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  • Welfare Recipients: Better Off Without the Government?

    Welfare Recipients: Better Off Without the Government?0

    • October 2, 2015

    Should the many welfare programs in the U.S. (such as food stamps, Medicaid, etc.) be replaced with a lump sum of cash handouts? In this week’s Washington Post, columnist Matt Zwolinski argues that they should. Zwolinski notes that such a scenario would create more efficiency in the welfare system, give recipients more human dignity, and

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  • Welcome to the Draft, Ladies

    Welcome to the Draft, Ladies0

    Military.com reports that: “Women will eventually have to register for the draft if ‘true and pure equality’ is to be realized in the U.S. military, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday. ‘If your objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects’ of the roles of women in the military,

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  • Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline

    Welcome to the Chaos Stage of our Decline0

    Oddly enough, and despite the wretched news of another mass shooting right on the heels of several others, the latest reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that gun violence is actually down. Statistically, we’re safer now than we were in the 1990s. Here are a couple highlights: Firearm-related homicides declined 39%, from 18,253

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  • Weinstein Verdict and #MeToo Distract Us From the Real Problem

    Weinstein Verdict and #MeToo Distract Us From the Real Problem0

    Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sexual assault and rape in New York on February 24, 2020. The verdict was immediately hailed as a victory for all American women and for the #MeToo movement. “This is the new landscape for survivors of sexual assault in America, I believe, and it is a new day. It is

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  • Weighing Papal Words With Wisdom and Discernment

    Weighing Papal Words With Wisdom and Discernment20

    Habemus papam! We have a pope! Like other Catholics in the U.S. and around the world, I was stunned that the conclave of cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel on May 8 chose American Robert Prevost to become the next pope. For years, we’d heard that no American, at least in the foreseeable future, would

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  • Wedding Cakes Have Nothing to Do With Free Speech

    Wedding Cakes Have Nothing to Do With Free Speech0

    The New York Times recently carried an interesting article on the wedding-cake controversy that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The article pointed out that prominent lawyers who specialize in First Amendment cases are “vexed” by the controversy. The facts of the case are simple: A Colorado bakeshop refused to create a wedding cake

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