TPM does the day (prayerfully) in 100 seconds

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Right-wingers peddle flat-out falsehoods about Obama and National Day of Prayer

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 You’d think that prayer would be one subject that even the scuzziest of political extremists would avoid lying about, wouldn’t you?

 Well, you’d be wrong, as we see HERE.

The decline of American journalism

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Walter Pincus of The Washington Post, admitting that his is “a romantic and unfashionable view of journalism,” offers a SCATHING INDICTMENT of the American news media in general and newspapers in particular for “chasing the false idols of fame and fortune.”

Vatican newspaper isn’t as anti-Obama as self-appointed guardians of orthodoxy at Notre Dame

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 The noisy minority of Catholics (and busybody non-Catholics) who are having conniptions over Notre Dame’s slating of President Obama as this year’s commencement speaker are looking more foolish with each passing day.

 As I told you HERE last week, most American Catholics support the university’s invitation to Obama, despite the howls of protest from a handful of bishops and hairshirted laity.

 And now, the Vatican’s own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, is out with an ARTICLE that takes a much more favorable view of Obama than do the Republicatholics here in America.

 As E. J. Dionne snarkily puts it, some of these right-wing Catholics seem to think they’re “more Catholic than the pope.”

Good analysis of what happened to the political species known as Rockefeller Republicans

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THIS PIECE by Alan Silverleib offers some historical perspective to the story of “how far the Republican Party has fallen in its ancestral homeland of the Northeast.”