In today rsquo s primaries the Democratic Party must begin to decide if it wants to be ruled by grown-ups or by self-absorbed Lefties so out-of-touch with mainstream America that you wonder if they ever talk to someone standing next to them at the check-out counter or the gas station A blistering

Yesterday was D-Day Where Phillip II Napoleon and Hitler had foundered the Allies succeeded in forcing the Channel an operation of enormous complexity Churchill spoke to the House of Commons at noon that day and said So far the commanders who are engaged report that everything is proceeding a

The Tablet of London not Brooklyn arrived late this week due to Memorial Day and I arrived late to reading it because of the extra research having lost a day of work to the holiday If you do not read the Tablet you should go online now and subscribe and not only because I happen to have the co

Regular readers will know of the high regard in which I hold Father David O rsquo Connell CM the President of the Catholic University of America for the past 12 years Evidently my opinion is shared by Pope Benedict XVI who named O rsquo Connell this morning as the Coadjutor Bishop of Trenton Ne

The President gave a forceful speech in Pittsburgh yesterday calling for Congress to move forward on climate change legislation and linking the need for that legislation with the nightmare unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico That link is obvious and the President was brave to bring it up because pol

Archbishop Thomas Wenski was installed yesterday as the new Archbishop of Miami He is known largely for two things the fact that he drives a motorcycle and the fact that he is fluent in Spanish and Haitain Creole having worked with those communities all of his life At the Mass in which he took p

Rand Paul is the gift that keeps on giving The would-be non-politician politician has established himself as a principled man willing to take bold stands to tell the truth a modern day Mr Smith dressed up in libertarian garb He and his Tea Party crowd aim to throw out the bums who have betraye

Our friends at Catholics United issued a press release yesterday announcing that they had dropped off a petition at the chancery offices of the Archdiocese of Boston The petition reads simply ldquo To His Eminence Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley We the undersigned believe that every child should

The President will hold a press conference later today Many of the questions will not doubt focus on the administration rsquo s response to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico That response has been fitful uncoordinated and unsuccessful so the President deserves to be grilled on what he will be

From the Religious Illiteracy Department Last night on his MSNBC television show Keith Olbermann taunted a Republican candidate - I forget where the candidate was from - who claimed he had seen the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona Okay so that is a bit bizarre But then Olbermann made this joke