by | Sep 14, 2018

A coalition of business groups is fighting back against President Trump’s tariffs, issuing a letter to members of Congress urging them to act against the taxes. “We…strongly encourage Congress to exercise its oversight role on trade policy matters to prevent…

by | Sep 13, 2018

Heads-up play is poker at its most basic, yet it’s also among the trickiest aspects of the game. If you’re predictable when facing only one opponent, you’re going to get beat. (And when I mean only one opponent, I mean…

by | Sep 7, 2018

If there was ever any question why Harvard University officials adamantly opposed the Trump administration’s rescinding of Obama-era guidelines for race-based admissions decisions, the answer is now clear. Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard — set to go to trial October 15…

by | Sep 7, 2018

How we long for the good old days! That is the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about the Interior Department’s interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. One writer carped that…

by | Sep 7, 2018

The Trump economy is quite the party. Stocks are soaring, jobs are easy to come by, and incomes continue to rise across the U.S. Yet, September’s IBD/TIPP poll, one of only two polls to correctly predict the 2016 election, is…

by | Sep 6, 2018

The “what if?” questions of fact and fiction fascinate authors. Any good “what if” is enough to cause a writer to drift off into an hour-long reverie. What if Sherlock Holmes hunted Jack the Ripper? What if Hitler had not…

by | Sep 3, 2018

New York Times columnist Timothy Egan chose to confront the widening scandal within the Catholic church — namely, the allegation that Pope Francis’s power base is a homosexual cabal within the Vatican, leading him to advance known pederasts — by…

by | Sep 2, 2018

Is it civil to settle scores at John McCain’s funeral? As with so many things #Resistance, the opponents to President Trump answer incivility with worse incivility. This from Ana Navarro, for example, is disgusting: Damn! We’re only two eulogies into…

by | Aug 31, 2018

I have discovered the DC archdiocesan safe house where Theodore McCarrick stashed Cardinal Law in 2003 before Law’s soft landing in Rome. The swings are an ironic touch. The house is in Clinton, Maryland on Wolverton Lane. The home is…

by | Aug 29, 2018

I went over to the Vatican embassy today in Washington. It looked like a ghost town.    But I finally detected some stirring of souls at the embassy, after waving at the security cameras and ringing the chancery doorbell. Might…

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