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In sum: the Catholic Church cares much more about getting its money stolen than it does about having its children raped. The story is that an accounts payable clerk embezzled $1 million from New York Catholic Archdiocese, was fired in June by church officials, which referred her case to the district

A 2 am police raid on unarmed protesters, with press barred. News posted on the NYT site around noon. Nacht und nebel.

What “good will”? Have the editors and headline writers at The New York Times never been to Washington Heights? If they had, they would know with unerring certainty that the Dominicans (citizens of the republic, not members of the religious order) hate the Haitians with a passion that makes the McCo

Why did I read today’s Washington Post front page headline as “Boner puts pressure on GOP douches”? I swear that’s what it looked like in the box.

If you haven’t had time to read up on Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest, consider Eugene Robinson’s useful appropriation of everybody else’s reporting in his “column” yesterday (May 17). If you want analysis, try here, or consider any other newspaper. Robinson, a once-promising journalist sent abroad

The social security checks, the tax refunds and the snail mail will go out. “Nonessential” federal employees (Are any truly essential? Is anyone?) will be deprived of their BlackBerrys. Suffering comes cheap. Just like “we” fight wars far away and with little disruption, with the socioeconomic refus

Barack Obama wants four more years? He has to show those of us who voted for him some of that “change” he promised and stop giving in to the Republicans, Wall Street, the war industry, etc. How about some change for the rest of us?

The time to act and swiftly end Libyan suffering has passed and gone. Dictator Disputed Spelling’s warning of a “long war” seems right on the mark, as the U.N. “no-fly zone” only impedes his wiping out the cornered rebels and the DS regime can simply wait them out. The Security Council resolution au

There’s a precedent for the temporizing that led the major powers to delay a United Nations resolution on the use of force in Libya until the rebels were painted into the tightest of corners by Dictator Disputed Spelling. One Major-General Charles George Gordon was dispatched to the Sudan in 1884 to