Republican Brown Gaining in Mass. Senate Race
Even in the Republican Tsunami of 1994, the Grand Old Party did not really come close to taking the U.S. Senate seat ordained in perpetuity for the Kennedy family...
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Liberals and the Fog of ‘Choice’
I recently attended a "meet and greet" in my city with U.S Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) who is a candidate for U. S. Senate this year. The Congressman talked...
Boston College and Its Radical Feminist ‘Catholic’
For those who had not noticed, Mary Daly died last Friday. Daly was a feminist theologian who taught for 35 years at Jesuit-run Boston College in Massachusetts. She was,...
The King Still Works for Uncle Sam
Great legends are often built on the ashes of someone's destruction — whether figurative or literal. Competition is often a zero-sum game. One man's moment of triumph is another's...
In Abortion Fight, Stupak’s Not Nelson
Congressional battles are about who gets what, it is sometimes said, while presidential elections are about who and what we are as a people. One of the issues to...
Dodd Drops Out of Senate Race
U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn., picture at left) is expected to announce this morning that he will not be a candidate for a sixth term in the Senate, thus...
Wall Street Bonuses Boost Big Government
It may be hard for most Americans to swallow, but some people defend huge bonuses given to Wall Street executives as good for business. Gov. David Paterson of New...
Deficit “Hawks” Face Hypocrisy Charge
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in the 19th Century. Small minds, at least those belonging to the ruling class in...
Christianity and Salvation
There is a saying about well-intentioned but misguided friends that takes on a special meaning this time of year: "God save me from my friends — I can protect...
Weapons Banned at NH State House
A "civil discourse" requires the disarming of citizens when they enter the State House, according to the President of the New Hampshire Senate. Senate President Sylvia Larsen (D-Concord) defended...
American Czars
It may be considered a strange case of “Back to the Future,” halfway around the world. Twenty years after the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the apparent...
Effort Continues to Oust “Safe Schools Czar”
Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) is not giving up his effort to have Kevin Jennings fired as President Obama's "school safety czar," despite not having received a reply from the...
Voters Prefer Tea Party to GOP
If the conservative Tea Party rebellion should move from the soapbox to the ballot box, it might well beat the Republican Party, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey....
GOP Hawks Love Obama’s War Talk
The world of American politics has witnessed an interesting role reversal over the past couple of weeks. Barack Obama's most ardent liberal supporters are disappointed, in some cases bitterly,...
Pawlenty in NH Rips Potomac ‘Ponzi Scheme’
Accusing Democrats in Washington of running "a Ponzi scheme on the Potomac," Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty made his first foray into New Hampshire since he campaigned for the McCain-Palin...
Book Review: Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue”
“I love to write, but not about myself,” wrote Sarah Palin on page 409 of a book that is almost entirely about herself. Going Rogue is subtitled “An American...
Big Government Still Bipartisan
Remember the famous declaration of victory in the never-ending battle against Big Government? It was made by none other than Bill Clinton himself: "The era of big government is...
Time for a “Charitable Anathema”
A Republican lawyer in my fair city once told me he is a "moderate" on economic issues and conservative on social issues, which is the opposite of the switch-hitting...
UConn’s Huskies Steal ND’s Thunder
Tears, tears for old Notre Dame! That's how the national news media, that "herd of independent minds," is playing the big sports story of last weekend, perhaps the biggest...
He Isn’t Christ the Senior Adviser
For all that we proclaim our love of "democracy" and regard monarchs as relics of the past, at all times and in various ways we show our desire for...