Holy Cross College Dishonors Its Heritage
Holy Cross’s administration has failed in its charge to educate the college’s students to respect and honor our country’s history and constitutional principles.
The Case Against Early Voting
In the recent election, 34 states authorized some form of “early voting” — by mail and/or at specially designated advance polling locations — for any and all citizens who chose ...
Our Man in Havana?
Despite the presumptive nominee’s mantra of “change we can believe in,” the Democratic National Convention is taking on a decidedly retro look, with the Clintons, John Kerry, Al Gore, and ...
A Deficiency of Hope
Today’s Democrats like to portray themselves as the party of “progress,” possessed of “the audacity of hope” — and their Republican opponents as stodgy defenders of the status quo, offering ...
Goosebumps on the Trail
A young New Hampshire voter interviewed earlier this month on NPR’s All Things Considered explained her enthusiasm for Barack Obama thus: “he gives me goosebumps. I don’t often get that ...
Radical Old Man
How does an aging “black revolutionary” spend his golden years? If you’re Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther party, now 70 years old, you can make out very well ...
Deconstructing the Lincoln Memorial
Presidents’ Day, as older Americans will recall, is a watered-down substitute for the February celebrations that used to mark the birthdays of our country’s two greatest presidents, George Washington and ...
Defenders of Intolerance, Enemies of Free Speech
If there is one thing that militant Islamists will not tolerate, it is the charge that they are intolerant. Back in 2005, it will be recalled, the publication by a ...
The Price of Protection
Holy Cross College is a premier American institution of higher learning. It has an outstanding faculty and highly motivated student body. Unfortunately, over the last two years, the college has ...
Newdow’s New Cause
Michael Newdow is at it again. The California lawyer-physician–who sued to have the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that having his daughter recite ...