Christine Flowers http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers RSS Feed for Christine Flowers en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT Christine M. Flowers: The First Amendment exorcists http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091120_Christine_M__Flowers__The_First_Amendment_exorcists.html I FOUND myself smiling when I heard the usual suspects criticizing the Conference of Catholic Bishops for poking its nose into the health-care debate. Christine M. Flowers: Madame Speaker bows to reality http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091113_Christine_M__Flowers__Madame_Speaker_bows_to_reality.html NANCY PELOSI has gotten her wish: A sweeping health-care bill. Madame Speaker did something that so many Mr. Speakers before her failed at, and deserves credit for the historic two-vote weekend victory in the House. Christine M. Flowers: SEPTA union strikes below the belt http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091106_Christine_M__Flowers__SEPTA_union_strikes_below_the_belt.html MY FIRST thought after hearing that SEPTA had gone on strike in the wee hours of Tuesday morning was to wonder if there was space available under the Meadowlands for Willie Brown and his crew. After all, Jimmy Hoffa must get lonely. Christine M. Flowers: Yanking their chain http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091030_Christine_M__Flowers__Yanking_their_chain.html IF THERE'S any truth to the idea of karma, the Yankees won't be winning the World Series. Their fans don't deserve it. Christine M. Flowers: OMG, I'M BLEEDING RED! http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091023_Christine_M__Flowers__OMG__I_M_BLEEDING_RED_.html THERE I sat, at the edge of my bed, bleary-eyed at 10 past midnight. I had a court date in mere hours, but sleep was the farthest thing from my mind. Christine M. Flowers: You be the judge http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091016_Christine_M__Flowers__You_be_the_judge.html Apregnant 17-year-old in Utah hires a man to beat her in an attempt to cause an abortion after her boyfriend threatens to leave if she has the baby. Christine M. Flowers: Advice & Dissent http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091009_Christine_M__Flowers__Advice___Dissent.html AHIGH-RANKING general publicly expresses an opinion about military operations that contradicts administration policy. The Pentagon and White House are apoplectic, and the general's comments are roundly condemned. But in the end, the soldier is proven right. Even so, he's forced to exit, stage left. Christine M. Flowers: Polanski's Perversions http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20091002_Christine_M__Flowers__Polanski_s_Perversions.html EVERY NOW and then, life provides us with an interesting sort of symmetry. Last week, Susan Atkins, one of the female disciples of Charles Manson, died in prison - four decades after vivisecting a nine-months pregnant Sharon Tate. A few days later, Tate's husband at the time, Roman Polanski, was intercepted in Switzerland and held on a U.S. warrant more than three decades after becoming a fugitive. Christine M. Flowers: Life (& death) of the party http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20090925_Christine_M__Flowers__Life____death__of_the_party.html DEMOCRATS apparently don't like to be told that they embrace a culture of death. It's insulting and inflammatory, they say, and in at least one respect incorrect. (They usually oppose capital punishment.) Christine M. Flowers: Going down a dangerous path http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/christine_flowers/20090918_Christine_M__Flowers__Going_down_a_dangerous_path.html WE ALL know the story about the Boy Who Cried Wolf, falsely claiming several times that he had been attacked. Finally, when the danger was real, no one believed him. And he ended up as an hors d'oeuvre.