President Trump will go to Puerto Rico to oversee ongoing rescue and relief efforts on the island which was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. With this visit comes the opportunity to help make Puerto Rico great again.
While President Trump was consoling the nation and offering support for Las Vegas, the Democrats and their friends in the media were rushing in to politicize a tragedy in the most despicable way imaginable.
In the immediate aftermath of the tragic attack in Las Vegas on Sunday evening I had planned to sit down and write a brief piece about soft targets. But then, I was sidetracked by a tweet.
Within hours of the horrible attack in Las Vegas, before we knew most of the relevant facts about the tragedy, gun control advocates were calling for more gun control.
As we watch the horrifying images on television news reports with our hearts breaking, what if we stopped and asked ourselves a question? What can I do to make a difference?
As a former counter-terrorism expert who has spent years at war overseas, I never thought I would have to see the day that we are at war with ourselves back on American soil.
For once, can we steer clear of turning an American tragedy, such the massacre in Las Vegas, into a political issue, while there is still blood on the ground?
As President Trump enters the stretch run of his first year in office, two big things are clear. He has not lost his remarkable instinct for reading the public mood, but neither has he found a way to harness that instinct into a successful governing formula.
With the Supreme Court starting its 2017 term on the first Monday in October, we’ll soon be getting a good idea of how the “Trump Court,” with the President’s pick Neil Gorsuch, operates.
As a Catholic bishop who regularly engages skeptics, I’m often asked: If Jesus is the son of God, the savior, risen from the dead, why is the world still in such a mess?