Joe Conason: "From the Tea Parties to the corporate boardrooms to the presidential debate platforms, we hear a familiar droning whine about taxes -- except the angry message is no longer simply that taxes are too high. Today, conservative politicians and pundits complain instead that some people, namely those too poor to owe federal income taxes, … Continue reading The Tax Hikes That Republicans Love
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Burma's political prisoners
Guardian: "Burma has said it is set to release prisoners, apparently including political detainees. More than 2,000 political prisoners – including monks, students, journalists, lawyers, MPs and over 300 members of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy – are incarcerated in horrendous conditions. Former prisoners are photographed with the name of a … Continue reading Burma's political prisoners
Democrats back broader exemptions to HHS contraception mandate
EWTN News: "Sen. Casey said this definition of a religious employer is “narrower than any conscience clause promulgated under federal law” and should be rewritten. Democrats for Life of America said on Oct. 5 that the exemption “ignores and excludes the myriad ways in which groups carry out their beliefs by service to others rather … Continue reading Democrats back broader exemptions to HHS contraception mandate
3 women share Nobel; led change in Africa, Mideast
Seattle PI: "Leymah Gbowee confronted armed forces in Liberia to demand that they stop using rape as a weapon. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first woman to win a free presidential election. Tawakkul Karman began pushing for change in Yemen long before the Arab Spring. They share a commitment to women's rights in regions where … Continue reading 3 women share Nobel; led change in Africa, Mideast
DFLA Board Member on Faithful Citizenship in 2012
Steve Schneck: "More importantly, we're reminded that in the Catholic understanding politics is itself good, that the political order arose not out of human sin but from the Creator’s intention that we be citizens, that governance is not a necessary evil but natural and divinely ordained, and that it is the moral obligation of government … Continue reading DFLA Board Member on Faithful Citizenship in 2012
Foreign Aid Set to Take a Hit in U.S. Budget Crisis
NY Times: "As lawmakers scramble to trim the swelling national debt, both the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate have proposed slashing financing for the State Department and its related aid agencies at a time of desperate humanitarian crises and uncertain political developments. The proposals have raised the specter of deep cuts in food and … Continue reading Foreign Aid Set to Take a Hit in U.S. Budget Crisis
Rich people are being ‘demonized’ for flaunting their wealth. Poor dears!
Barbara Ehrenreich: "Admirers of the rich, led by pundits and politicians on the right — from Laura Ingraham to Larry Kudlow — have long derided the victimization claims of African Americans, women, gays and the unemployed, but now they’re raising their voices to defend the rich against what they see as an ugly tide of … Continue reading Rich people are being ‘demonized’ for flaunting their wealth. Poor dears!
A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty
Catholic Moral Theology: "Therefore, in concert with our recent popes and bishops, we oppose the death penalty, whether a person on death row is guilty or innocent, on both theological and practical grounds. While we especially deplore and lament the killing of Troy Davis, we also decry the death sentences of the more than 3,200 … Continue reading A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71
NY Times: "Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died late on Sunday after battling cancer. She was 71."
Troy Davis Executed After Stay Denied by Supreme Court
ABC News: "Troy Davis was executed this evening after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay of execution."
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