“States have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of each and every human person. Immigrants, moreover, have the duty to integrate into the host country, respecting its laws and its national identity” (Pope Benedict XVI, Papal Message for the 97th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Sept. 27, 2011). “No one has said that the United States should have open borders. I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter” (Pope Leo XIV, Castel Gandolfo, Nov. 18, 2025). “I would like to know what Catholics feel about this indiscriminate mass deportation. I– I think that it’s very clear the American people are saying, ‘We really didn’t vote for this’ ” (Blase Cardinal Cupich, April 12, 2026, on CBS’s 60 Minutes). “I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, and let the president of

The Washington Post, now known as the “Bezos Blog,” recently ran an interesting headline: “Retirees receive six times more in federal dollars than young people.” We apologize for the Post, that serves as the news source for the community that receives more federal dollars than young people or old people — namely, what Joe Sobran aptly called “The Hive” — Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex” and the insatiable behemoth that it constitutes today. The headline provokes: “Young people, your parents are robbing you blind!” Why? Because, as Washington’s multimillionaire Senator-hero Bernie Sanders insisted in March, we don’t tax the rich enough. You know, those “old people.” So the young must be stoked to envy, to resentment, and to demand reparations. The Sanders coalition that nominated Joe Biden in 2020 demanded total forgiveness of student loans — a payoff made possible by Barack Obama’s crafty expropriation of that multibillion-dollar portfolio several years earlier. But to what “federal dollars” does the Post refer? The hundreds of billions they have