The President Missed It

He is a big opportunity, this President. Lots of people can’t get past making him the object of their discontent. Sometimes he makes it easy to criticize. But this conversation is not about all the current hubbub in the world of Comey, Russia and Mr. Schumer...
Mrs. Pelosi and the Pope

Mrs. Pelosi and the Pope

“We have to pass this law to find out what is in it.” Yes, that was Nancy Pelosi advising the nation on why Obamacare had to pass in the middle of the night with no time to read the 2400+-page disaster. Now the Republicans are moving forward with a roughly...
The Sad Truth

The Sad Truth

There is a lot more work to do. Yes, we tried to remind everyone that Congress governs the nation. We tried to expose the fallacy that a single election of a President would fix it all. The delusion of our media-driven idolatry dies hard. And it is hardly dead yet....

A Prayer From the Medieval World

A few years ago a friend of mine who is Roman Catholic gave me a bookmark to put in my Bible (I have umpteen dozen bookmarks stuffed in various Bibles I use.) This bookmark has a prayer written by St. Francis of Assisi. The marker says he would pray this before a...

The History Erasers

I have just read that the city council of New Orleans has finally begun the removal of a memorial and three statues that they deem offensive. The memorial is to the Battle of Liberty Place (a bloody riot between the “Crescent City White League” and New...

Giovanni Francesco Bernardone

I usually read about six or seven books at once. I can’t help it. So, right now I am also reading Thomas Cahill’s “Mysteries of the Middle Ages” in which he tells several fascinating stories about real people in real cities in the Medieval...