I like the concept of a Washington Post story on the Maryland Senate’s passage of a same-sex marriage bill.
'Waning influence' of Maryland Catholics?
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A Gawker ethic
Remember Chris Lee, the congressman who resigned after a woman he met on Craigslist sent a suggestive photo to Gawker that he had sent to her? The allegations and the resignation happened so quickly that it fell out of the news cycle fairly quickly.
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Ghost in Nevada's brothels?
That’s my question after reading no shortage of news coverage concerning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s call Tuesday for the outlawing of legal brothels in his home state’s rural counties.
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The abortion doctor and St. Paul
Bernard Nathanson was a leading New York City abortion doctor who helped found NARAL. Originally that stood for the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. It was later renamed the National Abortion Rights Action League. Now it’s known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. Nathanson worked with abortion rights pioneers for the legalization of abortion in the United States, a goal they accomplished with the Supreme Court’s Roe V. Wade decision. Nathanson reports that he was personally responsible for some 75,000 abortions. He performed one of these on his own unborn child. Previously he’d paid for another girlfriend to have an abortion.
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Suffering, forgiveness and the LRA
I drove into the mountains of Tennessee last night listening to stories of sin, suffering, grace and forgiveness. That’s what was playing on the country music stations, of course, but that was also what was playing for part of the time on the BBC World Service.
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Thou shalt favor one side
Two elements of a Washington Post story that ran over the weekend appeal to me: small-town folks and a battle over church and state.
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Got News? Persecuted Christian edition
Sometimes I think back to August and September when most mainstream media outlets were obsessed about the construction of an Islamic Center near Ground Zero and/or the planned (but never realized) burning of a Koran by a leader of a small church in Florida. Everywhere the media looked, they saw Islamophobia and it became the overarching narrative adopted by many figures in the media.
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LAT plays hide and Sikh
I’ve definitely read my share of interesting stories related to immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border. This one, about a Muslim cleric who had been deported from Canada getting caught while unsuccessfully being smuggled back into the United States, comes to mind. But I don’t want to sell short a story from the Los Angeles Times about a surge of illegal immigrants coming from … India.
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Gun laws and the Godbeat
Back in my high school days in Texas, my minister would look out over the congregation and make the same request each Sunday.
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