2012 archive
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Jan 06 2012
I wish him to have dignity
Rebel without a state
By Evgeny Lebedev, Saturday 07 January 2012 … From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line one side of the road. When they… [more]
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Jan 05 2012
Among the disputes are…
Romney’s Evangelical Problem Starts With Theology
By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service, 1/4/12 06:16 PM ET … The good news for Mitt Romney: he won the Iowa caucuses. The bad news for Romney: evangelicals remain reluctant to support him. Romney… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/01/05/among-the-disputes-are/
Jan 05 2012
Another jolt of public affirmation
From Rick Santorum to Ted Haggard, reality TV answers celebrity prayers
By Becky Garrison, Thursday 5 January 2012 11.36 EST … Voters in Iowa have given Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum the green light to continue his surge.… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/01/05/another-jolt-of-public-affirmation/
Jan 05 2012
Pray away
Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle
By Peter Beaumont, Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST … Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/01/05/pray-away/
Jan 05 2012
Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley
Death of Topsy the Elephant (1903)
Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 … This morning we will be remembering the sad fate of Topsy the Elephant, who was put to death by electrocution for the murder of three.… [more]
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Jan 03 2012
Organising panda fights
Wife-beating? That’s fine – unless you’re a Muslim
By Mark Steel, Wednesday 09 July 2008 … The Sun newspaper has come over a bit modest. Following a Channel 4 documentary about media reporting of Muslims, the paper accepts some of… [more]
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