Rand Paul has apparently found his inner liberal. He is blocking a new pipeline safety law, which may open the door for the Obama administration to require safety improvements that Congress would have allowed industry to forego.
You know that moment when Wile E. Coyote is over the cliff but he hasn't started falling yet? That's where Mitch McConnell is now with the debt ceiling issue -- and only the President of the United States can save him.
Thomas Merton, the famed Trappist monk and poet who in engaged different faiths and cultures in peaceful dialogue amidst the tumultuous climate of the 1960s race riots and Vietnam War, is the subject of the fourth annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture on Monday, February 22, at Bellarmine University’s Frazier Hall.