Michael Sean Winters

An alliance of faith-based groups held a hugely successful conference call with President Obama last night to discuss health care reform 140 000 people participated in the call which featured a variety of lay and clerical leaders many with personal stories of the consequences of the lack of unive

In politics there is a place for reasoned debate There is also a time for the exercise of political power These two times can coincide and at the moment they do so precisely The President needs to step up to the plate stop the mixed-messaging coming from his staff bring together the members of

Sunday evening I received a text message from a number I did not recognize It read Ur book sucked btw u measly little faggot f— ed the original used the full vulgar nbsp word that we prefer not to reprint I despise u and all that u stand for VOMIT Having just returned from seeing Jul

One of the principal points of confusion or dishonesty in the debate about health care reform has been the existence of multiple bills coming out of Congress When someone denounces Obama rsquo s reform it is not clear what they might be referring to seeing as the White House has let the Congres

I do not remember the editorship of Michael Kelly at the New Republic in the fondest terms I did not like his biases and I was glad when he left the magazine even though I would be saddened a couple of years later when he was killed covering the war in Iraq Kelly did one thing however in the lat

Yesterday brought news that Karl Rove was more involved in the firing of a New Mexico federal prosecutor than he has previously let on This morning brings tidings that Dick Cheney believes the statute of limitations for secrets from the Bush White House is over and that he can begin to vent his f

nbsp The President had a good day yesterday beating back some of the more ridiculous claims made about the health care reform plans making their way through Congress It must be a bizarre feeling to be in charge of a large and effective White House press office with as much access to the media

John Gehring senior writer at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good CACG does a fine job taking on the arguments of Rev Michael Orsi research fellow at uber-conservative Ave Maria University The title of Orsi rsquo s article Bishops Wrong Health Care Not a Right has at least the virtue

It is only ten months since the last election and already congressional votes are being scrutinized based on how they will affect the 2010 midterms This morning rsquo s Post has an especially good take by an especially smart commentator Chris Cillizza whose columns have become must-reads in DC

Cardinal George whose call for renewed unity we applauded yesterday has his work cut out for him And he needs to start in Kansas City-St Joseph where the Catholic Key Blog produced by the staff of the diocesan newspaper also known as the Catholic Key is out of control Yesterday they att