Michael Sean Winters

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush the son and brother of the two presidents of that name has courageously come out against the new anti-immigration law in Arizona It places a significant burden on local law enforcement and you have civil liberties issues that are significant as well Bush said i

Far be it from me to speak ill of someone who writes kindly about my book and provides a link to Amazon so readers can buy it A blessing on Tim Fernholz But he has issued a reply to my article last week which was in turn a reply to his article in Newsweek in which he said me and Peggy Noonan wer

Normally it is better to put pins in your eyes than to watch a congressional hearing But today is not a normal day Today executives from Goldman Sachs the Wall Street investment firm recently indicted by the SEC will be testifying before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and

Washington was consumed this weekend with one question When Congress completes work on the financial reform legislation should it next take up comprehensive immigration reform first or climate change legislation The discussion has shown precisely why so many people say they have little respect fo

Newsweek in an article by Tim Fernholz has accused me and Peggy Noonan of occupying the mushy middle in the discussion of the clergy sex abuse crisis I have been called many things but mushy is not one of them If anything my worry is that the blogger rsquo s calling to be provocative somet

Pro-life groups led by Virginia rsquo s Governor Bob McDonnell scored an important victory in the state legislature yesterday By a vote of 20-19 the Senate in the Commonwealth of Virginia passed a law restricting the use of state Medicaid funds for abortions except in cases of rape incest or t

President Obama is about to score another big legislative victory as the Senate prepares to pass a bill that will rein in Wall Street Indeed this week the President seems to be hitting his stride just as the GOP appears a bit dazed and confused Think back three months ago to January when Sen Sc

This morning rsquo s appointment of Bishop Thomas Wenski as the next Archbishop of Miami is welcome for a variety of reasons some close to home and some noteworthy for changes on the Vatican rsquo s selection criteria for bishops Most immediately Wenski came to national prominence on the strength

Father Martin has already called attention to an article in yesterday rsquo s New York Times by Nicholas Kristof although it is a mystery to me why Father applied the adjective excellent to it I found the article literally dripping in the kind of misplaced moral and intellectual superiority to wh

Normally the charge of lunacy is a bit ad hominem for these pages But what if the charge of lunacy is actually exculpatory like a plea of temporary insanity at a murder trial I raise the issue because a large number of Tea Party folk who descended upon Washington yesterday to commemorate tax d