Perhaps the name of Dr. Kermit Gosnell will become a household word after all.

While the Congress debates new restrictions on gun ownership, the U.S. Supreme Court prudently decided to stay out of the fray by announcing on Monday that it would not hear a case challenging the constitutionality of New York’s gun licensing laws.

Still, Simpson’s group persists in its efforts to replace a bad plan — the COLA — with a worse one — the chained CPI.

He lived off the grid as well as off his neighbors. He robbed Peter to pay himself. And now he’s more famous than any of Maine’s political leaders. The story of the North Pond Hermit went worldwide.

No suicide has a single cause, but verbal harassment by her peers seems to have been one factor in a 13-year-old’s tragic decision to end her life recently in Troy.

“I paid my income tax today!” So went one of Irving Berlin’s lesser-known patriotic jingles. “I never felt so proud before/To be right there with the millions more/Who paid their income tax today!” Few share Berlin’s enthusiasm, as grumbling about the income tax reaches a crescendo today. Let’s topple some tall tales about taxes before writing checks to — or getting checks from — the dreaded Internal Revenue Service.

In a city where David’s righteousness almost never beats Goliath’s might, what Nicole Hockley and the other Sandy Hook families did to the gun lobby last week was nigh unto miraculous.

WASHINGTON — Well, at least we’re starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It’s called “regular order,” using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget.

While it’s been lovely listening to the patriarchs from the Pentateuch (all of whom will forever look and sound like Charlton Heston to Americans of a certain age) lay down the law for the last several thousand years, it’s time to imagine what the Old Testament matriarchs might have said.

Are we capable of restoring American values and ending the governmental logjam created by Democrats and Republicans alike? Do we have the moxie and patriotism necessary to address the increasing challenges facing America today?