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Murtha Turned Against War, but Not Grab-While-You-Can Politics
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
Is Obama's Search for 'Common Ground' Real?- Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
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Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
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Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
By David GibsonWho'd have guessed that Focus on the Family would have so much in common with ManCrunch? The latter is the gay dating service that had its Super Bowl spot rejected by CBS, while Focus on the Family is the flagship political lobby of the Christian right that has been generating buzz for weeks over its pro-life ad starring Heisman-winning quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother (click play below to watch). Turns out both outfits won big, because both realized that having everyone talk about you is every bit as important as actually doing or saying something controversial. ...
If You Like the Super Bowl, Does That Make You a Republican?
By David Gibson
Sure, everyone loves the Super Bowl, or at least enough of us to make a quorum or threaten a filibuster. Some 100 million Americans will watch this Sunday's championship spectacular, or at least parts of it. There are the ads, of course, (though not the gay dating service commercial), and the betting pools (all in good fun, natch) and the perfect excuse to have a great party. In other words, something for everyone. But what about the game itself? If that's what you're really into, does that make you a Republican? You might think so, given the evidence. ...
Is the Resurrection Funny? One Church Has a Super Bowl Bet on It
By David Gibson
Tim Tebow vs. ManCrunch has become the dominant Super Bowl story line in the run-up to Sunday's championship game. The decision by CBS to broadcast the pro-life story of Tebow's birth vs. the decision to bar ManCrunch's gay dating service spot (as the network has done with other gay-themed commercials) has been parsed many places, most ably here by my PD colleague Jeff Weiss. But how about the Doritos ad that features a guy inside a closed casket filled with chips, watching the big game on a small TV -- all unbeknown to the tearful mourners sobbing at the high church funeral? The dude inside ...
The (Prayer) Breakfast Club: Obama Does the Lion's Den Again
By David Gibson
President Obama's address at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday was a given -- the chief executive has been the main speaker since the event began in 1953. But rarely has so much been riding on what in recent years has seemed like a feel-good function for conservative Christians and a chance for a few brave Democrats to burnish their faith-based credentials. Obama's attendance came after a freshman year of brutal economic news, ugly policy fights, declining poll numbers and election setbacks, and, not least, a relentless barrage of inflammatory criticism of his character, often by the ...
Mother Teresa: Should a Saint Get Postal Service's Stamp of Approval?
By David Gibson
If anything qualifies as a no-brainer, it would seem to be honoring Mother Teresa of Calcutta on a stamp. Not really the biggest laurel the late Nobel Prize winner and sure-fire saint will ever merit, but nothing to sniff at -- especially given the price of a stamp these days. But of course, you knew someone would find something objectionable about the decision, and in this case it is The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a leading atheist organization that is organizing a boycott and letter-writing campaign against the stamp, which was one of 23 new issues the United States Postal Service ...
Religious Left to Obama: Man Up and Push Reform
By David GibsonYesterday it was the Catholic hierarchy telling Congress to shape up and pass a health care reform bill. Today it is a high-profile cohort from the religious left telling President Obama, in effect, to man up and show some leadership. "Your active and public leadership is desperately needed at this moment of doubt on Capitol Hill," the nearly two dozen religious leaders, including eight from Obama's own faith-based task force, write in a letter sent to the White House on Wednesday. "The political twists and turns of the last week do not change the facts on the ground: hundreds of thousands of ...
Catholic Bishops to Congress: Ditch the Politics, Pass Health Care
By David Gibson
In a strongly worded appeal that will test their political influence, especially with their pro-life and Republican allies, the Catholic bishops of the United States have told Congress to put politics aside and focus on the "moral imperative" of passing universal health care. "The health care debate, with all its political and ideological conflict, seems to have lost its central moral focus and policy priority, which is to ensure that affordable, quality, life-giving care is available to all," the three bishops who are leading the lobbying effort for the Catholic hierarchy write in a letter ...
Mortifying: Pope John Paul II Whipped Himself For Spiritual Growth
By David Gibson
While the world knew the late John Paul II as a cheerful, globe-trotting pontiff -- a "happy warrior," as one biographer put it -- in private the Polish pope used to whip himself with a belt and spend entire nights prostrate on a bare floor in the quest for spiritual growth, according to a new book based on accounts from those closest to John Paul. Msgr. Slawomir Oder, who is leading the church investigation that will decide whether John Paul should be declared a saint, told a Rome news conference on Tuesday that the pope, who died in 2005, used self-mortification "both to affirm the primacy ...
Roe v. Wade Supporter Scott Brown, Improbable Pro-Life Hero
By David Gibson
The huge crowd of abortion opponents that gathered on the Mall in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life had good reason to be celebrating on the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Recent polls have shown broad declines in public support for abortion, to the point that the country is almost evenly divided between supporters of abortion rights (47 percent) and opponents (44 percent). Moreover, the election of a pro-choice president after two terms of George W. Bush has galvanized rather than discouraged the pro-life movement, to the point that abortion ...
Rush Limbaugh Tries to Enlist 'Jewish Bankers' Against Obama
By David Gibson
Talk radio's resident right-wing provocateur, Rush Limbaugh, has made himself quite a career out of launching blistering broadsides, with President Obama and anything liberal (or anything that is not Rush) as favorite targets. But when Limbaugh tries to get fancy he can sometimes get himself in unintended trouble. ...
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