When an opportunity comes to do something good, one must grab
it.
At 2 p.m. central time Thursday afternoon in Mobile, word spread
that U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, a six-term Republican from a dark red
district, would announce that he is resigning mid-term (Aug....
“He has such an early-morning face and such a palpable
desire to please that to bait him would be like kicking a
puppy.”— Liberal columnist Mary McGrory of Ron
Ziegler, 1969
In the beginning, the press loved Ron Ziegler.
As the young Nixon aide...
Until recently, if a pregnant woman wanted to determine the
genetic health of her baby, she had to endure a series of crude and
invasive tests. Early in her second trimester, she would be given a
blood test called the triple screen, which measures levels...
The Obama administration’s attacks on the Constitution have been
aggressive and unrelenting. They have been complemented by
consistent disdain, from Democratic Party elected officials, for
the notion that there are any limits of any sort on the power of...
President Obama offers only weasel words to explain deaths in
Libya and IRS abuses. He’s the master of verbal evasion. House
Republicans need to replace debate with action to hold the
president accountable on these issues.
To get to the bottom of wh...
Back in the days when we had them, declarations of war were
short, simple, and clear. By contrast, the “Authorization for the
Use of Military Force” (from here on AUMF) cobbled together by
Congress and signed by President Bush after 9/11 reads more li...
WASHINGTON —Where are we now in this morass of Obama
Administration scandals? We have the Associated Press imbroglio. We
have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the IRS imbroglio. Well, a
synonym for imbroglio is confusion, and in all the above cases
repla...
There is a scene in Ang Lee’s Civil War film Ride with the
Devil, based on Ozark novelist’s Daniel Woodrell’s
book, where a pack of rebel soldiers are asked why they are
fighting jayhawkers along the Missouri-Kansas border instead of
battling Yanke...
Consider a time, six decades ago, when the rate of Sunday Mass
attendance for Catholics in the United States was 75 percent.
Eighty percent went to confession yearly or more. Archbishop
Fulton Sheen topped the
television ratings in prime time.
There we...
The First Amendment marks out three areas in which the federal
government is limited: no “prohibiting the free exercise” of
religion, no “abridging the freedom of speech or of press,” no
impeding the “right of the people peaceably to assemble, a...
