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Feb 28 2008

Obama, Oprah, and the “New Age Christ”

 Andy, Maybe I’m naive, but the “New Age” stuff doesn’t alarm me all that much.  It seems to be just another of those sleazy red flags that get waved to demonize a candidate.  This is just my take on things,…  [more]

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Feb 27 2008

Warning: this is obscene!

 Next month America will have been in Iraq for five years – longer than it spent in either world war. Daily military operations (not counting, for example, future care of wounded) have already cost more than 12 years in Vietnam,…  [more]

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Feb 21 2008

Paradox?

 Subject: RE: Reading material Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:22:33 -0600 Actually, among non-fundamentalist evangelicals, there is less willful ignorance than we find around here, especially where wacky eschatology isn’t the primary form of ecclesiastical entertainment.  I heard someone this…  [more]

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Feb 18 2008

Plethoric pandering

 I had hoped, in part because he seemed like a nice-enough guy, that Mike Huckabee would not descend to the level of pandering epitomized by the other Republican candidates.  There were warning signs last fall, when he revealed he was…  [more]

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Feb 11 2008

Breaking the Silence

 Yehuda Shaul is live on C-Span now.  He’s a former IDF commander and co-founder of Breaking the Silence.  He’s showing slides and talking about the systematic degradation of Palestinians by the IDF.  Very interesting and hopefully helpful.  The follow-up questions…  [more]

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Feb 08 2008

Jacob Heilbrunn

 Here’s the comment I left yesterday on the Washington Post’s ridiculous opinion piece “5 myths about neoconservatism” by Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at The National Interest (founded by the grandaddy of all neocons, Irving Kristol)… +++  Asking a senior…  [more]

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Feb 07 2008

An urge to purge

 Romney is giving his campaign-suspension speech now.  He started it off by bragging about how America never takes land from others.  Apparently (and most ironically), he derived this bit of flummery from an Israeli: +++ Simon Peres, in a visit…  [more]

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