Elizabeth Scalia
Byron York notes that Bill Clinton is looking to burnish his reputation in comparison to Obama (hey, he doesn’t need to convince me!): While the political world obsesses over Chris Christie, Rick Perry and the rest of the Republican presidential field, something is up with Bill Clinton. On Nov. 8, the former president will publish [...]
Wow. And they say religious folk want to be told what to think and what to say! This is pathetic. It reminds me of kindergarten. It’s actually kind of terrifying: “just tell me what to say and I’ll parrot it.” Completely mindless. UPDATE: At the urging of a few commenters, I looked at the video [...]
I have to stop blogging and start writing two columns and an introduction to a book, but I wanted to just encourage you to be aware of two important stories, and perhaps take the time to make a phone call or send an email: Julie at Happy Catholic writes: …Margaret at ten thousand places rightly [...]
I have long-wondered whether President Obama actually understands anything about this country or the people who elected him. In 2009 I wrote: One senses that the nation is not alone in wondering — that perhaps President Obama himself has no clue who he is, not as an American man, and not as The American President. [...]
A while back, I asked my very frustrated mother-in-law why she voted for Barack Obama, and she shrugged, “I could only go by what I heard.” She meant the nightly network news shows, which she and Pop watch or listen to while they bustle around the kitchen. It didn’t matter that a sister-in-law and I [...]
So, New York’s congressional district #09 is in Republican hands for the first time since 1923 — one of the surest electoral bets in the world just threw craps. As Nathan Detroit might say, “so, nu?” You know this is big, because as soon as it happened, Democrat national chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, “It’s [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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