CRS official says relief work impossible without cease-fire John Thavis analyzes the Pope’s foreign policy stance, as evident so far, and the response: In private talks, Vatican officials have asked that the U.S. government use its influence with Israel to bring an immediate halt to hostilities. To the Israelis, the Vatican has made it clear…

You may recall Charlotte Allen’s LA Times  op-ed in which she lays out the fruit of liberalism in contemporary Protestantism. Her critique was met with a response ad from the Episcopal Bishop of LA, who vaunted their democratic ways, etc. Charlotte scores again, noting the decidedly undemocratic moves Bishop Bruno and his fellows are making…

These ads have caused quite a stir in the Hoosier state – the "Summer Supervision" campaign from the Indiana Department of Child Services. They are three, all filmed as faux home video shoots. One is of a mother brining a birthday cake into a pool party and discovering a drowned child. Another is of a…

Looking at the impact of Hispanic immigration on a Georgia town – Pearson is about 50 miles northeast of Valdosta. An interesting article, with really no good place to snip – just read it all. Illegal immigration is an enormous  problem and is, you know, illegal (and long time readers know that my rather uninformed…

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