Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett told an audience at North Carolina Central University on Monday, “People who receive that unemployment check go out and spend it and help stimulate the economy, so that’s healthy…”

Does the Obama administration then consider a rising unemployment rate a good thing?
Do you want a balanced perspective on Natural Gas [...]

With tax increases like these tucked into President Obama’s budget, how can anyone believe it is a serious proposal?  No wonder Democrats don’t want to bring it up for a vote in Congress.
President Obama’s 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving—to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax [...]

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By Dr. Paul Kengor
The secular world today trembles and shudders at the sight of Rick Santorum speaking on good and evil at Ave Maria University in Florida in 2008. Santorum’s statement came 25 years after another much-maligned social conservative, Ronald Reagan, delivered a similarly fiery speech in Florida in 1983. In both cases, [...]

On this weekend’s radio program, Glen talks about President Obama’s record $3.8 trillion budget, and the President’s failure to reign in out of control government spending.  This budget never balances, and ads another $1.3 trillion to our nations already dangerously high debt.
Glen also talks with George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow of Washington’s “Ethics and Public [...]

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Watch film maker Phelim McAleer confront Josh Fox (creator of Gasland) on flaming spigot water.

By Dr. Paul Kengor

Last Friday, President Obama responded to Catholic bishops’ concerns over his controversial mandate compelling Catholic institutions to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing pharmaceuticals. Many media sources reported Obama’s action as an “accommodation,” with some describing it as a “reversal.” It is hardly that. Many Catholics find it arguably worse.
Without dissecting the president’s [...]

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President Obama’s assault on religious freedom continued this past week, with his decision to force Christian charities to offer and pay for contraception and abortifacient drugs as part of the health insurance plans they provide to employees.  And President Obama’s “accommodation” for the Roman Catholic Church, offered last Friday, does nothing to change this.  [...]

By Dr. Paul Kengor
A fascinating theory has been advanced by Dick Morris, which, in turn, is being considered by Rush Limbaugh and other leading conservatives.  Morris speculates that the Obama HHS mandate on contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients is a fight with the Catholic Church that Team Obama wants — and with the focus based narrowly [...]

President Obama receives an honorary degree at Notre Dame on the day he also delivered the school’s commencement address.
George Weigel, Catholic Scholar and theologian, has an interesting column over at National Review Online today, regarding the Obama Administration’s “accommodation” and the Catholic Bishops’ response thus far.
That the administration would play divide-and-conquer with the Catholic Church [...]

Ed Henry (Fox News) reports that “buried on page 1321 of President Obama’s new budget,”  the President seeks to eliminate funding for the popular D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.  This program allows underprivileged children in failing D.C. public schools to attend a private school of their choice.   The current administration has been trying to undo this [...]