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June 2026

June 02, 2026

Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo’s Moral Mandate in 3 Points

I encourage all members of the Church not to be afraid of the present challenges,...

August 2025

August 08, 2025

Jobs Market Crashes. Trump Makes Up His Own Numbers.

The Lying Liar Lied Again Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its regular...

April 2025

April 04, 2025

Markets Melt Down. Congress Can Stop It. If We Make Them.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules,...

April 03, 2025

Trump’s “Liberation Day” is “Liberating” USA from Prosperity

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the...

April 01, 2022

What’s all this talk about the “yield curve”?

What’s all this talk about the “yield curve” and why does it matter to you?...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

It’s the Economy vs the Virus.

WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF, AT THE END OF...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

Riding the Super Bull Market: 7 Points

The stock market has been going up like an express elevator, fueled by a mega...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

What is “Tax Reform” Really About?

Senator Lindsay Graham explained it. The impending “tax reform” must pass. It must pass because...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

The Bishop Must Stand. If the Bishop Fails, All the People Will Run Away

The Synod on the Family has finally adjourned, leaving behind a document for us to...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

The Supreme Court’s War on Government Of, By and For the People

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new...

June 24, 2015

And While We’re At It, Let’s Talk Global Warming

This is my position on global warming: I don't know. How did I arrive at...

June 23, 2015

House Undoes What it Did and Passes Fast Track on Pacific Trade Bill

You just can't get Congress to be Congress anymore. A few days after the United...

June 19, 2015

Fourteen Things Laudato Si Says. Nine Things It Does Not Say.

I'm pretty sure that most of the people who've been snarling and sniping about Pope...

June 18, 2015

Laudato Si is Pope Francis’ Rerum Novarum, or No Wonder Rush Limbaugh Hates the Pope.

Make no mistake about it. Laudato Si is not a wimpy, tip-toe-around-and-don't-offend-anybody encyclical. It's a...

June 16, 2015

Climate Change Crosses Political Lines: What’s a Bishop to Do?

So, Pope Francis has written a soon-to-be-released encyclical on the environment. Long before we got...

June 12, 2015

House Defeats Pacific Trade Fast Track

The United States House of Representatives has defeated the fast track on the Pacific Trade...

June 10, 2015

The Junk Food Fix is More Than One Person’s Bad Choice. It’s an American Problem.

My brave, witty and beautiful colleague, Katrina Fernandez, writes with the uninhibited gusto of a natural...

June 04, 2015

Should Medicare be Forced to Pay for Sex Change Surgery?

UPDATE: I first published this post in 2013. I am publishing it again today because the...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Senate Punts on Obama Trade Deals. The people Lose Again.

The United States Senate once again abrogated its responsibilities in favor of letting the Prez...

May 16, 2015

Surprise! The Catholic Church IS Relevant.

Christian bashers are fond of creating alternate realities and then pretending that they are actual...

May 15, 2015

The Christian Basher in Chief Explains Pope Francis

Christian/Catholic bashers come from all sectors of society. Some of them come from the left....

May 14, 2015

Today, Right Wing Nut Catholic Bashers Attack the Church

Yesterday, we were informed by left wing nut Catholic bashers that the Catholic Church Will...

May 12, 2015

Christianity Declines Sharply in America. Here’s the One, Two Three of It.

Recent polls show a seven percent drop in the past eight years in the number...

April 2015

April 11, 2015

Gay Marriage Activists are Kinda Making My Point

I wrote a post a couple of days ago in which I asked the question...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

America and Its Half Million Homeless Ghosts

They are not people to us. They are ghosts of what once was people like...

March 12, 2015

The R and the D: Destroying America to Win in ’16.

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a stirring speech to a joint session of Congress. Fifty...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

The Bad, Bad Law, IRS, Congress and Stealing from Grandma

If you give the IRS the legal power to seize money without cause, they’re going...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

When Did the Democrats Stop Being the Party of Working People?

Does anybody remember President Obama's State of the Union address? I promised I would talk...

January 21, 2015

Cherry Picking the Prez’ Big Speech

I’ve known for several months now that I had a job of work ahead of...

October 2014

October 06, 2014

Pope Francis: Inequality Between Rich and Poor Threatens Democracy