For a nation, a country, a people, a democracy to endure, there needs be a broad consensus of belief, culture, custom and politics. … We are a country whose people have a diminishing confidence in almost all of its institutions, from big business to the churches, universities and media. When …
To love one’s country, Edmund Burke said, one’s country ought to be lovely. It would appear that 1 in 3 Americans, more than 100 million of us, no longer see our country as truly lovely. In Stephen Vincent Benet’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” the tale is told that if …
by FRANCIS P. SEMPA at The American Spectator Let us pay tribute to the late essayist and his brilliant writing for the “Human Life Review.” In 1983, 10 years after the Supreme Court, in what Justice Byron White called an “exercise of raw judicial power” untethered to the Constitution, overturned …
What does this fear that if the Alito decision overturning Roe becomes law, all these other decisions are in peril as well, tell us? It suggests that the national establishment lacks faith that the American people have truly and fully embraced the social reforms that progressives have gotten the Supreme …
Pro-abortion Democrats say a woman’s “right to choose” must remain paramount and sacrosanct. But the “right to choose” what? As President Joe Biden just described it bluntly this week, it is the right to choose to “abort a child.” In February, five Supreme Court Justices voted in camera to overturn …
If we were a Christian nation under Wilson and Truman, when exactly did America cease to be a Christian nation? Here we are on the eve of Christmas, that day of joy set aside for celebrating the birth of Christ who came down to earth 2,000 years ago to show …
With Biden’s numbers underwater overall and on the three major issues — the economy, foreign policy and his handling of the coronavirus — Democrats have to be looking nervously at November 2022. The California recall election turned out well for the Democrats. With Gov. Gavin Newsom sinking in the summer …
Is Biden really saying that minor alterations in election laws, all of which would have to pass muster with federal courts and the Supreme Court, represent an existential threat to our republic? This is beyond hyperbole. It is ridiculous. It is absurd. Traveling to Philadelphia Tuesday, President Joe Biden laid …
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