{"id":1518,"date":"2005-10-06T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/mess-in-mi.html"},"modified":"2005-10-06T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T09:21:22","slug":"mess-in-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/mess-in-mi.html","title":{"rendered":"Mess in MI"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is apparently trouble at Ave Maria Law School. Here is a blog about it. <\/a>Being that lawyers are involved, it also contains posts about Miers, etc. But what is going on at the law school is disheartening, beginning, it seems, with the Board of Governors’ removal of Professor Charles Rice from the Board. <\/p>\n

Unrelated, but I’m too rushed to start a new post:<\/p>\n

After a week, Fr. Neuhaus has updated the First Things blog:<\/a><\/p>\n

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A number of readers have asked whether I will be responding to Garry Wills\u2019 long article in the New York Review of Books<\/em> (October 6) claiming that a few friends and I are manipulating the Vatican and the White House to create what he calls government by \u201cthe fringes.\u201d When the pope and the president of the United States are the fringes, one might well wonder where the center is. Mr. Wills\u2019 answer, of course, is that the center is Garry Wills…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Comments closed because this sort of issue always seems to draw personal attacks, the kind I can’t really host on my blog. Many of those attacks are anonymous, which makes it worse. So if you want to comment on this, go to the blog linked above or this one.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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