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While in Orange County, Calif., last week, I had a chance to read the following story about North Korea and religious persecution in an actual dead-tree-pulp edition of the Los Angeles Times. I thought that reporter Barbara Demick did a good job of handling the brutal details without letting things get out of control.
What to make of the media’s coverage of President Bush’s visit to China? Keeping track of the unraveling battle between the Catholic Church and the Chinese government is a job unto itself, but when the Leader of the Free World stops by for the weekend, the stories become all the more numerous and compelling.
Here is one of the most terrifying stories I have read this year, a feature by Elaine Sciolino of The New York Times that ran under the headline “From Tapes, a Chilling Voice of Islamic Radicalism in Europe.”
Still striving to catch up from my travels, so hang in there with me as I glance back into the week. Here is a nice look at a highly symbolic action by a church on the religious left. This Washington Post report contains all of the sources that you expect in another one of the oldline denominations that, sadly, will almost certainly spin apart over the issue of sexuality and marriage.
During all of my West Coast travels last week there was one URL that I kept watching for, a link that would let us read what Pope Benedict XVI had actually said in his latest remarks on creation and a Creator.
There is absolutely nothing new in here on either side of the Supreme Court wars. You may, however, want to cruise around here and here.
When it rains it pours. This is the day when most American news outlets will be doing their Walk the Line coverage, a subject already discussed on this blog here, here and way back here.
Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., has long been a rising star in Congress. Most outside of Washington know him for the “steroids in baseball” hearings and for his chairing the Congressional hearings on Hurricane Katrina.
Earlier this week, Daniel touched on some newspapers’ breathless “C.S. Lewis had premarital sex” exposes. Some of the comments on his post have mentioned the critique of Lewis in the Nov. 21 New Yorker.
