Rod Dreher
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GANTLET OF GRIEF - BOARD OF ED PUTS NEW TEACHERS THROUGH HELL
August 2, 2001 | 4:00amLAST November, an experienced public-school teacher - I'll call her Jane, to protect her from retribution - made what she now regards as perhaps the worst professional mistake of her...
PISTOL-PACKIN' POP GUNS DOWN LIBERAL MYTH
July 26, 2001 | 4:00amTHREE cheers for Ernie Regent, who has provided the city with the best civilian use of a handgun to serve the public good since Bernie Goetz served notice on those...
SHOT PROTESTER DESERVED WHAT HE GOT
July 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE death of 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani has given the anti-globalization mob an excuse for launching further spasmodic attacks of violence. Yesterday's attackers wore black armbands mourning the young man's...
SIN OF THE FATHER WAS KEEPING SILENT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amFATHER Joseph Towle is doing the right thing, but he's no hero. The Bronx priest has told a federal court that 12 years ago, a troubled young man named Jesus...
FRENCH ABORT LAW DOES NAZIS PROUD
July 15, 2001 | 4:00amMARSHAL Henri Petain, who headed the French collaborationist government during the Nazi occupation, turns out simply to have been a man ahead of his time. The re-Nazification of France is...
HONOR O'CONNOR BY SAYING NO TO STEM-CELL FUNDING
July 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE were lots of applause lines in remarks President Bush and other dignitaries made honoring the late John Cardinal O'Connor. But the only ones that brought virtually the entire cathedral...
STEM-CELL SCRIPT A REAL HORROR MOVIE
July 8, 2001 | 4:00amTHE controversy over stem-cell research has me thinking of a summer movie classic. It's a love story many people have forgotten, but the time seems right for a remake. In...
THIS WEASEL HAS NONE OF CLINTON'S STYLE
July 5, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN Bill Clinton was facing impeachment, many commentators, recalling the Nixon ordeal, quoted Karl Marx's observation that history appears "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Marx...
ERODING THE MORAL STATUS OF MARRIAGE
July 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE stunning ruling by the state Court of Appeals in favor of the lesbian plaintiffs in the Yeshiva case is bad news for those who believe the traditional family is...
JESSE PUTS $QUEEZE ON TOYOTA
July 1, 2001 | 4:00amYOU have to hand it to Jesse Jackson. While he keeps striking out politically, he continues to strike gold with craven corporations. Jackson's latest victim? The Toyota Motor Corp., which...
LOSING FAITH IN THE CLERGY - BRONX PRIEST'S HOLLOW WORDS GLOSS OVER SEX SCANDAL
June 25, 2001 | 4:00amTHE pastor at St. Simon Stock Church in The Bronx told Mass-goers yesterday that allegations of sex abuse by their former priests was taken "very seriously" from the start. Father...
HIDING PERVERTS WOULD BE A CARDINAL SIN
June 23, 2001 | 4:00amTHE allegations rocking St. Simon Stock parish present the first public challenge to Edward Cardinal Egan amid the gravest scandal facing the Catholic Church in America: priestly sexual misconduct. The...
CHURCH MUST 'POLICE' PRIESTS
June 14, 2001 | 4:00amTHE new sexual-misconduct policy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York declares that care will be taken "not to interfere with any criminal investigation" involving alleged sexual abuse. You...
CHURCH UNVEILS TOUGH NEW SEX-ABUSE POLICY
June 13, 2001 | 4:00amNew rules issued by the New York Archdiocese have ordered all prospective employees who will work with kids or the elderly to undergo background checks, The Post has learned. Under...
CHURCH CALLS ITS PRIESTS TO ORDER
June 12, 2001 | 4:00amEdward Cardinal Egan convened a solemn meeting yesterday with several hundred of the archdiocese's priests, to lay down the law on sexual abuse and misconduct, sources told The Post. He...
IS EGAN'S SILENCE A CARDINAL SIN?
June 10, 2001 | 4:00amAT A recent Brooklyn luncheon, Avery Cardinal Dulles said that despite pervasive anti-Catholic bias among reporters, the clergy "cannot responsibly ignore the news media." That's not something that needed explaining...
BLACK BIZ A RACIAL HOSTAGE TO JESSE
June 7, 2001 | 4:00amONE of the country's leading black broadcast executives says Jesse Jackson and his cronies have held his business hostage for three years because he refuses to kowtow to them. "They...
MATH WRATH EXPLODES AMID 'FUZZY' FUROR
June 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHE words on the Web site were written in red, and the message was chilling: Will there be abloodbath at N.Y.U.? Yesterday, Robert Berkman, the creator of the Web site,...
VIEQUES VANITY PALES COMPARED TO REAL SACRIFICE
June 3, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Rev. Al Sharpton and his three co-bellyachers are giving civil disobedience a bad name. They knew when they trespassed onto U.S. government property on the island of Vieques that...
JESSE'S VISIT WAS A JAILHOUSE CROCK
May 31, 2001 | 4:00amTHE REV. Jesse Jackson has to have the world's worst case of penal envy. Jackson yesterday took time out of his busy schedule of playing hardball for corporate donations and...