Rapper Nicki Minaj proclaimed that “God is protecting” President Donald Trump as she spoke at an event launching a new economic initiative by the president, revealing later in the day on social media that she has received a Trump Gold…
Letitia James: ‘We’ve got the law and righteousness on our side’
“There’s more of us than there are of them, and we’ve got the law on our side and righteousness on our side,” New York Attorney General Letitia James told about 500 people gathered for a symposium on saving American democracy…
Catholics must decide if they serve Donald Trump or the Gospel
In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus famously proclaimed, “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.”
Tim Walz invokes Anne Frank in pressing Trump to end ICE operations in Minnesota
Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, invoked Anne Frank in exhorting President Donald Trump to call off the ICE operations in the Twin Cities in which a second protester was killed over the weekend.
The dawn of Apple Pie ISIS
Let’s be clear about language before we are clear about lives. The word “agent” will not be used here to describe armed, militia-style bullies with low emotional intelligence who terrorize communities, abduct children in Walmart parking lots, ambush day laborers…
Connecting the dots from the unitary executive president
You, along with millions of other American citizens, may be wondering where those tense confrontations in Minneapolis came from. What brought those 3,000 ICE agents to the Twin Cities and the angry citizens into the streets? Many different streams of…
Jesus Christ and Donald Trump are incompatible
“Choose this day whom you will serve.” — Joshua 24:15 Few things in life (or faith) are absolute, crystal clear, unambiguous and black-and-white. However, one absolute truth is that Donald Trump and Jesus Christ are incompatible. Numerous examples follow: Jesus…
March for Life airs tensions with Trump’s ‘flexibility’ on Hyde Amendment
Gathering for the annual March for Life on the National Mall on Friday (Jan. 23), the anti-abortion demonstrators from every corner of the country listened patiently as the event’s organizers praised Vice President JD Vance, who addressed the march, and…
Kristi Noem is a liar
Kristi Noem is a liar, but so is everyone else who keeps propping up the Liar in Chief. I have written extensively for years about the corrosive effects of Donald Trump’s lies and how they are infecting entire populations of…
2025 was the year Congress gave power to Trump
Last year saw an overactive president untamed by an underactive Congress. In 11 months, President Donald Trump signed 225 executive orders in 2025, a new record, while the House of Representatives passed only 70 bills, making it one of the…
Widening Fifth Avenue
I asked my recently retired Department of Transportation friend how roads get widened. His answer was unsurprising: It happens because of increases in volume and planning for future traffic patterns. I asked because it sounds unthinkable — not to mention…
History mocks us
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, gifted her Nobel to U.S. President Donald Trump in a Jan. 15 White House meeting. Trump has long coveted the prize, something that seemingly stems from his…