Feb 08 2012
What To Do About Violent Biblical Texts? By Philip Jenkins, 02/ 3/2012 4:11 pm … Every few weeks, it seems, Islam makes headlines in the U.S., whether the topic is a television show like All-American Muslim, a state prohibiting Sharia law, or just a grandstanding platform statement in a primary. No less predictable are the …
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Feb 05 2012
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners By Glenn Greenwald, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 8:51 AM 16:08:00 CST … On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired …
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Feb 05 2012
The ultimate Mormon male By Naomi Zeveloff, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 2:30 PM 15:58:29 CST … If there is one single impediment to Mitt Romney’s campaign, it is his utter inscrutability, his perplexing failure to schmooze with voters. Romney is seen by many as hollow, robotic, as stiff as his hair-sprayed coiffure. But to me, …
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Feb 05 2012
The slave who spoke from beyond the grave By Jonathan Brown, Saturday 04 February 2012 … An extraordinary letter written by an emancipated slave to his former owner ridiculing his request for him to return to work on a Tennessee plantation after the Civil War has become an internet sensation. More than two million people …
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Feb 04 2012
Mitt Romney, the stealth tea party candidate By Theda Skocpol, January 31, 2012 … “Many tea party folks are going to find me, I believe, to be the ideal candidate,” the Republican presidential contender said in a news conference in December. “I sure hope so.” These words were uttered not by Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, …
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Feb 04 2012
An attack on Iran must be stopped By Andrew Murray, Saturday 4 February 2012 09.00 EST … The Anglo-American aggression addicts haven’t kicked the habit. The team that brought you shock and awe and Operation Infinite Justice is gearing up for yet another crack at winning a senseless war in the Middle East. This time …
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Feb 04 2012
The cynical world of America’s private prisons By Sadhbh Walshe, Friday 3 February 2012 17.08 EST … In the past few decades, changes in sentencing laws and get-tough-on-crime policies have led to an explosion in America’s prison population. Funding this incarceration binge has been an enormous drain on taxpayer dollars, with some states now spending …
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