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On the State of the Union

SOTUI’ve been a pretty light Twitter user, all in all, but last night I decided to try “live tweeting” President Obama’s State of the Union speech, for the fun of it. And I figured I may as well recycle all of those stunning bon mots for this little piece on the subject today.

Twitter is of-course a cross-platform communication and social networking application which limits users to no more than 140 characters per “tweet.”

Before the speech began, I took note of someone I observed in the audience: [Read more →]

From section: Commentary, Politics by Sean Curnyn
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The National Gallery of Art and the First Amendment

Pro Life PinAt First Things, Meghan Duke recounts and reflects upon her remarkable experience while visiting the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. last week. [Read more →]

From section: Commentary, Faith, Politics by Sean Curnyn
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Obama administration says: Massachusetts endorsed our health care plan by electing Republican who vowed to defeat it

Heads I Win, Tails You LoseVarious representatives of the Barack Obama administration were out on the Sunday talk shows in the U.S. today, trying to spin the election of Senator Scott Brown (R -MA) [and how often do you see that abbreviation?] as being an endorsement of the Obama agenda, particularly with regard to health care.

I witnessed the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, on “Fox News Sunday,” attemping to do this very thing. Gibbs was making the very same kinds of arguments to host Chris Wallace that Howard Dean tried making a few days ago to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Wallace was a lot more tolerant of Gibbs’ incoherent position than Matthews was of Dean’s. This is rather ironic, of-course, since Chris Matthews is well known for being a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, while Wallace works for the hated “conservative” media entity, Fox.

If you haven’t already viewed the encounter between Chris Matthews and Howard Dean the other day, I highly recommend [Read more →]

From section: Commentary, Politics by Sean Curnyn
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Barack Obama: The Emperor’s New Shoes

ShoesThe full transcript of the interview with President Barack Obama by former Bill Clinton campaign worker and staffer George Stephanopoulos is at this link. I had written elsewhere yesterday on some of the excerpts that had been released. Other than those highlights, there’s really not so much more in the interview that is significant. At no point does George S. really pin the president down, allowing him instead to just blather in general terms and do the whole “don’t I sound so moderate and reasonable” thing to the nth degree, as is his wont. That was enough to get him elected, of-course; the crucial independent swing-voters wanted a “post-partisan” practical problem solver and Barack Obama succeeded in making himself sound like that.

The difference now, however, is that [Read more →]

From section: Commentary, Politics by Sean Curnyn
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Memorial mass for Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John NeuhausThis past Friday night I attended a memorial mass for Richard John Neuhaus at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, marking the one year anniversary of his passing. I’ve written before about the impact RJN had on me, primarily through his writings; in particular through his profound and classic book Death on a Friday Afternoon. Friday evening’s mass was beautifully done in every respect (including the music provided by the choir of New York’s Church of Notre Dame). The homily was given by Fr. George Rutler. And near the end of the mass, Fr. Benedict Groeschel shared some warm, humorous and poignant stories of Fr. Neuhaus. [Read more →]

From section: Commentary, Faith by Sean Curnyn
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Dog named “Angel” saves boy from cougar

Dog named AngelIn Canada (British Columbia), in a town called Boston Bar, a Golden Retriever got in between a cougar and an eleven-year-old boy, quite possibly saving the boy’s life. From CTV:

According to RCMP, the boy went to retrieve some firewood at his family’s home in Boston Bar, about 200 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

A cougar began to charge across the yard at the boy.

The dog stepped in and engaged the cougar, which was much larger than the dog. [Read more →]

From section: Dogs, News by Sean Curnyn
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