All Posts Tagged With: "Washington"
A Gay Jesus and Catholic Art
“Corpus Christi” is a play written by an Irish Catholic named Terrence McNally, first performed on Broadway in 1998 and revived for two weeks in October. It is a controversial interpretation of the life and work of Jesus Christ, so it can be considered a part of the crazy-quilt reality of living as a Catholic [...]
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A Pragmatic Pair Chosen to Confront Terrorism Threat
By Carrie Johnson and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers
In nominating former federal prosecutors to lead the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday selected two Democrats with sterling law-and-order credentials but less experience in detecting threats and gathering intelligence in the age of international terrorism.
Eric H. Holder Jr., the candidate [...]
Out for Obama: Gay Rights Group Plans Mega Inaugural Shindig
Cyndi Lauper scheduled to headline the Out for Equality inaugural extravaganza. (AP Photo)
The “Out for Equality” ball (though its gay-rights organizers don’t want to call it a ball) is shaping up to be one of the single hottest tickets on inauguration night. And you don’t have to be L, G, B or T to want [...]
Obama Volunteers at a Chicago Food Bank
President-elect Barack Obama, center, his wife Michelle Obama, left, and daughter Malia, 10, center, greet people at a food bank at St. Columbanus Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, Nov. 26, 2008. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News was today’s pool reporter covering Barack Obama’s visit to a [...]
Obama Transition Statement on Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai
Onlookers stand at the site of a bomb blast in Mumbai Nov. 26, 2008. (Reuters)
Obama Transition chief national security spokesperson Brooke Anderson condemned the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on behalf of the president-elect, saying:
President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and [...]
The Meaning of Jihad in Islam
By Ali Gomaa
Within Islam the term jihad refers to a large category of meanings. Today, however, there are attempts to isolate this term to only one form of jihad to the exclusion of all others. This includes a conception of jihad that at best refers only to armed struggle, and at worst to a barbaric [...]
Can the Obamas Choose a Church? Will We Let Them?
By David Waters
As everyone knows by now, the Obamas are between church homes. That’s a difficult place for any churchgoing family, but especially one that has become the focus of the fears and hopes of the entire world. Finding a new church won’t get any easier now that they’re moving into the White House.
I can’t [...]
Fix Pick: Brooks on the Transition
New York Times columnist David Brooks is reassured by the people with whom President-elect Obama has chosen to surround himself. (By Linda Davidson — The Washington Post)
Amid the chaos of Cabinet picks and the whirl of White House staff announcements over the past week, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture.
That big [...]
Trending Away From the GOP
By David S. Broder
Sunday, November 16, 2008; Page B07
The deeper one digs into the returns from this past election, the more portentous the results seem.
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Trending Away From the GOP
5 Myths About an Election of Mythic Proportions
Watch Where You Walk, Mr. Obama
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Wag the Blog: Media Bias?
By Chris Cillizza
It seems that every social event The Fix attends — and that list includes plane flights, field hockey games and shopping with Mrs. Fix, among others — there is someone who asks about bias in the media.
Usually the “inquiry” comes in the form of an assertion — the media is far too liberal [...]
What Benedict Hasn’t Said About the Holocaust
James Carroll
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to a synagogue in New York this week will evoke his visit to the oldest synagogue in Germany nearly three years ago. On that occasion, addressing leaders of Cologne’s Jewish community, Pope Benedict properly addressed the question of the Shoah. He deplored Hitler’s campaign to eliminate the Jewish people, and [...]
To the Victor goes the Spoils
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Catholic Socialism
I was driving home when I heard on my car radio a minister say that “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” was a Looney-tune idea. I don’t make a habit of speaking back to the radio, but I couldn’t help but scream, “It’s in the Bible!” Acts 2: 44-45 [...]
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Ten Facts You Need To Know About Rahm Emanuel
Barack Obama’s decision to name Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff ensures that myriad profiles of the man they call “Rahmbo” will be written in the days and weeks to come.
Here at The Fix we aim to bring readers only the news they need to know, so — without further ado — [...]
2008 Election: Winners and Losers
By Chris Cillizza
Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States. John McCain will not, likely capping a long and well-decorated political career with a loss.
Democrats will expand their majorities in the House and the Senate. Republicans will be relegated to minority status in both chambers, forced to re-calculate what their party stands [...]
How Obama Did It: The Ground Game
The God Vote
Jacques Berlinerblau
Jacques Berlinerblau is associate Professor and Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He’s also editor of faith2008.org. Many years ago he received a doctorate in ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature from New York University. Soon after, for reasons [...]
The Final Fix Electoral Map
The Final Fix Electoral Map
After two years of following every jot and tittle of a presidential race that has had more twists and turns than this political junkie could have even imagined, we’ve reached the end.
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Think you have Patrick Henry confused with Nathan Hale.
Thank You Joe - you are correct. The post has been ...