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Justin Soutar is a Catholic researcher and author. Since age 19 he has published some forty articles on pro-life issues, the Pope & his message, American politics and elections, terrorism, the Middle East, and other topics in a wide variety of publications, both online and in print. Justin has written the investigative book "America's Back-Door Enemy: Unmasking the Unknown Terrorists" (Tate Publishing, 2009), which is also available as an audio book and e-book. He is currently writing a book about Mother Teresa for a retired program director of Catholic Relief Services who worked with her during India's massive refugee crisis of 1971. Justin is also planning a third book about America's famous pioneer priest Father Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (1770--1840), who founded the Catholic community of Loreto, Pennsylvania and whose cause for sainthood has recently been opened by the Catholic Church.

Justin was born in 1986 to good Catholic parents in Irvine, California. His father was (and still is) an irrigation system designer for landscape architects in California. His mother was a devoted homemaker who helped teach, raise and care for him and his sister Amanda. At age five his parents moved to Santa Maria, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Justin attended Catholic school for one and a half years and was then homeschooled through high school. In 2002 Justin and his family relocated across the country to western Ohio to pursue a healthier, more self-sufficient lifestyle in the countryside and to help other interested Catholic families do the same thing. Justin scored 91 on the SAT in 2003, a year before graduating high school. After graduating, Justin took up his father's AutoCAD drafting business. In 2005, his interest in politics and political issues led him to start writing. His first article, dealing with terrorism and America's response to it from a Catholic perspective, was published in the Ethical Spectacle in February and March 2006. His second article dealt with the Terri Schiavo controversy. Justin spent two years researching and writing his book on terrorism, which was accepted by Tate Publishing in 2008.

Justin enjoys a variety of activities in his leisure time such as reading, playing piano, watching movies, bikeriding, fishing and amateur astronomy. One of his favorite books is The Lord of the Rings.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Killer Cell Phones: Why Honeybees Are Dying Worldwide
(12 comments) Have you heard the news? In just the last ten years or so, the world's honeybee population has taken a huge dive--and nobody seems to know why.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Hurried, Corrupt and Evil Health Care Reform
(1 comments) From the perspective of a concerned American citizen, this op-ed presents a few major reasons why "U.S. health care reform is on the road to disaster."

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The Hypocrisy of Democracy
(3 comments) Middle Eastern history, Thomas Jefferson and G. K. Chesterton teach us to beware the illusion of democracy.

Thursday, May 15, 2008
An Average Joe for President
(5 comments) To say that "Average Joe" Schriner is a remarkable presidential candidate is a bit of an understatement. While he may match the average American on issues, his campaign is anything but average in the midst of multi-million-dollar, slick-talking, show-biz, twenty-first century American politics!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Two-Party System: A Catastrophic Failure
For a number of years now, respected pundits have lauded the American two-party political system as an excellent balance between the dictatorship of a one-party system and the instability of a multiparty system. Yet the two-party system has caused our country great harm.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Why Is Peace "Missing"?
A peace divorced from history and the real world is no peace at all. Dennis Ross's gigantic volume "The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace", published in 2004 and reprinted in 2005, is an absorbing narrative of the epic conflict of our time--and how the radical American-Israeli ideology threatens to dash all hope for peace.

Friday, September 7, 2007
Iraq: What Next?
(1 comments) Instead of bringing hope and prosperity as promised, the war in Iraq has inflicted violence, corruption and poverty on the country and further destabilized the Middle East. What should the United States do next?

Friday, July 13, 2007
Military Force v. Terrorism: A Lesson from History
(1 comments) In his 2004 book, Deliver Us from Evil, popular neoconservative radio host Sean Hannity claims that "the only language terrorists understand is that of strength and force." This has become the great creed of President Bush and his faithful train of neocon believers. But if Mr. Hannity really grasped even a segment of the Arab-Israeli historical record, he would be obliged to question his dogma of force.