Well, some Catholics. The Catholic Hospital Association (CHA) released a statement today offering tentative support for the Senate version of health reform if Senator Casey’s abortion language becomes part of the bill: “Especially now that a public health insurance option is no longer on the table, we are increasingly confident that …
For the past few days, I’ve intended to write about the efforts to develop an abortion compromise in the Senate health reform bill. Really, I have. My editors certainly wanted me to write about it. But every time I sat down to draft something about the details of the compromise and what it would do, I couldn’t get past one basic fact: …
Christian evangelist Oral Roberts, who died today at age 91, often gets lumped in with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson by those who don’t know any better and assume he was a leading member of the Religious Right in the 1970s and 80s. But while Roberts was of the same generation as the other men, he was never involved with politics as …
Asked–and answered. It sounds like the Catholic bishops conference won’t need time to consider whether to oppose health reform because of objections to coverage for abortion services. A handful of Catholic leaders, led by USCCB president Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, released a statement yesterday expressing their “deep …
No surprise here. As expected, the Senate voted down the Nelson abortion amendment late Tuesday (technically, they voted to table the amendment, which is essentially the same thing as killing it) by a vote of 54 to 45. Pro-choice GOP Senators Snowe and Collins supported the move, while pro-life Democratic Senators Bayh, Casey, Conrad, …
What is it about those Nebraska governors-turned-senators? Did they not get enough attention as children? Do they chafe at being told they hail from a “flyover” state? Does that unicameral legislature leave too few adoring supporters? Bob Kerrey was infamous for waiting until the verrrrrry last moment to make up his mind on important …
Best punishment for the White House party-crashers and pathological fame-seekers whose names I refuse to mention: no cameras at the House Homeland Security Committee hearings at which they’ll testify on Thursday. Or make them testify behind a screen with their voices digitally altered. In a just and sane world, they would live out the …
Not that kind of woman problem. But potentially a more troubling one. Power journalism couple Susan Glasser and Peter Baker sat down with Clinton recently for a Foreign Policy interview and asked him this question: “Who is the smartest, most penetrating thinker you know?”
Off the top of his head, Clinton named a handful: Paul Krugman. …
From TIME’s Sophia Yan:
Michelle Obama has been held by US Customs and Border Protection in the port of LA for the last two weeks — 10,000 Michelles, to be exact. The first shipment of the Michelle Obama action figure by Jailbreak Toys, designed in New York and manufactured in China, was on its way back to the States for its November
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For anyone out there who shares my enjoyment of poring over these things and reading too much into them, I’ve pasted after the jump a list of the expected attendees at tonight’s White House State Dinner for the Indian Prime Minister. Which Emanuel brother wasn’t at the dinner? Does the fact that Peter Orszag went stag mean he’s on the …
Forget WWJD. The new question is apparently What Would MLK Do? A coalition of politically and theologically conservative Christian leaders, including nine Roman Catholic bishops, who have just signed a declaration saying they will not comply with laws that could require them to recognize same-sex unions or allow their institutions to …
If Josh would ever come visit us in the Washington bureau, we’d give him the grand Swampland send-off he deserves, complete with the baked goods we’re always snarfing down here. It’s a measure of the impact he has had on all aspects of the magazine and Time.com that I don’t think any of us can imagine how one person could replace him. On …