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Continued Conservative Retrenchment in Catholic Anti-Poverty Fund

Golden Calf Created by Catholics United in Support of Occupy DC and Regulations on Wall-Street

New Orleans   Someone deserves credit, and I’m betting that someone is James Salt, the energetic director of Catholics United, for exposing the increasingly desperate, rightwing inspired, guilt-by-association style attacks on social change groups funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human [...]

Blaming the Victims: Catholic Church Attack on SNAP & Dave Clohessy

SNAP action

New Orleans    Blaming the victim may be more American than apple pie at this point.  Apple pie is less and less a staple of the American diet, but blaming the victims seems to be the default mode for institutions large and small that are unable to correct their cultures.

It is inarguable that the [...]

Game Changers on Health and Immigration

Takoma Park Sunday in the early spring turns out to be a big event for a change in the DC area for two reasons.

The final votes are being wrangled into the corral for health care reform, and it looks like what Majority Leader Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls the “final yard” will be [...]