Opinion

Making Noise, Not Arguments

by Jennifer Morse August 2, 2012

In my work as a social conservative, I have been puzzled by some of the rhetorical strategies of my opponents. Sometimes I feel my head spinning, as if I have been going around in circles, with no obvious conclusion in…

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Top 10 Things Government Can Do for Small Business Owners

by Keith Koffler July 31, 2012

I own a small business – the one you are reading – and have worked in many others over the course of my career. So I was, you can imagine, a little surprised to hear from President Obama about the…

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Food Stamps: Provide a Safety Net, Not a Mattress

by Ken Connor July 18, 2012

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” -Acts 20:35 (NIV)

Government…

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Immigration: He Who Is Without Sin

by John B. Londregan July 12, 2012

Just in time for the presidential election, the Obama administration has issued a directive cutting back on enforcement of immigration law. To the extent that this order can survive a challenge in the Supreme Court, it is something Obama could…

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How Will the Church Respond to the Mandate?

by Paul Wilson July 9, 2012

The recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (commonly termed Obamacare) quashed the hopes of faithful Catholics that the Obama administration’s contraception mandate would be immediately repealed by the Supreme Court. The Catholic Church and the Obama…

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The Obamacare Decision: A Mixed Bag

by Dr. John Sparks July 9, 2012

The case that received more media attention and more consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court than any in recent history has been decided. The 5-4 decision upheld the “individual mandate,” the central feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…

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Thomas Jefferson: American Enigma

by Dr. Warren Throckmorton July 5, 2012

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This week we celebrate the…

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Are We Being Too Hard On John Roberts?

by Ken Connor July 5, 2012

“Members of this court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments.  Those decisions are entrusted to our nation’s leaders, who can be thrown out of office…

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Who’s to Blame? Catholics.

by Dr. Paul Kengor July 2, 2012

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Within an hour of the Supreme Court’s decision on Obama-care, I got an email from LifeNews.com. “The Supreme Court has … [upheld] the Obamacare law that pro-life groups regard as the biggest expansion of abortion and…

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Can Catholics Vote Libertarian?

by Joe Fulwiler July 2, 2012

We Catholics all know that the Church is bigger than any one political party, bigger even than a single nation or political system.  It is a commonplace that many Catholics in the United States tend to vote for the Democrats…

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