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 We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health-care debate. Yesterday’s New York Times story on the final House vote expected this weekend simply said, “Showdown Near.” That says it all about…
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President Obama has postponed his trip to Guam, Indonesia, and Australia to work for the passage of health-care reform. The president’s determination reminds me of wisdom my mother taught me: “The race is not given to the swift, nor victories…
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In a recent show, Glenn Beck told his listeners to watch out for churches that use the term “social justice,” or “economic justice.” He thinks that those terms are code words that will lead to the dark tunnel of Communism.…
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 Did you watch any of the health-care summit yesterday in Washington? Guess what? The Republicans and Democrats are divided and likely can’t find any common ground. All the morning press reports suggest that the Democrats may now use the parliamentary…
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 Yesterday, the Senate passed a jobs bill by a 70-28 vote, showing that even in today’s polarized political climate, bipartisan solutions to the major problems facing the country are still possible.
Today, President Obama hosts a summit on health-care reform with the…
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President Obama has scheduled a bipartisan meeting on health-care reform that will be nationally televised live on Feb. 25. His plan is to provide an opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to sit together with a representative of the Congressional Budget…
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 Former President George W. Bush receives a pro-life award this weekend from Legatus, an organization of Catholic business professionals. The group cites his administration’s opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, an executive order barring federal funds from international family planning groups that…
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My measure of a good State of the Union address is whether or not I am able to stay awake through to the end. I am still awaiting the president who will say at the beginning, “please hold your applause…
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Here is how things used to be: My parents retired in 1975 when they were both 65. Their household income had been modestly sufficient, right around the national average or perhaps a little less. Their former employers…
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In this morning’s New York Times, columnist Bob Herbert confesses to “An Uneasy Feeling,” apparently his understated way of saying “panic.” Herbert lists his concerns: unemployment, worthless mortgages, a decade with no job creation (previous decades since 1940 have all had at…
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Biblical wisdom teaches us to “give thanks in all circumstances for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (I Thessalonians 5:18). This is a syntactic ambiguity that makes us ask the question: is the circumstance the…
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
–William Butler Yeats, from “The Second Coming”
Two of the best people in public life today — in my humble opinion — are the president of the United States and…
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It’s been said that conservatives are people who honor the tombs of dead progressives. If that’s true, then within the Democratic movement, even with its progressive reputation, there could be a wing of conservative progressives, those who remember the good…
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Last weekend, as a group of religiously-committed pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives found themselves at odds with the majority of their party over an abortion-related amendment in the health-care reform bill, campaign veteran Kevin Spidel posted a thoughtful question…
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A few weeks ago, I sat and listened attentively as a series of American religious leaders explained to several members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee the reasons our nation needs comprehensive immigration reform. While Congress might expect support for immigration reform…
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