
[Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart, by Felicity Allen (Columbia: University of Missouri Press) 808 pp., $34.95] “As the tug bore him away from the ship, he stood with bared head between the files of undersized German and other foreign soldiers on either side of him, and as we looked, as we thought, our last upon his...
Who Lost the World Bush 41 Left Behind?
George H.W. Bush was America’s closer. Called in to pitch the final innings of the Cold War, Bush 41 presided masterfully over the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the liberation of 100 million Eastern Europeans and the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent nations. History’s assignment complete, Bush 41...
Pakistan: America’s Pandora’s Box?
On September 10, 2008,the New York Times reported that, back in July, President Bush had authorized ground incursions and missile attacks to destroy Taliban and Al Qaeda sanctuaries in Pakistanās Federally Administered Tribal Areas.Ā As the Times noted, āIt is unclear precisely what legal authorities the United States has invoked to conduct even limited ground...
A No Longer āGreatā Britain
The Tories are coming apart at the seams and cannot stich up their poor performance or divisions. But a new right is rising.
The Truth in Stereotypes
The stereotype is in disrepute. The word is often defined in purely negative terms. Some definitions construe the stereotype as necessarily possessing the negative charge that does, indeed, energize many stereotypes. Other definitions see as inseparable from the stereotype the inappropriate application of the stereotype to those members of the stereotyped group who do not...
“Take short views . . . and trust in God”
“At the end of the day,” declared the ministerāor bleated the commentator or droned the expert. . . . But why continue? Phrases like at the end of the day are useful signposts, saying: IGNORE THE FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION. Other such warning signs include: “the bottom line” and its Italian equivalent in fin dei conti, “it...
The Battle of the Textbooks
Few things in life are as clear as the futility of a real debate on the clarity of Americaās religious origins. āDebate,ā I said? Lay a finger, unsuspectingly, on The New York Times Magazineās inspection of the attempt by so-called Christian fundamentalists to overhaul history textbooks, and you require treatment for first-degree burns. I refer...
By the Hammer of Thor
Thor, in Norse mythology, is a pagan god wielding mjƶlnir, his magic hammer.Ā His devotees include heathens, pagans, and followers of ĆsatrĆŗ, a neopagan belief system.Ā āThorās hammerā may now be etched on the headstones of American soldiers killed in the line of duty, following a little-publicized decision by the Obama administrationās Department of Veterans...
The Unentitled
āThereās something almost un-American about etiquette. . . . For a lot of Americans the idea that there are rules out there about the proper way to behave, rules more elaborate than just common sense, seems pretentious, European, like one more thing we fought the British to be free of.ā āNancy Updike, This American Life,...
Executive Poppycock
Terry Eastland, formerly of the Reagan Justice Department, has written a learned book explaining that, according to the Constitution, embarrassing crimes in an administration can only be investigated by prosecutors on a leash held by the President whom those crimes embarrass. Eastland’s target is Title VI of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which...
First Impressions
It has been only a few weeks since I used my tears to moisten the mixed-fruit schiacciata cake of Florentine captivity, but from the chaise lounge on my terrace it seems that this was in another life. Here, at last, I know I am where I belong, a spark of cosmic indolence fortuitously restored to...
The Cowboy Reservation
At the kickoff of fall semester last year, the University of Wyoming hosted a conference attended by James Watt, Pete Simpson (the brother of former Senator Alan Simpson), and Kathy Karpan (an unsuccessful candidate for both governor and U.S. senator), among other notables and celebrities, to discuss the state’s supposedly dismal economic and social future....
Secularism and the Mosque Flap
Let's say the mosque (you know what mosque) gets built, as it certainly might, public opinion notwithstanding. What's the next theological concession America's Christian churches get to make in the name of brotherhood, sisterhood, pluralism, world peace and amity, the reconstruction of America's image, etc., etc.? First it's one thing, ...
Restoring the Earth to the Living
When speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, Jehovah gave explicit instructions on the Year of Jubilee.Ā Once the people came into the Promised Land, every 50 years they were to observe the Jubilee.Ā Loans were to be written off, slaves freed, and land that had been sold returned to the original owner.Ā Those who had...
Word Power
V for Vendetta Produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Directed by James McTeigue Screenplay by Andy and Larry Wachowski Thank You for Smoking Produced by Room Nine Entertainment and ContentFilm Written and directed by Jason Reitman from the novel by Chistopher Buckley Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures āWords will always retain their power.āĀ So says...
A Visit to Ali Pasha
āWhy do you go to Ioanninaā?Ā Pronouncing the townās name very carefully in four syllables for our benefit, our driver broke the silence of several hours on the road from Athens during which the entire conversation had been limited to driving time and route information. I wanted to say, ā?Ī»Ī·Īø?Ļ, Ī“ĪµĪ½ Ī¾?ĻĻ,ā (āTruly, I donāt...
Freeing Parents From the Anxious, Helicopter Lifestyle
I loved Little House on the Prairie when I was little, but as I grew older, my favorite story from this series of novels centered not on Laura Ingallsā childhood, but on that of her husband, Almanzo. The youngest of four children growing up in 19th century New York, Almanzo and his siblings were once...
An Honest Reckoning
John le CarrĆ© could hardly imagine a better scenario: a spy-for-hireāonce a servant of Her Majestyās government, now selling his services in a foreign marketātakes payouts from two masters simultaneously, as both a police informant and a political dirty-tricks man.Ā He feeds political intelligence to the police, who use that innuendo to justify covert surveillance...
The Rubble of Reconstruction
“The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.” āO.W. Holmes Jr. In July 1865 John R. Dennett, a Massachusetts journalist and recent graduate of Harvard College, arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, the first stop on an eight-month journey that would...
Of Death and Birth
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Produced by Boxspring EntertainmentĀ Written and directed by Angela RobinsonĀ Distributed by Annapurna PicturesĀ Blade Runner 2049 Produced by Columbia Pictures and Warner BrothersĀ Directed by Denis Villeneuve Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and Michael GreenĀ Distributed by Warner BrothersĀ Watching director Angela Robinsonās Professor Marston and the Wonder Women,...
Judging Judge Gorsuch
Ā A guide to the Neil Gorsuch nomination uproar: If you want the federal government to exercise greater and greater power over daily life in America, with minimum backtalk from us, the people, you deplore the prospective elevation of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. If, by contrast, you regard the expansion or contraction...