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The Terrible Mercy of Bishop Budde
For decades, the mainstream media and Hollywood justifiably have called out the Catholic Church for scandals involving the sexual exploitation of children by members of the church’s hierarchy. For example, the 2015 film Spotlight…
Why Trump’s firing the HUD Inspector General was Justified
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with investigating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Per the OIG, HUD has not met its mission for at least the last sixteen years.…
We Need A Great Reset In Our Dealings With China
It is fitting that as President Trump was reinaugurated, elites opposed to him met in Davos, Switzerland, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum (WEF). None other than then Prince Charles (now King), one of the architects of WEF,…
Trump: Master of Style and Substance
Once upon a time, substance was all that mattered. Achievers didn't drumbeat their accomplishments because the work spoke for itself. Those high standards gradually devolved; style mattered as much as substance. Perhaps the advent…
Decades of Lies from the Left
A short video from 2021 of Avi Horowitz interviewing students at Yale University was recently re-posted by Prager Univ. The students in the video found the idea of getting rid of our U.S. Constitution to be plausible and…
An Object Lesson in Coddling Insane Murderers
A “cannibal” who killed a homeless man and ate his eyes and brain was committed in 2013 to Connecticut’s custody for a term of 60 years, then released from the secure facility where he had been housed on “temporary leave” to a group home in…
Auschwitz’s Brutal Lesson
The stench of decaying flesh still lingered in the barracks of Auschwitz the day I visited in 1987. The rooms with the hair and the teeth and the glasses of the victims of this despicable extermination camp caused me to run out and vomit…
Walls of Fear: Gated Communities and a Fragmenting Society
Some social trends have been around for a while, sitting quietly alongside more noticeable shifts in how we live. But these trends can suddenly come to the fore via a statistic that makes us realize they were not sitting so quietly.The one…
The 12-Team College Football Playoff Is Absurd
In the flurry of news items coming out of the presidential inauguration, one of them stands out for its uniqueness: J.D. Vance’s complaint, a few days before being sworn in as vice president, that he would prefer to have spent the evening…
Being a Witness to the ‘American Miracle’ That Has Played Out Over the Past 16 Years
On the morning of Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration, the former- and soon-to-be current president, along with his wife Melania, stopped by the White House. Awaiting the Trumps’ arrival were the current residents, Joe Biden and his wife…