Chris Matthews says next Pope should get real about sex.
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For months now a number of conservatives have led me to believe that President Obama bought his re-election by showering gifts from the Treasury on growing liberal constituencies. So you can imagine my surprise when I noticed that many of those same conservatives are helping Ben Smith blow up his article about how Obamacare will actually screw over young people.
Now there’s no sense pretending a bunch of young, healthy taxpayers won’t be confronted with insurance premiums larger than their insurance subsidies, and thus be on the losing side of one of the ACA’s many reforms. It’s true. They will. If only somebody had pointed that out before the election!
But, of course, people have been writing about this “screwing” forever. Read More
Opponents of renewal of the Violence Against Women Act say the law should go because it’s unfair to men.
New Frontline episode airing Tuesday night on the last two year’s of budget battles recounts how the White House had not anticipated that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would be in attendance at the 2011 speech where Obama ripped into the Ryan budget plan.
I was just reliving the glory of the last GOP rising star to take on the task of the State of the Union response, Gov. Bobby Jindal in 2009. Read More
Why Marco Rubio probably ain’t the savior DC Republicans and Beltway reporters imagine him to be.
I’m curious to hear from church or medieval historians about this.
Has there really ever been a papal resignation like Benedict XVI’s? News reports note the resignation of Gregory XII in 1415. And this was technically a resignation. But Gregory resigned as part of the broader effort to end the Western Schism (the Avignon Popes and all that). So that’s significantly different from resigning the papacy because of age or coming incapacity. Read More
Amazing eyewitness video of that tornado that touched down Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Watch.
NYT: “The last pope to resign was Gregory XII, who left the papacy in 1415 to end what was known as the Western Schism among several competitors for the papacy.”