Earlier today, aboard Air Force One, Obama press secretary Jay Carney called out Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo in these terms, regarding the pending sequester: MR. CARNEY: … Unfortunately, on the other side of the ledger, we’ve seen comments, as we…

Two days before Ash Wednesday, in what is surely an unprecedented move in modern times, the Vatican has just announced that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, for reasons of diminishing energy and strength. An enclave will meet…

“…as if a right to free contraception were now a constitutional right and we have to bargain with the genuinely constitutional right of freedom of religion in order to see to see where we’re going to go. That’s bad precedent…”…

These are head-scratching times. Last I checked, the Republican Party controls the House, yet from all appearances and expectations its leaders there act as if they were in charge of a minority, happily deferring to the Democratic Senate to settle…

On the eve of today’s annual March for Life today marking the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Cardinal J. Francis Stafford in this interview laments how the Supreme Court’s Roe “intervention” changed not only America, but American Catholic thinking…

It couldn’t happen to a nicer gal. Long after most everyone else did — though tell that to the Golden Globes crowd, whom she entertained as co-host last Sunday night and joined in honoring the HBO anti-Palinesque Game Change movie, amid…

Has Barack Obama been channeling Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs? “Despite campaigning as a leader for a pathway to citizenship and broad immigration reform,” Roger Pattison writes at PolicyMic, “President Obama set a record for the highest number of deportations…

In death, which came much too early, the great Richard Ben Cramer is being justly, perhaps belatedly praised for his inimitable, brilliantly written and reported take on the 1988 presidential campaign’s many candidates, What It Takes. (I remember purchasing my…

In reporting on John Boehner’s reelection as speaker, the Wall Street Journal uses some curious language when it notes that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California joined “149 other GOP rebels” to…

Back in our June 2009 issue, Andrew Wilson wrote in his piece, “A Ladder to Nowhere: Why WWII-level deficits won’t work today”: To listen to some prominent liberal economists who believe in Keynesian-style “demand management,” the only thing wrong with…