Even the strongest critics of the sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden are careful to praise the president for fatherly compassion.  Compassion is especially due toward those to whom we are closest.  But was the president truly compassionate?

The feeling of compassion is not the same as the virtue of compassion.  Feelings cannot steer themselves.  That’s virtue's job.

For generations, Americans took for granted that if you want a happy and virtuous nation, it will have to be a religious nation.  George Washington thought so:

Query:

Because of the general duty to love our neighbors, I think that as a matter of public policy there must be rights to have certain goods -- in one sense of the term, "positive" rights.  What do you think?