The Catholic Health Association received a videotaped message from President Obama yesterday that acknowledged the decisive role the organization played in getting the health care reform bill across the finish line He singled Sr Carol Keehan for special praise The President rsquo s words may have

In our current June 21-28 issue Peter Heinegg reviews Bonhoeffer Pastor Prophet Martyr Spy a new biography of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer written by Eric Metaxas Almost immediately after Hitler s ascension to power in 1933 Bonhoeffer then just 27 distinguished himse

On this day 18 years ago Dan Quayle famously misspelled potato leading the 12-year-old child whom he corrected to later comment to David Letterman I know he s not an idiot but he needs to study more Do you have to go to college to be vice president Garrison Keillor has the story at the bot

P op Quiz for new parents how much will it cost you to raise your newborn nbsp According to a government study released last week and reported on Planet Money NPR rsquo s finance blog ldquo a middle-income two-parent family will spend 222 360 on average to raise a baby born in 2009 rdq

It rsquo s the diplomatic strategic and fiscal boondoggle that keeps well taking I guess The war of choice in Iraq has already cost the United States a great many lives and vast sums that obviously could have been better spent say preparing for deep water oil mishaps developing an alternative

In for a penny in for a pound goes the old saying In the contemporary Washington fiscal universe perhaps the amounts should be revised In for a billion in for a trillion The point of the saying is that sometimes moderation is not the best strategy that once a plan has been adopted one c