Links for 03/09/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Socialism is a very Jewish thing. Its also a very Catholic thing (just ask Pope Francis). Those of us who are not exactly Zionist don't doubt Bernie's Jewishness, although I am about 2% Jewish on my paternal grandmother's side - so in some traditions, not at all. Still, he is Zionist enough. I am mostly Romany on my father's side and have come to believe that we are the other ten tribes - with as much a right to Zion as the Jews (including those of us who are Palestinians from the Samaritan line). I am waiting until we get to Maryland to really feel the Bern, and Michigan and probably Florida mean that I will get my chance to.
Congratulations to Pope Francis for three years of a papacy of quiet examples, both in his writings and in who encounters in his many energetic travels. Can't wait until after Easter to see what he has to say about marriage. Let no one say he is above controversy. Quiet example peeves some conservatives, but there has not been a public calling out. Many of us are open that the call for Mercy is extended to those of us in broken marriages.
If Cato does not like the Administration bail out of Puerto Rico than he must be doing something right. Indeed, their contention that this will hurt the borrowing powers of municipalities is hogwash, as quite a few of these have been given the right to go to bankruptcy and have control boards to help them sort things out and usually add emergency funding - since most financially sick cities and territories have real problems that normal finance can't help them with. How that effects Kansas and Louisiana whose self inflicted wounds are even worse is hard to say, although their solution looks like bigger progressive income taxes. Michigan too.
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