Staten Island NY Blogging for America is an opportunity I appreciate and a pleasure in itself but occasionally there are extra benefits such as the chance once in a while to highlight an event that would not make the headlines Such is today since I am visiting Staten Island where I grew up

How can free-market capitalism be made less inimical to democracy America s editors raised this question last week The future of democratic government requires greater distance between finance and government not an easy task given the modern expectation that government manages the economy It als

On Sunday the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmiud Martin made a profound apology to the former parish of a priest jailed last week for sexually abusing three boys the priest had long since been laicised after serving a previous conviction for abusing six others THe archbishop who has waged an at tim

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The health care reform process is now 2 to 1 in federal court challenges after a federal district judge in Virginia ruled today that one of reform s basic provisions that most currently uninsured Americans buy health insurance or face a federal penalty for not acquiring it was unconstitutional Ac

Face it The war on Christmas is lost When did it end Well there won t be any official declaration of surrender from churches so it s hard to pin down There will be no C E Day Christmas Ends But in my mind the war was decided this year This year almost every major department story put u