Millions of Britons headed to the polls today in the closest election in a generation At stake is control of the House of Commons and the chance to form the next government The challenges facing the contenders are considerable a staggering deficit not far behind Greece as a percentage of GDP a

The U.K. faces its closest election in a generation

As of this morning the campaign of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown literally involves a car crash Mr Brown was launching the Labour Party s new poster campaign today in central London when some garbage men were so caught up in heckling him that they forgot to look where they were going No on

Ted Kennedy came close to losing his U S Senate seat only once It was late summer 1994 and a telegenic then-liberal Republican named Mitt Romney had emerged as the perceived anti-Kennedy common-sensible business-like a family man concerned about social issues but not obsessed with them Ke

We might expect a man of eighty-eight one who has lived through the worst of the twentieth century to have a certain gloomy angst about the future of humanity and a reasonable doubt about our essential goodness Such is not the case of Ladislas Orsy S J the world renown professor of law at Geor

The queue to see the relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux formed appropriately enough between the Catholic Truth Society Bookstore and the portable fish and chips stand I say ldquo appropriately rdquo because the experience of seeing Therese rsquo s reliquary last Tuesday night at London rsquo s

The day did not officially begin in the office of Congressman Marty Meehan whom I serfed for in the early 90s without a discussion of that day rsquo s political report from Rowland and Novak Two of the last of the great postwar generation of determined shoe-leather reporters Rowland and Novak h

War can never be understood as a rational exercise, for sin is by definition irrational.

Memo to those who missed this week rsquo s Sotomayor hearings Imagine a cocktail conversation between Hume and Aquinas or Karl Marx and Adam Smith or maybe even Jack Webb and Cheech Marin and you get some idea of what this rigmarole sounded like two people Sotomayor and her G O P interlocutors

Listening to the voice of conscience