Last Monday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Pete Aguilar of California placed the name of Democrat Hakeem Jeffries of New York in nomination for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.Aguilar made the simple statement, 鈥淭oday, madam clerk, Democrats are united.鈥漈hat was met with applause.Ironic ...
On Wednesday, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives nominating Kevin McCarthy for the speakership yet again, tried to spin the matter by reminding people that 鈥渄emocracy is messy.鈥淒emocracy is messy by design,鈥� said Wisconsin鈥檚 Mike Gallagher. 鈥淎nd that鈥檚 a ...
From all those lists of best books of 2022, here鈥檚 one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It鈥檚 鈥淭he Myth of American Inequality,鈥� and the three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M ...
First, let it be said that football is much safer than it once was.For an example, we need look no further than 1905. That year yielded what one writer has described as 鈥渇ootball鈥檚 death harvest.鈥� In the course of 1905, it鈥檚 believed that more than 20 college football players sustained ...
<strong>CHEERS:</strong> Political junkies were transfixed this week by the spectacle of Kevin McCarthy being denied the speakers鈥� chair in the U.S. House of Representatives by hardliners in the Republican caucus. It was the first time in 100 years that the ...
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI died at the age of 95, nearly a decade after stepping down as head of the Catholic Church. His life was marked by adherence to a belief in an eternal truth above all. As he stated in a 2008 meeting with Catholic educators at the Catholic University of America, ...