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...which received $50 million in stimulus money—we have the National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Museum and Library Services, National Public Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the State Department’s cultural programs, and ,of course, the Smithsonian. All in all, the argument against rolling out the frontiers of the state is pretty weak—they’re already rolled. If anything, a Department of Culture would make federal support of cultural programs less of a mismanaged mess...
...unabashed terrorist to justice. Bharara, who drew plaudits for his investigation into the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys under President George W. Bush, has burnished his reputation by prosecuting organized crime figures and white collar criminals. His newest assignment presents more formidable challenges - not least among them, overcoming the argument that information gleaned from Mohammed was coerced by CIA investigators, who according to documents waterboarded the al-Qaeda operative 183 times. In a Nov. 13 press conference, Holder said he "fully expects to direct the prosecution" to pursue the death penalty for the five alleged terrorists. For Bharara, securing anything...
...Ever since it survived a 33-day onslaught by Israel in the summer of 2006, Hizballah has accused the American- and Saudi-backed ruling coalition of doing Israel's work by seeking to disarm the organization's armed wing. (The argument by its rivals is that no state can tolerate the existence of private armies independent of the sovereign government.) After the issue provoked more than a year of massive demonstrations and sit-ins in central Beirut, Hizballah tried to settle matters the old-fashioned way in May 2008 by storming pro-government positions in West Beirut. But while...
...preside over a funeral Mass for the late Senator Ted Kennedy. And it has set the Catholic world abuzz. Even more than protests over the University of Notre Dame's decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak, disputes over the Kennedy funeral have brought into the open an argument that has been roiling within American Catholicism. The debate nominally centers on the question of how to deal with politicians who support abortion rights. Burke and others who believe a Catholic's position on abortion trumps all other teachings have faced off against those who take a more holistic view...
Silence from Rome The American hierarchy has been divided before, most recently in the 1990s by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's argument that abortion is not the only issue in the "seamless garment of life" that Catholics are called to promote. But the current debate, which is expected to surface again when the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) holds its general meeting later this month, is the bitterest yet. A minority faction of bishops had hoped Pope Benedict XVI would lead the way in punishing those who dissent from church teaching. His preference for avoiding the political fray...