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Yearly Archives: 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 – Life in These United States

According to the conventional wisdom, American elections are usually determined by pocketbook economic issues. This may give too little credit to the American people’s...

CAMPAIGN 2008: The Supremes and the rest of us

Justice John Paul Stevens is 88, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75. Justice Anthony Kennedy is 72. Justice Stephen Breyer is 70. Justice David...

CAMPAIGN 2008: Iraq and the war against jihadism

No matter who is elected president, American forces will remain in Iraq for a considerable period of time. The serious points at issue have...

CAMPAIGN 2008: Marriage, civility, persecution

In Spain, today, Juan can walk into a civil registry office, present a letter from his physician stating that a change of gender is...

CAMPAIGN 2008: America and the World

According to the mid-summer polls, Americans are primarily concerned about the U.S. economy as the country enters the last lap of the 2008 election...

CAMPAIGN 2008: The life issues

Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade struck down the abortion law of all 50 states, the life issues remain the most sharply contested in...

How ‘alt.’ lost the Kingdom—and why it matters

Back in the day, before the parish repertoire was expanded to accommodate the hymn sandwich (the “opening hymn” and “closing hymn”), the “offertory hymn,”...

CAMPAIGN 2008: Jaw, jaw, war, war

Winston Churchill, master of eloquent bellicosity, is also remembered for saying that “‘jaw, jaw’ is better than ‘war, war.’” As a general matter, who...

CAMPAIGN 2008: Would President Obama be good for black America?

When I was a teenager, my formative, if largely vicarious, political experience was the civil rights movement. It was a time of great issues...

Serious Catholicism for a serious election

Full disclosure, up front: Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver is an old friend; the Archdiocese of Denver syndicates this column to Catholic papers throughout...
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