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Author Archive for Robert Struble, Jr.
Writer, retired history teacher, lecturer for Knights of Columbus--Bremerton WA (c. 1379), author of new & as yet unpublished book, "Rekindling the Spirit of 1776: Insurrectionary Solutions for Postmodern Maladies."
On Obedience to “the Law.”
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Oct 02, 2015 in Education, Featured, History, Law & Justice, The Social Order 
In Pope Francis’ recent meeting with Kim Davis, the Holy Father’s expression of gratitude for Kim’s courage has dismayed liberal Americans. The LA Times editorial board felt it sent a “deeply disappointing message.” In his press conference on the plane home to Rome, Pope Francis seemed to affirm Kim Davis’ conscientious objector status, notwithstanding her […]
What is Past is Prologue: Dietrich von Hildebrand’s “Battle”
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Aug 03, 2015 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, On Books, The Social Order
Under pressure of opposition, Catholic doctrine has usually developed out of necessity. For example, much of the Nicene Creed (AD 325) was a response to the threat from Arianism. Similarly, the Protestant Revolution prompted the Council of Trent to reform Catholicism. Likewise the pressures associated with a powerful regime of political oppression and overt evil […]
One Nation Under SCOTUS: Some Hildebrandian Parallels
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Jul 10, 2015 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, Marriage, The Homosexual Agenda
In response to the US Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) decree on same sex marriage, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued this statement: …It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage…. Mandating marriage redefinition across the country […]
SCOTUS
by Robert Struble, Jr.
With bluster, ink, and bray. Lawyers five, get their way. Out with God; in with sex drive. Salute Sodom; so they connive. Let them preach right prim of legality, That man’s law must be obeyed. But ‘tis base to bow, when reality Has the highest law betrayed. T’would be wrong to supersede, Against authority properly […]
A Puzzling By-Product of Curing Lepers: Gospel Commentary
by Robert Struble, Jr.
This Sunday’s Gospel, Mark 1: 40-45, is a bit puzzling. Why after curing a leper, who then proceeded to advertise the event (contrary to Jesus’ explicit instructions), did it develop that the Lord “could no longer openly enter a town, but remained outside in desert places.” (cf. Matthew 8: 30-34; Luke 8: 27-38). During our […]
Hebdo Heroes, Not! Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
by Robert Struble, Jr.
Editorial cartoons are an effective means of making a point briefly but powerfully. However, cartoons become increasingly unjustifiable when they degenerate into vulgarity, calumny, or blasphemy. “God is not mocked” (Galatians 6:7). The satirical magazine based in Paris, Charlie Hebdo, makes a business of mocking Islamic themes and portraying Mohammed in pornographic poses. And not […]
Struble’s Holy Land Adventures a Generation Ago
by Robert Struble, Jr.
With the Middle East in mayhem, I’ve been thinking back to my travels in Egypt and Israel during a less tumultuous time. Upon returning to my teaching post in snowy Salzburg Austria, I found myself suffering from a fever – possibly a result of the sudden change from shirtsleeve weather to freezing cold. From the […]
Poem: “Storming Falluja, Ten Years Ago”
by Robert Struble, Jr.
Storming Falluja, Ten Years Ago Fallujans flee, of your fighters be rid, Your city, your honor our GI’s demand, We’ll find them, we’ll kill them, they cannot be hid, Uprising is doomed to sink in the sand. Your town is besieged; we storm and we blast, By land and by air, with engines of war […]
Poem: “Else but Melancholy?”
by Robert Struble, Jr.
Else but Melancholy? Stay abreast of the current events, Otherwise, they say, to all intents, You’re just a citizen in ignorance; To national progress, a hindrance. But what if this “progress” should devolve, Into fiendish ways that involve, Vice, sleaze and a spiritual squalor, Loathsome to any Christian scholar? Why do we go in quest […]
Vladimir the Inscrutable: Shall We Savage or Salute Putin?
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Jun 16, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, The Social Order
[Editor’s note: we know that there are very strong opinions on the other side and we are willing to publish the contrary view] Diversionary foreign policy, and/or wars intended for diversion, are old tactics instigated by governments to distract people from domestic problems. Recent Western policy in promoting the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian President, […]
Comfort Zone? Short Reflection on Two Beatitudes
by Robert Struble, Jr.
God forbid that postmodern pressures inhibit us from promoting what is godly in the culture, nor deter us from opposing what is impious. Yes, going against the flow is proving stressful. We live in tumultuous times, and some internal emotional turmoil (if not external persecution) will afflict any caring or sensitive Christian unwilling to remain […]
Critiquing Moderation: Does Centrism Befit Our Times?
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Feb 11, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, The Social Order
The postmodern revolution has been transmutating America since JFK’s assassination, with cultural precursors dating back to the Korean War or earlier. Our responsibilities as Americans oblige us to respond. As stewards invested with some power of citizenship, a civic response to the Gospel is among our religious duties as Christians. In the process of responding […]
Concluding Commentary On Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments (part 5)
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Jan 24, 2014 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
Links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Last month, the Mount Vernon Assembly met at George Washington’s home in Virginia to begin the planning process for an Article V Convention. Attending were some 100 legislators from 32 States. Mark R. Levin’s bestselling book, The Liberty Amendments (Simon & Schuster, 2013), inspired many […]
Rekindling the Spirit of 1776: Preview Chapter One
by Robert Struble, Jr.
“Vice prevails and impious men bear sway.” Such was the prevailing ethic during the Roman Republic’s demise. Meanwhile citizens were compelled to witness the onset of the “greatness” of the tyrannical era of Caesars. In America too, national greatness has been reduced mainly to status as a military superpower exerting global cultural influence. To restore […]
Constitutional Convention? Planning Meeting Held at Mt. Vernon
by Robert Struble, Jr.
“The train that is the Mount Vernon Assembly has left the station, with no turning back.” So writes Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator. At the first session of the Assembly, held earlier this month at George Washington’s home in Virginia, nearly 100 state legislators met to begin the planning process on behalf of an […]
Rick Santorum Distributing Movie: The Christmas Candle
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Nov 18, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Interviews, On TV and Movies
“Marketing a movie rivals to some degree running a Presidential campaign.” So says two term US Senator and 2012 Presidential contender, Rick Santorum. During last year’s election cycle, Santorum exhibited his organizational and communication skills in winning eleven Presidential primaries, enough to give Mitt Romney a run for his money. In part, no doubt, it […]
Political Amendments: Struble versus Levin (part 4)
by Robert Struble, Jr.
Go to part 1, part 2, Part 3, Part 5 More than two months after publication, Levin’s book, Liberty Amendments, continues on the New York Times bestseller list.* At the outset the reader encounters an earnest and persuasive appeal on behalf of an Article V “convention for proposing Amendments.” Levin then proceeds to propose an […]
Egyptian Muslim questions Christianity. A Catholic replies.
by Robert Struble, Jr.
The following interview/discussion took place between Abdallah and me from October 6-8, 2013. Abdallah is my Facebook friend from Cairo, Egypt. He is a software engineer and a supporter of the restoration of President Morsi. We met via the chat feature of an online chess program. (Published with Abdallah’s approval). Abdallah: Many times I keep […]
Levin’s Liberty Amendments: Struble’s Critique, Part Three
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Oct 15, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
Go to Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5 You can’t manufacture a silk purse from a sow’s ear. With Mark Levin’s powerful first chapter we enthusiastically agree: the archipelago of Federal pigpens positioned around the country and headquartered in Washington, D.C. is breeding a boorish nation. The solutions proposed in Levin’s recent book, […]
Levin’s “Liberty Amendments:” Struble’s Critique, Part Two
by Robert Struble, Jr.
by Robert Struble, Jr. on Oct 01, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, On Books, The Social Order
Links to part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 After seven weeks on the market, Mark Levin’s blockbuster book, Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic (Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, 2013) remains in the top ten of the New York Times bestseller list. For the first three weeks after debut (August 13th) it stood […]
Liberty Amendments, by Mark Levin: A Five Part Series of Commentaries, Part One
by Robert Struble, Jr.
Readers of “Farewell to Apostate America,” my four part series advocating for an Article V Convention (among other avenues to restoration of the written Constitution) can imagine my interest in seeing Mark Levin’s just released book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic (Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, 2013). Currently it is number one on the […]
Poem: “Independence Day, USA”
by Robert Struble, Jr.
Independence Day, USA Fourth of July Emblazoned so high, That children may see By history. And for young and old Of most every mold Who want to learn, Who can discern How the past does sing That freedom may spring From the muskets’ fumes When tyranny looms; How to fight for right Lest darkness and […]
