Andrew P. Napolitano

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MundoAméricaEuropa,

What happens when the U.S. government participates in toppling foreign governments in the name of spreading democracy? That behavior usually results in unintended consequences and often produces disasters.

With the invasion of Iraq in 2003, initially to search for weapons of mass destruction that we now realize the Bush administration knew did not exist there, and eventually for regime change, the United States succeeded in changing profoundly the Iraqi government.

In the process, though, we lost 4,500 American troops, suffered 45,000 substantial injuries, borrowed and spent and have not paid back more than $2 trillion, caused the deaths of 650,000 Iraqis, displaced 2.5 million Iraqis, and unleashed into Iraq our public enemy, al Qaeda.…  Seguir leyendo »

InternacionalIglesia Católica

When Jesus established the papacy, the gospels report that he told St. Peter: “Amen I say to you: You are Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” These words are emblazoned in Latin across the front of St. Peter's Basilica. St. Peter’s successors have incorporated his name to describe their work, the Petrine ministry, and refer to themselves as Papa Petrus.

Yet the Petrine ministry is more than work, and being Papa Petrus is not a job; it is a calling in which a man has been chosen by the direct descendants of the 12 apostles as agents of God to be the Vicar of Christ on Earth.…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesPensamiento, Cultura y Ciencia,

What does freedom have to do with rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated with governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and letters was not safety, taxes or peace; it was freedom.

Two acts of Parliament broke the bonds with the mother country irreparably. The first was the Stamp Act, which was enforced by British soldiers writing their own search warrants and rummaging through the personal possessions of colonists looking to see whether they had purchased the government’s stamps. The second was the imposition of a tax to pay for the Church of England, which the colonists were forced to pay, no matter their religious beliefs.…  Seguir leyendo »