Catholic Exchange

We Hold These Truths

• Featured-Small Politics
• Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
• Robert Yates

Whenever the topic of personal liberty is debated, it is unfortunate that the liberty to do evil is often what is at stake. On one side there are libertines, or those who are at best morally indifferent, arguing that morally… Read More

Paul Kengor On Church/State Separation

• Featured-Large Politics
• Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
• Dr. Paul Kengor

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For too long, this country has suffered from a severely misguided understanding of church-state separation, fostered by secular liberals/progressives. And now, those same forces—or… Read More

Obama Fundraising Declines

• Featured-Small Politics
• Thursday, May 17th, 2012
• Keith Koffler

President Obama’s campaign raised $43.6 million in April, a decline from the $53 million it collecting during March, the campaign announced this morning.
The campaign offered no explanation for the drop in fundraising – actually, it didn’t mention the drop.… Read More

Reflections on the French Election

• Featured-Small Politics
• Monday, May 14th, 2012
• Mark W. Hendrickson

The election of Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande to the presidency of France epitomizes the sorry state of contemporary democracy. By that, I don’t mean to imply that the French people should have voted for the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy. Neither… Read More

The Antietam of the Culture War

• Featured-Medium Politics
• Monday, May 14th, 2012
• Pat Buchanan

It took Joe Biden’s public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out.
But after Joe told David Gregory of “Meet the Press” he was “absolutely comfortable” with homosexuals marrying, Barack Obama could not maintain his credibility with the cultural… Read More

Allen West: the New Joe McCarthy?

• Featured-Large Politics
• Friday, May 11th, 2012
• Dr. Paul Kengor

Congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) is being heavily criticized for comments alleging that certain Democratic members of Congress are communists, and he is not backing down. West dared to quantify his accusation, claiming there are “78 to 81” Congressional Democrats who… Read More

U.S. Shutting Out Chinese Activists?

• Featured-Small Politics
• Thursday, May 10th, 2012
• Constance Kong

A “no vacancy” sign has been posted on the gates of the US Embassy and its consulates in China. Two high profile Chinese individuals seeking political asylum – one a blind
dissident, the other a government official fearing for his… Read More

Russia Rising Again?

• Featured-Small Politics
• Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
• George Friedman

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 reversed a process that had been under way since the Russian Empire’s emergence in the 17th century. It was ultimately to incorporate four general elements: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus and… Read More

Obama’s Energy Delusion

• Featured-Large Politics
• Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
• Jarrett Skorup

As spring bloomed, the president addressed the nation on energy. The president told us, “Without our planning for the future, it will get worse … The oil and natural gas that we rely on for 75 percent of our energy… Read More

Obama’s Surprise Visit to Afghanistan

• Featured-Large Politics
• Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
• Keith Koffler

On the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, President Obama is in Afghanistan where he will sign a new partnership agreement with Afghan President Karzai, according to reports.
The agreement will lay out terms for the U.S.-Afghan relationship… Read More