Links for 02/10/17

Links for 02/10/17: At RNS, a report on a conference they held on religious liberty, at home and abroad, featuring NCR's own Fr. Tom Reese, SJ.

At Politico, the problem with "alternative facts" is that som...

MGB: The biggest religious freedom issue is the Muslim ban just stopped by the 9th Circuit.  I don't suspect the bishops will ever say it that way.  The Contraception flap ended when Valarie Jarrett got Obama elected for a second term.  All that was left was forcing agreement by a newly radicalized wing of the Church, which the Supreme Court did.  The Church needs to quit rejecting federal power in this area.  Catholic Churches in Alabama still get bombed.

Flynn will only be ousted if he embarrasses the President - and then only if the President realizes that he has been had.  Embarrassing the Vice President is always a good thing from the President's point of view, especially since Trump can obviously be declared disabled by Pence if the Cabinet goes along.

The Democrats should have looked more at the race of the VP candidate than the voters.  Corey Booker would have put HRC over the top.  Time to focus on economics with a wide left turn to Cooperative and Democratic Socialism.