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Steven Waldman
Guts (Bob Nylen, Vietnam and The Unvarnished Truth About Heroism)
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Bob Nylen’s just-released book, “Guts,” has to be one of the most honest war memoirs written about Vietnam. It has none of the usual agendas, either glorifying the pristine heroism of the soldiers or, alternately, showing them to be just imperialist murderers. His agenda, as usual, was candor and storytelling: the comrade who blew up…
NARAL’s Cryptic Response on Sotomayor
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swaldman
I suggested yesterday that pro-choice and pro-life activists had jumped the gun by assuming Sonia Sotomayor to be an ardent pro-choicer. Today comes this email from Nancy Keenan, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. It doesn’t exactly sound like Keenan is 100% confident they have a passionate pro-choicer on their hands: “America’s pro-choice majority is…
The View From My Subway Stop
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swaldman
It took me a few seconds to notice the man in this very sad scene.
Do Catholic Judges and Catholic Lawmakers Have the Same Moral Obligations?
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swaldman
One of the message board posters, Rev. Martin Fox, took me to task for suggesting that the Bishops might criticize Sonia Sotomayor for being a pro-choice (maybe) Catholic. “Mr. Waldman’s post misunderstands, or fails to appreciate, the distinctions the Catholic Church carefully makes between the moral responsibilities of a legislator (note, not just Catholic legislators)…
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