Michael Sean Winters

The draft language of the Democratic platform was released and strangely both pro-choice radicals and pro-life Democrats claimed victory in how the text treated abortion How can that be And who will be proven right Writing in Slate com feminist Linda Hirschman was delighted that the Democrats h

One of the reasons I keep AOL is because their homepage is a little like USAToday ndash if the editors at AOL decide to put something up front it has a good chance at affecting the mainstream culture The other reason I keep it is because I am a computer Luddite and AOL remains ideally suited fo

nbsp The McCain campaign saw the Russian invasion of Georgia as an opportunity to exploit their candidate rsquo s strong suit foreign policy with what amounted to a real-time version of Hillary Clinton rsquo s ldquo 3 a m rdquo ad McCain supporter Sen Lindsay Graham even borrowed the exact

A new ad by Sen John McCain has caused controversy because of its use of religious imagery The ad features images of Obama and Charlton Heston playing Moses Flashing across the screen pictures of Obama rsquo s rapturous greeting in Berlin alternate with the phrase ldquo The One rdquo The ad i

Somewhere inside George W Bush rsquo s uncomplicated worldview there is a deep commitment to democracy and freedom Unfortunately the President is better at making that commitment manifest when he is casting his gaze abroad than when he is acting out the role to which he was elected executing th

The Bush Administration is reviewing the draft of a regulation that would require hospitals receiving federal funds to respect the religious freedom of health care workers by ensuring that workers do not have to participate in medical procedures that they consider morally objectionable The regulati

The McCain campaign is being taken to task by the press because their decision to hammer Barack Obama for cancelling a trip to a military hospital is not only mean-spirited but also is untrue First Andrea Mitchell skewered a McCain surrogate on television and now the morning papers are joining the

In 2004 the organization ldquo Catholic Answers rdquo distributed voting guides in many parishes They highlighted five ldquo non-negotiable rdquo items for voters to consider abortion euthanasia embryonic stem call research human cloning and gay marriage If you needed to find five wedge i

This morning rsquo s Washington Post contains another disturbing example of how we should not be addressing illegal immigration issues in this country In Virginia a little noticed state law has gone into effect that requires the state rsquo s jails to inform federal immigration officials about all

As is tradition Barack Obama placed a note in the Western Wall when visiting Jerusalem this past week Someone took the note and published it in an Israeli paper It read Lord Protect my family and me Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair Give me the wisdom to do what