Politics & Policy

Hilary Shelton, the NAACP director of its Washington bureau says there is ample evidence of bigoted and racist actions on the part of the Tea Party Movement.

Tea Party calls NAACP resolution unfair

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/14/2010

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has passed a resolution condemning what it feels is racism in the conservative Tea Party movement. The resolution was passed at the NAACP's 101st annual convention being held at Kansas City, Missouri this week. Tea Party activists ...

NASA administrator Charles Bolden said the president 'wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.'

Muslim outreach not NASA priority, Gibbs says

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/13/2010

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden apparently made an inaccurate statement recently when he said that reaching out to the Islamic world was a top priority of the agency. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs now says that Bolden must have misspoken when he told that to Al Jazeera last month. "That was not ...

While First Lady Michelle Obama is set to address the NAACP in Kansas City, Missouri about childhood obesity, perceived racism on the part of the Tea Party movement is expected to top the agenda at the convention.

NAACP set to address perceived Tea Party racism

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/13/2010

While First Lady Michelle Obama addressed childhood obesity and here "Let's Move" initiative at the annual NAACP convention, the true focus of the event is expected to be the perceived racism found in the conservative Tea Party movement. The National Association of Colored People says the ...

The Catechism is unambiguous in its claim that Catholics should uphold subsidiarity to offset one of the dangers of socialization, i.e., an 'excessive intervention by the state' threatening 'personal freedom and initiative' (#1882-1883).

A Catholic Governor Embraces the Principle of Subsidiarity

By Deal W. Hudson, Ph.D. • Inside Catholic • 7/13/2010

The new governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, is distinguishing himself in two ways as a Catholic politician. Not only he is pro-life, but he is also aggressively pursuing a set of policies grounded in the principle of subsidiarity. If the humanity of unborn life is the tenet most ignored by ...

Erskine Bowles, who was under the White House Chief of Staff under the Clinton administration has issued a very ominous economic warning about the U.S. and its out-of-control debt.

Debt threatens to 'destroy the country'

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/13/2010

Erskine Bowles, who was under the White House Chief of Staff under the Clinton administration has issued a very ominous economic warning about the U.S. and its out-of-control debt. He says that unlike the current economic crisis, the coming fiscal calamity is staring the country in the face. "This ...

Recent polls suggest that a majority of Americans support the Arizona law, or at least the concept of a state having a strong role in immigration enforcement.

Governors express concern over AZ lawsuit

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/13/2010

Democratic governors have expressed their concern about U.S. President Obama's lawsuit against Arizona's new immigration law. Meeting with White House officials, they say the lawsuit could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Meeting over the ...

If Democrats For Life drops its campaign to re-elect the Stupak 13 and concentrates on Lipinski's race, that would be a good start.

Guest Opinion: Democrats For Life Promises Counterfeit 'Whole-Life' PAC

By Jason Jones • Catholic Online • 7/12/2010

One pro-life Democrat courageously stood his ground during the healthcare vote. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) is reason to hope that Democrats, Republicans and independents can work together in grounding our nation on the founding principles of this great Republic: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

Some veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome experience flashbacks, become suddenly angry, have a hard time sleeping or concentrating and develop problems involving relationships, employment or begin to abuse alcohol and drugs.

President approves policies for post-traumatic stress

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/11/2010

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced new policies to make disability payments easier for war veterans affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. The president described the condition as one of two "signature injuries" of today's wars. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The president says ...

In regards to abortion, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg declared that 'we will never go back to the way it once was,' to huge applause.

Justice Ginsburg makes rare public appearance

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/9/2010

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg is one indomitable lady. Weighing 100 pounds, if that, a cancer fighter and survivor, and grieving the loss of her husband of 56 years recently, Ginsburg still found the gumption to speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival. No matter how physically frail, her viewpoints ...

Two jets in Vienna, Austria ferried 10 Russian spies and four spies convicted of espionage for the U.S., and took them to their respective nations.

U.S. & Russia swap spies in Cold War-styled exchange

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/9/2010

The United States and Russia exchanged spies in a gesture that recalled the frigid days of the Cold War this week. Two jets in Vienna, Austria ferried 10 Russian spies and four spies convicted of espionage for the U.S., and took them to their respective nations. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - ...