The Right Needs to Take Language Seriously
The Left’s ideas receive a major boost in ubiquity and apparent credibility because progressives control nearly all of the America’s major taste-making institutions: Hollywood, the […]
God Bless Alabama
Each one of the more than 50 million abortions committed in the United States since the Supreme Court’s abysmal decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) […]
The Administrative State Poisons Everything It Touches
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] The sprawling, unaccountable administrative state is strangling America and […]
Violating the Confessional Will Make Bad Catholics and Bad Americans
California legislators want to force Catholic priests to break the sacramental seal of confession and reveal what penitents disclose in cases of suspected child abuse […]
‘Small Government’ Is Dead, Long Live Limited Government!
In his 1996 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton announced a political course correction, declaring “the era of big government is over.” It […]
Why Is Trump Folding on Judges?
Appearances are a large part of politics, and to the average American, President Trump appeared to cave ignominiously to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and […]
Cuomo Excommunicado
The New York State Legislature on Tuesday night passed the Reproductive Health Act (“RHA”), which legalized abortion in New York State up to the moment […]
MAGA and the Pro-Life Movement Need Each Other
Many MAGA adherents may think pro-lifers are whiny or too focused only on abortion. But without the right to life, the reinvigoration of a recognition […]
Establishment Republicans Want the Pro-Life Movement Dead
Just a few days before Christmas, departing Ohio Governor John Kasich decided to play a disappointing Santa and put a massive lump of coal in […]
Why (Most) Right-Wing Intellectuals Hate Trump
More than two years into President Trump’s historic presidency, it behooves us to think more deeply about a persistent sticking point in the political life […]
Ultimate Take: ‘Die Hard’ Is Not a Christmas Movie
Let’s put this silly debate to rest, once and for all. To insist that a mere action movie is actually a Christmas movie is nothing […]
Trump Is Right About the Shutdown
President Trump once again did something very few thought he would or should do. He hosted a meeting in a camera-filled Oval Office with Vice […]
Pass the Turkey, Bigot
Ah, the holiday season. A time to litter Instagram with literally thousands of pumpkin spice latte and freshly fallen snow pics, images whose purpose is […]
In Europe, ‘Hate Speech’ is the New Blasphemy
In Europe, calling the prophet Muhammad a “pedophile” is not protected speech, at least according to the European Court of Human Rights, the continent’s highest […]
Trump Actually Is Virtuous—Where it Counts
It’s no secret that the American polity really doesn’t care about, nor does it fully understand, the role or demands of classical virtue—and that it […]
The Opening Statement Kavanaugh Should Deliver
Mr. Chairman, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to set the record straight and clear my name. Senators, I would begin by categorically stating […]
#MeToo Madness and the Court
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday released a statement indicating that Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh stood accused by an unknown someone of […]
Polarization Over Kavanaugh Is a Good Thing
The heated polarization over Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court is a sign that the country is ripe for a serious reckoning with what […]
Trump Is Slowly But Surely Reining in the Administrative State
Partisans of an “objective, non-partisan” civil service should be very nervous; rule of law supporters should be ecstatic. Why? Because the administrative state is now […]
Media Bias Part… Well, Who’s Even Counting Anymore?
Americans don’t trust the media—and with good reason, as we learned earlier today. Take just the latest bit of fake news to have been cyber-vomited […]