Michael Sean Winters

John McCain threw evangelical pastor John Hagee overboard yesterday Finally Months ago when anti-Catholic comments by the pastor came to light McCain said he did not support the claims and Hagee did one of those faux-mea culpas in which he did not apologize for what he said but for any offense

John McCain in an effort to paint Barack Obama as wet behind the ears on security issues has taken the Illinois Senator to task for promising to meet with foreign leaders without preconditions McCain has focused much of his blast at the implications for relations with Iran whose leader is admitt

In 2007 I predicted to anyone who would listen that the Democrats would have their nominee at 8 01 Iowa time on the night of that state s caucus The effort to front-load the calendar to give states other than Iowa and New Hampshire a bigger say in choosing the nominee seemed destined to have t

Similar to the sane conservatives discussed last week some pro-choice liberals have begun to back away from the most extreme positions on abortion They have shifted their focus from fighting tooth-and-nail to eliminate even the whiff of a restriction on access to the procedure to trying and reduce

The recent kerfuffle over the National Abortion Rights Action League s endorsement of Sen Barack Obama put the radically pro-choice organization at the center of the news They were denounced by several pro-choice feminists including Ellen Malcolm the head of EMILY s List a group that seeks

The politics of abortion took an especially nasty and bizarre turn this past week when conservative Catholic writer and law professor Doug Kmiec revealed that he had recently been denied communion because of his public endorsement of Barack Obama s candidacy Thus as in 2004 some conservative

Back when it looked like Obama had the nomination in hand in February I nominated Sen Jim Webb as the best Veep choice After hearing from readers I also wrote about some other options including Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and General Anthony Zinni Since February Hillary Clinton s resilience

We will continue the examination of abortion politics this year in the next few days But the results from last night s election were so stunning we need to shine a spotlight on them this morning No not West Virginia It should surprise no one that Clinton with 100 name recognition and a st

There have been eight presidential elections since Roe and five of them have been won by Republicans who opposed the decision and ran as pro-life candidates They held out the prospect of appointing conservative judges to the Supreme Court who would reverse the decision Pro-life marchers make thei

If I were ever inclined to become a conservative Republican I would only have to read the latest press release from Bill Donohue s Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights to be dissuaded Donohue has called for Obama s Catholic Advisory Board to resign en masse because none of them sta