Frank Maguire column
(Frank Maguire passed away on May 19, 2021. His obituary can be read here.
Frank Maguire was born in Dorchester, MA, 1938, attended schools in Massachusetts, California, and Arizona, where he completed degrees in music and English writing/Journalism. Frank has been married to Helen Isabel Maguire Estevez of Culver City, California, since 1957. They have six children, 14 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.
Frank Maguire was born in Dorchester, MA, 1938, attended schools in Massachusetts, California, and Arizona, where he completed degrees in music and English writing/Journalism. Frank has been married to Helen Isabel Maguire Estevez of Culver City, California, since 1957. They have six children, 14 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.
Subscribe to Frank's columnFrank Maguire
May 24, 2021
The rich, abundant life of Frank William Maguire, Jr., came to its full transition on May 19, 2021, at his home in Arizona City. He was 83 years old.
He was . . .
Frank Maguire
April 30, 2020
Editor's Note: Reprinted from July 19, 2016
"O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress; a thoroughfare of freedom beat across the . . .
Frank Maguire
April 1, 2020
Originally published September 28, 2010
The popular, emotional, politically-correct use of AIDS/HIV is exploited by numerous foundations, International . . .
Frank Maguire
December 21, 2019
RUSH: So, I just checked the email during the break, and I got an interesting email from a listener, interestingly enough, out on the feces-strewn streets of . . .
Frank Maguire
December 19, 2019
1. President Trump Impeached on Two Charges
Not a single Republican broke ranks and supported impeachment. Trump is the third president to be impeached by . . .
Frank Maguire
December 16, 2019
In the annals of the Wild West, in the valley not so shady,
There's a legend of an Irish boy'o name of Seamus Grady,
And the night, 'tis said, announced his . . .
Frank Maguire
November 24, 2019
When God's but in His Heaven,
All's wrong in the World.
For us to see His Holy face
Our heart must be the place
Where God's great love's unfurled.
. . .
Frank Maguire
October 26, 2019
No battleground surpassed it, not rampart, hill or field,
As the soiled and savage rivals, though exhausted, would not yield.
One-hundred-fifty yards they . . .
Frank Maguire
September 6, 2019
(Editor's note: This article was first published August 3, 2013.)
The French philosopher/historian Montesquieu warned about democratic republics in his . . .
Frank Maguire
May 15, 2019
"'We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs,' the geneticist Richard Lewontin remarked equably in the New York . . .
Frank Maguire
April 21, 2019
Roeder's final words in the play Radium Girls
"I think back on those days – and I try to think – how could it have happened? I remember so . . .
Frank Maguire
November 6, 2017
Originally published June 10, 2015
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater . . .
Frank Maguire
February 18, 2017
Originally published June 5, 2010
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and . . .
Frank Maguire
February 16, 2017
Back in 2010, I became associated with RenewAmerica.com. One major reason was that I came to know the wonderful Christian woman and exquisite writer, Bonnie . . .
Frank Maguire
February 4, 2017
(Originally published June 15, 2010)
"Liberating tolerance would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left . . .
Frank Maguire
October 22, 2016
(Originally published April 14, 2011)
There is a human tendency that even when I was a kid in Dorchester, MA I couldn't comprehend. It is the tendency to . . .
Frank Maguire
October 5, 2016
The New York Times alleges (from RenewAmerica.com 10/3/2016) that "Donald Trump may have legally avoided paying federal income taxes for as long as 18 years . . .
Frank Maguire
August 4, 2016
(Originally published May 19, 2011)
It's been one of those days when I had nothing of any value to do but sit and mull. "Mull," like, you know cogitate? . . .
Frank Maguire
July 19, 2016
"O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress; a thoroughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness! America, America! God mend they every flaw, . . .
Frank Maguire
April 20, 2016
Roeder's final words in the play Radium Girls
"I think back on those days – and I try to think – how could it have happened? I remember so . . .
Frank Maguire
January 4, 2016
This past week I saw an article questioning why though the prices of gas are stable (down) the economy has not seemed to benefit from it. I had raised this . . .
Frank Maguire
December 25, 2015
(Originally published June 22, 2013)
"Modern men and women do not live by bread alone, but by every catch phrase and revelation that comes from the lips and . . .
Frank Maguire
August 31, 2015
(Originally published in The Liberty Tree, August 2005)
It was a relief to see Bryan Fischer's validation of the pansexuality that calls itself homo. This . . .
Frank Maguire
August 8, 2015
(Originally published January 19, 2013)
Human "progressive-change" is laughable, really. Study "Nichomachean Ethics" and you discover that those whose ideal . . .
Frank Maguire
July 16, 2015
I thought this a good time for me to request that the Renew America editors reprint a couple of my previous articles on the illegality of illegal immigration . . .
Frank Maguire
July 6, 2015
"From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force." Matt. 11:12
"Not everyone who says . . .
Frank Maguire
June 10, 2015
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great . . .
Frank Maguire
June 3, 2015
"If I had been a Jew and had seen such dolts and blockheads govern and teach the Christian faith, I would sooner have become a hog than a Christian." To the . . .
Frank Maguire
March 9, 2015
As things degenerate in America, and spiral down in rapid descent, I felt directed to ask RA.com to republish this article. Three pieces I read this week are . . .
Frank Maguire
December 20, 2014
(Originally published May 29, 2010)
From Dreams of My Father: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's . . .
Frank Maguire
December 7, 2014
"Conservatives complain that President Obama gets a free pass from the media, which acts as a de-facto public-relations shop for the Democrat in the White House . . .
Frank Maguire
November 17, 2014
When the economy is said to be improving – becoming "unbusted" – persons hopefully imagine that the source of improvement is a move away from . . .
Frank Maguire
July 24, 2014
"Willful ignorance is not the way to make immigration decisions or any other decisions. Yet the Obama administration is keeping secret even where they are . . .
Frank Maguire
May 4, 2014
"Though his list of accomplishments is impressive, Calvin Coolidge was perhaps best known and most respected by his contemporaries for his character.... The . . .
Frank Maguire
February 23, 2014
Originally published July 29, 2010
"If this is the state of mind which makes us drift into a new world, nothing can be more urgent than that we should . . .
Frank Maguire
February 7, 2014
"'We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs,' the geneticist Richard Lewontin remarked equably in the New York . . .
Frank Maguire
August 20, 2013
"What CAN the Christian do. It's getting more and more difficult to hide away and live our own life. All we want is to make a living and be left alone. I don't . . .
Frank Maguire
August 16, 2013
It was many years ago, probably at the nascence (and nonsense) of Geraldo (The Mustachioed) Rivera...when he showed up on Rupert (made his bucks in porn-lite) . . .
Frank Maguire
August 6, 2013
"Grand cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine." Jacques Barzun, "The House of Intellect." (1959)
"Change as change is mere flux and lapse; . . .
Frank Maguire
August 3, 2013
The French philosopher/historian Montesquieu warned about democratic republics in his Consideration of the Romans; "(T)here is nothing so powerful as a Republic . . .
Frank Maguire
July 29, 2013
I had been trying to think of how to respond to a dear friend of mine – she is a Christian in a denomination that is criticized, in many quarters, as . . .
Frank Maguire
July 22, 2013
"What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust, and do not have; so you . . .
Frank Maguire
July 16, 2013
Wildfire Hot Shot Brendan McDonough was strategically placed to observe the progress of the fire and to get the equipment to safety. Which he did!
But . . .
Frank Maguire
July 8, 2013
"This is courage in a man/to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends." Euripides (422 B.C.)
"Courage does not always march to the air of a bugle: is not always . . .
Frank Maguire
June 22, 2013
"Modern men and women do not live by bread alone, but by every catch phrase and revelation that comes from the lips and private lives of their heroes. But . . .
Frank Maguire
June 9, 2013
Jeremiah 1:4,5 The word of the LORD came to me, saying "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart."
Matthew 1:18 . . .
Frank Maguire
May 23, 2013
About 2 years ago, Casa Grande, AZ., had a lot of Bureau of Land Management/Department of the Interior Rangers gathered for a confab. I saw a large table full . . .
Frank Maguire
May 20, 2013
"(S)he who has gone, so we but cherish (her) memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living...." Saint-Exupery (paraphrase) (1948)
. . .
Frank Maguire
May 18, 2013
"The secret of clandestine warfare...lies in the maxim 'If you don't lose, you win.' Ever since Machiavelli, Western statesmen and politicians have been . . .
Frank Maguire
May 13, 2013
"One of the most outspoken American fascists was economist Lawrence Dennis. In his 1936 book, The Coming American Fascism, Dennis declared that defenders of '1 . . .
Frank Maguire
May 2, 2013
"Feminism taught – and professors on the New York Times op-ed page continue to write – that there are no significant natural differences between men . . .
Frank Maguire
April 17, 2013
"Let me begin by reminding you of the fact that the possession of true thoughts means everywhere the possession of invaluable instruments of action; and that . . .
Frank Maguire
April 14, 2013
I suggest that readers research the latest push for something called Common Core mandated education. I have done this.
What prompted my interest? On Rt. 10 . . .
Frank Maguire
March 5, 2013
"On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit . . .
Frank Maguire
January 28, 2013
"9/11: Voices from the Air recalls the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 via radio transmissions between the cockpit and the control tower, and through cellphone . . .
Frank Maguire
January 19, 2013
Human "progressive-change" is laughable, really. Study "Nichomachean Ethics" and you discover that those whose ideal is "progressive change" are those who . . .
Frank Maguire
December 22, 2012
(First published May 20, 2010, Rootless progressivism: the adventitious "radical," Chapter Two)
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder . . .
Frank Maguire
November 21, 2012
"The United States has now acquired an electorally powerful liberal bourgeoisie who are convinced, as their European counterparts have been for several . . .
Frank Maguire
October 18, 2012
"Politics, as hopeful men practice it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance." H. L. Mencken
I'm . . .
Frank Maguire
July 14, 2012
"A professor at an Iowa college says, as a Christian, that Jesus was a Muslim." 'I had to rethink what Islam is' (professor) Shedinger said in the interview. . . .
Frank Maguire
July 5, 2012
Friends,
This is different for me. My son Thom is an excellent artist. He read Selwyn Duke's most recent piece and was struck by the paragraph that you see . . .
Frank Maguire
July 2, 2012
"Frank, this is a wonderful message from this priest. I, for one, support him and what he suggests wholeheartedly. I think it's way past time that Christians . . .
Frank Maguire
June 26, 2012
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and . . .
Frank Maguire
June 24, 2012
The jury decided that Sandusky is guilty. We have a jury system, Sandusky had a lengthy trial (not entirely fair, given the Nancy Graces who act as the . . .
Frank Maguire
June 5, 2012
"Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the Lord, the God . . .
Frank Maguire
June 2, 2012
I sent this as an e-mail to friends and family. When my wife of 54 years read it she shed a few tears — her heart is beautiful — and she said, . . .
Frank Maguire
May 24, 2012
"Frank, thank you for putting this in context that is understandable for everyone...layman, clergyman, academic, et al. This says more than all the political . . .
Frank Maguire
May 22, 2012
"Every magisterial mincer at society's upper end,
And those morally superior to whom nether knees should bend"
A couple of weeks ago I sent an e-mail to a . . .
Frank Maguire
May 17, 2012
Matthew 12:43-45 New International Version (NIV)
43 "When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find . . .
Frank Maguire
May 12, 2012
The Humor Known as "Argumentum ad Populum" Question: What does one call someone who selectively affirms State's Rights while suing a State for protecting its . . .
Frank Maguire
April 2, 2012
In 1936, Lawrence Dennis wrote The Coming American Fascism. In it, Dennis predicted, happily, that 18th century Americanism would become, in the 20th century, . . .
Frank Maguire
March 30, 2012
"Insurgents are like conquerors, they must go forward. The moment they are stopped, they have lost." Duke of Wellington
"The world can now seize the . . .
Frank Maguire
March 13, 2012
"The World is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on . . .
Frank Maguire
March 6, 2012
John 2:13-16 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and . . .
Frank Maguire
January 20, 2012
"One of the simplest rhetorical truths is that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate." Selwyn Duke, "If Republicans want to win, . . .
Frank Maguire
January 3, 2012
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think . . .
Frank Maguire
November 30, 2011
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythologies, and history (and who is to know . . .
Frank Maguire
October 13, 2011
So far, the DOJ, the State Department, DHS, and the FBI have all been implicated in the ("Fast and Furious") scheme and coverup. Putting faces on those agencies . . .
Frank Maguire
September 3, 2011
America isn't Russia in 1917 or China in 1946, and any violent head-on collision with the power structure will only ensure the mass suicide of the left .... So . . .
Frank Maguire
August 17, 2011
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5: 1-12 "This beatitude is poles removed from the caricature of it . . .
Frank Maguire
August 3, 2011
"Promises mean nothing in Washington. We need genuine, transformational reform and real spending cuts today, not a strategic Republican victory. The time for . . .
Frank Maguire
July 28, 2011
The RenewAmerica.com family has been aware of that which our family-head Steve Stone and his beloved family have been going through. Not, as they say, "a piece . . .
Frank Maguire
July 12, 2011
After reading Jeannie DeAngelis article "'Dreamers' and the Illegal Nightmare" I felt it appropriate to submit for republication the following article, which . . .
Frank Maguire
July 5, 2011
Friends, because of some yet to be diagnosed health things, I will on R&R for an undetermined period. (Trust me! I'm not campaigning for the honor of being . . .
Frank Maguire
June 30, 2011
"You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." John 8:32
"Lawless behavior by prosecutors takes many forms, and they all undermine the . . .
Frank Maguire
June 21, 2011
"To think is to meander from highway to byway, and from byway to alleyway, 'til we come to a dead end. Stopped dead in our alley we think what a feat it would . . .
Frank Maguire
June 17, 2011
"Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent — the Lord detests them both." Proverbs 17:15
"It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to . . .
Frank Maguire
June 11, 2011
"Stay away from the foolish person, for you will not find wisdom on their lips. The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of . . .
Frank Maguire
June 1, 2011
Having read Jerome Corsi's The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, and being an Arizonan who lives in the illegal immigration/drug . . .
Frank Maguire
May 20, 2011
"Elections aren't the solution when the law of the land is in the eye of the bully of the moment." "The Carol Menges Axiom"
"Fascism does not accept the . . .
Frank Maguire
May 19, 2011
It's been one of those days when I had nothing of any value to do but sit and mull. "Mull," like, you know cogitate? Ponder? Ruminate?
I saw Fox News for a . . .
Frank Maguire
May 15, 2011
Persons have the right to their position on Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin's decision. I support his conscientious determination, foursquare. Some of my dear . . .
Frank Maguire
May 12, 2011
I spent some time looking through a list of psychopathologies and found a few that marginally apply, but nothing totally definitive. I'll have to propose a . . .
Frank Maguire
April 22, 2011
"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, but being seasoned with gracious voice obscures the show of evil." Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The . . .
Frank Maguire
April 14, 2011
There is a human tendency that even when I was a kid in Dorchester, MA I couldn't comprehend. It is the tendency to deny what is real and that which is clearly . . .
Frank Maguire
April 6, 2011
Proverbs 1:5 "Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance."
"There is a very big difference between portraying . . .
Frank Maguire
March 28, 2011
Sweetheart,
I remember that event which you describe. Not everyone in this world can point to an example of having turned someone's life in the right . . .
Frank Maguire
March 12, 2011
I share a couple of somewhat facetious poems written by me as a result of our last trip to the Olde Sod.
In County Cork, at the Castle Blarney, I did kiss . . .
Frank Maguire
March 9, 2011
Several years ago, in the spring of '97, my wife Helen and I, accompanied by my sister Anne Beauchamp, née Maguire, visited Connemara in western Ireland, the . . .
Frank Maguire
March 8, 2011
Isaiah 6:12 "They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the . . .
Frank Maguire
March 4, 2011
"A court ruling (in the UK) has found that Christians who want to provide foster care for needy children must promote homosexuality to them, and that there is . . .
Frank Maguire
February 26, 2011
I, like Lisa Fabrizio, lived in the typical East-Coast-ethnic (mine was 100 proof Irish) enclave. Liza's bio tells us that she is "from" Stamford, Connecticut, . . .
Frank Maguire
February 2, 2011
Is my poem autobiographical? For the most part! But as an allegory — a symbolic narrative — the intent is to impress a moral lesson by imagery and . . .
Frank Maguire
January 9, 2011
Guest Editorial: Mark Ellis writes for The Northwest Connection (NWC) in Troutdale, OR — East Multnomah County — as well as other publications. . . .
Frank Maguire
December 31, 2010
"Morality and its victim, the mother — what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function . . .
Frank Maguire
December 29, 2010
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Frank Maguire
December 18, 2010
© Arizona Desert Shamrock (1996)
From all of the extended Maguire clan, I wish the readers, the producers, and the writers of renewamerica.com the most . . .
Frank Maguire
December 15, 2010
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally — he is ready to deny the evidence of . . .
Frank Maguire
December 10, 2010
I am always suspicious of a person who starts off with a qualifier like "Well, I don't like everything about Sarah Palin, and I'm not sure that she has what it . . .
Frank Maguire
December 7, 2010
I wrote this article a few years back in Fairview, Oregon and published it in my The Liberty Tree. When factions within Catholicism are relentless in their . . .
Frank Maguire
December 3, 2010
Have we in our American Republic created high places for idols to be placed that they, then, are revered as gods? Or is it that those who covet high places . . .
Frank Maguire
December 1, 2010
Dedicated to Danny Murtha, a Man, a Neighbor, a Friend Aug. 31, 1952 — Nov. 17, 2010
"Love the Lord your . . .
Frank Maguire
November 25, 2010
Originally published in The Liberty Tree, Fairview, OR ( June 2005), Frank Maguire
Given the proliferation of T's and A voyeurism radiating throughout the . . .
Frank Maguire
November 21, 2010
2 Kings 19:31 (NIV) 31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this . . .
Frank Maguire
November 14, 2010
I've decided to do some articles on Men in sports whom I have known, personally, contrasting them with the Rodents one finds occupying too much of that which . . .
Frank Maguire
November 9, 2010
(Originally published in The Liberty Tree, August 2005)
I have been graciously admitted into the Renew America "corps" of writers. I am grateful for this . . .
Frank Maguire
November 6, 2010
Joshua 1:7 "Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left...."
. . .
Frank Maguire
November 1, 2010
First, we have to ask "What attracts persons to the homoerotic life style?" There is no single answer, though there are fundamental reasons in association. . . .
Frank Maguire
October 28, 2010
This article was originally published in my "The Liberty Tree," Fairview, Oregon. I have submitted it for re-publication now that we have experienced, first . . .
Frank Maguire
October 25, 2010
On October 23rd, I read two articles which prompted me to comment: "National Pusillanimous Radio," by Wall Street Journal writer John Fund; "Multiculturalism: . . .
Frank Maguire
October 23, 2010
Romans 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 1:27 and . . .
Frank Maguire
October 20, 2010
Matthew 11:20, 23, 24 "Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 23And you, . . .
Frank Maguire
October 18, 2010
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 2 . . .
Frank Maguire
October 16, 2010
There once was a ruler who found his great pleasure was making up rules, by which he could measure all else by his standard, so all had to do everything he . . .
Frank Maguire
October 13, 2010
Matthew 4:8-10 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9"All this I will give you . . .
Frank Maguire
October 9, 2010
It's been about three years since Helen and I met Keith and Lorraine Paddick. They winter here in Arizona City and we happily anticipate their arrival, in . . .
Frank Maguire
October 6, 2010
"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." . . .
Frank Maguire
October 4, 2010
"Loveliness/Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,/But is when unadorned adorned the most." James Thomson, "Autumn," The Seasons (1726-30)
Last week, as . . .
Frank Maguire
October 1, 2010
"And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:7)
"Disillusionment means . . .
Frank Maguire
September 28, 2010
The popular, emotional, politically-correct use of AIDS/HIV is exploited by numerous foundations, International Planned Parenthood, and the United Nations, to . . .
Frank Maguire
September 25, 2010
The outing, by a Fox News affiliate in the Detroit area, of auto workers partaking of a few ounces of brew and a joint of cannabis or two at their mid-day break . . .
Frank Maguire
September 21, 2010
"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." Wm Shakespeare, Richard III
"Our faith is to be a higher law...we hold that humanity was meant not to be . . .
Frank Maguire
September 18, 2010
Though my poem "Ever Now" has been published before, I am tacking it onto this article because I think it fits the context. Typical of that "disease" which . . .
Frank Maguire
September 15, 2010
It has been about 30 years since I read Reverend Ralph Abernathy's book on Martin Luther King and others in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, To . . .
Frank Maguire
September 13, 2010
"It's easier to swoon in pious dreams/Than to do good action." Gotthold Emphraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise (1779)
I chose to interrupt my "political" series, . . .
Frank Maguire
September 11, 2010
Mark Ellis is a reporter/contributing-writer for the monthly The NorthWest Connection www.nw-connection.com officed in Troutdale, Oregon, East Multnomah County . . .
Frank Maguire
September 8, 2010
"Better to not be a hero than to work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies."
George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925)
"Our character is what we do . . .
Frank Maguire
September 2, 2010
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself. " . . .
Frank Maguire
August 30, 2010
The following is response to a dear friend of mine who lives in Fairview, OR and who sent me a question which I accepted as rhetorical, his purpose being to . . .
Frank Maguire
August 22, 2010
The brilliant writer/philosopher G. K. Chesterton expressed the essence of Original Sin as clearly and succinctly as is possible. He wrote, "The first lie out . . .
Frank Maguire
August 15, 2010
"The socialists believe in two things which are absolutely different and perhaps even contradictory: freedom and organization." The Era of Tyrannies: Essays on . . .
Frank Maguire
August 8, 2010
An article making the cyberspace rounds attributed to Scripps-Howard writer Dale McFeatters, entitled "An Entourage Surpassing the Queen's," described America's . . .
Frank Maguire
August 7, 2010
For those of you who might have missed Helen's guest editorial posted June 25, 2010, entitled "Guest article from an American who is Hispanic," I reintroduce . . .
Frank Maguire
August 4, 2010
"If a company does now know why it exists then it will never know if it is failing or succeeding." Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the . . .
Frank Maguire
August 1, 2010
"Therefore, to create Utopia the utopians had to eradicate this individualism, this ugly 'Western malady.'" (this phrase was used by socialist-fascists, . . .
Frank Maguire
July 29, 2010
"If this is the state of mind which makes us drift into a new world, nothing can be more urgent than that we should seriously examine the evolution that has . . .
Frank Maguire
July 28, 2010
"All words are pegs to hang ideas on." Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
"The foolish shall not stand in thy sight; Thou hatest all . . .
Frank Maguire
July 23, 2010
Friday, February 20, 2009
Dateline: Arizona City, AZ
Regardless of the United States Constitution, regardless of federal law, regardless of the laws passed . . .
Frank Maguire
July 21, 2010
"What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust, and do not have; so you . . .
Frank Maguire
July 19, 2010
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." Bill Clinton, U.S.A. Today, 11 March 1993
It wasn't very long ago . . .
Frank Maguire
July 16, 2010
"If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government . . .
Frank Maguire
July 12, 2010
"(F)or the child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." Matthew 1:20 New American Standard Bible
"Human beings, as a species, have no more . . .
Frank Maguire
July 8, 2010
The following article was originally published in my Liberty Clarion, in 2008. I felt it appropriate, at this time, to republish it. The photos were taken by . . .
Frank Maguire
July 7, 2010
America, what good is commemorating "independence day" if you deny Dependence Day? fm July 4, 2010
"A country, or even a culture, cannot be Christian; . . .
Frank Maguire
July 6, 2010
"Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the . . .
Frank Maguire
July 2, 2010
A few years back I was on a "Tiger Cruise" with the 1st Marine Division from Pearl Harbor to the U.S.M.C. base at San Diego, California, aboard the U.S.S. . . .
Frank Maguire
June 30, 2010
The concept of "purity" still exists, and the word is still in use; but it no longer finds application in matters of personal moral behavior. In fact, it would . . .
Frank Maguire
June 28, 2010
Each day I read more commentary about the Arizona Wars. Many repeat the same sentiments and add some variations on the theme. They are valuable in that they . . .
Frank Maguire
June 27, 2010
"When there is no God to whom we answer every man will have his price." (1980)
The phrase "hiccius doccius" dates back to 17th century England. It is a . . .
Frank Maguire
June 26, 2010
"Liberal institutions straightaway cease from being liberal the moment they are established." Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1888)
"Let's just get the . . .
Frank Maguire
June 25, 2010
My wife Helen is full-blooded Hispanic. She was born in the mining town of Superior, Arizona to Ernest Estevez and Josephine Estevez de Guzman. She is very . . .
Frank Maguire
June 22, 2010
"Events and changes in the universe affect and change God. As the universe grows and learns, God also increases in knowledge and being." (A tenet of . . .
Frank Maguire
June 18, 2010
"The pubs of Dublin are loaded with drinkers who have writing problems." Tour bus driver in Dublin, Ireland
Some readers may have noticed that I start a . . .
Frank Maguire
June 17, 2010
"Contrary to the belief of evolutionists, there is actually only one race — Adam's race. And Adam's race includes 'black' people, 'white' people — all . . .
Frank Maguire
June 16, 2010
I just read Lloyd Marcus' piece on Nevada's Sharon Angle. It caused me to recall something that I had read in David McCullough's book Truman.
FDR had died . . .
Frank Maguire
June 15, 2010
"Liberating tolerance would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left." Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse
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Frank Maguire
June 13, 2010
Exodus 20:13 "You shall not murder...."
Numbers 35:31 "Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. He must surely be put to . . .
Frank Maguire
June 11, 2010
When Chauncey the Mastiff and Houston "The Mix" were told that I was doing an issue on cats, they insisted, doggedly, that for the sake of fairness, they wanted . . .
Frank Maguire
June 10, 2010
"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominion of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab . . .
Frank Maguire
June 9, 2010
"(Ours) is a world not of angels but of angles where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles." (Sol Alinsky, mentor of Barack Obama and . . .
Frank Maguire
June 6, 2010
In my youth I pursued various sports with an almost insane passion. I confess, though, that one encounter with football convinced me that any passion for . . .
Frank Maguire
June 5, 2010
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also . . .
Frank Maguire
June 4, 2010
"Byrdes of an kynde and color flok and flye always together." William Turner, c. 1545
In the escalating war between the Washington, D.C. Justice Department . . .
Frank Maguire
June 2, 2010
Frank Maguire © 1994 (Originally published in The Desert Shamrock, Phoenix/Scottsdale AZ)
Writers are told early and often to write that which they know. . . .
Frank Maguire
June 1, 2010
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to Party dissension, which in different ages and countries has . . .
Frank Maguire
May 31, 2010
I wrote this poem back in 1995. At the time, a friend of mine, with a very large Irish family, including one mentally and physically "damaged" daughter — an . . .
Frank Maguire
May 30, 2010
From Dreams of My Father: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."
From Dreams of My Father: . . .
Frank Maguire
May 29, 2010
"And Richard Cory, one calm summer night
Went home and put a bullet through his head."
Richard Cory, Edward Arlington Robinson (1919)
Back in the late '6 . . .
Frank Maguire
May 28, 2010
Professor Darwin Tadpole arose to a London overcast, and he prayed it would not rain.
The Professor was taking his great-grandson to a matinee performance of . . .
Frank Maguire
May 27, 2010
The following article was written in response to a question from one of my colleagues regarding concern that Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to . . .
Frank Maguire
May 26, 2010
Some scholars have too much free time — and grant money — which allows them to produce frankenscience, i.e., hypothetical balderdash and baboonish buncombe. . . .
Frank Maguire
May 25, 2010
"(Richard) Dawkins believes that it is important that Western culture should not eliminate the Bible from educational programs. 'We can give up belief in G-d . . .
Frank Maguire
May 24, 2010
When I decided to get a degree in writing/journalism, I had already done editorial writing and poetry in various publications. I felt pretty good about myself. . . .
Frank Maguire
May 23, 2010
"As political philosophy derives its sanction from ethics, and ethics from the truth...it is only by returning to the eternal source of truth that we can hope . . .
Frank Maguire
May 22, 2010
Back in 1997, my wife Helen, my sister Anne (with an "e") Marie Beauchamp, and I did some traveling in Ireland, the land of my ancestors. There was a hiatus in . . .
Frank Maguire
May 21, 2010
"The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions," Alexander Chase, Perspectives (1966)
Romans 1:26 For this . . .
Frank Maguire
May 20, 2010
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical:
From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know . . .
Frank Maguire
May 18, 2010
I think it is fair to refer to zealous progressivists as "radicals." This is how they, irrationally, think of themselves. They also militate against America's . . .
Frank Maguire
May 17, 2010
A few years back while visiting England, I wrote "Where there is tea, there is hope." I had been talking with a fellow in Matfield on the Green, Kent, and . . .
Frank Maguire
May 15, 2010
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it." G. K. Chesterton
I was watching an . . .
Frank Maguire
May 12, 2010
Were George Orwell alive today, he would, once again, warn of the dangers of the deliberate distortion of language for political gain. Take for example the . . .
Frank Maguire
May 10, 2010
The following was published in the North West Connection, Troutdale, Oregon, back in June 0f 2008. I decided to submit it for republication because of the . . .
Frank Maguire
May 8, 2010
Last night — May 6 — was a nightmare for me, I was so bloody angry at the stupidity, ingratitude, and arrogance of the Suns management and players, and . . .
Frank Maguire
May 5, 2010
It's my routine to leave the house early in the a.m., often around 5:00, and head for the foothills here in the desert around Arizona City. It is quiet and . . .
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