 | ||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||
The Big Story, By Gene Lyons For the record, the priest who married my wife and me in 1967 advised us that we could in good faith practice birth control. He reasoned that as Pope Paul VI was then preparing an encyclical regarding faith and sexuality, young Catholics could reasonably assume that church dogma regarding contraception would soon change to reflect contemporary realities: specifically that a couple intending to bring children into their marriage might legitimately seek to do so in their own time. A university chaplain, he no doubt understood how the combination of Rome's authoritarianism and theological nit-picking tended to drive educated young people from the church. Anyway, everybody knows how that worked out. Next came Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI's 1968 doubling down on the church's blanket condemnation of artificial means of birth control -- a blast from the medieval past as most American Catholics now see it. READ MORE | ||||||
| Send To A Friend >> | ||||||
Featured Column: Leonard Pitts Jr. One explanation is ignorance, i.e., that when a troupe of U.S. Marines posed in Afghanistan with a flag bearing the logo -- a double "s" in the shape of lightning bolts -- of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, the military and police arm of the Nazi Party, they had no idea what it was. If that's the best case scenario, it indicts the facts-optional "truthiness" that often dominates political debate. READ MORE | ||||||
| Send To A Friend >> | ||||||
Featured Column: Ellen Chesler Two things we can be sure of: Whoever emerges from the bloodbath of the GOP contest will try and backtrack from the birth control extremism of the primary. And Obama supporters, backed up by the advocacy community, will in turn stand ready to pounce on this inevitable flip-flopping. READ MORE | ||||||
| Send To A Friend >> | ||||||
Law & Order This weekend, five more journalists from a Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid were arrested as part of an ongoing bribery investigation. The arrests have once again raised questions about whether Murdoch's News Corp. might face prosecution for bribery in the U.S. under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Reuters reported last week that U.S. authorities are "stepping up investigations" of the possible bribery by Murdoch employees. READ MORE | ||||||
| Send To A Friend >> | ||||||
Today In Stupid Rick Santorum has a new TV ad running statewide in Michigan, which promotes an eyebrow-raising claim from right wing pundit Glenn Beck: "Santorum is the next George Washington." READ MORE | ||||||
| Send To A Friend >> | ||||||
Treason On Monday, the government showed jurors automatic weapons, vests and other military gear seized when the nine members of the "Hutaree" militia were arrested in southern Michigan, Indiana and Ohio in March 2010. "They wanted to start an armed confrontation," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Graveline. "The war to them meant patriots rising up against the government." READ MORE | ||||||
| Send To A Friend >> | ||||||
Cartoon of the Day  | ||||||
| Send To A Friend >> | ||||||
| (c) 2011 Eastern Harbor Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 28 West 27th Street, Suite 502 New York, NY 10001 | ||||||
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment