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Tea Party’s War on America

By Dudley Rose, on August 2nd, 2011%

Over the next weeks and months we can expect to hear a lot about what just went down in Washington during the debt ceiling debate. Joe Nocera, of the New York Times, offers a compelling opinion worth reading. His main points: We’ve got a deal on the debt ceiling, all right. One that will reduce . . . → Read More: Tea Party’s War on America

Let’s Burn the Bible!

By Dudley Rose, on September 8th, 2010%

I think it’s time we burned the Bible. Fred Phelps uses the Bible to say that God hates fags and that the U.S war casualties are God’s revenge for our country’s permissive culture. The Rev. Terry Jones in Gainesville, FL plans to burn the Quran because. He says that the God of the Bible tells . . . → Read More: Let’s Burn the Bible!

The Cross at Auschwitz; a Mosque at Ground Zero

By Dudley Rose, on August 16th, 2010%

James Carroll introduces his book, Constantine’s Sword, by telling the story of a large cross that was placed next Auschwitz. The cross had been used in 1979 for John Paul II’s return home to nearby Krakow, and its move to Auschwitz in 1998 fulfilled his expressed hope that a place of prayer and penance could . . . → Read More: The Cross at Auschwitz; a Mosque at Ground Zero

Has Politics Become Religion?

By Dudley Rose, on September 4th, 2009%

Has politics become religion? For some it seems it has. Otherwise it’s hard to explain the call for “separation” between the president of the United States and America’s school children. In the wake of the president’s plan to address the nation’s schools some have reacted very strongly suggesting that the president is forcing children to . . . → Read More: Has Politics Become Religion?

Ted Kennedy and the Politics of Principles

By Dudley Rose, on August 26th, 2009%

Like many of you, I suspect, I have found myself today mourning the loss of Ted Kennedy and reflecting on his era of political service. Like most of us, Ted Kennedy was flawed, and some of those flaws were glaring and costly to him or others. But today as I read and watched accounts of . . . → Read More: Ted Kennedy and the Politics of Principles

Jeremiah Wright and anti-Semitism

By Dudley Rose, on June 12th, 2009%

It is with sadness, disappointment and outrage that I read and listened to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s recent comments to a reporter from the Virginia newspaper, the Daily Press. Wright, the former pastor of Trinity UCC Church in Chicago and President Obama’s pastor until Wright’s incendiary comments during the presidential campaign caused Obama to break . . . → Read More: Jeremiah Wright and anti-Semitism