Dana Milbank, while crowing over President Obama’s re-election, says that Republicans are going through the 5 stages of grief: Denial. “I think this is premature,” Karl Rove protested on Fox News election night, after the cable network, along with other news outlets, correctly projected that
My colleague Mark Mitchell argues that we should change our model of cultural engagement from that of warfare to that of hospitality: In two recent pieces, I argued that 1) the language of “culture war” is not helpful and should be discarded, and 2) that
Rome has allowed for some married priests, particularly Anglicans who have gone over to Catholicism. Some Lutherans have been clamoring for the same privilege. What is not generally realized, though, is that, according to Canon Law, married priests must still be celibate. So says Mark
Happy Veteran’s Day. And to all of you veterans, let us join in saying what has become a common refrain: “Thank you for your service.” Notice how the military’s emphasis on service ties right in to the doctrine of vocation. Here is a fine meditation
General Petraeus, who effectively led American troops in the “surge” in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned as director of the CIA. He confessed to having an affair with a woman who had written a book about him. CIA Director David H. Petraeus resigned Friday and admitted
Now that Florida has FINALLY counted its ballots (why can 49 states conduct an efficient election but Florida can’t?), we know the final tally. The Sunshine State went for Obama, giving him a total of 332 electoral votes. Here are the results: Candidate Popular vote
The election cost $5.8 billion and years of furor and trauma, only to leave us with what we had already: President Obama, a Democratic Senate, and a Republican House of Representatives. Does that mean we’ll have another four years of the status quo, that the
As we discussed, Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. Also Maryland and Maine have legalized gay marriage, the first time that step has been taken by popular referendum. But Massachusetts, to its credit, is voting down a measure that would legalize physician-assisted suicide. In Massachusetts,
A British commission is refusing to allow a Plymouth Brethren church to be registered as a charity because it practices closed communion: A government agency that oversees charities in the United Kingdom has decided that a local Christian congregation cannot be registered because it does
What have we learned from the election? Here are a few points I’ve learned: 1. The polls are accurate. (The average of the state-by-state polls put out by RealClearPolitics the day before the election were pretty much right on the money.) 2. It’s NOT “the
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