The source of the Left's outrage. The old definition of a Puritan is a person who is constantly worried that somewhere, someone is having a good time. The new definition of a “Progressive” should be a person who worries that somewhere, someone is trying to kill terrorists. Rachel Maddow fit the bill last night on MSNBC. Maddow mentioned a new wrinkle in the covert CIA concept that … [Read more...]
(Character) Assassination
August 21, 2009 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: Conspiracy theories, History, Jihad, Media bias, NewsRealblog, War on Terror Tagged With: Ben Johnson, Blackwater (contractors), Christopher Andrew, CIA, Cold War, Executive Order 11905, Executive Order 12333, Fidel Castro, Gerald Ford, Leon Panetta, MSNBC, Muammar Quaddafi, News, NewsRealblog, Operation El Dorado Canyon, Patrice Lumumba, Politics, Rachel Maddow
Pontiff of Freedom
April 4, 2005 By Ben Johnson
When Gerald Ford famously stumbled, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” in 1976, he could have had the work of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla in mind. The former president meant to indicate the people of the Warsaw Pact did not embrace the atheistic Soviet leadership – a fact, the CIA noted, that sprung from the peoples’ abiding religious faith. Pope John Paul II did more than any … [Read more...]
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Farewell, Chairman Bill
July 5, 2004 By Ben Johnson
I am proud to say this article was read by William F. Buckley Jr. personally. Upon reading it, he sent a very kind personal letter to me, which remains one of my most cherished possessions. This article was excerpted in the August 9, 2004, hard copy issue of National Review. An edited online version may be seen here, although in the print copy, mine was the first article excerpted. We reprinted … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Big Government, Conservatism, Conspiracy theories, FrontPage Magazine, History, Politics, Republicans, RINOs, Social conservatives Tagged With: "Mater sí Magistra no!", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alger Hiss, Aloise Buckley Heath, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ayn Rand, Big Government Conservatism, Blackford Oakes, CIA, Cold War, Communism, conservatism, Conservative Party of New York State, Council on Foreign Relations, David Niven, Eastern Liberal Establishment, Elvis Presley, Eudocio Ravines, Family Assistance Plan, Firing Line, Frank Meyer, FrontPage Magazine, George Pataki, George Wallace, Gerald L.K. Smith, God and Man at Yale, Harry Dexter White, House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), In Search of Anti-Semitism, In Search of Anti-Semitism (book), Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), James Burnham, Jesse Jackson, John Birch Society, John F. McManus, John Judis, John Lindsay, Joseph McCarthy, Liberty Lobby, Mark Lane, Marxism, Mater et Magistra, Mater sí Magistra, McCarthy and His Enemies, National Council of Catholic Bishops, National Review, Nearer My God, Nelson Rockefeller, New Right, News, no!, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Owen Lattimore, Panama Canal treaty, Patricia Buckley, PBS, Peru, Politics, Pope John XXII, Ralph de Toledano, Richard Nixon, Right Reason, Robert F. Kennedy, Roman Catholic Church, Ronald Reagan, Rumbles Left and Right, Rumbles Left and Right (book), Saving the Queen, Saving the Queen (book), Senator James Buckley, The Road to Yenan (book), traditional Latin Mass, Up from Liberalism, Vatican II, Whittaker Chambers, Willi Schlamm, William F. Buckley Jr., William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives (book), William F. Buckley: Pied Piper for the Establishment (book), William Kunstler, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)
The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster (as Published)
December 10, 2002 By Ben Johnson
Below is the first article I ever wrote for FrontPage Magazine, an assignment to cover the lies behind the 1965 Immigration Act. The original essay I submitted stuck to that topic; however, the editor asked that I add more information about the groups that favored the bill -- "Jews, Catholics, Communists." After quick research I added another a few examples and turned in my final draft. The … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Conservatism, FrontPage Magazine, Immigration Tagged With: ACLU, American Council for Judaism, Americans for Democratic Action, Appalachia, B'nai B'rith, Chamber of Commerce, Cold War, Cold War liberals, Columbus Ohio, Communist Party USA, Daniel Inouye, El Cenizo Texas, Emanuel Celler, Hiram Fong, Hmong, Immigration, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, John F. Kennedy, Lewiston Maine, Ligonier Indiana, Nicholas Katzenbach, Open Borders Lobby, race hysteria, Racism, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Sweeney, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Social Justice teaching, Ted Kennedy, Unemployment, Wausau Wisconsin
Jeane Kirkpatrick, RIP
For many of us, December 7 has another reason to live in infamy. Last Thursday, Ronald Reagan’s first ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, passed away at the age of 80. A tireless exponent of the truth, even when in environs as hostile as international diplomacy, she perfectly reflected her president's wishes and her nation's consensus. Her rhetoric “took everyone by … [Read more...]