Obama’s Middle East Cluelessness By Scott MacLeod, 05/13/11 02:55 PM ET … Friday’s announcement of George Mitchell’s planned resignation as the U.S. mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict appears to be yet another sign of the disarray and failure in President Obama’s handling of the Middle East. Recently, two articles provided a troubling inside look at …
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May 14 2011
Then we’ll talk
Parents: This Fall, Beware Tea Partiers Dressed Up as James Madison By Doug Kendall, 05/13/11 12:05 PM ET … When I was growing up, my mom warned me each fall about Halloween candy with a hidden razor blade. As a parent, the thing I’ll be most scared about this fall is the prospect of Tea …
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May 13 2011
Our other friends
Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 14 May 2011 … Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat – wrote the other day that “the notion that a dictator can claim the …
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May 13 2011
Grassy Knoll
The eternal appeal of conspiracy theory By Jeff Winkler, Friday 13 May 2011 21.00 BST … The US – with the help of a few Navy Seals – found the elusive Osama bin Laden, shot him in the face and then deep-sixed the diabolical diabetic somewhere in the Arabian Sea. While the rest of the …
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May 12 2011
Vindicating torture
John McCain to Bush apologists: Stop lying about Bin Laden and torture By Greg Sargent, 12:09 PM ET, 05/12/2011 … This is getting really good. As noted below, John McCain in an Op ed this morning skewered the claim that the killing of Bin Laden vindicates torture. But just now, on the Senate floor, he …
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May 12 2011
No longer funny
May 21, 2011: Harold Camping and the apocalypse of my youth By Jason Boyett, 08:35 AM ET, 05/12/2011 … Harold Camping, the 89 year-old Christian radio broadcaster, has announced that the “rapture” of Christian believers will throw the world into chaos on May 21, 2011, followed five months later by the total destruction of the …
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May 11 2011
House of cards
End times theology: an insider’s guide By Brian McLaren, May 10, 2011 1:08 PM … I grew up in a Christian tradition (a young one, actually, having started in the 1830’s) called Dispensationalism. Although we shied away from predicting specific dates, we sang and preached and even made scary movies about the coming “Rapture,” Great Tribulation, …
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