Newsmax RSS FeedThu, 16 May 2013 13:07:38 EDTThe problems with the IRS extend beyond playing politics with conservative groups seeking a tax-exempt status. I have never made this public before, but given the heightened interest in the way the IRS has conducted itself, the time has come to disclose what happened.Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:28:09 EDTThere is a great deal of confusion these days over the meaning of equality and equity. Equality means sameness, or an identical status; equity means fairness, or justice. It is only fair that students be given the grade they deserve; to give them all the same grade is to counsel injustice.Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:43:42 EDTIn his March 19th blog post from Rome, Cardinal Timothy Dolan made it clear that although he could not be with his brother bishops in Albany to address key public policy issues, he wanted everyone to know of his support for laws that promote a culture of life. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:01:33 EDTOn February 27, The New York Times ran a front-page story raising questions about some cardinals who will soon vote for the new Pope. Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:58:07 EDTIn his January 16 remarks on gun violence, President Obama said, “As soon as I’m finished speaking here I will sit at that desk and I will sign a directive giving law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals and the public health community some of the tools they need.”Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:42:21 EDT“Jimmy Savile beat and raped a 12-year-old girl during a secret satanic ritual in a hospital.” This is the opening line in an English newspaper’s story on Sunday about BBC child rapist Jimmy Savile. Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:50:30 EDTPerhaps the biggest story related to Kathy Griffin’s salacious stunt on CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper was the almost deadening silence it engendered from any quarter. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:03:42 EDTThe “War on Christmas” began in earnest in the 1980s when the American Civil Liberties Union was filing one lawsuit after another attempting to ban manger scenes on public property. Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:32:41 EDTBill Donohue’s Perspective: Perception is not necessarily reality, but it often functions that way. Ask those who voted for Barack Obama why they did so and in short order it will be revealed that the president, quite unlike Mitt Romney, really cares about people. How do they know?Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:09:15 EDTIn the course of just one week, I had my speech squashed on three different occasions by the cultural elites. Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:15:41 EDTBill Donohue’s Perspective: The conventional wisdom holds that both vice-presidential candidates, Rep. Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden, are roughly equal in terms of their Catholic standing.Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:28:41 EDTBill Donohue’s Perspective: Americans who oppose abortion have learned to live with Roe v. Wade, but they (as well as some abortion-rights advocates) have never come to terms with proposals forcing them to fund abortion.Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:41:18 EDTBill Donohue’s Perspective: President George W. Bush was the first president to initiate faith-based social service programs; he wanted to put an end to the exclusionary policy of funding only public social service entities. Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:25:38 EDTBill Donohue’s Perspective: To learn more about Obama’s approach to religion, consider his base of religious friends. He sat for 20 years listening to Rev. Jeremiah “God-Damn-America” Wright. Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:13:56 EDTThe American people have been exceedingly fair in drawing a distinction between the personal religious beliefs and practices of presidential candidates and the public policies they adopt. This does not mean that personal predilections are without policy implications.