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The Obama Administration’s announcement today being billed as a “contraception compromise” is anything but that. In fact, it will make matters worse.
At Mass yesterday, a retired Bishop from a northeast state that was visiting DC said this entire episode is a political and spiritual “war” (he used the word war several times) that will [...]
If you’re a Catholic, when was the last time you heard a priest say anything political from the pulpit after a Sunday Mass? It is very rare, if ever. To our pleasant surprise, however, we heard a lot more than politics this past Sunday from our area Bishops about federal government efforts to force Catholics [...]
According to a blog posting at The Nicaraguan Dispatch (no relationship with our DC Dispatches), and similar articles in Spanish from the region, there are a group of fellows that claim to be a modern-day version of the Nicaraguan freedom fighter movement, the Contras. I’ve had folks well connected in the region [...]
An indignant sounding Secretary of State Clinton was “dismayed” yesterday at the “deplorable behavior” of U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of dead terrorist Taliban. Defense Secretary Panetta also condemned their “utterly deplorable” actions. On the Republican side of the aisle, the response was mostly muted, however, Senator John McCain also condemned the incident and said it “saddened” [...]
The europhiles say the UK is isolated now because the PM Cameron placed UK interests above EU interests. Good riddance.
“The Day He Put Britain First” cheered the mass-selling Daily Mail, after the British prime minister blocked Franco-German attempts to enshrine new budget rules into a modified EU treaty during an all-night summit in Brussels. [...]
It is Thanksgiving morning in the United States. Here in our nation’s Capital we take a break for a few days from the law, politics, policy and, yes, even the news, to give thanks for the many good things life has to offer.
President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 is one that Yleem and [...]
While gaming could be good for Cuba once it is free — as she will need to offer it to compete with other Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico — this is something for a free Cuba to decide
I have read a lot of odd things in my day about U.S.-Cuba policy. Some [...]
