Michael Sean Winters

This is not Washington rsquo s finest hour The blame shifting and finger pointing about the AIG bonuses are not especially heroic Worst of all the intellectual quality of the debate is pathetic especially among conservatives Charles Krauthammer indicates this morning what he thinks of the entir

The Obama Administration appears a bit schizophrenic these days In California the President sounded like the pitch perfect voice of populist anger at the AIG bonuses and using ndash finally ndash a key word in diagnosing our economic ills culture But Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner

No not THAT choice act The Employee Free Choice Act EFCA which unlike the bugaboo pro-abortion bill that still has not been introduced in Congress is beginning to gain traction as the nation rsquo s economic woes cause everyone to look beyond the fluctuations in the Dow Jones Industrial Averag

Perhaps it was merely a coincidence that the news about AIG rsquo s determination to give bonuses to the very employees who drove the company into the dirt came on the same weekend that cable movie channel TBS was replaying the 2003 Chris Rock comedy Head of State Rock played a city councilman wh

Oftentimes we see what we want to see not necessarily what is actually in front of us on the page or in the world We take intellectual shortcuts Oh if he thinks lsquo X rsquo then he must also think lsquo Y rsquo even though there is no such connection in a given argument Sometimes these

All of the interesting Catholic stories have kept me from opining about Charles Freeman the man who had been selected to chair the National Intelligence Council by President Obama rsquo s incoming Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair Yesterday afternoon I saw that he had resigned and

The President left a host of issues unresolved yesterday when he lifted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research And the fact that he did so illustrates the point we made yesterday that the President has bought into scientism a belief that one can champion pure science by

I am no fan of traditional natural law theory even though I recognize that it is the framework for most Catholic moral theology and it has its utility I find that it tends to result in an act-centered view of sinfulness that quickly reduces the Christian faith to a moralism that misses the point

President Obama will sign an executive order today lifting the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research The decision is not a surprise and despite the demonization of Obama coming from the right it is a decision that John McCain promised to make as well Furthermore I believe that

President Obama convened his summit on health care reform at the White House yesterday Whether the event will prove to be the beginning of the end for the dysfunctional system we have today remains to be seen but there are encouraging signs The event showed the many ways in which the political lan