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Nov 09 2012

The tyranny of a metaphor

Heartbeat: My Involuntary Miscarriage and ‘Voluntary Abortion’ in Ohio

By , 11/01/2012 10:30 am   On June 19, the state of Ohio declared that I had a voluntary abortion. My rabbi and my doctors disagreed. I simply wanted…  [more]

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Nov 09 2012

Politically convenient

How Evangelicals Decided That Life Begins at Conception

By , 11/05/2012  4:34 pm   In the late 1960s and early 1970s, evangelical Christians widely believed the Bible says life begins at birth and supported looser abortion policies. That…  [more]

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Nov 06 2012

Oh ga-lory!

  Well, we finally did it. My wife and I decided to go see the most wholly reverend Dwain Miller of Eldorado, Arkansas, in the flesh. We have just returned and I have three words of prophecy for you: OH-MY-GAWD!…  [more]

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Nov 03 2012

On Tuesday we’ll decide

Romneyism

By , 11/03/2012  2:07 pm   By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview all…  [more]

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Nov 02 2012

Go figure

1 Not-So-Simple, Pretty Funny Question for the 73% of White Evangelicals Who Will Apparently Be Voting for Romney

By Frank Schaeffer, October 31, 2012   According to polls  73 percent of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney.…  [more]

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Nov 02 2012

It’s just really embarrassing

George Bush’s secret Cayman vacation

By , Friday, Nov  2, 2012 12:06 PM CDT   George W. Bush gave the keynote address at an “investment conference” in the Cayman Islands on Thursday night. But we don’t know what…  [more]

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Nov 01 2012

Don’t want your life

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AcCUO4XPI[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AcCUO4XPI Z the people – Piano, Vocals El Far3i – Percussion, Vocals…  [more]

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