Author Patrick Archbold

Of all the SCOTUS audio I listened to today, I think this is my favorite bit. In it, Justice Scalia lectures the Solicitor General on the where the government gets its limited powers. Excellent.

So today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the health care mandate. There has been a flurry of articles about how Justice Kennedy holds the balance of the court in his hands. So it occurred to me that the… Continue Reading →

It is one thing to be a disingenuous patronizing jerk, entirely another to be such a lazy one. This is just so embarrassing.

In which a bunch of amoral unlikable people do amoral unlikable stuff set in the 1960’s, a decade in which millions of amoral unlikable people did amoral unlikable stuff. But they’re all good looking…

Matt Abbott reports… I first want to ask for prayers for Father John Trigilio, the priest-author and EWTN personality who’s also been a contributor to this column. According to a report, Father Trigilio was critically injured in an automobile accident… Continue Reading →

Jimmy Carter be hating on Pope John Paul II. The former president said that he complained to the Pontiff about the Church’s “perpetuation of the subservience of women” while Blessed John Paul II was visiting the US in 1978, and… Continue Reading →

My son doesn’t look anything like Trayvon Martin, the boy so tragically killed in Florida. My son also doesn’t look anything like George Zimmerman, the man who shot him. Does that mean that I shouldn’t care about either of them… Continue Reading →

The Romney media office, aka the Drudgereport, blares the headline “SANTORUM: OBAMA PREFERABLE TO ROMNEY” Except, that’s is not what he said and I am fairly sure not what he meant. Here is the quote. Speaking at an event in… Continue Reading →

Think $4 gas is bad? What if this turns out to be the good ol’ days? With oil prices remaining stubbornly above the $100 per barrel mark for WTIC, calls for $6 gas in the U.S. as a consequence of… Continue Reading →