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Sep 28 2010

The Family Camel

… From “Junkets for Jesus” by Jeff Sharlet, Mother Jones, Monday Sep. 27, 2010 3:00 AM PDT … THE OLDEST AND MOST politically influential Christian conservative organization in Washington is known to the public, if at all, for one…  [more]

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Sep 24 2010

Seriously?

This little gem, titled “Islam a legal system,” appeared on page 8 of the opinion section of the September 23, 2010 Sentinel Record… Dear editor: Regarding Mr. Vogt’s defense of Islam in America, I have two websites…  [more]

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Sep 21 2010

War talk

MEC Analytical Group 21 September 2010 War talk We are grateful to Richard Dalton for bringing to our attention the account below of an exchange of views on 17 September on the prospect of another war between Israel and Lebanon.…  [more]

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Sep 20 2010

How do you?

As retold to me today by one of the participants… Last Wednesday evening, two couples struck up a conversation while waiting for a meeting to begin.  After a few minutes, one of the couples mentioned that they hadn’t had a…  [more]

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Sep 16 2010

After the rapture

What’s Real About the Rapture? By John R. Coats, author of “Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis” September 16, 2010 09:34 AM My maternal grandparents lived in a small northeast-Texas town with a communal zeitgeist more…  [more]

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Sep 14 2010

Snatched! The abridged version…

“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge.” — Ogden Nash, from “So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much” … “Can’t reconcile …  [more]

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Sep 12 2010

People of the book

The true history of the Koran in America By Ted Widmer September 12, 2010 Nine years later, we are still haunted by Sept. 11, and in some ways it’s getting worse. All summer, a shrill debate over whether to build…  [more]

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