Politics

By Craig Bannister, CNS News - Ultimately, “our kids and our grandkids” are going to have to pay the nation’s growing multi-trillion-dollar debt, and we won’t be able to tell them their money was well-spent, Haley said: “We need to slow that train. We need to understand that there’s going have to be some tough decisions made. And we’re going to have to start seriously looking at the debt... “We’re looking at going on $25 trillion in debt and we’re passing that to our kids and our grandkids - and I’m don’t know that we can tell them that that money was spent wisely.”

By Dennis Prager, The Stream - Three years ago, I wrote a column explaining left-right differences on 35 different subjects. Any one or two of them would make for a major political/cultural divide. Thirty-five make the divide unbridgeable... As the thesis itself is not really debatable, what is more difficult to explain are the roots of this divide... I believe it is commitment to truth...

By W. Edgar Thompson, Crisis Magazine - As of this writing, just five percent of Americans have not been on some form of lockdown over the past seven weeks to curb the spread of Covid-19. As society reopens, politicians, pundits, and business leaders are divided over the next step. So is the Catholic Church... In some areas not hammered so hard by Covid, bishops seem eager for parishioners to regain a sense of normalcy, and thus are reopening churches, albeit slowly. Yet others, undoubtedly responding to the risk, reject that idea. For instance, Catholic churches in Georgia will remain closed through the end of May.

By Patrick J. Buchanan - Ultimately, Fauci is not “The Decider” here. Trump is... It is he who is accountable to the nation for weighing the losses, both human and material, due to his decisions... Fauci may be the best at what he does, but he is still only an adviser. As John F. Kennedy said after the Bay of Pigs, it is the president who ultimately bears responsibility for what he does and fails to do, while “the advisers may move on to new advice.”