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...increased focus on fundamentalist beliefs and hostility toward other religions back to the Catholic Church. His desire to reunite the modern Roman Catholic Church with several more conservative factions, such as the Society of St. Pius X, of which Williamson is a member, along with his steadfast condemnation of birth control and homosexuality, reveals a troubling pattern of conservatism during his reign. While the reunification of the Catholic Church is a commendable goal, Pope Benedict XVI must be more prudent in his actions in the future. He needs to show good faith toward the global community and in the future...
...isolation is that Springfield still feels a bit like the city where Abraham Lincoln once strode the streets. There was more horse dung and dust then, to be sure. But nowhere else can you get such an intimate glimpse of the man in this bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth...
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That message may be getting through. With the election of Obama, détente between Iran and the U.S. may be closer than at any time since the two countries severed diplomatic ties with the birth of the Islamic republic in 1979. Obama's foreign policy team views Tehran as both the source of and a possible solution to most of America's problems in the Middle East--from militants in Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza to what Washington believes is Tehran's secret nuclear-weapons program. At his first presidential press conference, Obama said that over many years, Iran's actions...
...They have often found themselves at odds with the GOP leadership on taxes, budgets, the environment and social issues. They have both voted for stem-cell research, against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, for giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and against a ban on partial-birth abortion. They also both voted to acquit Bill Clinton after he was impeached...