Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Pelosi Attack: Violence Far More Prevalent on Right Side of Political Spectrum, Though Republicans Want to Deny This

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Hammer photo uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Malene Thyssen Jill Filipovic notes the prevalence of violence emanating from the political ...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Defensive Responses to Critiques of Hillary's "Misstatement" About Reagans and AIDS: What Do They Portend for Future of Democratic Politics?

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I've been noticing an interesting (yes, that word again) thing lately in comments in my circles of Facebook friends. I'd like...
Friday, November 14, 2014

El Salvador Martyrs: Valuable Educational Resources Now Coming Online

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Patricia Miller, Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church — Excerpts

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I'm now reading Patricia Miller's book Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church (Berkeley: Univ. of ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Peter Beinart on New York Elections and Rise of a New Left in American Politics

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For Peter Beinart , national political indicators are to be seen in Bill de Blasio's win in the New York Democratic primary. Bein...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Glenda Jackson (and I) Remember Mrs. Thatcher: A Legacy of Sharp Elbows and Sharp Knees

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Chris Morley has kindly posted a link here today to a YouTube clip of Labour MP Glenda Jackson speaking yesterday in the House of C...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Matthew Fox on Benedict's Legacy and the Necessary Destruction of the Imperial Church

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Last week, Rob Kall of OpEd News's Up Radio interviewed Dominican theologian and former Catholic priest Matthew Fox regarding the...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

John Atcheson on Marlboro Man Myths (Plus Papal Preferences in Cigarettes)

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John Atcheson thinks it would be dangerous for America to return to the mythology of Marlboro Man and his rugged individualism and h...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

David Frum's "Conversion": Neocon Morality Tales and History's Judgment

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Mark Oppenheimer's fascinating roadmap of the twists and turns neocon Wunderkind David Frum has taken in his talking-head career i...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Mr. Bush the First Goes to War (2)

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The following journal entry is from February 1991: I’m haunted by the question, What if someone generations hence reads this journal and wan...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Mr. Bush the First Goes to War

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The following journal entry is from January 1991: Bush has gone to war. Always obscene, but what is particularly obscene this time is the i...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Thugs Are Thugs Are Thugs: Joan Walsh and Tim Rutten on Cardinal Newman Society

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Meanwhile, the Cardinal Newman Society ( here ) remains the gift that keeps on giving—for bloggers like me, at least; for those of us intere...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Uday-Qusay Aesthetic and the Baby-Boom Generation

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Since reading Frank Rich’s reflections in the Sunday NY Times about the tacky, sordid “culture” Americans have produced since the 1970s, as...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Reconsidering the Holy Alliance: Reagan and John Paul II

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Colleen Kochivar Baker has had two wonderful postings on her blog the past two days ( here and here ), which tie into the theme Brian began...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

A Reader Writes: Did Vatican 2 Happen?

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A very astute reader of this blog left a wonderful response to my posting yesterday about Bobby Jindal’s response to President Obama’s recen...