The farm bills now before Congress… attest, if nothing else, to the inertia of politics. There is no “public interest” (a phrase often meaningless in Washington) in having government subsidize farmers. Food would be produced without subsidies. — Robert Samuelson, author…
One of the selling points for comprehensive immigration reform is the claimed benefits of granting a special kind of green card to all foreign students earning advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This argument is being made…
Saturday I dropped by a friend’s home in McLean, Virginia, to watch a bit of half-court basketball and talk a little politics with Ken Cuccinelli, our state Attorney General and Republican candidate for governor. Evidently, the campaign decided to allocate…
The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, is currently offering a special exhibition on the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. There you will find a blow-up of a famous photograph of less than a dozen veterans of…
Consider a time, six decades ago, when the rate of Sunday Mass attendance for Catholics in the United States was 75 percent. Eighty percent went to confession yearly or more. Archbishop Fulton Sheen topped the television ratings in prime time….
We need to be re-educated in wonder and in the ability to recognize the beauty made manifest in created realities.—Pope Benedict XVI, Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, September 30, 2010 Pope Francis offered a homily at his inaugural Mass which centered…
In an opening scene of Brian Helgeland’s moving film, 42, Branch Rickey, the famous president of the Brooklyn Dodgers and played by Harrison Ford, is reviewing files of potential black baseball players whom he might bring into major league baseball…
President Obama has released his new budget which, while offering a modest reform of Social Security, universally denounced by the Left, does nothing of consequence on Medicare or Medicaid. It is more of the same in the view of no…
“If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our…