2012 archive

Homegrown terror

Jerusalem ‘Lynching’ Raises Specter Of Anti-Palestinian Terrorism

By Zack Beauchamp, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm   Two separate attacks on Palestinians civilians Friday morning raise serious questions about rising anti-Palestinian radicalism among Israeli youth. In the first incident,…  [more]

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Fundamentally, all propaganda is drivel

Paul Ryan’s faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney

By , Monday 13 August 2012 11.46 EDT   When I was a teenager, my American girlfriend at the time gave me Ayn Rand’s cult novel…  [more]

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Porn for mean-spirited Republicans

In Romney’s America, Welfare Is for Losers

By , 08/13/2012  6:07 am   Mitt Romney would like you to know that he thinks poor people are con artists who don’t want to work, and he is intent…  [more]

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Divesting themselves of their overabundance

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Clarence Jordan: The Man Who Inspired the Fullers’ Affordable Housing Movement

By , 08/12/2012  9:20 am   Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – Oct. 29, 1969) would have turned 100 recently. A farmer…  [more]

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Romney & Ryan

Now, what does that remind you of?   Photograph (modified) of 1979 Rolls Royce:  http://www.goldcanyonlimo.com/rolls.html [more]

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The saving efficacy of killing

Batman, Neo-Nazis and the Good News of Jesus

By , 08/08/2012  9:18 am   I am a conservative Christian. But I would be a fool to say that in public these days (though I suppose I have…  [more]

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Prutzah, whore

The ultra-Orthodox tighten their grip in Israel

By , August 7   The rock hit Nili Philipp on the side of her helmet as she biked last year along the main road in this Jerusalem suburb. A few…  [more]

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