October 16, 2016

Pope Francis’s Policy toward Islam Makes Sense

Pope Francis’s approach to dealing with Islam is not the bad policy some seem to think it is.

March 27, 2016

Why We Are Here

The past 2000 years comprise a sorry record of humanity wildly fleeing from the words that tell us the proper way to live. 

January 3, 2016

Debating the Nature of God

Since Muslims have a vastly different understanding of the nature of God, as ’revealed’ by Muhammed, they are, in effect, worshiping a different God.

December 30, 2015

When the Takers Make More than the Makers

Is it any wonder why Democrats and even some not so conservative members of the GOP are so fond of Big Government? 

December 25, 2015

A Cafeteria Christmas

But for most people the idea of Santa Claus never goes away.

September 20, 2015

Stirring the Pot in Preparation for the Pope's Visit

The legacy media is trying desperately to paint the Pope as a progressive/liberal whose “positions” are antithetical to conservative or Republican positions.

June 13, 2015

Francis is not the Left's Pope

The Left has finally realized that Pope Francis is not the progressive they hoped he was, and that apart from encouraging dialogue he is not going to be changing Catholic Doctrine after all. 

April 7, 2015

Republicans Behaving Like Democrats

If the states really are laboratories of democracy, the GOP needs to start coming up with much better scientists to run the experiments.

January 25, 2015

Old Religious Hatreds Die Hard

If he were alive today, James Blaine might be kicking himself over his shortsightedness, along with the Protestant leaders who thought they were protecting Protestant schools from incursions by ‘the papists’ by adopting Blaine Amendments -- now being used to block true school choice

January 23, 2015

Actions that the 114th Congress Needs to Take

The 114th Congress needs to get down to business, but so far indications are that there is more than a little disagreement within the ranks of the GOP on exactly what to do and how best to do it.

January 18, 2015

Why the Left Wants Conservatives to View Francis as a Liberal

Conservative writers and news and opinion sites are falling right into the trap the left has set concerning Pope Francis.

October 23, 2014

The Truth about the Synod

You'd think that the media would get a story about the Catholic Church right for once, just as a matter of statistics...

October 10, 2014

Maybe it's All About Integrity

Given the dishonesty and lack of moral principles many of our elected and some of the wannabe elected leaders exhibit, it’s not that difficult to make a case that protecting the integrity of government may be something of a lost cause.   

October 8, 2014

Two Approaches to Fighting Poverty

Paul Ryan and Joseph Kennedy explain it all for us.

March 10, 2014

A Sane Immigration Policy

Because so many people hold such strong ideological views today, there’s pretty much no way any solution to the immigration problem is going to make everyone happy.

March 9, 2014

A Good Year for the Pope

Pope Francis is well liked . . . but liberals may end up disappointed.

December 29, 2013

Conservatism and Social Justice

The 19th century Jesuit thinker Luigi Taparelli has a lot to say to today's conservatives.

December 26, 2013

Business and the Gospels

So far in the history of the world, no economic system yet devised meets the needs of society as well as capitalism. But that is not to say that it is a perfect system.

December 1, 2013

What the Pope Really Said

The media -- boith legacy and online -- has pretty much ignored what Pope Francis actually said in his exhortation Evangelii Gaudium.