George W Bush leaves office with some of the lowest approval numbers since the advent of modern polling Of course the first president to achieve historic lows when polling first began Harry S Truman has been treated far more kindly by history Will the same happen to George W Bush For the ne

From AP VATICAN CITY by Nicole Winfield ndash Cardinal Pio Laghi a longtime nbsp Vatican nbsp diplomat who went to Washington to try to dissuade nbsp U S President George W Bush nbsp from launching the2003 invasion of Iraq has died the Vatican said Sunday He was 86 Laghi died Saturday e

The fun goes on The UK advertising nbsp ombudsman nbsp may have to rule on God s existence following a complaint by Christians that a bus poster paid for by atheists violates industry standards In All Things regulars may recall the poster and the British Atheist Bus Campaign controversy which

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Governance is a moral act Since the Reagan years the morals enshrined in our nation rsquo s policies have been those values that characterize laissez-faire economics individual responsibility acquisitiveness personal freedom and less government intrusion in corporate decision-making processes

This message was posted on the First Things blog this morning by Joseph Bottum editor of the magazine Fr Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today January 8 shortly before 10 o rsquo clock at the age of seventy-two He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day aft