Has Eason Jordan resigned from CNN?

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

EASON JORDAN JUST RESIGNED[Ramesh Ponnuru]That’s what I’m hearing.Hmmmm…breaking. More to come. Update: AP confirms CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq. Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy. During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum last month, Jordan said he believed that several journalists who were killed by coalition forces... Read more

Buckley: Let the pope die!

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

William F. Buckley speaks for many, I think, in this essay wondering why, if the Pope was so near death recently, he was not simply allowed to die. That sounds colder than Buckley is meaning, of course. He relates a nice anecdote about John Paul II and then wonders about it, that’s all. I remember him as he was leaving Havana to return to Rome. Fidel Castro was there to recite the diplomatic amenities. The pope was standing on the... Read more

Reuters covers Easongate – from the “Hollywood Reporter”

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Well, the story is definately breaking into the mainstream press. But filed by Reuters…from the Hollywood Reporter.CNN on Thursday sought to quell the media frenzy enveloping a top executive who suggested that U.S. troops were deliberately firing on journalists in Iraq (news – web sites).By Paul J. GoughNEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – During a Jan. 27 session at the World Economic Forum (news – web sites) in Davos, Switzerland, CNN executive vp/chief news executive Eason Jordan reportedly said that 12... Read more

Mr. Bush makes them feel small and cheap

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

For years now I have been marvelling at how President Bush, since coming into office, has pulled the masks off of everyone in politics, both in America and abroad. Sick with hate, people who had managed for years to present themselves as reasonable people suddenly could not maintain the pretence. Masks fell left and right. Sometimes, in watching members of the press and the government expose themselves, I would feel like I was an observer at a mad masquerade just... Read more

It’s not new, but it is true: This German gets it

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Had an email sent to me concerning an essay by one Mathias Döpfner, CEO Axel Springer, and written as an editorial for Die Welt. In the essay Döpfner gives Europe a smackdown for its complacency and timidity in confronting Islamic fanaticism. The sendee had no url, so I googled it and found a link to the whole editorial at Free Republic. But since there was, even there, no url, I checked with Snopes.com and found that yes, the editorial is... Read more

Rod Dreher: Where are the Catholic Men?

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

He’s angry, and read it all. Hard but necessary Lenten reading. Here we are on the fourth Ash Wednesday of the church’s long scandal-ridden Lent. As we examine our consciences in Mass today, we ought to be asking ourselves what our sons and daughters, if they remain Catholic, surely will one day: Where were you when the church needed good men to stand up to defend what’s right? We don’t have to stay silent. Look what the men (and women)... Read more

Buster update: There is something about ashes…

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

First Reading:Psalm:Second Reading:Gospel:Joel 2:12-18Psalm 51:3-6, 12-14, 172 Corinthians 5:20 – 6:2Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18Turn away from sin, and be faithful to the Gospel. — Ash Wednesday It’s really funny about Ashes and Catholics…tell Catholics they HAVE to do something, and they stick their chests out and fume, “oh yeah? Who are YOU, the Pope?”Sometimes, as with the issuance of Humanae Vitae, they even say it TO the pope. In a manner of speaking.But tell them they don’t HAVE to recieve ashes,... Read more

Witness and Willingness

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

A friend of mine who is studying for the Permanent Diaconate related to me that he’d been wondering why so few priests wear their collars, anymore. He got his answer when one of his teachers, a priest who does wear his collar, reported that during the day he’d been spat upon and threatened with physical violence as he walked down the street.I have a cousin who is a priest, a Capuchin, who rarely wears his robes outside the church, because... Read more

The prudes in the press

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

This is just pathetic. That twit Elisabeth Bumiller is trying to make something about the fact that President Bush is reading Tom Wolfe’s latest book, I am Charlotte Simmons. Gasp! It’s full of sex and booze! Bumiller can’t decide if President Bush is reading it because: A) It reminds him of his “hard partying frat days.” B) It speaks to him, somehow, maybe perversely, about his own daughters college experiences. C) He’s a dirty old man who wants to read... Read more

So, a human embryo is a human being. That makes sense!

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Aimee, an eagle-eyed reader sent this good news to me, and I appreciate it. I’d somehow missed the story.A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday.Attorneys on both sides of the abortion issue said it was the first such ruling they had heard of as the country debates whether stem cells derived from embryos can be used in research and... Read more