Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Thursday, January 17, 2019

On McCloskey's & Opus Dei's "Outsize Impact on Policy & Politics," & Attempt of Right-Wing Religionists & Journalists to Veil That Influence

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In the statement by Terry Mattingly to which I linked yesterday, a statement which argues that the media have been much more focused...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Opus Dei Reveals It Paid Nearly $1 Million to Settle Suit vs. D.C. Superstar Priest John McCloskey: Questions We Should Ask

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One of today's big stories: Opus Dei has revealed that it paid nearly $1 million in 2005 to settle a sexual misconduct lawsuit ...
Monday, October 8, 2018

U.S. Catholic Church in Snapshots from Twitter, as Georgetown Prep Grad Kavanaugh Is Seated as a Supreme

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. @newtgingrich and I congratulate our new Supreme Court Justice. pic.twitter.com/LDlDsUhL4k — Callista Gingrich (@CallyGingrich) Octobe...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Religion (and Politics) Stories in the News: Evangelicals, White Supremacist Marches, Callista Gingrich, Knights of Columbus, Jim Bakker and Antichrist

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Some things I have been reading/listening to/sharing in the past few days, which may interest many of you:
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Responses to Cardinal Dolan on What Gay Folks Are Entitled to: Truth Wins Out and Dan Savage

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I've seen several good statements about the comments Cardinal Dolan made on Easter day regarding pastoral treatment of LGBT human b...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

New York Times on NOM's "Poisonous Political Approach" (and Other Commentary)

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Commentary continues about the hidden face that the National Organization for Marriage has just shown the world through the documents relea...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Amanda Marcotte on the Newt as the Living Id of the Republican Party: Entitlement and More Entitlement

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Amanda Marcotte offers insightful analysis of the double standard used by American conservatives (and the mainstream media and relig...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Political Commentary on Southern Themes (and the Newt): Abby Zimet, Ernest Dumas, and Gene Lyons

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This report by Abby Zimet at Common Dreams fairly well encapsulates for me what's gone incredibly awry in the political (and cul...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

South Carolina Votes, and the Race Heads into the Gutter

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The New York Times  judges that Mr. Gingrich "pulled the [Republican presidential] race into the gutter" in South Carolina...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Religious Right Redivivus: Commentary on the Newt's Ascendancy

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Good commentary in the past two days on how the Newt has managed to reinvent himself as the religious right's latest, best go-to ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

More Commentary on Newt's Infidelities: Ablow and Sullivan

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Dr. Keith Ablow, Media Matters' "LGBT Misinformer of the Year,"  offers a Bluebeard argument for how the Newt's mul...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Politics, Strange Bedfellows, the LDS-Catholic Alliance, and Mr. Gingrich

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Well, maybe I spoke too soon when I noted previously the irony of the  Catholic-Mormon alliance to defend the "traditional...

Newt Spotting in South Carolina

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Red-Spotted Newt With his star ascending in the Palmetto state, the Newt is back in the news in a big way this morning.
Monday, December 26, 2011

In the News: The Kiss, the Newt, and Stinky Right-Wing Bedfellows of U.S. Catholic Bishops

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Tidbits of news from the past several days--items that caught my eye: 1. Truthdig gives its Truthdigger of the Week designation to...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Meghan Daum on Newt's Marital History: A Hot Mess

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A follow-up to what I wrote earlier today about Thomas Peters' absolutely incredible attempt to spin the Newt as a good Catholic...

Newt's Train Picking Up Speed: Evangelicals on Board, (Some) Catholics Buying Tickets

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Two interesting tidbits (interesting to me, at least--and I hope to readers of this blog) about the Gingrich race for the presidency:...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Newt and Fellow Conservatives: Hardly a Love Fest

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How is the current ascendancy of the Newt being received by his fellow conservatives, Gene Lyons asks at Salon?  Not so well.  
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

As Gingrich Takes Center Stage, Questions about Spirituality and Politics Emerge

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On the political front in the U.S.: Jaweed Kaleem labors  mightily (and well) to get a fix on Mr. Gingrich's spirituality and...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

In the News: Siri, the Newt, Democrats as Anti-Catholic, and Bachmann's Inanity

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In the news right  now: The controversy about the Siri phone app continues , with the news media reporting that petitions are ci...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Nate Silver on Cain Story: One Accuser Away from (Allegedly) Harassing More Women Than Newt Has Married

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A tweet I wish I'd tweeted: Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight about 4:30 P.M. CST, 2 November: