Barack Obama and John McCain both unveiled plans to deal with the economic crisis this week Unfortunately if unsurprisingly both plans had less to do with fixing the economy and more to do with winning the election Obama proposed several distinct ideas in his plan and most of them were unobjecti

In 1952 my mother was a student teacher at the Horace Porter Elementary School in Columbia Connecticut She was teaching the children about the Soviet Union One of her students unhelpfully went home and told her parents my mother was teaching communism Within 48 hours she was hauled in front of

Can politicians learn the language of churchgoers?

Last night I was part of a panel sponsored by the Boisi Center here at Boston College to discuss the Catholic vote in the 2008 election Our host was Alan Wolfe who is America rsquo s leading non-Catholic expert on Catholicism My co-panelist was Amy Sullivan read her latest column in Time magazin

Readers of America s special Eleciton Blog will be familiar by now with Rick Garnett who teaches law at Notre Dame Rick s main blogging home is at Mirror of Justice and he has recently posted some commentary on the economic meltdown that are well worth reading if you want to get a thoughtful co

America s special Election Blog is running a Blog Contest Due to a scheduling complication the original deadline has been pushed back from tomorrow until next Wednesday october 15 The contest is open to both high school and college students For more details click here

The economic crisis has changed many calculations Certainly if Barack Obama wins his most important choice may be his new Secretary of the Treasury a job that became vastly more influential with the passage of the Bailout last week But if history is any guide another Cabinet post may prove just

Last night rsquo s town hall debate was not exactly newsworthy John McCain announced a proposal to buy up all bad mortgages in the country as a further step towards solving the economic crisis an idea that was quickly condemned by his own base Barack Obama suggested that despite the cost of his

The moral dimension of the Wall Street meltdown took center stage yesterday first in Rome and later in Washington In Rome the Holy Father referred to the crisis in his opening remarks to the Synod of Bishops which began its deliberations yesterday Referring to worldly things Pope Benedict XVI s

This weekend the McCain campaign began trying to change the conversation from the economic mess which has cost them dearly in the polls They announced they were taking the gloves off and were going to go after Barack Obama rsquo s character Of course it tells you something about the character