Crowds of journalists have of late flocked to Cyprus, that storied island nation, and as it happens Cyprus was in the news on this very date — exactly 435 years ago, at the Siege of Famagusta. Cyprus can lay claim to being the first country on earth governed by a Christian sovereign, the Roman proconsul [...]
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American immigration: who gets in?
December 30th, 2010 
admin Also at SwordsCrossed. “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan America prides itself on being a land of immigrants. “Give me your tired, your poor,” [...]
Barbarians in the gates.
December 29th, 2010 admin We care about Europe for the same reason we care for the suicidal: because a chosen fate is not inherently a just one, and we are called to act when an unjust end threatens. We care about Europe because filial piety is still a virtue: we are, in the end, a European nation as surely [...]
Making Islam an Ally, the Left Invites Its Own Destruction
December 29th, 2010 admin The reason is that the Left sees Islam as a de facto ally—as Marxists would say, an “objective ally”—in the destruction of the vestiges of the traditional society based upon Christianity and its moral code, and traditional cultural patterns. So what they are doing is using Islam as the battering ram and as a would-be [...]
The wages of Christian division.
December 29th, 2010 admin Islam has, throughout the history of its aggression against the West, benefited immensely by, and in many cases cunningly exploited the divisions within the West. Some of the first Byzantine provinces to fall after the Mohammedan Revolution were those, like Egypt and North Africa, whose internal repose had already been shattered by the conflagrations of [...]
The face of the enemy.
December 29th, 2010 admin More amazing than the existence of the cartoon protests themselves — when has barbarism not lurked within and without our civilization? — is the fact that the dead so far have been mostly Muslim. Indeed, outside of the Catholic priest slaughtered in Turkey some days ago, there has been no organized vengeance pogrom against non-Muslims [...]
