The new film Miracle in East Texas tells a true story of redemption that took place during the East Texas oil strike of the Great Depression. Available in theaters on Oct. 29 and 30, the film features Sam Sorbo alongside…
Here’s how bad it has gotten. In a small Republican-leaning town, in a Trump +20 county, the local library board felt free to “disinvite” from speaking a mainstream conservative author with a dozen C-SPAN Book-TVs under his belt. That author…
A prophet is without honor in his hometown. A classic case is found in the continued refusal of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to restore the name of Fredric March to a university theatre. Fredric March was one of the greatest…
Among observant Jews, we do not listen to music during the Three Weeks in the Hebrew calendar from 17 Tamuz to the Ninth of Av, the period when the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar ransacked Jerusalem and burned the First Beit HaMikdash, the…
On Oct. 3, 1992, Irish pop activist Sinéad O’Connor turned a nice invitation to sing a song on Saturday Night Live into an ugly moment of cultural-political division. The angry “artist” hoisted a photo of Pope John Paul II, one…
Country star Jason Aldean recently experienced backlash after releasing the music video for his song “Try That In A Small Town,” which lambasts the mob violence of Black Lives Matter and Antifa and calls out the poor handling of riots…
Every couple of days, an email shows up in my inbox from a new online publication called the American Postliberal. Its creators have dubbed it an outlet for promoting “Catholic political realism,” and its contributors publish articles on a range…
What we begin with today involves the scandal — we’re not allowed to call it a scandal, but it’s surely one — at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Or perhaps it’s better put as the latest and most grotesque element of the…
The University of Pennsylvania proudly says that it was founded by Benjamin Franklin, who also chaired its governing board in its formative years. That famed colonial polymath and Founding Father would no doubt be unhappy if he saw what leaders…