March 2010 Archives
This rising generation isn't losing its religion. These young people are simply resisting the tried-and-true brands of American religion and politics. Can you blame them?
There were times when last Sunday's great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC's "This Week," a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove all but lost it in a debate with the Obama strategist David Plouffe.
The iPad will change the way you use computers, read books, and watch TV--as long as you're willing to do it the Steve Jobs way.
There was much laughter following the president's signing of the health care bill. Democrats were positively giddy over having successfully secured America's decline. There were fist bumps and back slapping; the champagne flowed.
A news report from Washington, D.C. tells the story of vestigial Christianity unhinged from biblical authority. Religion News Service [RNS] reports that many pastors in the nation's capital are struggling with just how they can go about the wedding of same-sex couples now that gay marriage is legal in the District of Columbia.
With the marathon effort to overhaul the health care system behind us, it is time for the Obama administration to move quickly and powerfully to the monumental task of putting Americans back to work.
ROGER COHEN
The passage of the U.S. health care bill is a major foreign policy victory for President Barack Obama.
As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the "n-word" at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.
When ancient fossils of creatures that live on the ocean floor have been found in rock formations at the summit of Mount Everest, that ought to give us a clue that big changes in the earth are nothing new, and that huge changes have been going on long before human beings appeared on the scene.
Many Americans find it difficult to understand why Jews on the Left -- including many who would call themselves "liberal" rather than "Left" -- continued to enthusiastically support President Obama after the revelations about the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the religious mentor and close friend of Obama.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are acting like spoiled brats, after Democrats snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by passing health care reform.
Two things happened to Sandra Bullock this month. First, she won an Academy Award for best actress. Then came the news reports claiming that her husband is an adulterous jerk.
DAVID NEFF
After modernity, we are told, people crave community. Modernity disconnected us. We all need an us. But, after modernity, we have seen not just a revival of community but also a resurgence of tribalism. When us turns into us vs. them, serious danger lies ahead.
More than 100 prominent Christians signed a document called the Civility Covenant.
According to new polls, support for the health care reform bill has increased as a result of Sunday's approval the legislation by the House.
With the Senate working through an all-night session on a package of changes to the Democrats' sweeping health care legislation, Republicans early Thursday morning identified parliamentary problems with at least two provisions that will require the measure to be sent back to the House for yet another vote, once the Senate adopts it.
Now that the diplomatic spat is over, we return to our regularly scheduled stalemate. Welcome to the future ex-Middle East peace process.
One Republican callled the interruption of Rep. Bart Stupak (left) by Rep. Neugebauer 'horrible,' but noted that the issues are bringing out everyone's 'darker sides.'
George J. Mitchell, President Obama's Middle East envoy, left, extended an offer for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with the president, a sign of ease in the recent discord.
If you think it's just a set of rules, you may be surprised.
ROB MOLL
Leah Beale does not support causes opposed to her values. Because of that, she says, "I have probably missed some very good movies." That's also why she has invested 20 percent of her money in the recently launched FaithShares exchange traded funds (ETFS).
DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN
On Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office reported that, if enacted, the latest health care reform legislation would, over the next 10 years, cost about $950 billion, but because it would raise some revenues and lower some costs, it would also lower federal deficits by $138 billion.
Went to a big Washington dinner last week. You know the kind: Large hall; black ties; long dresses. But this was no ordinary dinner. There were 40 guests of honor. So here's my Sunday news quiz: I'll give you the names of most of the honorees, and you tell me what dinner I was at. Ready?
Americans think the bill is too expensive because they don't understand its cost controls.
Respect goes a long way and there is no better way to find out how to reap its effects than through reading The Top Ten Laws of Respect, a new three book series by Niyi Taiwo. Taiwo explains how many benefits can be reaped when we choose to humble ourselves and show respect to those we come in contact with each day at home, at work, and in our personal lives.
Barack Obama waves while marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago, Illinois, in this file photo.
How we can empower parents, schools, and the community to battle childhood obesity.
Religion is now the hottest topic for American historians.
SEAN WILENTZ
Ronald Reagan deserves posterity's honor, and so it makes sense that the capital's airport and a major building there are named for him.
From an unlikely quarter--Pakistan.
Hillary Clinton expresses opposition to Israel creating settlements in East Jerusalem.
In this June 24, 2007, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., right, and his wife Landra Reid attend an event at Ford's Theater in Washington. A spokesman says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were being treated in a hospital Thursday, March 11, 2010, from serious injuries they sustained when their vehicle was rear-ended.
The White House panel on faith-based initiatives, a middling and contradictory group, kinda sorta got it right on religion and government.
We've Come a Long Way, but not Far Enough: Women demand equal pay for equal work at a 1970 women's rights march in Detroit.
Come November, the president and his party may find themselves succeeding most by failing the least.
Experts offer advice on how to avoid expensive financial aid mistakes
Barack Obama and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham disagree on almost everything--except the need to work together.
Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, speaks at a news conference in Washington, D.C.
The White House adviser on the first year
President Barack Obama signs H.R. 4691, Temporary Extension Act of 2010, in his private office in the residence of the White House, March 2, 2010.
The real problem for the president is that many American's don't think he's governed effectively
THE NEW YORK TIMESFRANK RICH
Wednesday's health care rally was one of President Obama's finest hours. It was so fine it couldn't be blighted even by his preposterous backdrop, a cohort of white-jacketed medical workers large enough to staff a hospital in one of the daytime soaps that refused to be pre-empted by the White House show.
WALL STREET JOURNAL STEPHEN MILLER
How the Cadences and Diction of the King James Bible Affected the Prose Style of American Writers
Gov. David A. Paterson Friday at a restaurant opening at Kennedy Airport. He said his resignation would weaken his office.
Bestselling authors, Michelle Singletary (The Power to Prosper--Nonfiction) and ReShonda Tate Billingsley (The Devil Is a Lie--Fiction)
lead the pack of black Christian authors on the March 2010 edition of
the Black Christian News/Black Christian Book Company National
Bestsellers List.
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Bestselling authors, Michelle Singletary (The Power to Prosper--Nonfiction) and ReShonda Tate Billingsley (The Devil Is a Lie--Fiction)
lead the pack of black Christian authors on the March 2010 edition of
the Black Christian News/Black Christian Book Company National
Bestsellers List.
Read More.
Is Obama too reasonable for his own good?
They see themselves as crusaders for human rights--protectors of the innocent, the voiceless, and the powerless.
President Obama is greeted by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as he steps off Air Force One on March 2.
Rep. Ron Paul suddenly finds himself dealing with the blowback: a handful of Tea Party-inspired candidates are seeking to dislodge him in the Texas Republican primary.
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