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There is a link on the Drudge Report of a story in The Daily News of President Obama returning from Capitol Hill and walking into a window, thinking it was a door.  Whenever President Bush did something like this, it was shown on every cable news show and was the fodder for a week of jokes on [...]

As a resident of the District of Columbia I noticed the past few weeks an uptick in campaign style posters advocating “Statehood for DC Now.”  I guess with the election of Barack Obama and the Democratic control of Congress, proponents of statehood think they have a good chance of success.  The whole problem with this [...]

That didn’t take long.  Not in office two days and President Obama has already signed an executive orderreversing a ban on federal funding for non-governmental organizations working outside the U.S. that offer abortions or abortion counseling.  Not only that but he did it on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  At the same time President Obama signed [...]

This past week, many newspapers, magazines, and blogs have rendered their verdict on the presidency of George W. Bush:  He was the worst ever.  The stories use the well-worn complaints that he:  lied about Iraq; advocated torture; illegally wiretapped American citizens; and he should be tried for war crimes.  (There were also many domestic initiatives [...]

A recent article in The Washington Post described an incident where a 27 year-old college student/environmentalist attended an auction of drilling rights on federal lands.  The student bid on tracts of land in the hope of driving up the price oil companies would have to pay.  He ended up entering the highest bid on a [...]

President-elect Obama said recently that this year’s fiscal budget deficit will near one trillion dollars and warns of “trillion dollar deficits for the years to come.”  I guarantee the new president and the Democrats will blame President Bush for these deficits because he handed over to President Obama a faltering economy.  I agree with that assessment, but [...]

The Senate today refused to seat Roland Burris as the replacement for President-elect Obama’s Senate seat.  The reason is Mr. Burris was chosen by the scandal ridden Illinois governor Blagojevich.  Mr. Burris was not allowed to take the oath of office because he did not provide the secretary of the Senate the proper credentials, i.e. they lacked the signature [...]

I was reading an exerpt from Archbishop Charles Chaput’s book Render Unto Ceasar and he wrote something I thought was very profound: The challenge to American bishops as teachers is most forcefully shown by the mail many of us receive from our people in the pews.  Quite a few American Catholics feel comfortable in the [...]