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Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…ews of the death of bin Laden, Paul expressed concern over those trying to use the development to argue that “torture works” — a view he described as “dangerous.” He then said bin Laden’s death should change our foreign policy because we are doing what Bin Laden wanted: “He wanted us to stay there, drain our resources and bankrupt our country… the connection between our foreign policy and our financial problems is significant.” These days many Ame…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…call attention to things—that’s part of the strategy. In other words, you use everything you can use.” There’s no question that Trump has thus far leaned heavily on executive action to advance his policy goals—which is not uncommon for presidents faced with a divided (or, in this case, deeply dysfunctional) Congress. And while Trump has signed more executive orders to date than any president since Harry Truman, the actual policy impact of those o…

Circuit Court Rejects Priests for Life Contraception Challenge

By Patricia Miller

…dn’t women who work for PFL be such excellent Catholics that they wouldn’t use birth control anyway? But a statement from Janet Morana, executive director of PFL and a personal plaintiff in the case, seems to shed more light on the motivation behind the suit: This decision praises the so-called benefits of contraception as if its well-documented negative health risks did not exist. Our objection to be any part of the government’s plan to make cont…

Of Personhood and the Pill: What’s at Stake?

By Atlee Parks Breland

…This even extends to contraception. Many pro-life people believe that the use of hormonal contraception and IUDs is incompatible with a view that life begins at conception, because of potential abortifacient effects. This view is by no means universal, but it’s common enough that it’s a fair question to ask whether personhood is incompatible with the Pill. If the pro-life movement can’t agree even amongst itself, how are women supposed to be able…

Episcopal Church Divided Over Trinity’s Denial of Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…iolently in the face of peaceful resistance. Such violence, whatever the cause and source, would surely impute to the church’s reputation in a variety of potentially damaging ways. I would worry, too, about the church’s relationships to the police and other city agencies, as these would likely be fractured by offering sanctuary for continued nonviolent protest. And, if I were the CEO of Trinity Wall Street, I’d be alarmed at the idea of the “unspe…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…hinking “Reacquaint yourselves with Rosemary’s Baby, women of America, because if the right wing has their way, we’ll all be heading for housecoats and unlimited childbearing which we will allegedly turn out to love.” There’s a critical reading of the film that says that what’s really going on is that Rosemary is insane (hysterical) and she imagines everything that happens to her, that the whole satanic conspiracy stuff is pre- and postpartum depr…

Profits Over Principles for Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…bout promoting tobacco in countries which had no or few regulations on the promotion or use of tobacco products. In fact, the documents show that this was the clear objective of American tobacco companies who were facing declining sales at home due to increased government regulations and scrutiny. Romney has spoken of his personal disdain for tobacco, revealing that in his entire life he smoked only one cigarette—when he was a teenager. Growing up…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…ing in the Capitol has been alleged to be a “cult.” However, these are diffuse movements, not insulated, totalistic communities. “Cult” used in this manner is constructed to refer to the worst characteristics that people can imagine, which is what Yale historian Joanne Freeman did in a June 22, 2021 podcast with Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson (no relation to James T. Richardson) when Freeman stated that members of a “cult” believe…

Contraception Furor v. Catholic Realities

By Mary E. Hunt

…bishops, can still teach and believe what they wish. No one forces them to use contraception. Rather, it is employees of Catholic institutions, including janitors and housekeepers, whose rights to make their own decisions about health care are impinged upon. Blaming the victim is an old trick, but, in this case, few people are buying it. Not Religious Liberty, but Religious Influence Religious liberty language is attractive, especially in an elect…

Hamas Bunny Eats Jews

By Hussein Rashid

…slims must kill Jews and eat them (have these people no sense of irony? It used to be that Jews were accused of killing infant Christian babies to make matzoh; it was meant to be a sign that Jews were subhuman. Now Hamas gladly says they themselves are subhuman.) This virulent anti-Semitism is not part of a general Islamic ethos, and more people have addressed this issue than I can count. But I look at Assud and I think there is another strain of…