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oil spill demagoguery

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

It now appears that Judge Martin Feldman, who issued a temporary injunction against the administration’s moratorium on deep water drilling, has perhaps more than one conflict of interest. Other judges who, like Feldman, have money in oil and gas, recused themselves from lawsuits related to the Gulf Coast oil spill. Republicans are engaging in follow-up [...]

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drill baby drill!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

4:00 pm: I’ve just learned that a New Orleans judge has granted an injunction lifting the administration’s moratorium on deep water drilling. If the matter goes to the supreme court, and the supreme court agrees to hear it, will that signal a constitutional crisis? 8:00 pm: Now the administration has served notice that it will [...]

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who cannot emote?

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Representative Joe Barton has now apologized for his apology, but his original charge of a shakedown of innocent BP management by a bullying Obama administration still stands as a marker of the hypocrisy of present-day conservatism. I’ve never bought the right’s claim to support limited government. Big government is fine with the right as long [...]

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godspeak in the news

Friday, November 20, 2009

There’s a new manifesto from the religious right. Laurie Goodstein, writing in today’s New York Times, describes it as “an effort to rejuvenate the political alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelicals that dominated the religious debate during the administration of President George W. Bush.” Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil [...]

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plus ca change

Thursday, September 24, 2009

While the spinners parse President Obama’s speech to the UN General Assembly according to the foreign policy clichés of the moment, it’s at least interesting to wonder if any US president can effect any change in foreign affairs that is more than symbolic, or alter the ideologies of the nation’s military and intelligence agencies or [...]

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opposition to extraordinary needs

Sunday, September 6, 2009

I’ve just read a powerful op-ed piece in the Arizona Daily Star in support of the President’s program of health care reform. It’s a good, strong piece full of passionate thinking and based in personal experience. The writer is Sarah Garrecht Gassen, the daughter of a friend and co-parishioner here in St. Louis. The heart [...]

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