Opinion

The Disoriented Catholic Left

by George Weigel April 27, 2012

One does wonder, sometimes, just what goes on at Catholic News Service (CNS), an agency that wouldn’t exist were it not for the U.S. bishops and the bishops’ conference. This past April 16, CNS distributed a lengthy interview with Rep.…

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Why I Am Not a Libertarian

by Nathan Schlueter April 10, 2012

The contemporary Tea Party Movement, like its revolutionary ancestor, looks to principles for guidance. Yet an old but active fault line runs just beneath the surface of the movement that has the potential to cause a fatal rupture. Tea Partiers…

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President Obama: Time to Try Again on Trayvon

by James Locke April 3, 2012

Can anyone, anywhere, please ask President Obama to speak to the country, invoke Lincoln and appeal to “the Better Angels of our Nature?”
We need it. Now.
It’s time for you to speak about the Trayvon Martin tragedy again.
On…

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Shut Up and Obey the Leftists

by Matt Barber April 2, 2012

Liberal theologian William Ellery Channing once observed, “The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”
War has indeed been declared. Channing’s contemporary…

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A Mile Wide and a Foot Deep

by Fr. George W. Rutler March 26, 2012

Lent is a time for serious thinking. That does not mean morose thinking. Quite the opposite. Melancholia and even despair issue from living life superficially without engaging the profound mysteries that God sets before us. Serious thinking means that we…

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Obama Visits An Oil Field!

by Keith Koffler March 23, 2012

With gasoline prices marching north, President Obama next week will take a break from worshipping the sun and putting his finger to the wind when he actually highlights energy projects that provide lots of energy.
The White House is desperate…

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Bursting the Green Energy Bubble

by Mark W. Hendrickson March 21, 2012

Realizing that his popularity may decline as the price of gasoline rises, President Obama is barnstorming the country, emphatically insisting that drilling for more oil isn’t the cure for high gas prices and that wind and solar energy represent our…

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Sergeant Bales: America Revisits My Lai

by Harold Fickett March 19, 2012

Afghanistan was the good war.  The United States was clearly pursuing its national interest by deposing a Taliban-led government that gave Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda the safe-haven from which they launched the 9/11 attacks.  Side-benefits included freeing the…

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The Evil of War

by Michael Cook March 14, 2012

Could the dreadful murders of 16 civilians by a rogue American soldier in the Khandahar province of Afghanistan do some good? Perhaps it will finally sear into voters’ minds the awareness that whether you are with the good guys or…

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Free Beer Mandate

by Christopher Manion March 10, 2012

It all started at the Tune Inn. The age-old dive on Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast has been the launching pad for countless forays into “innovative policy initiatives,” and this one was no exception. A few Capitol Hill staff alumni had gathered…

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