Politics

By Daniel Mitchell, CNSNews - It is hardly a revelation that bigger government causes problems, but it is particularly discouraging when such policies victimize the least fortunate members of society... I’m discussing this issue today because I recently discovered a 2018 article by Brian Balfour... Published by the Foundation for Economic Education, the article lists seven ways that government traps people in poverty.

By Bradley J. Birzer, The Imaginative Conservative - For nearly 3,000 years, we have asked and debated: what is the human person? What is the relationship of man to man; and what is God? Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Jefferson were all concerned with these questions... What liberty allows, therefore, is moral agency; it is the willingness to take responsibility for one’s choices, for good and for ill. We must consider ourselves, importantly, morally capable and morally culpable.

By Peter Breggin MD & Ginger Breggin, America Out Loud - Ground yourself in the concepts of the value of the individual. Embrace the ideas of individual freedom, responsibility, and identity. Remind yourself of God; in His image, we have been made. Dust off a copy of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Make these values a yardstick against which you can measure all that is happening or is planned to happen.

By Paul Murano, Church Militant - One of the more significant contemporary errors in religious discourse is the tendency to use political terms like "liberal" and "conservative." These words have legitimate meaning for politics and government, but emphatically not for the One True Faith. A person is not a liberal or conservative Catholic, but is rather a faithful or unfaithful one. This is the only distinction that matters.