It is, of course, one of the most famous lines in the classic final scene of Casablanca: “Round up the usual suspects.” You’ll want to cue the YouTube video at 4:40.
Notre Dame and the usual suspects
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Define GOP "moderate," please
A long time ago, in a radically different age, then White House scribe Michael Gerson told a circle of mainstream journalists that the crucial internal battles during the first Geroge W. Bush term usually boiled down to a clash between the “libertarians” and the “small-c catholics.”
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Notre Dame: Who, what, when, where, why and how
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Praise without a "preyer"?
In my denomination, as in most other mainline Protestant ones and the Roman Catholic Church, among others, clergy and lay volunteers are required to undergo anti-sex abuse training, which includes a criminal background check.
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CatholicVote.org vs. MSM -- again
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Storks don't actually bring babies
If you do a Google News search on the phrase “abstinence only,” you get hundreds of results and most of them are for one of two stories. There’s the media coverage of teen mother Bristol Palin and her promotion of abstinence as the only completely effective way to avoid teen pregnancy. And there’s the media coverage of the news that President Obama has removed hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for abstinence-focused programs.
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GetReligion gift: Quick, accurate correction
Every now and then, people send GetReligion gifts. Think of these gifts as GetReligion-esque posts that have already been written by people who do not write for this weblog.
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Unnecessary advocacy on the front page
With wonderful medical advances, humans are able to survive cancer and diabetes diagnoses that would have meant certain death not that long ago. And while these same medical advances and general economic prosperity mean there’s never been a better time to grow older, it also means that humans now have prolonged periods of demise that burden surviving family members. The average American lifespan has increased some 30 years since a century ago.
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Ahmadinejad: An interfaith Jew-hater?
Jon Lee Anderson, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has done highly acclaimed reporting from the world’s war zones, including Iraq. Both the video topping this post and this interview with Charlie Rose testify to Anderson’s intelligence and grace under pressure.
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