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Civil Disobedience, Religious Right-Style

The declaration reads, in part: "We will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other antilife act; nor will we bend to any ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  New York Times Company

Warning: Images On Screen May Be Smaller Than They Appear

Hey, AS, give Americans what the Americans want. That is the American way, right? And it is lucrative, too! [Can't find that "Here is Lucy" clip where she is making a commercial selling some syrup ..] Thanks for the link, Amy. Is Fox really a ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  19 Nov 2009

Let Him Eat Cupcakes

If Josh would ever come visit us in the Washington bureau, we'd give him the grand Swampland send-off he deserves, complete with the baked goods we're always snarfing down here. It's a measure of the impact Josh has had on all aspects of the magazine ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  17 Nov 2009

Sarah Who?

I'm joining Joe as a conscientious objector to Palinmania. (Did anyone else start twitching less than a minute into the Barbara Walters interview?) Let's focus instead on something a little less controversial like, oh, say, the Catholic church and gay ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barbara Walters

Democrat v. Democrat

Here's my Time.com story on how the biggest obstacle to passing health reform turned out to be not the tea party protests or August town halls or Michelle Bachmann Super Bowl of Freedom, but a culture war within the Democratic party. Get e-mail updates ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Time Magazine,  Bob Brady,  Genentech, Inc.

Welcome Back, Culture War

Elective abortion is moraly wrong and politicaly strupid. We will not have Health care but we will have elective abortion. Great day in America. To you. -- That's what's wrong with so-called pro-lifers, they feel that they have the only opinion that ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party

Anatomy of a Health Reform Deal

Don't the Democrats control Congress? How did Nancy Pelosi get to the point where she didn't have enough votes in her own caucus to pass health reform unless she paved the way for language that, as Jon Cohn puts it, "mak[es] it more likely that ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Congress,  White House,  Tim Ryan

The Wisdom of Michelle Bachmann, Weekend Edition

I know it's not sporting or even reasonable to expect Michelle Bachmann to make sense, but this was just too good not to pass along. In her floor speech just now, the good congresswoman from Minnesota just appealed to her colleagues to vote down health ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  7 Nov 2009

The Genius of Pro-Life Messaging

Once again with the health reform bill, we're seeing how pro-life leaders manage to win popular support for their position by framing it in terms that seem quite reasonable. It's only if you're paying attention that you realize the description often ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  7 Nov 2009

Infants Against Health Reform (IAHR)

Good Lord. GOP Congressman John Shadeeg just used the ultimate prop in his floor statement, hoisting six-month-old Maddie and telling his colleagues that the infant opposes the current health reform bill because, among other things, "she wants choices ...

From AMY SULLIVAN, Time Magazine,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

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