Michael Sean Winters

A controversy is brewing over a series of billboards in Georgia that link abortion and race The billboards feature the face of a small black child with the words Black children are an endangered species above the photo and the website address TooManyAborted com below It is hard to imagine a mo

The Washington Post s Magazine this weekend has a profile of Pat McGuire who has been President of Trinity College for twenty years As the article recalls at an event in 2007 Post chairman Donald Graham said of McGuire How often can you say of a university president nbsp Without her that

Perhaps it is the snow Yes here in the Imperial City of Washington we have been buried under consecutive snow storms that have disrupted life To cite a small example this morning the last three days rsquo issues of the Post were delivered and we have not gotten mail since Monday morning So

The current issue of The Tablet has an interesting article by Elena Curti about Pope Benedict rsquo s recent remarks to the Bishops of the United Kingdom regarding a proposed Equality Law The proposed law which is making its way through parliament would among other things remove the exemption r

Former Governor Sarah Palin has become an object of criticism and ridicule for writing notes on the palm of her hand while giving a speech and interview in connection with the Tea Party convention Keith Olbermann on MSNBC went into paroxysms of laughter and hubris-filled disgust that made one quest

Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan is pushing back hard against the politicization of counter-terrorism efforts He especially objected to the recent controversy over the handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the foreign national who tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day as it landed

The best part of last night rsquo s Super Bowl was the game But the ads and the ceremonies that peppered the televised spectacle were more instructive about the state of our culture and the verdict they rendered was decidedly mixed I am generally a fan of President Obama But I don rsquo t want

Bipartisanship has a better name than it should As often as not it yields an anodyne moderation that is unequal to the tasks facing the nation Last year President Obama scaled back the stimulus bill in hopes of attracting GOP support he got none when we now realize the stimulus needed to be l

This morning is the National Prayer Breakfast It is a gaudy affair held in a ballroom not in a sanctuary at which politicians are invited to strut their spiritual feathers It permits reporters to write articles like the one in this morning rsquo s paper entitled Obama rsquo s spiritual life lar

The American Principles Project APP founded by conservative Catholic professor Robbie George seems to have an inordinate fixation on gay people In dealing with presidential appointments and now with the President rsquo s promise to end Don rsquo t Ask Don rsquo t Tell Professor George rsq