Religious liberty should have precedence
It is nearly axiomatic that presidential elections tend to shine a harsh light on conservative Christians, inasmuch as they are viewed as the Republican Party's base and are, therefore, deemed...
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A matter of differing perception
In the growing national debate over fatal police shootings of black men, perception seems to be black and white. Comments about recent events in Baltimore following the death of Freddie...
Fear of free speech is growing
True words are often said in jest, it has long been said. But a harsher idiom has been taking shape in recent years: Jest is becoming the only way to...
The gyrocopter pilot had a point
When postal worker Doug Hughes — otherwise known as the gyrocopter dude — landed his gizmo on the west lawn of the Capitol, he wasn't worried about being shot down,...
Hillary Clinton: The Year of the Woman Trap
Here we go. If you're a woman who might prefer someone other than Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States, you're a self-loathing, anti-woman traitor. Already, women...
The latest chapter of ‘Hillary and the Media’
The latest chapter of 'Hillary and the Media' Amid all the verbiage about Hillary Clinton's email, one irrefutable fact emerges — polls will drive us crazy before the Clintons do....
Twitter as America’s conscience
Denizens of social media were rankled during last Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast when actor Sean Penn made a crack about Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and green cards. Or...
Wordsmithing war
Channel-surfing the nightly cable news, one is reminded that certitude is the enemy of sanity. On both Fox News and MSNBC, conversation has centered lately on the proposed war against...
America being pulled into another war
There's a very 2001 feel to President Obama's request for authorization to use military force and the nauseating sense that we'll be at war indefinitely. Although we haven't suffered a...
Seeking a vaccine for ignorance
Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled the sun. We find this historical...