Showing posts with label Antonin Scalia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antonin Scalia. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

More News: Scalia, Scalia, Scalia, and Trump, Trump, Trump (Plus Pope Francis)

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And still more pieces of commentary I'd like to recommend to you today — these on political themes (but since Pope Francis has bl...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Quote for Day: Fred Clark on Antonin Scalia and How to Avoid Having One's Death Perceived As a Source of Liberation

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Fred Clark on the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:

bell hooks on Worship of Death As Central Component of Patriarchal Thinking: Reflections on the Legacy of Antonin Scalia

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The Constitution is a dead document , Scalia said . • You can know that a society or a church is dead or well on the way to death wh...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Remembering Antonin Scalia: Twitterverse Testimony

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I wish Antonin Scalia the peace, mercy, & happiness in death that he tried so hard to deny me in life. — Katie Grimes (@KatieMGrime...
Monday, January 4, 2016

With Bundy Family in a New Standoff with Federal Government, Ties to Extreme Right-Wing Mormonism Finally Being Noted (Plus Scalia on Religion in Government)

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Should we call them Mormon extremists? After writing this, I'm legitimately thinking we should. #bundymilitia https://t.co/6rm4AcJlB...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Concluding Thoughts on the Huckabee-Staver Show Involving Kim Davis: It's a Catholic Show, Too

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As this work week wraps up, and as we reach the level of full glut (and concomitant dyspepsia) with more news about Kim Davis, some w...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Frightening Picture Emerging of Yesterday's Shooter, John Russell Houser: "Westboro Baptist Church May Be the Last Real Church in America"

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The Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America[members not brainwashed]. — john russell houser (@jrustyhouser) June ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Why Antonin Scalia Found the Outburst of a Nutcase Shouting about Hell and Abomination at Yesterday's Supreme Court Hearing "Refreshing"

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In his commentary in the New Yorker today on the arguments in yesterday's  Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court hearing about same...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "I Wonder What Justice Scalia Has to Say Now"

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Because isn't he not only a Catholic, but one who frequently claims that his Catholic values infuse everything he does as a Supre...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Death Penalty in News: New Evidence Exonerates Men for Whom Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Promoted Death Penalty

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As the New York Times   notes today , a judicial development in North Carolina this week provides a "textbook example" of muc...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Wisconsin Judge Crabb to Defenders of Traditional Marriage: You Do Understand That Polygamy Is the Tradition You're Defending, Right?

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Federal Judge Barbara Crabb in her ruling yesterday  (pdf file) striking down the Wisconsin ban on same-sex marriage:
Friday, December 14, 2012

In Religion News: Scalia Father, Scalia Son, Uganda and Stone-Cold Silence of U.S. Catholic Bishops

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On Wednesday, I noted that Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's son Father Paul Scalia has served as a chaplain for the Cath...