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Vince Lombardi almost did not play high school football.

When he graduated from eighth grade in a public school in Brooklyn, he decided to attend a Catholic seminary and study to be a priest.

"The choice he made, Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception, a diocesan preparatory seminary, reflected not only what he wanted to study but ...Read more

The U.S. Department of State is unambiguously stating that the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide.

On Aug. 27, this writer sent some questions to the State Department Office of Press Operations through its online portal for media inquiries. One of these questions was: "Has the State Department concluded that China is continuing to...Read more

What do Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Justice Samuel Alito have in common with Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor? It certainly is not an ideology. It is an Ivy League university.

Cruz, Alito, Kagan and Sotomayor all graduated from Princeton.

So, what do Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) and former Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.) have in common with...Read more

When Congress was considering the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June of last year, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) pretended he was dedicated to fiscal restraint.

"The CBO just handed America the receipt for Trump's 'Big, Ugly Bill' -- and it's devastating," said Schumer. "Senate Republicans' bill would blow a $3.3 trillion ...Read more

The American dream of buying a home now costs less than the amount of debt the federal government has accumulated per every two workers in the United States.

As of the end of July, the total federal debt was $39,771,617,162,466.97, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. During that same month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ...Read more

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) took to the podium at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 23, where she was joined by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

They announced they were reintroducing the Right to IVF Act. This is a bill that promotes and subsidizes in vitro fertilization. It is sponsored ...Read more

Democrat career politician Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island -- who is now serving his 19th year in the U.S. Senate -- has introduced a bill that would impose an 18-year term limit.

But this term limit would not apply to members of Congress. It would apply to Supreme Court justices.

"Term limits and regular appointments would make the Court...Read more

Seven members of the Little Sisters of the Poor left their order's motherhouse in La Tour Saint-Joseph, France, on Aug. 28, 1868, and headed for the coast. Three days later, they boarded the Napoleon III steamship and began a trip across the Atlantic.

Two weeks later, they arrived in New York.

Then, a few days after that, they established ...Read more

Yovani De Jesus Alvarez Murillo, as reported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice, is a citizen of Honduras who allegedly "illegally entered" the United States from Mexico in 2002.

That was the year he turned 19.

Three years later, in 2005, according to an affidavit filed by an ICE officer this month in the U....Read more

When the Center for American Progress held an event last month to highlight the release of its report on religious liberty in the United States, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) was the keynote speaker.

"Authoritarianism seeks to compel, seeks to repress, seeks to prevent free thought, free worship, free expression," Coons said in his address.

"...Read more

This year Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which declared the "self-evident" truth that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," including the rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The leaders of the Democratic Party, ...Read more

When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act came up for a vote on the Senate floor on July 1 of last year, 50 senators voted for it, and 50 senators voted against it. Vice President JD Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote in that chamber -- so the bill could go back to the House for a final vote.

In the House, it narrowly passed 218-214.

Not one ...Read more

My mother -- a doctor of medicine who had 11 children -- made my brothers and sisters the lunches we carried each day to school in brown paper bags. The standard menu was a sandwich and some kind of fruit -- an apple, an orange, a banana or, maybe, a peach or a pear.

There were 72 students enrolled in my grade level at St. Raphael's School in...Read more