THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA

An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis

Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor



Conservative & Free Market Analysis of Government, Politics & Public Policy, Covering Political, Legal, Constitutional, Economic, Cultural, Military, International, Strategic, & Geopolitical Issues
PUBLIC ISSUES & POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES
GOD, HUMANITY, & HUMAN SOCIETY -- RELIGION, SECULARISM, & AMERICA:
RELIGION & AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES; RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
VERSUS SECULARISM & RELATED CONTROVERSIES

RELIGION AS A CENTRAL COMPONENT OF THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC:  A BELIEF HELD IN COMMON BY NEARLY ALL U.S. PRESIDENTS, FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON, THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, TO PRESIDENTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA -- QUESTIONS THAT NEED SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, IN VIEW OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COMING IN NOVEMBER, 2012:  THE SINCERITY OF INCUMBENT PRESIDENT & DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION BARACK HUSEIN OBAMA'S PROFESSION OF CHRISTIAN FAITH -- OBAMA'S COMMITMENT TO SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE MANDATED IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume XIV, Issue # 39, March 4, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RELIGION & THE 2012 ELECTIONS

By Alan Caruba



MEDIA HYPOCRISY & THE 2012 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES & CAUCUSES:  MEDIA HYPOCRISY IS NOTHING NEW, THOUGH IT MAY HAVE SUNK TO NEW DEPTHS DURING THE COURSE OF THE 2012 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY & CAUCUS CONTEST. THE SAME NETWORK MOUTHPIECES WHO COULD NEVER BE BOTHERED TO NOTICE THE INCESSANT LEWDNESS OF THE BILL CLINTON PRESIDENCY HAVE BEEN RELENTLESS IN THEIR EFFORTS TO DEFAME HERMAN CAIN & NEWT GINGRICH OVER EVERY ALLEGED IMPROPRIETY, & ARE NOW GOING AFTER RICK SANTORUM. THE LIBERAL NETWORK ANCHORS ON THE NIGHTLY NEWS ARE AIDING & ABETTING THE FIERCE COLLECTIVE EFFORTS OF THE REPUBLICAN "ESTABLISHMENT" TO DESTROY ANY PRESUMED OBSTACLE TO MITT ROMNEY'S NOMINATION AS THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
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Volume XIV, Issue # 28, February 8, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHY RICK SANTORUM CONNECTS WITH THE HEARTLAND

By Christopher G. Adamo



AMERICAN CULTURE:  COMMON VALUES & BELIEFS HELD BY AMERICA'S SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSES PRIOR TO THE 1960S -- VALUES & BELIEFS REGARDING SOCIETAL INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS MARRIAGE, RELIGION, & NATIONAL IDENTITY -- EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY -- RAPID EROSION OF AMERICA'S VALUES & BELIEFS DURING & SINCE THE 1960S -- FORMATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSES THAT ARE DIFFERENT IN KIND & IN THEIR DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM ANYTHING WHICH THE AMERICAN NATION HAS EVER KNOWN -- ISOLATION OF THE NEW UPPER CLASS FROM THE REST OF AMERICA -- THE SYSTEM OF FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM UNDER ATTACK BY THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LIBERALS IN CONGRESS, & A COHORT OF CIVIL SERVICE & INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
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Volume XIV, Issue # 19, January 29, 2012

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE NEW AMERICAN ELITE

By Alan Caruba



CHRISTIANITY:  BELIEF IN JESUS AS THE CHRIST, OR THE MESSIAH -- THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY -- HOW THE JESUS MOVEMENT BECAME THE LARGEST RELIGION IN THE WORLD -- CHRISTIANITY'S REAL HISTORY -- ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THE PAST TWO MILLENIA -- AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF WESTERN HISTORY & CULTURE -- ISLAM AS AN HISTORIC ENEMY OF CHRISTIANITY & THE GREATEST THREAT TO CIVILIZATION
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Volume XIII, Issue # 290, December 18, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CHRISTIANITY'S TRIUMPH

By Alan Caruba



A FUNDAMENTAL NEW REALITY, AS REGARDS RELIGIOUS FAITH AMONG AMERICANS & OTHER PEOPLES OF THE WEST:  ENVIRONMENTALISM HAS REPLACED RELIGION FOR MANY OF ITS ADHERENTS -- HOW ENVIRONMENTALISM MEETS THE CRITERIA OF A SECULAR RELIGION -- THE BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM --GAIA, OR MOTHER EARTH, AS ENVIRONMENTALISM'S OBJECT OF SPECIAL DEVOTION -- ENVIRONMENTALISM'S CORNERSTONE BELIEF THAT HUMANKIND IS JUST ONE SPECIES AMONG MANY -- THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN THE RELIGION OF ENVIRONMENTALISM -- CAN ENVIRONMENTALISM BE RECONCILED WITH TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS SUCH AS CHRISTIANITY & JUDAISM?
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Volume XIII, Issue # 103, April 28, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ENVIRONMENTALISM AS A SURROGATE RELIGION:
It May Be "Secular," but Environmentalism Makes
"Mother Earth" its Object of Special Devotion

By Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen



PLANET EARTH & THE HUMAN SPECIES:  LIFE IN A WORLD OF REAL & UTTERLY FALSE THREATS, A WORLD OF LIES, DISTORTIONS, DECEPTION, MISINFORMATION, FRAUD, BETRAYAL, CRIME, TYRANNY, DISASTER, CHAOS, VIOLENCE, WAR, BLOODSHED, DISEASE, PESTILENCE, SUFFERING, & DEATH -- RELIGIONS, RELIGIOUS FANATICS, & END TIMES PREDICTIONS OF A BETTER WORLD -- MODERN GLOBAL WARS & THE ADVENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- HUMAN NATURE, RELIGION, IDEOLOGY, & THE HIGH PROBALITY THAT EVENTUALLY A SOVEREIGN STATE WILL USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- THE WORLD CURRENTLY LOCKED IN A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WEST & THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC TOTALITARIANISM -- PREDICTIONS OF CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE MADE BY SELF-INTERESTED MINORITIES WHO SEEK INORDINATE POLITICAL POWER & ECONOMIC GAIN, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FREEDOM & PROSPERITY OF MOST HUMAN BEINGS -- THE EARTH NOW IN A PREDICTABLE & NATURAL COOLING CYCLE, NOT UNLIKE PREVIOUS ONES, BUT ONE WHICH MAY SIGNAL AN EQUALLY PREDICTABLE NEW ICE AGE
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Volume XIII, Issue # 12, January 9, 2011

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

APOCALYPSE NOT!

By Alan Caruba



THE SORRY STATE OF THE MODERN CHURCH:  SEEKING TO FIND OR ESTABLISH COMMON GROUND BETWEEN THE ABSOLUTES OF RIGHT & WRONG -- MISBEGOTTEN ENDORSEMENTS OF POPULAR CULTURE & RADICAL POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES -- LOSING CREDIBILITY IN THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE IN GREATEST NEED OF CHURCH GUIDANCE -- RAPIDLY LOSING ITS POSITION AS A DOMINANT & VITAL INFLUENCE ON WESTERN CULTURE -- A RECENT MANIFESTATION OF THE DECLINE OF THE MODERN CHURCH:  THE COLLECTIVE DECISION OF SOUTHERN BAPTISTS TO ACCEPT THE "GLOBAL WARMING" PREMISE OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS
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Volume X, Issue # 73, March 13, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST MARCH TOWARDS IRRELEVANCE

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE POSITION OF ISLAM IN THE U.S.A.:  THE ISLAMISTS' DEMAND FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT OF & SPECIAL PRIVILEGES FOR AMERICAN MUSLIMS -- MAKING DEMANDS THAT IGNORE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN GOVERNANCE, SUCH AS CONSTITUTIONALISM, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, SEPARATION OF POWERS, CHECKS & BALANCES, FEDERALISM, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW, & SEPARATION OF THE SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION -- THE GOALS OF SUCH DEMANDS:  SMASHING THE BEDROCK FOUNDATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY, DESTROYING THE RULE OF LAW, BREACHING THE AMERICAN SOCIAL CONTRACT, FREEZING THE AMERICAN MELTING POT, & PROMOTING ISLAMIC SEGREGATION, EXCEPTIONALISM, & SEPARATISM WITHIN THE PRESENT BORDERS OF THE U.S.A.
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Volume X, Issue # 54, February 25, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMIST RECOMMENDATIONS OR MANDATES?

By R. John Matthies



POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THOUGHT CONTROL, SUBVERSION, & AMERICA'S INTERNAL ENEMIES:  HOW LIBERALISM, OPEN BORDERS POLICY, SECULARISM, MORAL RELATIVISM, & ABORTION & GAY RIGHTS THREATEN THE FUTURE OF AMERICA & ITS NATIONAL CULTURE -- THE PERNICIOUS AGENDA OF THE MODERN COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT IN THE U.S.A. -- THE AGING HIPPIES & THEIR CONTINUING IMPACT UPON AMERICAN SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, & PUBLIC POLICY
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Volume IX, Issue # 200, October 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THREE CITIES THAT BODE ILL FOR AMERICA

By Christopher G. Adamo



PARTISAN POLITICS, POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, "RELIGIOUS FAITH," & THE SHEER HYPOCRISY & INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY OF LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS: DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERALS PANDER TO THE "RELIGIOUS RIGHT" BY UTTERING BLATANTLY INSINCERE PIETIES, PLATTITUDES & BANALITIES, WHILE THEIR SUPPORTERS IN THE MEDIA CONTINUE THEIR ENDEAVOR TO REDEFINE CHRISTIANITY & RECAST THE ENTIRE TOPIC OF "RELIGION" SO AS TO BE ALL-INCLUSIVE, THUS NEGATING IT AS AN ELECTABILITY FACTOR IN AMERICAN POLITICS -- THE POLITICAL LEFT PURSUES ITS LATEST STRATEGY TO REMOVE FROM THE POLITICAL ARENA THE BIGGEST STUMBLING BLOCK TO THE LIBERAL POLITICAL & POLICY AGENDA:  THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ETHIC, WHICH CONSTITUTES THE UNWAVERING PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL BASE
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Volume IX, Issue # 149, August 8, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CAN LIBERALS REINVENT THE CHRISTIAN PARADIGM

By Christopher G. Adamo



PHILOSOPHICAL & IDEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGION & PATRIOTISM IN AMERICA:  THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE AMERICAL POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT VERSUS THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONSERVATIVE GRASSROOTS AMERICA -- LIBERALS AS SPOKESMEN & APOLOGISTS FOR THE ANTI-AMERICAN & ANTI-CHRISTIAN COUNTERCULTURE -- CONSERVATIVES AS DEFENDERS OF THE TRADITIONAL JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES & BELIEFS OF REAL AMERICANS -- CAL THOMAS JOINS THE LIBERALS IN THEIR ENDEAVOR TO DENIGRATE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES & BELIEFS, DEMEAN & LOWER CONSERVATIVES IN THE EYES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, & ESTABLISH MORAL EQUIVALENCY BETWEEN THE LEFT & THE RIGHT
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Volume IX, Issue # 137, July 19, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHAT HAPPENED TO CAL THOMAS?

By Christopher G. Adamo



CHRISTIANITY & THE LIBERAL SOCIAL AGENDA:  MAKING THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE ACCEPTABLE TO GROUPS & COMMUNITIES WHOSE DOMINANT ATTITUDES & PERSPECTIVES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY SECULARISM, RELATIVISM, MATERIALISM, AGNOSTICISM, & POLITICAL CORRECTNESS -- OFFERING A VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY THAT MODERN LIBERALS WOULD FIND MORE ACCEPTABLE, WHILE REMAINING IN THEIR PRESENT SPIRITUAL DARKNESS -- UNDERMINING TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN VALUES & JUSTIFYING A LIBERAL UTOPIA OF ABORTION ON DEMAND, GAY RIGHTS, SAME-SEX "MARRIAGES," & CONDOM USE AS THE MEANS OF PREVENTING AIDS
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Volume VIII, Issue # 256, December 29, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LOOKING BEHIND THE "PURPOSE DRIVEN"
SHEEP'S CLOTHING

By Christopher G. Adamo



RELIGION, ATHEISM, & THE WORLD WE LIVE IN:  WHY ATHEISM IS MUCH LESS OF A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE, CIVIL ORDER, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, & WESTERN CIVILIZATION THAN IS ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM -- THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT & RELIGION -- IS CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM A GROWING THREAT TO AMERICA & THE WEST?
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Volume VIII, Issue # 214, November 5, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ATHEISTS!  WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

By Alan Caruba



PARTISAN POLITICS & RELIGION IN THE U.S.A.:  THE DILEMMA THAT LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS CONTINUALLY FIND THEMSELVES FACING, WHENEVER THE TOPIC OF "RELIGION IN AMERICA" CONFRONTS THEM -- THE CRITICAL NEED FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS TO PRESENT THEMSELVES AS SUPPORTIVE OF RELIGION IN AMERICAN LIFE, WHILE SATISFYING & APPEALING TO THE PARTY'S ANTI-CHRISTIAN BASE -- TRYING TO AVOID ALIENATING THE "RELIGIOUS RIGHT," WHILE RETANING THE SOLID SUPPORT OF PRO-ABORTION, PRO-HOMOSEXUAL, & COUNTERCULTURE INTEREST GROUPS -- SEEKING TO PREVENT A HEAD-ON COLLISION WITH THE UNSHAKABLE & FOUNDATIONAL MORAL PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY & JUDAISM
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Volume VIII, Issue # 139, July 27, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BARAK OBAMA & THE LATEST "GREAT AWAKENING"
AMONG LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS

By Christopher G. Adamo



AMERICAN CULTURE, THE COUNTERCULTURE, & ISLAMISM -- PRESERVATION OF AMERICA'S JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE: ESSENTIAL TO AN EFFECTIVE DEFENSE OF THE U.S.A. AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD & THE INROADS OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- THE FUTILITY OF ATTEMPTING TO PERPETUATE AMERICA'S NATIONAL CHARACTER & SOCIETAL STABILITY IN THE ABSENCE OF ADHERENCE TO COMMON RELIGIOUS & MORAL PRINCIPLES
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Volume VIII, Issue # 30, February 9, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA MUST PRESERVE ITS CULTURE

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE WAR AGAINST RELIGION IN AMERICA:  THE CONTINUING ENDEAVOR OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION TO ELIMINATE PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS -- THE ACLU VERSUS CHRISTMAS
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Volume VII, Issue # 257, November 26, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PSSST!  MERRY CHRISTMAS!

By Alan Caruba



THE ENEMIES OF WESTERN CULTURE & TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES:  ENEMY ACTIVITY IN POLITICAL & CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS & INSTITUTIONS WITHIN THE U.S.A. AS WELL AS ENEMY ACTIVITY ON THE FIELDS OF BATTLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE COMMON CAUSE THAT UNITES LEFTWING LIBERALS & ISLAMIST JIHADISTS
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Volume VII, Issue # 12, January 17, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ENEMIES OF WESTERN CULTURE UNITED BY A COMMON CAUSE

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE COUNTERCULTURE VERSUS TRADITIONAL RELIGION & ITS SYMBOLS -- THE CULTURAL WAR THAT IS BEING WAGED AGAINST AMERICA'S JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE BY GROUPS SEEKING TO COMPLETELY EXPUNGE ANY VESTIGE OF THAT HERITAGE FROM OUR MIDST:  LEGAL ACTIONS BROUGHT INTO THE COURTS BY THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION & OTHER LEFTWING ORGANIZATIONS OPPOSING ANY PUBLIC DISPLAY OF BIBLICAL SYMBOLS OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON
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Volume VI, Issue # 266, December 21, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ACLU STEALS MUCH MORE THAN CHRISTMAS

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE REAL OFFENSE TO AMERICANS:  THE DELIBERATE EFFORT TO KILL CHRISTMAS, TO DRIVE IMAGES OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OUT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, &, IN GENERAL, TO UNDERMINE ANY UNDERSTANDING OR PRACTICE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH OF ANY KIND
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Volume VI, Issue # 262, December 15, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

KILLING CHRISTMAS:  THE ENDEAVOR TO AVOID ANYTHING RELIGIOUS
AS PART OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

By Alan Caruba



THANKSGIVING -- THE MEANING OF THIS AMERICAN HOLY DAY AS IT WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON & REAFFIRMED AS WE KNOW IT TODAY BY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN:  A DAY FOR PRAYER & RECOGNITION OF ALMIGHTY GOD'S AUTHORITY OVER HUMANKIND
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 250, November 25, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THANKSGIVING'S SIMPLE MEANING

By Ken Masugi



THE ELECTION OF 2004 & AMERICA'S COMMONLY HELD VALUES OF DECENCY -- THE 2004 ELECTION AS A RENEWAL OF AMERICA'S COMMITMENT TO MORAL VALUES, TO LIBERTY, & TO THE NATION'S MISSION OF SPREADING CONSTITUTIONSL DEMOCRACY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 243, November 16, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THREE CHEERS FOR DECENCY!
THE ELECTION OF 2004 AS A VICTORY FOR DECENCY

By Alan Caruba



JUDGE ROY MOORE'S COMMENTS ON SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, & THE RIGHTS & LIBERTIES OF AMERICANS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  ALAN CARUBA'S REPORT FROM THE FIFTH ANNUAL FREEDOM21 CONFERENCE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 163, July 23, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JUDGE ROY MOORE: HIS CALL FOR
PROTECTION OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION

A REPORT FROM THE FREEDOM21 CONFERENCE

By Alan Caruba



SPIRITUAL WEAKNESS & THE CREEPING MORAL VACUUM IN AMERICAN CULTURE:  THE INCREASING ABILITY OF AMERICANS TO READILY SUBJUGATE MORAL OUTRAGE TO THE PRAGMATISM OF PARTISAN POLITICS & THE INTERESTS OF SELF-SEEKING, UNPRINCIPLED POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS -- LOSING THE REAL WAR, THE WAR TO PRESERVE THE MORAL & SPIRITUAL HERITAGE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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Volume VI, Issue # 97, May 14, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE BIGGER WAR -- THE CULTURE WAR:

THE WAR TO PRESERVE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN CULTURE:

MORAL CERTITUDE VERSUS POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE COUNTERCULTURAL & MORALLY RELATIVISTIC POLITICAL LEFT VERSUS MEL GIBSON'S "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" -- WHY THE MODERN PHARISEES WHO CALL THEMSELVES "LIBERALS" & "PROGRESSIVES" CONDEMN THE MOVIE:  HOW THESE LEFTISTS PERCEIVE THE MOVIE AS A SERIOUS THREAT TO THEIR POLITICAL & CULTURAL AGENDA
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Volume VI, Issue # 46, March 4, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LEFTWING LIBERAL POLITICS & "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST"

By Christopher G. Adamo



PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POLITICS, A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, & HIS OUTRAGEOUS & INSULTING BIG LIE:  HOWARD DEAN'S HYPOCRITICAL APPEAL TO CHURCH-GOING CHRISTIANS FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN HIS BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY
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Volume VI, Issue # 3, January 5, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOWARD DEAN'S CONVENIENT RELIGION:

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, POLITICAL PROPAGANDA,
PANDERING, HYPOCRISY, & THE BIG LIE

By Christopher G. Adamo



RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE IN AMERICA:  TO ENFORCE THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, MUST WE BAN ALL PUBLIC EXPRESSION OF RELIGIOUS FAITH?  ARE ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, & OTHER NON-BELIEVERS USING THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE TO DESTROY THE FIRST AMENDMENT GUARANTEE OF THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS SPEECH?  DID THE AMERICAN FOUNDING FATHERS ENVISION THE U.S.A. AS A GODLESS STATE, HOSTILE TO RELIGION & SUPPRESSING ALL PUBLIC EXPRESSION OF RELIGIOUS FAITH
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Volume V, Issue # 214, August 22, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE RECONSIDERED

By Steven M. Farrell



MEL GIBSON'S NEW MOVIE DEPICTING THE LAST TWELVE HOURS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS -- THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE'S CONCERNS ABOUT THE MOVIE'S POTENTIAL FOR CAUSING GROWTH OF ANTI-SEMITISM AMONG CHRISTIANS:  MISSING THE MAIN POINT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
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Volume V, Issue # 212, August 20, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A CHRISTIAN MOVIE & FEARS OF ANTI-SEMITISM:

CRUCIFYING MEL GIBSON

By Alan Caruba



CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIBERALISM & THE PROPER ROLE OF RELIGION & MORALITY IN PUBLIC LIFE -- THE ENDEAVOR OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT IN THE U.S.A. TO TRANSFORM CHRISTIANITY INTO A SECULAR "RELIGION" JUSTIFYING & SUPPORTING STATISM, SOCIALISM, MORAL RELATIVISM, & HEDONISM
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Volume V, Issue # 198, August 2, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN STATIST LIBERALISM:

THE STATE CHURCH OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT

By Steven M. Farrell



AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES DIVIDED IN THEIR BASIC MORAL BELIEFS -- DIVIDED BETWEEN THOSE WHO BELIEVE ALL THINGS ARE RELATIVE & THOSE WHO BELIEVE THERE ARE ABSOLUTE, UNCHANG-ING PRINCIPLES & STANDARDS OF RIGHT & WRONG BEHAVIOR
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Volume V, Issue # 157, June 14, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MORAL RELATIVISM, MORAL ABSOLUTES,
& AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES:

THE DIVIDED CLASS OF 2003

By Hans Zeiger



INDOCTRINATION OF AMERICAN CHILDREN & YOUTH INTO ISLAM -- MUSLIM RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA IN PUBLIC SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS:  EFFORTS OF BLESSED CAUSE TO BRING AN END TO THE PRO-ISLAMIC BIAS IN THE EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Volume V, Issue # 136, May 13, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION OF CHILDREN
& YOUTH IN AMERICA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS

By Jennifer Schroeder



AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & POLITICAL THEORY -- THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE & THE IMPORTANCE OF "ONE NATION UNDER GOD"
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Volume IV, Issue # 85, July 29, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
WHY "ONE NATION UNDER GOD" MATTERS

By Steve Farrell



THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE & THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WORDS THAT BIND AMERICANS TOGETHER
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Volume IV, Issue # 84, July 26, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE,
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
& THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION:

BINDING WORDS FOR AMERICANS

By Alan Caruba



AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY -- THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER OF EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES & THE EARLY REPUBLIC
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Volume IV, Issue # 40, April 14, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HISTORY OF AMERICA'S EDUCATION, PART III:
UNIVERSITIES< TEXTBOOKS, &
AMERICA'S FOUNDERS

By April Shenandoah



CHRISTIANITY, NIHILISM, & THE FUTURE OF THE WEST
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Volume IV, Issue # 17, February 22, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NEVER SAY DIE

By J.R. Nyquist



TEACHING ISLAM TO SEVENTH-GRADERS IN THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS -- AN ASSAULT AGAINST AMERICA'S JUDEO-CHRISTIAN FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IV, Issue # 6, January 18, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CALIFORNIA'S WEARING BLINDERS WHILE 7TH. GRADERS
ARE BEING INDOCTRINATED INTO ISLAM

By April Shenandoah



THE WAR ON RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume III, Issue # 34, November 26, 2001

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RELIGIOUS WAR IN AMERICA

By Deborah Venable




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