Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitt Romney. Show all posts
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Romney Doubles Down on 47% Rhetoric: Joan Walsh Responds

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Joan Walsh's rejoinder to Mitt Romney's beyond-shabby self-defense after he lost the election is fantastic.  As many folks w...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Abby Zimet on a Tale of Two Men

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Abby Zimet at Common Dreams on how the two presidential candidates spent last Tuesday night and Wednesday morning:
Saturday, November 3, 2012

Gerald T. Slevin: Is Pope Leading a New "Children's Crusade" to Help Romney Win?

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Another outstanding piece this morning by Jerry Slevin.  In this essay, Jerry sketches the historical and political background to the ...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Romney's Stance on Abortion and Contraception: Unmasking the Catholic Bishops' Pro-Republican Politics

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This past February, I wrote :
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Politicians and Pundits Talking (or Not) about Global Warming Following Sandy

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Politicians and pundits talking about climate change and global warming (or not talking, as the case may be) following megastorm Sand...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Doug Wright to His "Moderate" Republican Friends: "Simply Be Honest" about Homophobia

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Doug Wright to his Republican friends who intend to vote Romney-Ryan for "economic" reasons, and who don't, of course,...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Gerald T. Slevin: After Elections, Who Will Prosecute More Predatory Priests? Constitutional Lawyer Obama Or The Three R's---Romney, Ryan & Ratzinger? And Why Does It Matter?

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Another hard-hitting and exhaustively researched essay by the Harvard-trained former Wall Street lawyer Jerry Slevin today.  Jerry l...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Talking about Race (and Republicans, Mormons, and Catholics): Important Recent Discussions

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Several very important articles this morning that I recommend readers read side-by-side with each other, since each glosses the other...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Salt Lake Tribune Endorses Obama: Too Many Mitts

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This strikes me as significant news: Utah's flagship newspaper The Salt Lake Tribune   has just endorsed Obama .  The reason?  There...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Margaret Farley's Just Love: The Personal as Political (and Applications to U.S. Presidential Debate)

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Several days ago, when I told readers I had begun reading Margaret Farley's book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Et...

Rosie Perez on Mitt as a Gay Latina

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And because I can't help myself--because this video produced by the Jewish Council for Education and Research and the American Brid...
Friday, October 12, 2012

The Softer and Gentler Mitt Romney? Testimony from the Mormon Community

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And, again, not unrelated to the excerpts I have just posted from Joanna Brooks's The Book of Mormon Girl   and Margaret Farley...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Adam Levin on Mitt Romney and Liar Loans: Be Very Afraid

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And speaking of liars (piggybacking here on what I just wrote about Cordileone's installation as archbishop of San Francisco): Ad...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Last Night's Debate: Mr. Romney as Soft Kitty

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About last night's debacle show:
Friday, September 28, 2012

Big News: Obama and Democrats Enjoying Wide Lead Among Catholics

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The big news now vis-a-vis Catholics and politics in the U.S.: as Daniel Burke reports at Religion News Service, a Pew Research Center...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Midweek News: Women Breaking for Obama, GOP Extremism, Spanish Rallies

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And another midweek selection of articles--these commenting on political issues discussed previously here:

Midweek News: Maryland Marriage Equality, Mel White, Sr. Simone Campbell and Romney-Ryan

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A midweek miscellany of articles commenting on topics we've been discussing here of late--the following religion-and-politics theme...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Nicholas Cafardi on Cardinal Martini, Attack on Liberation Theology, and U.S. Elections

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Nicholas Cafardi at America 's "In All Things" blog on Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the suppression of liberation the...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Romney, Healthcare, and God-Talk: The Marketplace Will Save Us

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And a final postscript to what I wrote earlier in the morning about Paul Ryan and the moral dimensions of his budget: I do want to gi...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

John Nichols on Romney's Rejection of Moderate Path (and of Integrity and Principle)

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John Nichols points out  that George Romney walked out of the 1964 GOP convention when the party "went all-in for extremism...