RICHARDSON: IRAQ NO, AFGHANISTAN YES. As part of the phenomenon that Matt discussed a while back, I must confess to having had little interest in the candidacy of former New Mexico Governor and UN Ambassador Bill Richardson before seeing him speak here this morning at the Take Back America conference. It’s not like I’m declaring […]
Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect. She is editor of Right Wing Watch, and a winner of the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism.
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When the Presidential Hopefuls Talk to God
As the Democratic contenders laid bare the details of their faith at a “religious left” forum last night, they showed how faith-based forces frame our politics.
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IF WE LEAVE IRAQ, THEN WHAT?
IF WE LEAVE IRAQ, THEN WHAT? It’s a question I’ve been pondering a lot lately. I know that entertaining doubts about the wisdom of an unequivocal troop pull-out leaves me vulnerable to the ire of the left and the disdain of even some fellow liberals, but these doubts do gnaw at me, as doubts are […]
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A P.R. Firm for a Christian Nation
Christian Newswire serves Jerry Falwell, Operation Rescue, Focus on the Family … and the White House.
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Benedict in Brazil
The Pope visits a country now led by adherents to the liberation theology he tried to crush.
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PARSING BIGOTRY.
PARSING BIGOTRY. Having fallen behind on my oppo reading, I somehow missed this post by Ramesh Ponnuru at The Corner, who claims my TAPPED post on Bill Donohue‘s graceless response to the right’s big Supreme Court victory last week on abortion to be fraught with rage: “This Rageful Bigot” [Ramesh Ponnuru] That’s what Adele Stan […]
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SORE WINNER.
SORE WINNER. One would think that William Donohue, the mouth of the right-wing organization, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, would be humbly and joyously thanking his Creator for last week’s merciless Supreme Court decision upholding the federal ban on the dilation & extraction method of abortion. Instead, the official bully of the […]
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WHEN DID HE…
WHEN DID HE KNOW ORDER IT? Right out of the box at today’s big hearing, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez cast himself as the fall guy for decisions made by “the White House,” i.e., President George W. Bush and his Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. In the opening volley of questions served by Senate Judiciary […]
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State of the Church
What does it mean to be a European? Though it does not entail a common language or cuisine, these days, we’re told, a growing number of young people on the continent are more likely to describe themselves as European than by any identity drawn from the language they speak, or their home country. Yet perhaps […]
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DWEEBS AND BAD BOYS.
DWEEBS AND BAD BOYS. Reader Howard, commenting on my last post, called my attention to a wonderful piece by Sam Tanenhaus that ran in yesterday�s New York Times. In an essay in the Week in Review, Tanenhaus, now the editor of the New York Times Book Review, recounts his own seduction into Imusland, a phenomenon […]