Sunday rsquo s Washington Post had a frightening article about just how ill-informed most American voters are It makes for some sad reading to realize how in this information age more people know the goings-on in Paris Hilton rsquo s romantic life than can find Iraq on a map But the article mis

Robert Giroux the great writer and editor nbsp and publisher of such literary nbsp giants as Flannery O Connor Robert Lowell T S Eliot Virginia Woolf Jack Kerouac and many others has died at the age of 94 nbsp The New York Times had this nbsp moving obituary nbsp on September 6 nbsp He

First Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi demonstrated that she wasn rsquo t paying attention during theology classes when she matriculated at Trinity College Now Sen Joe Biden has managed to wade into the treacherous waters of making pronouncements on what the Church does and does not teach abo

We promised that we would have a fresh post every morning by 8 a m This morning we had some technical difficulties but our new election blog is up and can be found here

Sixty days to go We are waiting for the polling numbers to shake out after the post-convention bounces But who is winning on the different components of a campaign on message biography the issues and on the ground Usually the two parties craft different messages for an election depending on

Or so it is claimed by T-shirts printed off this week in the wake of the Republican VP nominee s put-down of Barack Obama s former profession in her speech last Wednesday Is this a new front in America s faith-culture wars It seems odd for a party seeking the God vote to diss one of the grea