Five Ways Student Loans Are Ruining Our Economy and Culture

Five Ways Student Loans Are Ruining Our Economy and Culture 2

As the fall semester begins, students are attending classes and incurring great debt. A July report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia finds that student loans have increased tenfold since 1999. Even worse is the acceleration of this debt over the last eight years. Since 2007, loans doubled from $537 billion … Read more

Which Model Will Work for Running America?

Which Model Will Work for Running America? 3

As the nation enters another exhausting election cycle, there is ever growing frustration with government. America is polarized and unable to move forward. Some believe the solution lies in forgetting about moral issues and just doing what it takes to return to power and prosperity. Such a pragmatic approach reduces all things … Read more

Culture Is in the Grits

Culture Is in the Grits 4

Your college experience may be characterized by the desire to look beyond your origins and explore the world with grand adventures. There is certainly nothing wrong in venturing out and embracing what the world has to offer. There is a temptation to be avoided, however: to think you acquire “culture” or sophistication … Read more

Do We Want a Business Model for Our Country?

Do We Want a Business Model for Our Country?

With the nation polarized and unable to move forward, many people are suggesting that what our country needs is a business model for governing. Forget about the moral issues. Run the nation like a business and everything will come out all right. Find a candidate who gets things done in business and … Read more

Return to Order at Our Lady of Lebanon Pilgrimage

Return to Order at Our Lady of Lebanon Pilgrimage 2

Every year around the feast of the Assumption, thousands of Lebanese Maronite Catholics and other local Catholics make a pilgrimage to the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon near Youngstown, Ohio. This year was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the church and the pilgrimage. The August 13-16 … Read more

Dodd-Frank: Another Name for Socialism

Dodd-Frank: Another Name for Socialism

As we sail on the choppy seas of a questionable economic recovery, we can look back upon a storm of our own making that has wreaked havoc upon our financial system. That storm is the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Enacted five years ago, the mammoth law of all … Read more

What We Can’t Not Know

What We Can’t Not Know

In a world where baby body parts are bought and sold and marriage has been redefined, it is urgent that we reaffirm that there are certain broad, moral truths that we can’t not know. It needs to be said and proclaimed. We all know that one should not murder. We all know … Read more

Two Books for One Great Gift of Unquestionable Substance for Fathers

Two Books for One Great Gift of Unquestionable Substance for Fathers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Return to Order and An American Knight are quenching America’s thirst for solutions CHANDLER, AZ (June 9, 2015) – Two books with potent, synergistic messages reached a new record this summer with a combined 60,000 copies sold globally. America’s hunger for leadership and thirst for solutions to stabilize a … Read more