The New York Times started its nearly 2,2,00-word obituary of the “Green Revolution” pioneer on A1, and the first graf of the obit explains the prominent placement:
Borlaug: Not by bread alone
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LOL! Pope vs. Dan Brown
OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. Still, with that new Dan Brown book on the loose, people here in Washington, D.C., are jumpy. We could all use a laugh.
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Rebirth of a 'Leave Us Alone' coalition?
As tmatt mentioned yesterday, I was able to cover the taxpayer protest here in Washington this Saturday. I cover protests here all the time but I don’t think anyone — including the people who came up with the idea for the protest, the marchers, the media or the police — had any idea it was going to be as big as it was.
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Who were those guys?
Here in Beltway land, people are still buzzing a bit about the whole Tea Bag and Talk Radio festival — to use the most common mainstream media images — that drew tens of thousands (police no longer give specific estimates in this cautious age) of protesters to the National Mall.
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What is an 'anti-abortionist'?
Few issues in newspaper style have created as much controversy as the question of what to call the two sides in the culture wars over abortion. As I understand the style that has evolved, newspapers that seek balanced, fair coverage of the two sides have two solid options.
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Tony Dungy's mystery faith
The article by Matthew Kaminski, a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, sports a clear, concise headline: “A Coach’s Faith.”
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Shameless self-promotion: faith-based initiatives
It’s an opinion piece, not a news article, but some of you might be interested in something I wrote for the Wall Street Journal‘s Houses of Worship column yesterday. I took a look at how President Barack Obama’s faith-based initiative office compares with Bush’s. After reminiscing about some of the warnings that Bush’s office was leading the country to a theocratic form of government, I wrote:
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Who's calling who a liar?
I am sorry to be returning to this topic — the missing voices of the pro-life left — so quickly. However, there’s no way around it at the moment.
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Radical sexist nuns flee to Rome
A long time ago, back in the year 1991 to be precise, a circle of six doctrinally conservative priests in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland did a very unusual thing — they published a paper reaffirming ancient Christian doctrines on a host of different subjects, including their belief that salvation was found through Jesus Christ, alone.
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