A growing subculture is determined to subordinate America to the authority of Catholic theology. But this project has been tried before: it ends in predictable horrors.

Capping property taxes isn't all upside, but California's Proposition 13 shows how tax limits can protect property owners from sudden increases and provide greater predictability.

Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.