Not only Catholics but everyone in the Chattanooga area and indeed in our entire country should be troubled by the Obama administration's newly announced rule that religious schools', charities' and hospitals' health insurance programs must cover contraceptives.
If it wasn't already apparent that Tennessee needs to tighten up rules on providing lottery-funded college scholarships, it is now.
It is bad enough that the federal government subsidizes the purchase of unpopular electric-powered vehicles—to the tune of a $7,500-per-car tax credit.
It has long frustrated presidents to have to sign or veto spending legislation that includes both necessary items and waste. Signing such a bill means creating more debt; vetoing it means rejecting legitimate spending.
What a roller coaster ride the contest for the Republican nomination for president has become!
The Tennessee Constitution calls for the popular election of state Supreme Court and appellate judges.
Georgia lawmakers meant to do the right thing in 1994 when they enacted a law forbidding people to advertise offers to help someone commit suicide.
Flouting the will of the people of California, a panel of the ultraliberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 2-1 ruling this week that a 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage is a violation of the Constitution's equal protection guarantee.
It can't be a good sign when our country more or less gets used to the federal government adding more than $1 trillion to the national debt, year in, year out.
Planned Parenthood has claimed often, in the wake of its funding spat with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, that it promotes women's health.
No country situated near Iran is especially secure. But perhaps no nation is threatened more directly by Iran than Israel.
If anything makes the bloody crackdown against protesters in Syria even more tragic, it is the fact that some Syrians have hoped in vain that the U.N. will somehow rescue them.
It is clearly good news for at least some of those who need a job that U.S. employers added 243,000 jobs in January. That slightly reduced the nation's unemployment rate, from 8.5 percent to "only" 8.3 percent.
The so-called "WikiLeaks" case stunned and horrified many Americans. A U.S. Army private who worked as an intelligence analyst was accused of giving a destructive organization called WikiLeaks literally hundreds of thousands of classified documents, many of which were then published online.
Modern Russia is not killing hundreds of thousands -- or millions -- of political and religious dissidents and other innocent people as it did in the dark days of the Communist Soviet Union.
