It was the b.s. spread ’round the Beltway. “We get it,” declared Joe Biden. “We understand why they’re angry.” The vice president then promptly demonstrated he didn’t get it at all or understand a single thing about American discontent. With his next breath, he said the answer to fixing Washington …

On April 28, while speaking in Iowa, President Obama denounced Republicans who “exploited” the immigration issue “for political purposes.” President said Arizona’s new immigration law would “undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans.” He painted an alarming picture: “local officials are allowed to ask somebody who they …

Brother Steve, Brother Rudy and I, along with the “boys in the band,” Steve, Galen, Rob, and Dave, had a day off in Antigo, Wisconsin. I asked Dawn, the front desk lady at the Holiday Inn, for the name of the best restaurant in town. She chuckled to herself softly …

It was inevitable. The race-obsessed media weren’t satisfied calling the right “bigots” and “haters.” So they just kept escalating. They’ve made the presidency of our first African-American commander in chief a referendum on the war — the Civil War. The old-media are so intent with besmirching the right that they’ve …

On Sunday Irish rock star and political activist, Bono offered his commentary as guest columnist on the Opinion pages of The New York Times to tell us that we must rebrand our nation and that Barack Obama is just the man to do it. Now, I’ve written and spoken about …

The Van Jones affair could be an important turning point in the Obama administration if we use it as a window to understand the structure of the left and to stop the huge power-grab now taking place in the name of green jobs. It’s also one of the most significant …

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:35:02 +0000 – Ater the thrashing Republicans took at the polls in 2008 many political analysts speculated that the GOP would be a minority party in Congress for decades to come. And those same pundits predicted that it might also take decades before a Republican would …

Woodstock coincided with my entrance into a Franciscan novitiate on Long Island. Not exactly the typical Age of Aquarius response to Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin”… But a response nonetheless. Woodstock and all it represents was a part of me and my generation and it still is.Woodstock matters. …

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:03:45 +0000 – By Liz PeekFinancial Columnist President Obama hopes to celebrate his first one hundred days in office by signing a $4 trillion budget. Doesn’t that say it all? For many Americans, the prospect of soaring government spending and unprecedented deficits is cause for mourning, …

We need to get special interests out of politics. They spoil everything. For once President Barack Obama is right: special interests are messing up health care reform. “Every time we are in sight of health insurance reform, the special interests fight back with everything they’ve got,” Obama told us. You’ve …