After the Dubyapalooza at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, a badly needed reassessment of former President Bush is underway. I offer my 2 cents at the National Catholic Register, based in part on what we covered at the time. For space, I had to cut one quote which I [...]
First, this report is from the same sort of “unnamed sources” that feed bad info, so it may not be true. (Or it may be true, and it’s coming to light and the *%)$#!storm that is breaking because of it will cause all high-level persons involved to treat it like a baby in Kermit Gosnell’s [...]
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul gave an important speech last week at Howard University – a historically black institution located in our nation’s capital. The prevailing wisdom is that Paul, a Republican, did as best he could given the skepticism of the mostly African American audience. His visit had its ups and downs, and I’ll explain what those [...]
In the weeks following Pope Benedict’s decision to abdicate the papacy, the American media made sure to provide a platform to Catholics who disagree with Church leaders on issues like women’s ordination and gay marriage. Networks like CNN, PBS and ABC gave ample time to representatives from the aging LCWR and the left-leaning NC Reporter yet largely ignored the [...]
This week is Holy Week. It’s also when the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments regarding California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. I haven’t read the full transcript of today’s proceedings on Proposition 8, but I will over the next couple of days, so expect a follow-up post. In the months leading [...]
Vice President Joe Biden, Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia will represent the United States at the Mass of Inauguration for Pope Francis on March 19th, according to the Daily Caller. I sincerely hope Pope Francis denies Communion to Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. Not because I’m [...]
Politicians and religious leaders around the world weigh in on the election of Pope Francis: President Barack Obama Pope Francis is a “champion of the poor and the most vulnerable among us.” Pope Francis “carries forth the message of love and compassion that has inspired the world for more than 2,000 years – that in [...]
Former President Bill Clinton has joined President Obama – a man whose 2008 presidential campaign Clinton once referred to as a “fairy tale” – in advocating for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, a bill he signed into law in 1996. Clinton, in an op-ed published March 7th, writes “it was a very [...]
“I will speak until I can no longer speak,” said U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican. “I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a [...]
