The Liberal Media Strikes Again By William Rivers Pitt Tuesday 01 March 2011 … If I hear one more person talk about the “liberal media” in America, I will probably vomit on them. It was a stupid and ridiculous thing to say last week – take a long look at which mega-corporations own which news …
Category: America
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Feb 27 2011
Roots
How biblical literalism took root By Stephen Tomkins, Monday 21 February 2011 10.59 GMT … Where does biblical literalism come from? What is the genesis, if you will, of the habit of mind that makes many Christians read the Bible with a different brain to the one they’d use with any other writing? It is by …
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Feb 27 2011
National religion
Santorum: Left hates ‘Christendom’ By Andy Barr, 2/23/11 2:35 PM EST, updated 2/24/11 7:57 AM EST … Rick Santorum launched into a scathing attack on the left, charging during an appearance in South Carolina that the history of the Crusades has been corrupted by “the American left who hates Christendom.” “The idea that the Crusades and …
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Feb 26 2011
What the Devil really wants
Friends, Here is a list of (mostly fictitious) articles I will never read: What Conservatives Really Want What Liberals Really Want What Muslims Really Want What Christians Really Want What Jews Really Want What Women Really Want What Men Really Want Etc, ad nauseum I self-describe as a liberal, but like each of you, …
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Feb 25 2011
Where the wind comes
… From Oklahoma to Tobruk By Roger Cohen, published February 24, 2011 … LONDON — Watching Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi do his Caligula thing in the ruins of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and reading about his son’s St. Barts fests with Beyoncé, I confess that disgust yielded to nausea: enough is enough. There are …
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Feb 22 2011
Legalized theft
Eight Charts By Michael Tomasky, Tuesday 22 February 2011 22.25 GMT I implore you to take a look at this, from Mother Jones’ web site, eight charts that explain everything that’s wrong with America. I think that sort of oversells it, and there are other things wrong with America not explained by this chart, like …
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Feb 20 2011
Reactive dissonance
A diet too-long confined to nothing but the thin soup of Fox News has unfortunate consequences. Among them is acute cognitive indigestion when cherished beliefs are challenged by contrary points of view. Such were the symptoms that manifested themselves yesterday. [Jane], a relative newcomer to an ongoing email discussion of Middle Eastern realities (between ex-expats who once lived “over there”), has …
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