Bruce S. Thornton

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com In 1984 George Orwell described how the abandonment of belief in objective truth makes possible a politicized history that legitimizes tyrannical power: Share This

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Al Qaeda headman Osama bin Laden recently released yet another of his promotional communiqués, and like the last decade’s worth of his propaganda, this one too is designed not so much to appeal to his fellow Muslims, but to exploit the received wisdom and political fashions of the American left

Ideas, old and dead, are still walking around. by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com Explaining the continued death-grip of progressive ideology on significant numbers of people despite its manifest intellectual exhaustion, incoherence, and senility compels one to rely on analogies. Share This

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com From its beginnings in ancient Athens, democracy has been bedeviled by weaknesses that paradoxically arise from its defining genius. Share This

by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity – Yeats, The Second Coming Florida pastor Terry Jones called off his Koran-burning after President Obama and others in his administration joined the chorus of Americans asking him not to go through with it. Share This

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine Giving Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, after a mere nine months in office and no foreign policy achievements whatsoever, confirms that the prize is a bit of political theater in which those Americans who put the world’s interests ahead of their own country’s will play the starring role.

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine You know liberals are edging toward a full Jonestown-style meltdown when someone as smart as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman starts losing it. Share This