Jan 06 2012
The shocking truth that killing can be so casual By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber in the last two years of the Second World War, based in Cologne in the first …
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Jan 06 2012
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 part, you catch sight of the wall that marks Gaza’s northern perimeter, its concrete sides topped …
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Jan 05 2012
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 bested former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum by a mere eight votes in Tuesday’s (Jan. 3) …
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Jan 05 2012
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. This success can be attributed in part to the prayerful support offered by the devoutly Christian Duggars, …
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Jan 05 2012
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 to describe, as he explained in his blog earlier this year, was “an accelerating shift … taking place …
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Jan 05 2012
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. 1903 was a landmark year for the inventive folk of the USA. The Wright brothers …
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Jan 03 2012
The streets of 2012 By Naomi Wolf, 03 Jan 2012 14:59 … New York, NY – What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in lower Manhattan, or is 2012 likely to see an escalation of the …
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