The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an organization that represents 80% of the nuns in the US, was chastised for ‘focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping ‘silent’ on abortion and same-sex marriage.’ The LCWR is having none of it.
The American Catholic nuns got a slap across the knuckle from the Pope’s ruler this week, when the Vatican told them that they are doing too much to help the poor and not enough to support the wars on women and on the LGBT community.
Her take is that it’s not the shooting or the Stand Your Ground Laws that are racist, it’s gun control laws. Her contention is that gun control laws are about the ‘Democratic Ku Klux Klan’ keeping guns out of the hands of black people.
Perhaps I read too many blog comments, but I really was beginning to believe that Michelle Obama, as charming as she is, is considered a divisive figure while Ann Romney is some sort of patron saint to stay-at-home moms. Well, as it turns out, not so much.
There is a lot of talk and a lot of projection about the Founding Fathers. In the eyes of the Tea Party, they were a bunch of gun lovin’ anarchists. In the eyes of many progressives, they were striving toward an egalitarian society.
The current Republican party is like a coin. On one side, the head, there is Mitt Romney – cool, detached, almost robotic. On the other side, the tail, there are Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, Rick Santorum, Ann Coulter and Ted Nugent. What people often forget is that they are the same coin.
The tiny town of Berthoud, Colorado, about 30 miles north of Denver, was thrust into national attention after a 15-year-old black German foreign exchange student was attacked as she was walking home from her school. The attack is being called a hate crime.
The more I learn of Mitt Romney, the more I am reminded of the 90s TV show, Third Rock from the Sun. In the show, a ‘family’ of space aliens lands on earth. They look human, but they are completely clueless as to how to act human.
Imagine for a moment if every single stupid word uttered by a person who voted Republican was directly attributed to Mitt Romney.
To hear the right tell it, both sides are exactly the same. They have Rush Limbaugh, we have Bill Maher. They have Ann Coulter, we have Hilary Rosen
The job of a private equity firm is to buy companies who aren’t making money for their shareholders and turn them into companies who are making money for their shareholders, which sounds great until you realize that profitability is typically reached at the expense of workers and at the expense of American taxpayers.
Newt Gingrich, who is still in the race, but running out of money, announced his intentions to make ‘every person on the planet’ a gun owner.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has never been one to mince words. In an interview with NPR, he went off on what might be the most vocal branch of his party, the libertarians.
In what might be one of the most cynical, most politically calculated moves ever, Rick Santorum today announced that his three-year-old daughter Bella is now a lifetime member of the NRA.
Booker chose to dedicate his education to public service, a term he takes very literally, as demonstrated last night when he and his security team ran into a burning building to save a neighbor.
It’s almost getting tedious. Here’s the scenario: a late middle aged very high-profile Republican is asked a question by a female constituent. He gives his non-answer and when pressed for a better answer, he becomes condescending and contemptuous.
In an speech to a group that is frighteningly and unironically called, the Bush Institute Conference on Taxes and Economic Growth, Governor Chris Christie said that he had ‘never seen a less optimistic time in my lifetime.’
Citing lack of contact with their client, accused killer George Zimmerman’s attorneys have quit the case
Two Tulsa, Oklahoma men, Jacob England, 19 and Alvin Watts, 32, have been charged with multiple counts of murder, attempted murder and illegal weapons possession following an apparently racially motivated shooting rampage Friday night inside an African American community.
In an announcement from his home state of Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, whose Presidential campaign was hanging by a thread, has decided to quit the race.
