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The only political move more quixotic than attempting to pass sweeping environmental legislation during economic boom times may be trying to do so in the middle of the biggest economic maelstrom in decades. But President-elect Barack Obama apparently is not dissuaded. At an international conference on climate change convened...
In an article written just before the election, Alec McGinnis noted in the Washington Post that, in addition to being the nation’s first African-American president, Barack Obama could also break another barrier: He could become the first “metropolitan” candidate in a...
Another problem for the movement is that the unchecked judicial activism that had recently propelled the cause forward is part of what is pushing it back. A major reason that Proposition 8 passed in California this election-cycle is that voters were responding to a decision that had been made...
But well before the two men have their historic handshake, the ground is already shifting underneath U.S.-Vatican relations. After the Bush Administration, the election of a pro-choice, pro-diplomacy Democratic President is changing the Vatican's game plan vis-à-vis Washington on several levels. Bush was viewed...
Even before the election, Democrats were warned not to risk becoming the "party of death," according to former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke. It was Burke who famously pledged in 2004 to deny communion to the pro-choice Catholic presidential candidate John Kerry. The archbishop has since been promoted to...