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26 Nov 2013, 10:13 am by Tom Smith
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider a new challenge to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act and decide whether employers with religious objections may refuse to provide their workers with mandated insurance coverage of contraceptives. [read post]
23 May 2013, 2:08 pm by Tom Smith
For years, administration officials have used the power of the federal government to isolate their opponents. [read post]
10 Oct 2019, 11:20 am by Tom Smith
Donald Trump, an ongoing eruption of self-refuting statements (“I’m a very stable genius” with “a very good brain”), is adding self-impeachment to his repertoire. [read post]
24 May 2012, 11:49 am by Tom Smith
But in recent months, a series of events — among them the Vatican’s rebuke of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, encouraged by right-wing U.S. bishops — have angered more progressive Catholics and led to talk among the disgruntled faithful of the need for a “Catholic spring” to challenge the hierarchy’s shift to the right.Bishop Stephen E. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 8:39 am by Tom Smith
VATICAN CITY — On an April 2009 visit to the Italian mountain town of Sulmona, Pope Benedict XVI solemnly placed his pallium, the vestment symbolizing his papal authority, on the tomb of Celestine V. [read post]
8 Aug 2014, 8:28 am by Tom Smith
The increasingly dire straits of refugees in the Kurdish region of Iraq, amid startling gains by Islamist forces there, prompted the United States to launch airstrikes against the militants Friday in a major escalation of U.S. involvement in the crisis. [read post]
23 Apr 2013, 8:26 am by Tom Smith
TEL AVIV — Senior Israeli military officials on Tuesday stated that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have used chemical weapons against the country’s civilians, saying their evidence — including photographs of victims foaming at the mouth — made them “nearly 100 percent” certain. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 2:53 pm by Tom Smith
SAN DIEGO — The commander of Naval Base Point Loma says a report of an armed man on the San Diego base led to detention of a serviceman who had fired a gun that shoots soft plastic pellets. [read post]
14 Dec 2019, 8:52 pm by Tom Smith
The Christmas commercial, however, reached a new level of Internet infamy, and investors reacted negatively: The company’s stock tumbled Tuesday by 9 percent. [read post]
19 Dec 2013, 7:49 am by Tom Smith
Republicans tend to regard Obama’s aggressive assertion of enforcement discretion as idiosyncratic — an anti-constitutional impatience arising from his vanity. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 2:45 pm by Tom Smith
Russia’s illegal blockade and closure of the Kerch Strait on Sunday and its violent seizure of three Ukrainian ships are clear violations of international law and of bilateral Ukrainian-Russian agreements. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 10:23 pm by Tom Smith
The fundamental division in U.S. politics is between those who take their bearings from the individual’s right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom, and those whose fundamental value is the right of the majority to have its way in making rules about which specified liberties shall be respected. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 1:07 pm by Tom Smith
The president said yesterday in his speech at Northwestern University that he is “not on the ballot this fall … but make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 8:25 am by Tom Smith
All this is just her developing a cosmetic veneer of familiarity with American middle-class life. [read post]