Alan Wolfe: "Catholic House members with their eyes on Senate seats — Michael Capuano from Massachusetts and Joe Sestak from Pennsylvania — voted against, as if realizing that election to statewide office required showing independence of mind." Full Article at The Corner

Alan Wolfe is a TNR contributing editor and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. Full Article at The New Republic

Badly wounded while saving co-workers from an ax-wielding maniac, Dr. Tony Hill is recuperating at the same hospital where a star footballer is dying from ricin poisoning. Full Article at SeacoastOnline.com

I was certain the title referred to Wolfe’s prose style. Is that tunnel boring machine what Rahm is planning on using on the collective rectum of the Progressives? Alan Wolfe always makes me roll my eyes. Full Article at Matthew Yglesias

As Eric Alterman has shown in his book “Why We’re Liberals,” on most core policy issues from health and abortion to civil rights and foreign policy, the majority of Americans are decidedly liberal. Full Article at Truth Dig