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Ray Nothstine - who has written 15 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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Spiritual Labor and the Big Spill

Posted on 14 July 2010

Many Americans are proud of where they come from; this is no less true of the people of the Gulf Coast. Human interest stories have gripped viewers and readers following the news about the BP oil spill, which often highlights…

America’s Destiny Must Be Freedom

Posted on 05 July 2010

Ralph Waldo Emerson described America as “the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.” Many Americans don’t feel that way as pessimism has replaced a once vibrant optimism about the future. Economic malaise, crippling…

Memorial Day: On Hallowed Ground

Posted on 29 May 2010

When I lived in Hawaii my family visited Punchbowl National Cemetery to see where my grandfather’s high school buddy was buried. He was killed in the Pacific Theatre in World War II. As a child I had two thoughts that…

Book Review: The Battle

Posted on 25 May 2010

At the start of Washington’s unprecedented federal interventionism into the private sector and on the heels of a Newsweek cover heralding that “We Are All Socialists Now,” there was considerable angst that free market defenders had forever lost the public.…

Will Tea Parties Awaken America’s Moral Culture?

Posted on 07 May 2010

Tea parties are changing the face of political participation, but critics of the tea party movement point to these grassroots upstarts as “extreme,” “angry,” “racist” and even “seditious.” Yet The Christian Science Monitor reported that tea party rallies are so…

Will America Help the Persecuted Copts of Egypt?

Posted on 05 February 2010

The violent persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt is becoming harder for the free world to ignore. This is true thanks to thousands of Copts who recently expressed their decades of frustration and anguish in street protests across the globe.…

Haitian Suffering and American Compassion

Posted on 16 January 2010

The devastation in Haiti is heartbreaking. For most of us, it is far too easy to be distracted from the tremendous need right now in Haiti because of our own daily circumstances. In many ways I reacted similarly to Jordan…

America’s Uncontrolled Debt and Spending is the Real ‘Waterloo’

Posted on 24 October 2009

Religious left icon Jim Wallis has popularized the maxim, “budgets are moral documents.” Yet the often repeated declaration is true in a way Wallis hasn’t envisioned, signaling bad news for Washington’s big spenders and those stuck footing the bill. Currently…

The Tax Code: Business as Usual

Posted on 15 April 2009

Campaigning for president, Steve Forbes once remarked: “Some people in Washington say we can’t afford the tax cut [that comes from a flat tax]; well maybe we can no longer afford the politicians.” Forbes’s lack of success in his two…

Speech Codes Limit Campus Freedom

Posted on 04 December 2008

Millions of high school seniors have started the process of deciding which colleges or universities to attend in the next academic year. Prospective students will take into consideration cost, academics, social life, and location. And while many students will also…