Proponents of embryonic stem cell research heartened by an executive order from President Obama which lifted many Bush-era restrictions on federal money for this controversial bio-medical research are facing a setback after a federal court suspended the 2009 executive order Chief Judge Royce C L

There has been a lot of talk about the Park51 facility and the purportedly dark and Dr No-ish intentions of its bankrollers and founders The so-called ldquo Ground Zero mosque rdquo is on the verge of becoming this election season rsquo s rhetorical blackhole It rsquo s unclear what comes out

It shouldn t be a surprise to learn that Pope Benedict XVI s decision to refuse the resignations of Dubln auxillary bishops Eamonn Walsh and Bishop Raymond Field has unleashed an outpouring of outrage in Ireland The bishops had resigned at the urging of Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin who demand

The New York Times fleshes out the background of the folks behind the controversial Cordoba House perhaps itself a poor choice as it harkens back whatever planners contemporary intentions to Iberia s Islamic caliphate and deconstructs their efforts as a case study in poor public relations T

A few months back I received some e-mail from Middle Eastern sources which argued that a military build-up on Israel s northern border meant preparations for a new war between Israel Hezbollah Lebanon and perhaps even Syria At the time the idea after such pointless bloodletting in 2006 and the c

On July 25 the digital gadflies at WikiLeaks org offered up their latest e-coup what WikiLeaks is calling the Afghan War Diaries It is 91 000 documents from the mundane to the heartbreaking that trace the daily violent trudge through the frustrating tactical maze that our nation-building adventu

Arizona s Catholic bishops released the following statement yesterday afternoon on a federal court decision which blocks some elements of Arizona s controversial immigration law more on this We the Roman Catholic Bishops in Arizona commend Judge Susan Bolton for enjoining some of the more probl

The two most contentious aspects of the controversial Arizona law SB 1070 sections that called for Az police officers to check a person s immigration status while enforcing other laws and that required immigrants to carry their residency documents at all times nbsp have been blocked by a federal

A micro-controversy related to last Spring s drawn-out battle over whether or not the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PPACA the nation s engine of health care reform included end-run bureaucratese that would allow federal funding for abortion was stirred up by the release of guideline

Department of unintended consequences The excommunication of Sister Margaret McBride has apparently drawn the attention of the ACLU CNS reports In a July 1 letter to the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the ACLU said the Phoenix case and others cited in an