The Associated Press reports the following: “A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island’s Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties. Bishop Thomas …

Sat, 16 May 2009 19:41:34 +0000 – For the first time in three decades an American politician is willing to start a conversation that others have avoided since Rove vs. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court in 1972. President Obama made a politically fearless but a politically high-risk move …

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:20:23 +0000 – Those with even short memories remember the media reaction to Republican attempts to revolutionize government. These included everything from tax cuts, to revised regulations to make America more business-friendly and keep jobs here, rather than export them, to eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy and government …

For the month of June, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent for white Americans, and 11.1 percent for African-Americans. Why is this? For decades, well-intentioned policymakers, academics, activists, and advocates have devoted great attention to such disparities between black and white citizens, which …

The Obama administration’s IRS actively attempted to enlist the FBI in its war against the Tea Party. Does anyone still think this is a “phony scandal?” Does the following scenario sound like the United States of America, the land of liberty, or does it sound like a dictatorship, a land …

Karl Rove, the bete noir for Democrats (and some Republicans), has dared to raise questions about Hillary Clinton’s health. The New York Post first reported a conversation between Rove, former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Dan Raviv of CBS News about Mrs. Clinton’s fall and concussion in December …

Here’s a surprising result: Looking purely at the frequency of crashes before and after enactment, new laws that restrict the use of handheld cellphone use (calling and/or texting) while driving produce no recognizable reduction in crashes. So find researchers from the Highway Loss Data Institute, an organization that is funded …

The news that is not White House approved… Nancy’s New Friends House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has never been a big fan of the Tea Party movement. You may remember her saying this last year: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, APRIL 30, 2009: This initiative …

A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Insider Trading Just last week, President Obama selected the members of a new task force on tax reform. One of the people he appointed is Martin Feldstein, a man who has been an AIG board member for 21 years! Among other things, the new …

When there is a financial crisis in my family, we have a budget meeting, we look things over. Maybe this is the same with you — I bet it is. You look at the numbers. And let’s say that you find out that you’ve run up so much debt, that …