What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people -- slightly less in population and area than the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. But it's been the subject of more care, attention and debate in America than any other country in Europe or the Western ...

"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most ...

Call him the "antisocial" media president. When a president attacks the Pope, he telegraphs: "There's nothing I won't do or say." That is a profoundly troubling message. There are no lines I won't cross, no rules I won't break, President Donald Trump is telling the whole wide world. ...

As far as showdowns between popes and secular leaders go, President Trump versus Pope LEO hardly rates. LEO hasn't forced Trump to come see him and stand for three days in the snow, the way Pope Gregory VII did to Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, in 1077. Nor has he issued an interdict, a ...

"War is Hell," said Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1879. Pope Leo and three cardinals of the Catholic Church who appeared last Sunday on "60 Minutes," agree. The problem for these theologians is that for them it appears war is only Hell when it is engaged in by the United States and ...

Child care got expensive — more than $13,000 per child, per year. So many people want government to pay for it. My state just agreed. New York will fund free child care. Yay! But wait ... what government does isn't free. Taxpayers pay. And taxpayers pay more because "government rules ...