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Mr. President, Your Papers Please: The Birther Inquisition

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…He now intends to take a longer look at that card. He asks the man he has stopped to step out of his car, and to accompany him to his own vehicle, so that he can get on his computer and do a more thorough background check. The dirty secret of all such stops is that once you are in the system, it is very hard to get out. There is always one more document or fact to check. It is investigation that simply breeds more investigation, world without end…

Too Little, Too Late?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…communication of four Lefebvrite bishops was announced, it was only the first step in their re-entry into communion with the Catholic church. The four bishop are essentially non-personae until such time as they are assigned new duties, allowing them to preside over the sacraments, ordain new priests, etcetera. Now we know that Bishop Williamson will not be so assigned until he recants his views about the existence of Nazi gas chambers in some suit…

Vive La Liberté

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…in the Cold War under the aegis of the Truman Doctrine. So it is that unjust state violence directed against a student in Exarchia quickly spilled over to the Polytechnic, then throughout Greece. To write this off as the rabble-rousing activity of people who are unemployed, or students on vacation, and therefore who have the time for this sort of thing, underestimates the importance (and longevity) of what is taking place. These students, and the…

Just War Tradition v. David Brooks on 9/11 Trials

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ining it as “the latest front in a global war on terror.” That requires imagination, as well as determination and strength of purpose. This Guantanamo decision is thus perhaps the first step toward the announcement of this new vision, the vision for a war the President intends to bring to a reasonable and just conclusion….

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…stead tells him to “read,” to which he replies: “I cannot read.” Perhaps most startling was Federer’s extensive focus on the prurient. Apart from predictable allusions to virgins in paradise, he also repeatedly referenced polygamy (he must have mentioned Muhammad’s wives ten times), sex slaves, castration, pedophilia, honor killings, and gang rape. He even alleged that the Qur’an contains “all these verses on how to rape women.” His concern for wo…

Op-Ed: This Morning After

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…or Palin, before even the illusion, and thus the allure, of his “maverick” status was lost. He once wagged a cautionary finger at his own party, reminded them that “we came to change Washington, and instead Washington changed us.” The cynic in me fears that this is the truth, that the machine is too vast and too complex, that the moorings have been lost, and that given the overwhelming inertia of a Titanic-sized ship of state, no captain—no matter…

A Moral For Holy Week 2010 in the Christian Tragedy of Mark’s Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

This year the Christian feast of Easter will be celebrated by the eastern and western churches on the same week, an unusual calendrical event that creates a singularly ecumenical moment for Christian reflection. Of course, in Rome, the story of the Passion that culminates in the Crucifixion-and-Rising this weekend takes place under an unusual cloud of witnesses. Gary Laderman’s provocative question in this week’s RD — what do Christians actually…

Giving RD The Finger?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…and websites: Daily Dish, Politico, Talking Points Memo, the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast. Given his interest in religion coverage, Silk pays closer attention to blogs associated with the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and USA Today. This is all brilliant in its quiet, descriptive way. Silk is especially mindful of the ways in which we are bombarded by news and information from the time we wake to the time we re…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…bandoned it? The cries go up that the new translations are simpler to understand and that Christianity in certain countries, especially in the United Kingdom, is on an inevitable decline due to a multitude of causes and therefore drastic renovations were needed. In my view one cause of the decline is the retreat from the words of the King James Version. Do we tolerate (save for schoolchildren) the dilution and simplification of the words of Shakes…

It’s Not a Tea Party, Silly, It’s a Rebellion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ts. And so the scattershot Articles were finally replaced by a new federalist Constitution, but not without a fight. Outraged citizens burned copies of the proposed new Constitution in organized street protests from New York to South Carolina. But eventually the thing was ratified, and a very different situation emerged, one in which US citizens could be taxed, but only by a federal government in which each of them had representation (and thus a t…