G. Tracy Mehan III
Saints be praised! The University of Notre Dame has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its now infamous mandate requiring religious institutions and their insurers to pay for abortifacients, sterilization and contraception in violation of their rights of…
Mitt Romney’s campaign is making great headway, closing with Barack Obama during this lovely month of May. It is one thing when Rasmussen’s tracking poll puts Romney up by 2 points for May 11-14. Rasmussen is every Republican’s favorite pollster….
In George Will’s syndicated column, he celebrates his son Jon’s 40th birthday which is today. Jon has Down syndrome. With this gem, Will celebrates Jon’s life and the lives of so many other similar Americans who have enriched the lives…
Earth Day is getting interesting. Discussions on conservation and environmentalism have gone cosmic. Some argue that much of the contentiousness of environmental politics, especially the divide between economics and environmentalism, represents the New Holy Wars. Since the days of Gifford…
As I have recently written, my wife and I embarked on a combined pilgrimage-vacation to Rome, the Eternal City. We returned home by way of Madrid for what was my first visit. Our main object was to feed our inner…
What do you call a city with a jail named Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven)? For the last 3,000 years, you call it Rome. Forty years had passed since I had last visited Rome, broke and hitchhiking through Europe the…
Maybe it is time for Senator Santorum and Speaker Gingrich to “take one for the team,” to use the former’s phraseology. I know that is easy for me to say, a Romney supporter since before the Iowa caucus. Santorum recently…
The growth of the private land trust movement in the United States has often been cited as a premier example of Alexis de Tocqueville’s insight regarding the American genius for forming voluntary associations to achieve common goals, avoiding both the…
Focusing and sharpening his economic policy yesterday, Mitt Romney released his comprehensive tax reform plan which substantially cuts marginal tax rates without falling prey to the deficits-don’t-matter syndrome which has come to typify many Republicans these days. Both supply-siders and…
It is not often that one sees Ernest Hemingway cited in an article on the federal budget and fiscal situation. But that is what GOP House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), ranking member of the…
