Mommy and daddy are fighting, and the anguished children don’t know where to turn. This is the state of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States today. A small group of very conservative bishops has hijacked the church, or at least the public voice of the church. The bishops are playing the role of the authoritarian father. In case after case, their message to the faithful is “Do it because I say so.” Read full article > >

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Catholics caught between bishops, Obama’s birth control mandate

LONDON — “Keep Calm and Carry On,” the British government famously advised the citizenry as Nazi bombs rained down during World War II. But as a possible fuel-haulers strike threatened the nation with gas shortages this week, the message ringing out from the halls of power was decidedly different: Run out and stockpile. Read full article > >

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Fearing shortages, British motorists rush to buy gas

Conservative women have formed a core of Rick Santorum’s support since the primaries began, drawn by his message of family values and his personal biography.

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Rick Santorum Attracts Votes of Conservative Women

DETROIT – Mitt Romney came to one of the nation’s most economically depressed cities Friday and outlined a broad plan to revive the economy and address the federal government’s deficit problems. Romney’s policy address to the Detroit Economic Club was a chance to claim momentum for his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, but the optics of his highly anticipated event may have undercut his message. Read full article > >

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Romney addresses business leaders, talks cars at nearly empty Detroit stadium

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Four of Mitt Romney’s sons get out the message, while also offering a glimpse of themselves.

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The Romney Brothers Advance Father’s Iowa Campaign

Explosions kill dozens in Iraq | Rick Santorum takes his message to New Hampshire | Myanmar’s first girl band.

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In this most flamboyant of presidential primary seasons, one candidate has been a study in understatement. “If people, enough of them, hear our message, they will coalesce around it, and we will do fine,” former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. said. “It may take a little longer than those who are willing to light their hair on fire onstage, or engage in crazy political theatrics, but that’s okay. We’ll get there eventually.” Read full article > >

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Jon Huntsman is study in understatement

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square, protesters around the United States and the globe have cast attention on the notion of corporate greed by the top wealthy 1% at the expense of 99% of the population. The Occupy Wall Street movement is modeled after the leaderless revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, utilizing social media and grassroots organization to spread their message and create meet ups in different cities. This November 17 was designated Mass Day of Action. Occupy Together was created to be “a hub” for international events within the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Keeping the World Occupied

Last week, Rick Warren sent this message to the nearly 500,000 people who follow him on Twitter: “Husbands & wives should satisfy each other’s sexual needs. 1 Cor 7:3.” His Twitter feed lit up with amens and retweets. “Oh gosh,” exclaimed one follower. Evangelical Christians want to talk about sex. And not in the same old punitive way. They want to talk about hot sex — as long as it’s between a man and a woman who are husband and wife. That Warren, perhaps the nation’s most prominent evangelical pastor, would take up the cause only shows how much it matters to the people who listen to him. Read full article > >

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Christian leaders talk about marriage and sex

President Obama, who has struggled to advance his vision for economic renewal at home, will take his pitch overseas this week to an audience of world leaders who could prove equally skeptical of his message at a time of deepening global anxiety. “It’s very hard for us to preach the economic gospel to Europe when they watched our debt-ceiling debate here and our [credit-rating] downgrade,” said Heather Conley , director of European programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Read full article > >

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As news of Steve Jobs’s death pinged around the world this past week on the shiny devices he helped invent, fans of Apple products made pilgrimages to the company’s stores. They brought apples. They lit digital candles on their iPad screens. Some left condolence cards. Outside Apple’s store in Tysons Corner Center, a card had this message scribbled inside: “You changed my life. I love you.” Read full article > >

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Apple is a new religion, and Steve Jobs was its high priest

Because he is a modern man, my editor, Tom the Butcher , enthusiastically avails himself of new technologies such as Google’s voice-recognition system for phone and computer . Now, when Tom gets a voice mail message on his phone, he not only receives an e-mail alert but also reads the message itself as an e-mail sent to him by Google . And thus it is that, at 4:16 p.m. on Sept. 13, Tom was alerted to the fact that I had left him this voice mail: Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Why Google Voice stinks