Here is Herman Cain’s initial statement about an Atlanta woman’s contention that she has had an ongoing affair with him: “Mr. Cain has been informed today that your television station plans to broadcast a story this evening in which a female will make an accusation
The post about “Happy New Year,” referring to the beginning of Advent and asking about why the last days of the church year aren’t really noted, made me realize that the church year is not supposed to cover everything. Christians are under two calendars, just
There was the dot.com bubble and, more recently, the real estate bubble, markets that grew and grew until they they burst. Some experts are saying that we may be in for a megachurch bubble: In the 1970s, only a handful of churches drew more than
NATO planes bombed a Pakistani military base, killing 24 soldiers. (Afghans claim that the Pakistanis were firing on them as they patrolled with NATO troops.) So the country is refusing to allow allied convoys into Afghanistan and the people are rioting. Hundreds of enraged Pakistanis
Sunday is the first day of Advent, the beginning of the new church year. So happy New Year! I have a question for you, one that I have been unable to answer, but I’m sure you readers can answer it for me: Last Sunday we
The Occupy Wall Street folks are planning to “occupy” publicly traded retailers in their efforts to protest American big business. They are calling for boycotts to stop corporate profits. In response, Tea Party folks are calling for everyone to go out on so-called Black Friday
Monica Hesse on the invention of the weekend: Before weekends could be long, they first had to be weekends. For most of the 19th century and part of the 20th, there were none — there were simply weeks that ended. The working class had Sundays
Another study by social scientists that proves the perfectly obvious: people like Thanksgiving: Consensus at last: almost all Americans – from coast to coast and across stiffening party lines – have favorable views of Thanksgiving dinner, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Overall,
Monica Hesse on why we celebrate Thanksgiving on a Thursday, giving us a really, really long weekend: The first federally endorsed Thanksgiving holiday was the one proclaimed by George Washington in 1789. More than 70 years later, Abraham Lincoln issued his own proclamation. But between
You report. I didn’t watch it. It does seem like something comes out of each debate, often including another front runner. So what happened?
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