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Justin Soutar is a Catholic professional author from the United States. Since 2005 he has published thirty 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. Recently Justin has also published a book entitled "America's Back-Door Enemy: Unmasking the Unknown Terrorists," which is now available from Tate Publishing and Amazon. He is currently working on two more books. Justin also manages a blog, Justin's Corner, and enjoys many hobbies in his spare time including fishing, biking, classical piano and amateur astronomy.

I was born and raised a devout Catholic and a patriotic, conservative-leaning, Republican American. Early on I acquired a keen interest in politics. At age 10 I memorized parts of a 1996 presidential election debate between President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole; attended a Republican rally in an airport hangar; passed out Dole campaign literature around my neighborhood; and created my own "Dole Kemp" sign for my bedroom window facing the street. More quietly, but with great hope, I rooted for Bush-Cheney in 2000. After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, I became a staunch advocate of the "War on Terrorism". The showdown between President Bush and Pope John Paul II over the war in Iraq led me to begin critical thinking and open-minded research about American foreign policy. Subsequent discoveries provoked me to begin writing in March 2005.

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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.

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