Yesterday we talked a little about the dialogue between David Gregory and Newt Gingrich, and I wrote: Our “free press” is no longer free. It’s becoming more like Pravda — the house organ for the party to which it is enthralled — every day. If you look at the Gingrich/Gregory exchange from that perspective, then that was a pretty remarkable segment. Sometimes, what someone in the press does not say, or where they do not interrupt is as telling as... Read more
Seems like just yesterday we were welcoming Kathryn Jean Lopez and Tony Rossi and now we get to break out the beans and bourbon again, another author and editor-at-large (Games Magazine) who has something to say! I’m am very pleased to introduce you to Thomas L. McDonald, and to announce the launch of God and the Machine, a new blog exploring faith, technology and where things lean heavy or light! Tom’s CV is exhausting and impressive. Aside from authoring three... Read more
My husband and I had to attend a late mass today, and we managed to make it to the last available mass at parish in the next town. We haven’t gone to this parish in a while, and as we drove the main thoroughfare we were shocked to see how many businesses were gone — restaurants that had been around for 20 years — closed. Small businesses my kids used to patronize — shuttered and disappeared. Even realtor offices were... Read more
I’m seeing a lot of remarks on Twitter about this exchange between Newt Gingrich and David Gregory this morning. I’m seeing people saying Newt “schooled” David Gregory; that he “took it to” Gregory and so forth, but Gregory lets Gingrich speak for nearly two full minutes, uninterrupted, and in doing so he allows Gingrich to point out all of the issues that are going undiscussed, everyday, while the Democrats and the media promote the absolutely false narrative that anyone is... Read more
Timothy Cardinal Dolan of New York, who is president of the USCCB, brings an update on the HHS Mandate battle and he is being realistic and, it seems to me, trying to tell us all to gird our loins. All links and emphases are mine: The President invited us to “work out the wrinkles,” and we have been taking him seriously. Unfortunately, this seems to be going nowhere: the White House Press Secretary, for instance, informed the nation that the... Read more
When the “learning opportunity” of the Susan G. Komen/Planned Parenthood debacle was taking place, I wrote: [the past day’s high drama had given] me a mental image of Moloch, enraged and stomping and roaring because there was a threat of less meat coming to his fire. Today, Moloch is appeased; the media’s heartbeat and respiration are returning to normal. They and their pals in DC can take a nice, deep cleansing breath and sit back and smile, understanding what they... Read more
43 is too young to die, isn’t it? It’s always sad to read about the sudden passing of a young parent. Andrew Breitbart leaves behind four small children and his wife. He may have died rather quietly, but the swirling, passionate energy I see in the reactions to his death seem appropriate, somehow. Never having had any dealings with Andrew Breitbart, I had no feelings about him, either way. At times I thought he was appropriately ballsy and brave and... Read more
Elizabeth Duffy has an entertaining and thoughtful entry in her column, this week as shares with us the origins of her writing: I started keeping a diary when I was about eleven. My mother suggested I start writing to cure a weird childhood insomnia that kept me up late nights worrying that I was going to pee in my sleep, even though I’d not wet the bed since I was out of diapers. When I was struck by pee-phobia, I... Read more
Oh, the humanity! Oh, the sudden outcry of the suffering!. This is my favorite part: Fluke spoke in strong language of her resentment of university administrators and others who suggest she should have chosen to attend a different university that would have offered student insurance that does cover contraception — even if that other university wasn’t quite as prestigious as Georgetown. Yes, how dare a Catholic college actually inflict its Catholicity on the poor victim, who just couldn’t deny herself... Read more
I guess this is like “smart” diplomacy, right? If you need to affirm your special relationship with the United Kingdom you ship back the bust of Winston Churchill, and if you are having trouble with Catholic bishops, you go talk to…anybody but Catholic bishops. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the Obama administration plans to issue a rule “in the near future” on its compromise plan on contraception coverage and is meeting with insurers, clergy and health leaders to get feedback... Read more
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