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Bishop Richard Williamson is in a bit of hot water these days. He has aligned himself with the philosophy of an ultraconservative group that largely denies the scope of the Holocaust.
The Bishop makes the news today because Pope Benedict XVI recently lifted his twenty-year excommunication. (He was part of St. Pius X, a group that broke away from the church over the cessation of Latin in the mass.)
Now that Bishop Williamson has been brought back into the fold, people are starting to ask questions, questions like “Why are you denying the Holocaust?”
This editorial will appear in Sunday's print edition.
Crazy doesn't begin to define Nadya Suleman's story.
She's the California single mom who gave birth to eight babies while her first six waited at home, the unemployed psychiatric tech who collected state disability while building her brood, the baby-obsessed daughter who drove her mother to bankruptcy and her dad to Iraq.
Train wrecks invite gawkers, and the magnitude of this one just keeps growing. The PR agency Suleman hired from her hospital bed is having plenty of help keeping her name in the headlines. Each day brings new details that pique public incredulity.
The debacle is spectacle, and something more. It's not just disbelief or outrage driving blog buzz and office chatter and OMG e-mails from one mom to the next. The Suleman story has so many layers, and so many of those layers reopen big questions about parenting, reproductive freedom, medical ethics, societal obligations and celebrity culture.
Q. Which Washington city holds the record for being the site of the nation's costliest armed robbery?
Click on Read more at the bottom for the answer.
I came across the factoid while reading a Fort Worth Star-Telegram opinion article on the wire by Dallas attorney Randy Johnston. He makes the point that the Washington armed robbery netted "a measly $4.46 million" – chump change compared to the $50 billion stolen by financier Bernard Madoff.
Johnston, author of “Robbed at Pen Point,” argues that white-collar criminals should be treated just like the ones who use guns. Here's his article, and the answer to the trivia question:
