On January 1, one week ago, I predicted in our annual exercise that someone would propose amending the Constitution to allow Barack Obama to serve a third term. It has already happened: Democratic New York Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress Friday to
The governor of Pennsylvania is suing the NCAA for its harsh punishment of Penn State, hitting the entire university because of Coach Jerry Sandusky’s molestation of children: Pennsylvania’s governor, in a challenge to the NCAA’s powers, claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday that college sports’ governing
Mollie Hemingway has a piece in the Wall Street Journal about the difficulty of giving away a $20 million piece of property due to a New England town’s hatred of evangelicals: Unable to maintain its 217-acre campus and 43 buildings, the board of Northfield Mount
A new study, entitled The Global Religious Landscape, from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, has found, among other interesting facts, that Christianity has become fairly evenly distributed around the world. The Asia and Pacific regions contain most of the other world religions,
A New York archbishop shut down a “gay mass” that was held regularly in a SoHo church. His explanation why there must not be a distinct worship service for homosexuals–the one mass is for everyone–makes a further interesting point about human identity: First among the
One of the biggest drug problems today is addiction to prescription pain medication like OxyContin, Vicodin, and Percocet. These are “opioids,” derived from natural or synthetic opium. They used to be prescribed for specific cases of acute pain, but back in the 1990s they began
The Fiscal Cliff bill did more than extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone except those who make $450,000. Here is a useful summary of what’s in the new law: — Tax rates will permanently rise to Clinton-era levels for families with income above $450,000
Congress stayed up late last night and at 10:35 p.m. voted 257 to 167 to approve the Fiscal Cliff compromise. And the good thing is that since taxes automatically went up for everyone when the day began, with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts,
Louis Michael Seidman, a Georgetown professor of Constitutional Law, no less, argues in the New York Times that we should do away with the Constitution. Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of
So will the NRA rally support for Obamacare? The words were tucked deep into the sprawling text of President Obama’s signature health-care overhaul. Under the headline “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights” was a brief provision restricting the ability of doctors to gather data about
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