September 11th feels like yesterday. The towers on fire. The buildings collapsing on live TV. The Pentagon hit. The horror of Flight 93. The sense that war was upon us and nowhere was safe. In the days following, here in…
That St. Teresa of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) could never, ever have qualified for the U.S. presidency is a blessing weighing nearly as heavily in her favor as does the plenitude of good works that led to her canonization. The U.S….
Celebrated British columnist Michael Wharton (“Peter Simple”of the Daily Telegraph) once wrote to the effect that the Anglican Church seemed determined to drag itself down to a level so far beneath contempt that there was no expression to adequately describe…
Someone posted one of those memes on Facebook recently. A picture with a quotation. I didn’t write it down verbatim, and I don’t remember the name of the person quoted, because, to be perfectly honest, I have no wish to…
Tried by Fire: The Story of Christianity’s First Thousand Years William J. Bennett (Thomas Nelson, 496 pages, 32.99) For decades Bill Bennett has cobbled together books of significant value for a Western world gone increasingly barking mad. Whether writing about…
As you no doubt know by now a truck drove through a crowd of pedestrians celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. The driver also shot at people as he proceeded through the crowd. According to French President Francois Hollande, 80 people…
Sacramento During a recent stroll around the west steps of the state Capitol, I eyed a group of “Yes California Independence Campaign” handing out the state flag. The flag contains a wonderful image of a bear that harkens back to…
Standing in front of European Parliament last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas once again accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians, this time claiming that Palestinians were suffering mass-murder on a scale “the likes of which have never…
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist By Larry Alex Taunton (Nelson Books, 201 pages, $14.99) It’s legitimate to ask why any writer or reader would be interested in the faith of Christopher…
Federal government contracting is big business, really big. Last year close to half a trillion of your tax dollars were awarded to the private sector to perform services for the government in defense, energy, health, veterans affairs, homeland security, and…
