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I must begin with a confession:
Bless me, my friends, for I have plagiarized my title, "Keeping Our Heads Amid the Craziness." In the interest of full disclosure, as we say in journalism, I acknowledge I freely adapted it from a lecture the Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henniger gave to the Georgetown-Wall Street Alliance at the height of the Republican primary campaign last winter.
I agreed with many points Dan made on electoral reform and was prepared to negotiate on a few others. In fact, I was delighted that he and I were agreed on so much of the reform agenda. But, when, in answer to a question, he told the audience that in his heart of hearts his ideal candidate for president was retiring Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, I thought perhaps he had spent too long among the crazies. Or, was it me? Had I been carried off by our recent extreme weather, in a tornado or derecho, to the other side of Oz?
But both Henniger's sense that something was awry in our political culture and his conviction that action had to be taken to restrain the fruitless frenzy of contemporary American politics appealed to me. Now a veteran Republican staffer, Mike Lofgren, has written an insider's account of the mania on Capitol Hill. The Party Is Over: How the Republicans Went Crazy, the Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, painting a picture of dysfunction in even more vivid colors. Early on in the campaign season, Norm Ornstein of the conservative American Enterprise Institute and Tom Mann of the moderate Brookings Institution offered a similarly sober assessment in It's Even Worse than It Looks that was ignored by the partisans and the media for raising the curtain on the collapse of American government from the top.
In any case, for some time I thought I would build the first half of my talk about some of the same issues of electoral reform Henniger and other authors take up. In effect, I would have made a Neo-Madisonian argument for tweaking, and perhaps even attempting some restructuring of, our political institutions to meet conditions that the Founder Fathers never anticipated, like a 24/7 news environment, unending campaigns, the professionalization of political operatives and huge cash expenditures. So, I was ready to discuss proposals like regional primaries, time-limits on campaigning, campaign finance reform and curtailing, if not ending, the filibuster. (I confess that long ago, after watching close-up how bills make their way through Congress—the way the sausage is made as Otto von Bismarck said—I had come to believe, along with some notable Congress watchers like Ornstein and Mann, that, given our national polarization we might be better governed under a parliamentary system.) You would also be right to assume that I considered critiquing the resistance to compromise, voter suppression, the rise of plutocracy and the subversion of majority rule. But . . . But . .
Fanaticism v. Reason
But, at some point, the downward spiral of empty rhetoric, mutual accusation and shallow sloganeering in the presidential campaign became just too great for me. I realized responsible citizenship demanded something far deeper than structural political reform. Reform of political structures presumes a degree of sanity and humanity we seem to have lost as a nation.
Ordinary political virtue has not proven strong enough to resist hate speech, to halt fantasy issues like birthism and religious slander from spreading like viruses, to inhibit gross misrepresentation of opponents' positions or discourage the cultivation of rage and the infection of extremism that increasingly afflicts the American body politic.
We Catholics have not been immune from these national afflictions. We at America were vilified for daring to suggest that not all the church's difficulties with state and federal policies, or with judicial decisions, amounted to a war on religion and Catholicism in particular. We were unfairly criticized for not supporting every priority the bishops' conference had advanced over the years.
For the record, let me say, we are pro-life, anti-abortion, but not uncritical of the strategy and tactics of pro-life activists. You will find more bishops in our pages writing about the priorities of the conference than in any other Catholic journal. Furthermore, the conference continues to turn to Americato makes it views known, as with Des Moines's Bishop Richard Pates's election reflections in the August 13-20 issue, "In This Together," or to promote its programs as in an article by Green Bay Bishop David Renkin in an upcoming issue announcing plans for observance of The Year of Faith.
I am relieved, I must admit, that the bishops' conference has moderated its rhetoric, narrowed its program to the one goal we have always backed, the broadening of the definition for religious institutions claiming exemption from the HHS mandate, and that in a non-partisan way Cardinal Dolan has offered public prayer at both the Republican and Democratic conventions, undercutting worries about the hierarchy's political partisanship. Just yesterday Cardinal Dolan led a session at conference headquarters on international religious liberty educating his audience on far more egregious infringements of religious freedom than Catholics suffer here.
There were other intra-Catholic skirmishes too. One surrounded Wisconsin's own Paul Ryan, now the GOP vice presidential candidate, and his invocation of Catholic Social Teaching in support of his proposed budget, "The Path to Prosperity." On that issue, I recommend you read Vincent Miller's article "Saving Subsidiarity" in our July 30-August 6 issue. To put it in the language we heads of non-profits have learned from the private sector, subsidiarity is about "right-sizing" institutions including government. It is not a preferential option for small government.
Against this background, I want to argue that the fear generated by existential anxiety, expressed now in political extremism, can be overcome only by the purification of our affections that accompanies genuine holiness.
That, I admit, may sound lofty and abstract. I hope it will become more concrete as I move along, as I fill in with historical detail, contemporary political references and literary images.
I am deepening the argument of Nicholas Cafardi and his colleagues in their anthology Holiness and Voting and in Cafardi's America article "Keep Holy Election Day" (July 18) which was made available for you this evening . As my successor as editor in chief, Father Matt Malone commented, mine is an essentially Augustinian argument, as old as Plato and as modern as Pope Benedict XVI. I am pushing the Cafardi argument to a deeper level, one at which some people will be uncomfortable. This level of analysis demands a certain degree of self-examination and political self-criticism. For that reason, it may make ome people all the more anxious. Still others who may be dismissive of interconnecting religious experience and politics even in cautious ways may be all the more unwilling to explore the deeper sources of "Our Divided Political Heart," as E. J. Dionne calls it. But, since you have skipped the Packers' opener to be here tonight, and since you have seen the published description of the topic, I assume me none of you fits those categories.
This form of argument I am making would have been familiar to Americans at mid-20th century from the work of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, though Niebuhr would put less trust in the possibilities of holiness than I do. It would be found, with the more positive Catholic turn. Usually, we don't need to go so deep into our religious experience to address political questions; but, if my reading of the deep sources of our national malaise is in any degree accurate, then we should look to the best our religious tradition has to offer to heal us.
As Jesus said about his teaching on marriage, I say tonight about politics as the citizen's vocation, not everyone is capable of following this road to citizen discipleship. But let those who can, do so.
My first hope had been to invoke rationality and sanity against the rampaging "animal spirits" in the American body politic. But neither calls for rationality, nor appeals to sanity can save us from the flight to extremism. There is, after all, no pure reason, as Kant hoped. Our reasoning is always intertwined to some degree with feeling or, more accurately, our affections. The German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, an interlocutor with Pope Benedict on this issue, even claims that reason cannot be disentangled from our interests. So, there will be simply times when the crazies can just not be talked down. It doesn't mean they are right.
One function of consciousness, especially in the western Christian moral tradition, is to provide self-criticism. Pope Benedict's view, contrary to Habermas, is that reason has access to objective truth by which we can evaluate our own behavior. As a practical matter, we can get some distance from our own actions, and we can even assess our own motives. The whole of the western philosophical tradition rests on Socrates maxim, "Know Thyself."
Of course, we all know where that conviction got Socrates: the enmity of his fellow Athenians and death by a draught of hemlock. Political frenzy is a dangerous thing, and philosophical self-awareness is seldom strong enough to withstand its fury. Political craziness has taken the life of sages, like Socrates, and saints, like Thomas More. Plato, trying to capture the impact of Athenian political distemper on Socrates, depicted his master as a man buffeted by a sandstorm. That's an instructive description about what reason can hope to achieve in our present political climate. If I were to sketch a cover image illustrating the current political scene, it would be of voters queued up at the polling place enveloped by a blinding sandstorm.
Sanity Requires Balance
Sanity, too, is harder to come by in these times than we think. Sanity requires a humane balance in our responses to life. It is the opposite of being monomaniacal or fanatical. What we call 'sanity' the Greeks called sophrosyne. (We in the Latin West know it in a dressed-down form as the cardinal virtue of temperance.) It is the quality of a well-integrated personality. Like, 'sanity,' which derives from the Latin word for health, sophrosyne may be translated as 'healthy-mindedness.' Positively it connoted a proportion in one's inclinations and actions, balance in the dimensions of our personality; for example, between action and reflection, or work and recreation, or, more simply, between eating and exercise. In politics, it might entail a balance between partisanship and devotion to the public interest, between vocal and canny opposition and the willingness to compromise, between advancing individual rights and promoting the general welfare.
E. J. Dionne in his new book Our Divided Political Heart calls up two classic American films as icons of our current political divisions. We are torn, he writes, between the images of ourselves as Gary Cooper, the lonely marshal in High Noon, and as Jimmy Stewart, the community banker, in It's a Wonderful Life. We think we have to choose between liberty and community. History shows, and Dionne's book argues, that "We are a nation of individuals who care passionately about community." Like the ancient Greeks, he contends, the solution for America today is not choosing one or the other, but finding "a balance" of values.
In Greek ethics, the sane person, the sophron, lived by the maxim "Nothing in excess." Unfortunately, later tradition, particularly in the Latin West, overplayed the avoidance of excess and took the virtue to mean, moderation and self-control in a narrow sense, and the understanding of sophrosyne as a dynamic sense of personal balance was lost to a dull, buttoned-down conformity. We find an American model of the sane man in Harper Lee's character Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. His modesty and self-control are essential to his character, but not to the extent of suppressing the underlying passion for justice.
Athenian democracy, with its factions, the tragedies of superpower leadership, the punishing costs and defeat in the Peloponnesian War, and its revolving tyrannies, was no exemplar of political sanity. Ancient Athens with all its gifts was a tragic hero, plunged by political frenzy into disaster.
Whether in ancient Greece or in contemporary America, a healthy balance is hard to achieve in politics. Thomas Jefferson, like other Founding Fathers admired the heroes of the early Roman Republic, like Cincinnatus, who represented the virtue of a modest, public-spirited citizen of a self-governing city. Washington, who willingly resigned his commission as commander in chief of the Continental Army and retired from the presidency after two terms, stood in the line of Cincinnatus, for that reason the association of his officers and their descendants took the name the Society of the Cincinnati.
Though an undeniably great man and a gifted leader, Washington was a paragon of self-restraint. Jefferson, the leader of the democratic republican movement, however, secretly engaged in the worst sort of gutter politics. Had he lived today he would be consulting with the likes of Dick Morris and Karl Rove. Furthermore, with the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson turned the young American republic into an empire. Despite his professed republicanism, and his genius and his learning notwithstanding, Jefferson proved himself a man of excess.
Sanity as a quality of mind is opposed to the kind of fanaticism we witness in contemporary American politics. For fanaticism is an expression of hubris, the overweening, self-deluded pride that ultimately brings disaster to the whole political community. The fanatic brooks no compromise. He says, "Let justice [as I see it] be done, though the heavens fall." The sane person resists apocalyptic, winner-take-all positions because she appreciates that "if the heavens fall," how much will be lost. The sane person understands life is made up of a great many goods that cannot all be fully satisfied. Whether in our personal lives or in the commonweal the role of wisdom is to find a stable adjustment of goods, "a balance" of values. In Catholic Social Teaching, moreover, the role of political authority, that is, government, is precisely to balance and regulate society's competing interests, where societal compromise have not been achieved whether through mutual agreement or a balance of power.
Anger is Not the Answer
The sterile stalemate in Congress and the frenzy in the presidential campaign are expressions of a peculiarly shallow form of radicalism in American politics today. More and more, Americans have grown attached to their own anger. The Tea Party and the liberal feminist wing of the Democratic Party are quintessential expressions of this addiction. We are addicted to the sense of power anger gives us, as misplaced as it may be, and to the temporary political victories it may win us. Like a drug addiction, that sense of power is illusory, and its impact, destructive. It is a matter of misguided feeling, not effective power. It can only obstruct, denigrate and oppose.
Anger as a passion, of course, has a positive function: protecting the good. We generally suggest that when we speak of "righteous anger" roused by a gross injustice. Righteous anger has a proper role—righting injustice—and, as long as it aims at protecting a victim, making a correction or bringing about an improvement, it avoids destructive excess. But because of its power anger can easily fall into excess. Corrupted, it turns into rage, a blindly destructive force, like the wrath of Achilles. His grief, and his anger, knew no limits. Historic American democracy is based on limits: checks and balances, individual rights, the rule of law. An anger-driven politics that openly defies and manipulates those checks and balances is corrosive of the body politic.
So, it is with the anger we find at every turn in contemporary American politics. Whether it appears among pro-choice Democrats or anti-tax Republicans, political rage brooks no differences; it demands complete conformity to a platform of opposition or narrowly crafted policy aims. Taking anything short of an extreme, purist position warrants ending the political careers of well-respected politicians who in a sane world would be considered elder statesmen, to run extreme candidates against them, to flood the airwaves with negative ads, to bring in outside money to overwhelm candidates' local support. Anything goes. Everything an opponent does is bad, even adopting policy initiatives proposed by a think tank with a kindred ideology. Rejectionism is the mainstay of anger-driven politics. Comity becomes a memory, and being on the attack becomes a way of life.
Political Courage
Anger has a positive face; we call it courage. Courage is the virtue that withstands danger, hardship and difficulty for the sake of the good. It is essential to overcoming fear and, more to the point, the anxieties that motivate fear. Courage is the life-affirming power of anger. The greater the anxiety in a society, the greater the anger, the less likely are we to see exemplars of political courage in public life.
The Nation's Katrina van den Heuvel has written, "There was a time when this is how we defined political courage in America,
a politician standing up for deeply held principles, in opposition to his party and a popular president, regardless of consequence."
Think of Edmund G. Ross of Kansas who cast the decisive vote in the acquittal of Andrew Johnson. Think of Senators Mark Hatfield and Sam Nunn who collaborated across party-lines to help bring the nuclear materials of the former Soviet Union under control. Think of Frank Church's investigations of the CIA and William Fulbright's criticism of the Vietnam War. These senators were able to break with party discipline for the sake of the common good. Van den Heuvel continues:
But today, we have adopted a new and distorted definition of political courage, one that rewards those who claim to be making hard choices, when in truth there is nothing hard about what they've chosen.
When political courage is largely known by its counterfeits, then our society is in trouble.
Think of the bathos of Robert McNamara's confession of his failure to oppose President Johnson on the Vietnam War in the docmentary The Fog of War some 40 years after the fact. McNamara was an enormously talented public servant, who eventually did good on the world stage, his confession was welcome, but despite his great intellect he failed to stand up in the moment of crisis.
Vote Smart, a non-partisan electoral assessment service sets candidates' truthfully telling onstitutents what their policy positions are as the number one test of political courage today. Of course, in this era of attack ads, 24/7 news channels and viral videos politicians avoid what Merle Miller, writing of Harry Truman, called "plain speaking," The inability of the public to learn what either presidential candidate will do when elected is symptomatic of the failure of political nerve in our society.
Courageous votes are even harder to find. During the Vietnam War, conscientious politicians included memorable Democrats in the president's own party, like Wayne Morse, Bella Abzug and Frank Church. But outstanding Republicans, like John Sherman Cooper, Mark Hatfield, Charles Mathias and Don Riegle also joined the opposition. At the time of the Iraq Invasion in 2003, however, only four Republican congressmen joined a couple dozen Democrats to oppose the war. There were no Senators of either party. Among the four House member were Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel. On the eve of the Senate vote to ratify President Bush's decision to go to war, Senator Hillary Clinton, representing New York State, refused even to discuss the issue with a delegation of diocesan social action directors from New York State dioceses. How much courage does it take to listen to constituents with critical opinions? A whole lot, it would appear.
Holiness and the Conscientious Voter
Recently I have been reading the mysteries of Louise Penny, a Canadian novelist, and a detective series she has built around Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté de Québec. One of the most appealing things about her Gamache mysteries is the interweaving of art, philosophy and theology in a wholly natural way. Gamache is not a believer in any conventional sense. A self-described "lapsed Catholic," he is a typical secularized Quebeker, critical of the province's clergy-ridden past. But he is not an unbeliever. Like my late anticlerical Italian grandfather, he carries a book of devotions with him in his jacket pocket; in Penny's latest novel The Perfect Mystery he finds God through Gregorian chant; he understands how the scriptures plumb the depths of human existence, and he recognizes living saints—without the Gamache mysteries getting either saccharine or pedantic. Penny is religious mystery writer for a secular age.
In one mystery which I only recently completed, The Brutal Telling, Gamache reflects that Saint Paul had it wrong that greed is the root of all evil (1 Tim. 6:10). Fear, Gamache believes, is the root of all evil, and, like St. John, he sees a link between fear and love. Fear is generated by the threat of the loss of what we love. What Penny misses, though I can imagine it appearing in a later novel, is the Evangelist John's maxim, "Perfect love casts out fear" (1 Jn. 4:18).
Love driving fear from the heart is the theologian's antidote to Gamache's realist belief that fear is the root of all evil. Of course, "perfect love" is ordinarily found mostly at the limits of our human experience in graced moments, like Martin Luther King's Kitchen Experience, as David Garrow relates it in Bearing the Cross. When King was exhausted by threats during the Montgomery bus boycott, feared for his family and longed for the company of the mentors from whom he had gained strength, he heard a voice early one morning while he sat in his kitchen over a cup of coffee, ordering, "Martin Luther, stand up. Stand up for justice. Stand up for righteousness." For the remainder of his life, that brief moment of grace sustained him in time of trouble. In the Kitchen Experience, fear had been cast out.
In moral theology, courage involves facing the negativity in our selves and in the world around us. It is not necessarily expressed in public acts of valor. Aquinas points to the courage of martyrs and argues that the patient suffering of martyrs and confessors is equally an expression of courage as the bravery of a soldier in battle. Courage, therefore, involves overcoming the negativity within as well as without us. The martyr's patience overcomes fear, as does the nonviolence of the civil disobedient. So, it should be in politics as well. Courage entails keeping our anxieties in place, even reducing them, muting our fears, so we can reach out to others, listen to them, find common ground with them and work together with them for the good of all.
As I noted with the example of King's Kitchen Experience, the stilling of our fears, the awakening of creative courage comes, in the most liberating way, by grace, not by our own doing. But, generally, as with King, only after long suffering, real anguish and much wrestling with God. As with King, too, a moment of grace can sustain us through later crises. Sometimes we have known such moments in our own lives: in the loss of a loved one, in coping with illness, in undergoing the trials of aging, or in caregiving to others. But we can know it as well in our active lives, too, when we face great need and feel a great desire to serve, only to find all the normal channels of action blocked. It is in that way that politics becomes an opportunity for holiness.
Driven to Our Knees
The other night I was sitting after dinner with a financier, an elder statesmen among Catholic investors, who knows Washington well from the days when he was a lobbyist. We talked about the difficulty of decision in this election, and he volunteered that this was one election he was bringing to the Lord in prayer, for he honestly didn't know what to do. And then he named the various types of prayer, from the Rosary to the Mass, to which he brought his concern.
"I have been driven many times to my knees," Lincoln said, "by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that all about me, seemed insufficient for the day." Those moments of perplexity when we turn to God in utter openness provide the beginnings of holiness in the active life, including politics.
The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, writing of peace as the religious affection that crowns civilization, wrote that one of its effects is "subsidence of the turbulence that inhibits." The effect of grace, in other words, is to still our anxiety and the self-preoccupation it produces, to free us to work for a more inclusive good. Whitehead, who had to have been an action-oriented mystic to describe the effect of religious experience so clearly, also wrote of peace that "it is the purification of the emotions," driving out negative emotions like fear and so clarifying and strengthening positive emotions, like generosity and magnaminity, that allow us to identify with the other and, indeed, to embrace the whole of humanity.
Peace is a fruit of grace, however, not something we can insure for ourselves. We can, however, dispose ourselves, like the senior financier I told you about was doing, by taking our electoral choices to prayer, a prayer not only of petition, but of purity of heart that allows us to put aside self-interest and partisan allegiances to become sincerely open to the promptings of the Spirit.
If you find yourself anxious, angry, always ready to fault and discredit the other side, if you are aware that you have become unbending, opposed to compromise, straining to score points against others, ever ready to launch a nuclear strike against the other side, then you are very far from being a citizen disciple. It is time to take stock of what negative affections are doing to you—not to mention to others. You can, at least, bring those dispositions to prayer, even, in time, perhaps to confession.
God frees us from our sins, but the first expression of courage in a Christian citizen's life is to confront the distortions political passions have worked on our own selves. The second expression of grace is to desire the dispositions that will sanctify political life or at least will transform our own engagement in politics to be more Christian. We need not worry about anyone else, just ourselves. Politics is a notoriously difficult arena in which to be Christlike, but it can be done.
The Purification of Our Political Affections
Mark Hatfield once related that when he was governor of Oregon, he met with a lot of clergy on a wide variety of issues, but the streetcorner preacher who most ministered to him came to visit him in the governor's office each week and simply asked, "Governor, would you like to pray together?" Now, it wasn't so much that they prayed that made it a Christian encounter, though the shared prayer was an intimate expression of solidarity in the Body of Christ, but that the preacher empathized with the Governor, understood his need for God's grace and disinterested personal support and was creative enough to find a way in which he could do that. It was his willingness to see the governor as a child of God and to address Hatfield's needs rather than fill his own that made the preacher's visit Christian witness. Only when that same spirit informs our own political acts that we can regard ourselves as authentic Catholic Christians in the public square.
One more example, if I may, just to illustrate the how purification of the affections relates also to political dissent of an overtly moralistic sort. Having come of age in the 60s and trained as I am in social ethics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the causes of civil disobedients, but often not to their tactics. After teaching in Berkeley, where civil disobedience seemed to materialize out of thin air, I came to undersand that those routinely doing C.D., though motivated by high ideals, were often acting out of a need to validate their own worth. Their witness was a way to affirm their identities rather than to achieve their stated goal. They were acting out of anxiety and an emptiness within.
I finally discovered a mode of protest that seemed to me in keeping with the love ethic at the heart of Christianity. The Sanctuary Movement in the desert Southwest, borrowing from Pennsylvania Quakers, conducted what they called, in contrast to civil disobedience "civil action." It consisted of two parts. First, they undertook not to disobey the law, but rather to provoke authorities into enforcing existing law, especially those provisions which protected the dignity of the subjects of government action, like illegal aliens. Secondly, their demonstrations were directed not at getting arrested but at befriending the authorities and engaging them in conversation.
By contrast with habitual civil disobedients, the civil action groups transformed their protest into a genuine Christian witness, treating their adversaries as human beings and building relationships with them rather than inflating their own identities by creating hostile tension with others.
Gandhi would have agreed. His Satyagraha always included respect for the adversary and a readiness to break off a campaign if hostile incidents began to occur. He famously even fasted nearly to death to end Hindu-Muslim fighting that had begun with one of his campaigns; and in his last years he joined with a Hindu nationalist, who had once conspired to assassinate him, to overcome interethnic rivalry in the independent India. My point is that holiness comes to politics only when we endeavor to inhibit our negative attitudes and disposition, reach out to others with understanding and find loving ways to bring about change.
Contrite and Humble Hearts
Our campaigning the next two months, our conversations and deliberations, and finally our voting offer us, as Nick Cafardi has argued, an opportunity for holiness, but only if we allow our faith to chasten our political passions. For "contrite, humble hearts," as the Psalmist writes, newness of life is possible, and with it joy for the sinner, for the communion of saints, and for all people.
We can take comfort, I believe, from the religious transformation of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was not a churchgoer, though, like most people of his era, he knew the Bible well. His writings show he was deeply affected even by the stately cadence of the King James Version. As I said earlier, his responsibibilities as president often drove him to his knees. Late in his first term he seems to have found something of a spiritual director in a Quaker woman, and it is at that point when the trials of the country's divisions seemed to begin to take on for him a genuine religious meaning. So, in his Second Inaugural Address he acknowledged the war was brought on by the sins of both sides and might demand still more national penance to undo the evils of slavery; and he went on, as one who has savored God's peace, to give voice to an uncommon magnimity—"with malice toward none and charity for all"—and to extend the hand of comfort to all, "to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan."
Let Lincoln's lesson be our own. Peace, the religious affection that is the crown of civilized life, Whitehead wrote, is often the fruit of tragedy. The Civil War was Lincoln's, and the nation's, greatest tragedy. Our present national divisions have the making of another tragedy. If we are to escape that terrible fate, it will because in their hearts some Americans will have learned Lincoln's lesson: honestly recognizing the deep faults in the way we conduct our politics and finding our way, with God's help, to the compassion and magnamity that is Lincoln's legacy. Healing those divisions will mean we are first disciples of Jesus, "faithful citizens" as the bishops write, and then participants in political life. The American Experiment will not have failed because we have acknowledged the harm done to us personally and then to the political community by hyper-partisanship. We will enjoy civic peace because, like alcoholics, we understand that we can't escape the downward spiral of political negativity without God's help, and we will enjoy the blessings of liberty because we have allowed ourselves to be changed by a grace that opens wide our hearts to all God's creatures, so we can undertake a new politics in a new land. By God's grace and under his discipline, we can be what we pledge: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thanks and God bless
Please cite where Pope Benedict "answers" this. I'm only aware of his statement (as Cardinal Ratzinger) in 2004, which contradicts what you are representing as his position: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0403722.htm. At least based on his 2004 memo, you are accusing Cardinal Ratzinger of meaningless "chatter."
Then Cardinal Ratzinger's 2004 statement did allow a vote for a pro-abortion candidate not for that reason, but for another, "Proportionate" reason. But this only begs the question, what is "proporionate" to this holocaust, this shackling of a once proud nation to a culture of death in the name of healthcare? Please, do the math!The article was a good one, even if Fr. Christiansen was too quick, even much too quick, to label as "unfair" criticism of America's seemingly uncritical acceptance of a health care law, now saddled with the infamous HHS Mandate. His ending was better to echo St. Paul's: "I plead with Evodia just as I do with Syntche: Come to some mutual accomodation in the Lord."
Beyond Lincoln, Jean Bethke Elshtain wrote in his Forward to Msgr. Luigi Guissani's "The Religious Sense": "He (Guissani) holds up to the light the infinite worth of the human person and, as he does so, he helps us to realize that it is in the light of the ultimate that the penultimate takes form. In an era that ill-dignifies human beings in so many ways, Guissani reminds us that human dignity is not for sale."
What is the rule? So would ask a common law judge of past centuries as part of a panel. The goal is to articulate a rule for society, to guide its conscience.
Calm is nice, but "if you want peace, work for justice." Is abortion the ultimate issue? A fetus may develop into a human person. An unjust war destroys actually present human persons wrongfully.
A legal regime may institute an ongoing war against some group. African slavery in the US is an example, and it flourished under the rule of law.
So how was the law wrong, that people should have noticed? What does the Constitution say about slavery: something about "three fifths of other persons not taxed" or something like that.
You face not just personal anxiety in facing injustice, but organized anxiety, to coin a phrase. A roomful of people may try to shout you down. Your tenure may be denied. Your job at the Village Voice may be taken away from you. What sustains you?
If you see a systematic attempt to deprive a group of people of their dignity under the rule of law, you, to quote General Patton on why his soldiers should fight hard in the coming battle against the Nazis, "will know what to do."
I'm talking about Israel.
If the conversation is to be fruitful, it is necessary to stay with the facts. A person is a person, no matter how small. It is NOT TRUE that, as Mr. Rushiau stated, that 'A fetus may develop into a human person," IT IS ALREADY A PERSON! This is not only de fide, it accords with scientific fact, though some in the medical profession now falsely deny this. The unjust war against "unborn" children, against women, the family and reality has now been explicitly opened also against conscience and the Church. This unjust war, under cover of law, actually destroys "actually present human persons wrongfully," some of them "dead men and women walking."Only "driven to our knees" as President Lincoln said, will we, like Patton's soldiers, "know what to do". In ancient times (think the Maccabean revolt) to be zealous for the Lord seemed to involve, even require, violence. Closer to our own time the Christeros war, south of the border, evoked a zeal of this kind also, but successful as it was on its own terms, peace came "not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord" in the martyrdom of the heroic Mexican martyrs. Just like Jesus' zeal for the Lord's house led directly to his passion, death and resurrection. See the movie "For Greater Glory" or read the book.
On every dimenison of every issue, the WWJD question yields clear voter guidance:
Would he tell the poor to just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?
Would he welcome foreigners?
Did he approve of the amassing of great personal wealth and earthly goods while the poor go without food, healthcare, housing?
Would he approve of tax cuts for the wealthy who are told over and over again to "redistribute" their wealth and come follow him?
Would he promote war?
Would he want us to be good stewards of the earth?
It's having a devastating effect on civilians in Pakistan and Yemen... May we beat swords into ploughshares.


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So I was in Spain last week, just having a good time, running with the bulls, when, out of the blue, I got gored! It ruined my whole vacation. I needed 99 stitches. And get this: my insurance didn't even cover it! Oh well.
All right, I admit it. None of that really happened. I was just trying to get your attention, but the fact remains that every year thousands of people do indeed travel to these bull-running festivals, sometimes at great expense, to careen along narrow streets with terrified animals who are on their way to being slaughtered by men in sequined tights. And not only do these spurious sprinters NOT take performance-enhancing drugs; they drink alcohol. Lots of it.
By way of illustration, if this were an entirely human event, it would be like having a bunch of unarmed drunks harassing a knife-wielding, condemned prisoner as he made his way to the gallows. "Hey, dead man walkin'! Over here! Woo hoo!" And you can bet, if the government allowed that, people would volunteer. There'd be so many applicants they'd have to hold a lottery.
Anyway, these bull-running "festivals" are held in towns and villages all across Spain, Portugal and southern France, the most famous being the seven-day Festival of San Fermines in honor of Saint Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. Every year, it begins with the runners singing a benediction; "We ask Saint Fermin to guide us through the run and give us his blessing." And every year, dozens of people are injured. Remind me not to pray to Saint Fermin.
Just last week in Pamplona, a 35-year-old American from Cleveland, identified only by the initials "I.L.," suffered what was described as a "rectal perforation" due to being gored. One can only imagine how uncomfortable that must have been. Here's hoping that those "crack" surgeons in Spain don't sew up the wrong "perforation."
Regarding these unfortunate participants who get pierced, trampled and otherwise deflowered in the process — how can I put this tactfully — they're nuts, right? Of course they are. And therein lies the great redeeming social value of their misadventure; it brings the rest of us together in abiding disdain for their reckless stupidity. People of all races, religions and political persuasions can read about these poor slobs and say, as one, "What a bunch of boneheads!"
Therefore, I believe we should celebrate them and their testosterone-driven, self-immolating achievements. They should be memorialized by action figures, trading cards and cartoons depicting them flying through the air with the greatest of ease. McDonald's could put pictures of them on the Happy Meals boxes. Then, no matter how badly we've screwed up our own lives, we can always look at them and say, "At least we're not THAT pathetic!"
Of course there are numerous other pointless dangers in which people wishing to demonstrate great bravado could participate. Skydiving or bungee jumping, perhaps, but those are activities in which you're not actually expected to get hurt. They don't have satellite operating rooms or surgeons standing by as they do at the bullrings.
Or, right here in Pennsylvania, you could go to a "hunting ranch" and pay thousands of dollars to shoot a fenced-in buffalo, but there's not much chance that the buffalo will attack. The only way you could get hurt at one of these places is if you were accidentally shot by Dick Cheney, so it's not really a machismo-boosting event, even though the customers seem to think it is. If you look at the websites of these "guaranteed kill" establishments, you'll see pictures of unsmiling idiots posing with dead animals, trying hard to look like Ernest Hemingway but looking more like brain-dead slimeballs.
No, it's clearly the running-with-the-bulls gang who most blithely risk life and limb so that others around the world may laugh condescendingly and feel good about themselves. For that, we should be truly grateful. Thank you gentlemen, and thank YOU, Saint Fermin.


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Meeting the world's long-term energy needs won't necessarily require brilliant science, according to Dr. Sarah Keller of the University of Washington. Keller, the 2008 Haines Lecturer in Biochemistry, told a lunchtime crowd that the decisions that will have to be made with regard to energy sources are much more difficult.
In preparing for the talk, Keller said, "I really just wanted to know what we could learn using only freshman chemistry and physics."
Keller used the session to demonstrate how even rudimentary understanding of chemistry and physics can provide scholars enough math and science to determine how much energy will be required and how much can be produced using a range of sources.
Professor Keller's scholarship is groundbreaking in the area of membrane organization and understanding how cell signaling occurs at the molecular level. In addition to receiving numerous awards and grants for her research she also received in 2006 the award for outstanding teaching at the University of Washington.
While at Wabash, she discussed the work of her research lab, "Seeing Spots: Liquid Domains in Lipid Membranes," and a lunch talk entitled "Using Freshman Chemistry to Understand 21st Century Energy Problems."
In the latter talk, she began with two basic premises: That energy consumption is increasing with the human population and there is a need to plan where future energy will come from, and that "we can go a long way [planning for the future] with just a rudimentary understanding of chemistry and physics."
Keller used a hot water shower as an example then guided the students, faculty, and staff through basic science to determine how much energy would be required to heat the water for an eight-minute shower. She went through the standard coal-burning process, as well as hydroelectric, geothermal, nuclear, solar, and biofuels.
Each energy source has pros and cons, she said, citing draught conditions that had an impact on dam-generated hydroelectric power in her hometown of Seattle. In 2003, the European heat wave led to an energy shortage since heat generated in energy production couldn't be cooled in already hot rivers and streams. The ultimate result, she said, was a rash of human casualties.
Nuclear power seems to be a possible solution, she explained, but quickly noted that if the United States expands its nuclear energy sources as planned, it must similarly plan for a more efficient way to deal with nuclear waste. Even in France, where nuclear waste reprocessing is conducted, the end result — plutonium production — creates all-new problems.
She also noted recent efforts in Germany to drill down into the earth five kilometers to harness heat in order to heat water to generate electricity. The experiment involves drilling two five-kilometer holes and forcing water down one and out the other. How much energy it will take to force the water through the path has not been determined.
Keller touched briefly on solar energy, noting first that solar energy is only 10-20 percent efficient in generating electricity. Solar-thermal energy production is more efficient, depending on the season and geography. "China heats 80 percent of its hot water using solar power," she said.
"The point I'm trying to make is that you [students] already know how to do the calculations on your own," said Keller. "The decisions we will have to make [planning for our future] are hard. I just hope the equations will not hinder you from being involved in the decision making."
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"Greg and Jake received a letter from National and Olympic Coach Steve Fraser inviting them both to apply for the USOTC program," Wabash Head Coach Brian Anderson said. "After calling Coach Fraser to get some additional information, both applied for and were accepted to the Greco-Roman training program.
"I'm excited for both Greg and Jake because they will have an opportunity to train with the best wrestlers in the country. This is an opportunity we couldn't pass up. I know they will both benefit greatly by training there for a week. They will get a first-hand look at how the best wrestlers in the world train. This is a nice pat on the back for both of them in regards to what they have already accomplished in their careers and to the amount of talent our Wabash wrestling team has overall. These are the type of opportunities that make the Wabash wrestling experience even greater."
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"You have to understand things were different back then," said Betsy Kalish.
Her classmates, all are a few decades younger than she is, nodded silently. Kalish graduated from GFS in 1973, but she is back in school with the GFS Essentially English program, which offers classes for alumni, parents and other adults who take the courses with other GFS students in grades 10-12.
Kalish's younger classmates have never known an America without women's rights and civil rights; have never gotten a draft number; and couldn't tell "where they were" when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
"This is the era that I grew up in. It's interesting to engage with young people and to hear how they understand the '60s without any experiential reference – because I lived it," Kalish said in the class "Mad Men and the American Dream."
Essentially English classes have brought together generations of learners since 1978. Today, adults and teenagers are still gathering in GFS classrooms to talk about literature, culture and life. Ken Finkel, a professor at Temple University, has taken an Essentially English class with each of his three sons. With his oldest son he took a course on the literature of the Vietnam conflict, which he lived through, but the teenagers only knew about from history class.
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Finkel is currently in the Mad Men class with his third son, Mack.
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Classes are taught by members of the GFS faculty as well as outside teachers and experts in various fields – most meet one evening a week (for three hours), closely following a college-course format.
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1. Re: How can i use switchyard camel with activemq?Daniel Bevenius Apr 26, 2012 7:45 AM (in response to alex liu)
I've not had time to try this out yet, but in theory you should be able to use a CDI to specify a method that creates an ActiveMQComponent:
import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped; import javax.enterprise.inject.Produces; import javax.inject.Named; import org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory; import org.apache.activemq.camel.component.ActiveMQComponent; @ApplicationScoped public class ActiveMQComponentFactory { @Produces @Named ("activemq") public ActiveMQComponent createActiveMQComponent() { final ActiveMQComponent ac = new ActiveMQComponent(); final ActiveMQConnectionFactory factory = new ActiveMQConnectionFactory(); factory.setBrokerURL("vm://localhost?broker.persistent=false&broker.useJmx=false"); ac.setConnectionFactory(factory); return ac; } }
In SwitchYard CDI components are available to Camel's registry so you can specify 'activemq' in the uri as shown below:
<camel:binding.camel configURI="activemq://TestQueue"/>
2. Re: How can i use switchyard camel with activemq?Keith Babo Apr 26, 2012 9:41 AM (in response to Daniel Bevenius)
In addition to what Dan posted, you will also need to add the activemq camel component and dependencies as modules in the AS7 distribution.
I would be interested in hearing about how this turns out, so please post back with questions/results if you decide to try it yourself. If not, we'll probably get around crafting an example sooner or later.
3. Re: How can i use switchyard camel with activemq?Daniel Bevenius Apr 30, 2012 10:01 AM (in response to Keith Babo)
We've add a jira for this which you can find here:


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Subject: General Tech, Displays | January 9, 2012 - 09:50 PM | Tim Verry
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While I read a few weeks ago that Sony would not be showing off any OLED TVs at CES, I was a bit saddened. The company was the first to bring a real OLED television one step above vaporware, even if it was only 11" and prohibitively expensive it was advancing the technology. Well, CES is here and Sony did not bring any OLED television to demo, much less bring to market this year. Fortunately, LG and Samsung have the OLED TVs covered. The question of how Sony plans to compete with the OLED competition seems to be in improved LED TV technology.
Speaking of LED TV technology, while Sony did not bring an OLED TV to CES, they did bring a new LED TV that they claim is much improved over current LED back-lit televisions. They are calling this technology "Crystal LED," and it is powering a 55" prototype television at this years CES. The 55" television uses very small RGB (red, green, and blue) LEDs to create the picture. This is an important distinction as current "LED TVs" are really just LCD televisions with LEDs as the back-light; where the LEDs shine light through the LCD pixels to create the picture. This Sony prototype is an actual LED TV, not just a branding misnomer as the LED lights are what creates the picture and not just a light source.
According to Engadget, Sony claims their true LED TV is greatly improved over LED-back-lit LCDs and offers 3.5 times the contrast, a 1.5 times wider color gamut, and is 10 times faster than LCDs. Although these are Sony's numbers and should be taken with a grain of salt (until independent reviewers can verify), they at least seem reasonable and plausible. The contrast improvement and true blacks should be readily possible thanks to the panel tech being self emitting. If done right, it should come close to the contrast offered by OLEDs which share the self-emitting property. The ability to be 10 times faster than LCDs may be the most questionable number, but still not an outrageous claim.
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No it doesn't seem to stand a chance vs OLED. Frankly its seems laughable vs oled.
its like comparing a new Fiat to a Lexus LF-LC (oled)
Why do you guys think this tech is inferior to OLED? It's basically the same self emitting pixel concept as OLED but replace it with LED. To me it is actually superior as LED color/brightness won't deteriorate over its lifetime because its non-organic.
This is the TRUE future of television. OLED is nothing but a stepping stone, and will go by the wayside just as Beta did...


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Cambodians vote Sunday in the country's fifth general election since 1993, when the United Nations helped stage the nation's first free polls since the 1975-79 genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge and a subsequent period of civil war and one-party rule.
Here are key facts about the election:
VOTING: There are 9.7 million registered voters in a country of almost 15 million. Just over half the electorate is under 30 years old. Voter turnout in the last election in 2008 was 75.2 percent, down from 83.2 percent in 2003.
PARTIES: Eight parties are running candidates to fill 123 seats in the National Assembly, but only two — the Cambodian People's Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party led by Sam Rainsy — are serious contenders. The ruling CPP holds 90 seats in the outgoing assembly.
PERSONALITIES: Hun Sen has been prime minister for 28 years. He was with the Khmer Rouge before defecting, and in 1985 was installed as prime minister by Vietnam, which had occupied Cambodia. With a reputation for cunning and ruthlessness, he insisted on being named co-prime minister despite his party losing the 1993 election, then ousted his partner in government in a 1997 coup.
Sam Rainsy spent the Khmer Rouge years in France, where he was educated in economics and political science. As a member of a royalist party, he served as finance minister in the government elected in 1993, but was kicked out from his party and his post for his outspoken anti-corruption stand. He founded his own party in 1995.
PROBLEMS: Nonpartisan election watchers say as many as 1.25 million people who should be eligible to vote may not be able to do so because their names are not on voter rolls. They also say a large number of names on the rolls do not appear to be valid. The opposition party claims that the ruling party's control of the police, military and most local governments allows it to pressure voters, especially in rural areas out of the public eye.
ISSUES: Hun Sen touts his record on restoring peace and stability, and fostering economic growth. He fans fears of those who recall decades of war and unrest by warning that an opposition victory would unleash fresh strife. Sam Rainsy's side attacks the government for corruption and failure to ensure justice for the poor and weak. It highlights the problem of land-grabbing, where well-connected cronies and companies take over land at the cost of evicting thousands. Rainsy's reputation as a technocrat appeals to urban and educated voters whose rising expectations fuel a desire for change
WHAT'S AT STAKE: The CPP would like to maintain unchallenged authority to prepare to hand over power to a new generation, as many of its leaders are old and ailing. A son and a son-in-law of Hun Sen are among its candidates.
The CNRP needs to expand its foothold in parliament for its long-term growth in a hostile environment, where almost all media are controlled by the government.
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YORK, Pa. – York College is proud to announce that senior men's soccer goalkeeper Jesse Derksen (York, Pa./Susquehannock) has been named the Spartan Athlete of the Week for the week ending September 30, 2012.
Derksen helped the Spartans to a 2-1 record for the week, as well as being named the CAC Defensive Player of the Week for the week ending September 23. Derksen played a total of 281:28 in the past three games while allowing only two goals and making 13 saves. The Green and White faced two ranked and extremely talented teams this week in Messiah and Salisbury. The Spartans were able to cruise past Neumann this past Monday 3-0. At Messiah Derksen made some terrific saves to keep the Spartans in the game against a top ranked powerhouse, but would not be able to hold the Falcons off in double overtime and lost 1-0. Thanks to a tremendous save on a penalty shot by Derksen in overtime against Salisbury the Spartans were able to beat their CAC rival 2-1 in a thriller on Saturday.
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The study of high-energy gamma-rays incident on the earth's atmosphere from astrophysical sources through the Veritas Collaboration consumes most of my time. The Veritas Collaboration built and manages the four-telescope array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Southern Arizona. Operational since 2007, the primary emphasis of the collaboration's research efforts is the search for and study of celestial sources of gamma rays in the energy range 100 GeV to 30 TeV. Most of my current collaboration activities center on managing the GrISU Monte-Carlo simulation software for modeling the atmospheric cascades and the VERITAS telescopes and data acquisition hardware and on developing new analysis methods using machine learning techniques for incorporation into the eventdisplay and VEGAS analysis packages. I also develop simulation software for modeling the new planned CTA array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes.
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No simple solutions to retirement savings problem
Re: "Retirement savings low? It doesn't take a catastrophe to be part of the retirement crisis," July 1 $mart story.
Your article tells us that the solution to the lack of retirement savings is for Americans to "Work longer, spend less and save more." Perhaps you should consider the possibility that your suggestions could actually come to pass.
Working longer sounds like a obvious solution, but in reality there are real problems to doing this. The June issue of Money magazine gave these numbers: Workers who expect to retire before 65: 23 percent. Retirees who did retire before 65: 69 percent. Much of this was caused by health problems or by a job loss. Getting anything that pays more than minimum wage (without benefits) when you are 60-plus will be a challenge, to say the least.
"Spend less and save more" also sounds eminently sensible. Except that consumer purchases make up two-thirds of the economic activity in the U.S. Less spending means a lower gross domestic product. And with the U.S. GDP only growing at 2.4 percent, it would not take much in the way of additional savings to tip the economy into recession. Economists know this as "the paradox of thrift." More saving would also increase the pool of money available to borrowers, which, in turn, would lower the interest that savers would receive.
Retirement for aging Americans is a difficult problem. Simple, sound-bite solutions, as found in your article, will not solve it.
Guy Wroble, Denver
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Imagine: you walk into a white room. One you can only enter wearing some of those sexy, plastic blue shoe protectors. An oversized flatscreen beams bright flickering light at the opposite wall. You sit down in front of the screen. The brightness is of an almost suffocating magnitude – there is so much light your eyes can't cope. Instead of seeing light you start to[…..]


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Carney: Obama backs Allen
President Barack Obama was "surprised" to learn of Gen. David Petraeus' extramarital affair and still has faith in Gen. John Allen, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday as lawmakers in both parties expressed bewilderment at the conduct of the country's top four-star commanders and demanded answers.
Carney said Obama continues to back Allen for the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe, following a statement from the National Security Council earlier in the day that the general's nomination was being placed on hold, "pending an investigation." Allen's confirmation hearings with the Senate Armed Services Committee, initially slated for Thursday, will be postponed until the Department of Defense completes the investigation.
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"He has faith in Gen. Allen," Carney told reporters. He added that the president "thinks very highly of Gen. Allen."
In his first comments about the ongoing revelations that led to the resignation of Petraeus as CIA director, Carney said: "The president was certainly surprised when he was informed about the situation regarding Gen. Petraeus. … His thoughts and prayers go out to both Gen. Petraeus and Holly Petraeus."
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Carney's comments came hours after reports surfaced that Allen, a four-star general who commands U.S. forces and the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, allegedly exchanged, from 2010 through 2012, between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of emails — possibly of an inappropriate nature — with Jill Kelley, the Tampa volunteer who reportedly received harassing emails that were eventually traced back to Petraeus's former mistress, Paula Broadwell. Petraeus stepped down over his affair.
Other reports say that Allen and Kelley had exchanged a few hundred — not thousands — of emails over several years, primarily about "routine stuff." CNN reported that there was no inappropriate relationship between the two and that they had never been alone together in the same room. An Associated Press report on Tuesday said a senior defense official called the emails between Allen and Kelley "flirtatious."
( Also on POLITICO: Petraeus affair timeline of events)
"The president first became aware on Friday after the Department of Justice notified White House counsel that there may be an issue associated with Gen. Allen's nomination," Carney said, adding that Obama learned Monday evening that the issued had been referred to the Defense Department's inspector general, Carney added.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a pre-taped interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that she believes Petraeus will eventually testify in front of her committee about the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Petraeus was initially scheduled to appear there this week, but when he stepped down from his CIA post, the acting director took his place.
( Also on POLITICO: 10 facts about Jill Kelley)
"Well, I believe he will," Feinstein said according to a transcript, when asked whether Petraeus will discuss Benghazi before the committee. "I think he's a responsible person. And I believe he will come. And so we are going to try to set that up today, because his view, as someone who was actually there…I think that's important for us to hear."
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Amanda Lundgren and David Swartz announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.
Amanda is the daughter of Crystal and Terry Moore of Estherville and Trent Heard of Des Moines. David is the son of Darlene Swartz of Armstrong and the late Leonard Swartz.
The bride-elect graduated from Estherville Lincoln Central in 2001 and from Iowa Lakes Community College in 2003. She is a home health aide with Emmet County Public Health.
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It was August 1945 and my 8-year-old father was finding out that he was not Japanese.Born and raised into a well off doctor's family in Tiawan, my dad had only ever spoken Japanese. He went to a Japanese school. His family had a Japanese name. Japan had occupied Tiawan for some 70 years and had instituted an aggressive assimilation campaign among Tiawan's educated class. Now, as Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender and withdrew its people from Tiawan, my dad's only question to his parents was, "Are we going home?" It turned out he was home, and though he was staying put, his life was beginning anew: he would have to learn Mandarin and the Tiawanese dialect, his family name was returned to its Chinese original, Peng, and 14 years later he would be required to serve 2 years of duty as a Lieutenant in the Tiawanese army.
Because he had attended university, he was trained as an officer - six months of basic and six months of artillery - then active duty on one of the two small islands Tiawan held off the coast of mainland China, in the Taiwan Strait, where the presence of the U.S.'s 7th Fleet helped deter China's ambitions to take back the island nation. Chiang Kai-shek had brought more than a million refugees and the entire Chinese national gold and foreign currency reserve to Taiwan in 1949. Ten years later, in 1959, my dad found himself within cannonshot of the Red Army.
"If you looked through binoculars," he told me, "you could see the Red Army soldiers playing basketball on the shores when they were taking a break from shooting at us."
For five months, this was his routine: shoot artillery at Mainland China, then hide in a bunker while they shot artillery at you. "I never actually saw anybody get killed, though", he says.
When death came, it was in a subtler and more terrifying fashion. One morning my dad's men got up to relieve the night patrol and found every man laid out dead on the beach. No one had heard a single gunshot. No bullet holes were found on the bodies. In the dead of night, Red Chinese frogmen had stealthily emerged from the ocean, slit every man's throat, and slipped silently back into the waves.
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Hi all, I've been using templates with contact groups literally for years and have just discovered a major problem. I'm not sure how long it's been around.
Modifications to contact groups are not updated in templates.
iow, if you have a contact group with over a hundred people in it (as I have), and the way you send that group emails is always through a template (i.e. you've saved the contact group name in the recipient field of the template), any changes you later make to the addresses in that group, including additions and deletions, are NOT updated in the template.
I would imagine it fails the same way when modifying a single contact added to a template, although I haven't tested this.
This is a serious flaw. We should not have to edit our templates and reattach a contact list every time a change is made within that list.
Has anyone else come across this?


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The folks at FIC are giving UMPCs a different spin. Their new handheld comes with a detachable module that can hold components like a GPS system, cellphone, and, er, a calculator (like the sample in this pic). I'm not sure I'd want a UMPC with detachable components, but conceptually, I give props to FIC for being a little different. The Nanobook weighs 2.2 pounds and packs a nice-looking 7-inch screen. No word on availability yet.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Kirk Cousins turned in Sunday's best performance among the first group of quarterbacks to work out at Lucas Oil Stadium.
The senior from Michigan State threw an accurate football in every drill and made it look easy. Cousins' performance since the season ended has helped him move up draft boards by showing NFL teams he can get rid of the ball quickly and next-level throws with the zip and accuracy. There were concerns about inconsistent play and untimely interceptions.
Cousins showed pro-ready passing mechanics and fundamental footwork throughout all of the drills. He benefited greatly from being in a more pro-style offense at Michigan State as he appeared smooth and natural with his three-, five- and seven-step drops.
In addition to being technically sound, Cousins displayed a strong arm. The ball did not just come out of his hand, but rather shot out and got to the receiver in a flash.
After a strong showing at the Senior Bowl, Cousins could not have helped himself any more than he did Sunday. He may have put himself in position to be considered by a team looking for a young, developmental quarterback at the end of the first round or top of the second.
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