The Associated Press brings us the latest from Cairo:
Hard-hitting questions for Egypt's Morsi
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Gov't RFID tracking: Creepy or mark of the beast?
When I first heard rumblings about school districts in Texas using locator chips to track students, I assumed it wasn’t true.
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Too little news, too much analysis?
A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day among your friendly neighborhood GetReligionistas.
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Sandra Fluke, Time's 'Person of the Year' and tender stories
Time magazine is doing its annual PR blitz for its “Person of the Year.” After I won the designation in 2006, I stopped paying attention to it. Since then the honor has gone to Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Mark Zuckerberg and “the protester.” And yes, if you’re wondering, the tradition of selecting a Man of the Year began in 1927 with Time editors contemplating newsworthy stories possible during a slow news week. We’ve all been there.
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Times tries to pin a label on Dorothy Day (updated)
Back in the early 1990s, I had a chance to interview the late Father Ellwood “Bud” Kaiser about his unique career as a Catholic priest and as a producer in modern Hollywood, through Paulist Productions. Much of the interview focused on his film “Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story.”
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'Moderate' Muslim Brotherhood's Egyptian power grab
Protests broke out in Egypt in recent days over President Mohamed Morsi’s unilateral decree assuming widespread powers that may not be challenged or questioned. The Associated Press carried a list of some of those powers, beginning with:
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Times team laughs at all those bitter Texans
Since I grew up in a solidly Baylor family, I have always understood why the university’s seal contains the following crucial words in Latin: Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana.
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When Obama didn't 'presume to know' Creation details
Yesterday I wrote a jeremiad against the mediaâs curiously inconsistent approach to science. The hook was the media outrage over Sen. Marco Rubio’s comments (in the middle of a fluffy GQ interview about rap music) equivocating on the age of the earth.
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Polish anti-Semitism and the press
A new film that premiered last week has resurrected moral questions that some Poles hoped had been settled long ago. The 20 Nov 2012 front page of the Warsaw daily Gazeta Wyborcza was dominated by the controversy surrounding the film Poklosie (Aftermath). The headline reads “Poklosie under attack“ — but the reaction of many Poles is that they are under attack from Poklosie.
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