Sep 28 2010
… From “Junkets for Jesus” by Jeff Sharlet, Mother Jones, Monday Sep. 27, 2010 3:00 AM PDT … THE OLDEST AND MOST politically influential Christian conservative organization in Washington is known to the public, if at all, for one thing: adultery. In particular, that of three Republican politicians, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Gov. Mark Sanford …
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Sep 24 2010
This little gem, titled “Islam a legal system,” appeared on page 8 of the opinion section of the September 23, 2010 Sentinel Record… Dear editor: Regarding Mr. Vogt’s defense of Islam in America, I have two websites for him to check if he is seriously interested in the subject of religious freedom and Sharia Law: …
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Sep 21 2010
MEC Analytical Group 21 September 2010 War talk We are grateful to Richard Dalton for bringing to our attention the account below of an exchange of views on 17 September on the prospect of another war between Israel and Lebanon. Jeffrey White of the generally pro-Israeli Washington Institute for Near East Policy (where the exchange …
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Sep 20 2010
As retold to me today by one of the participants… Last Wednesday evening, two couples struck up a conversation while waiting for a meeting to begin. After a few minutes, one of the couples mentioned that they hadn’t had a television in their home for years. Incredulous, the other couple had just one question. “But how …
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Sep 16 2010
What’s Real About the Rapture? By John R. Coats, author of “Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis” September 16, 2010 09:34 AM My maternal grandparents lived in a small northeast-Texas town with a communal zeitgeist more aboriginal than modern. Everyone believed. “Is there really a God?” would have been as silly a question as …
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Sep 14 2010
“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge.” — Ogden Nash, from “So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much” … “Can’t reconcile America, Islam” (September 8, 2010) is typical of the inky stain spreading across the opinion pages of this …
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Sep 12 2010
The true history of the Koran in America By Ted Widmer September 12, 2010 Nine years later, we are still haunted by Sept. 11, and in some ways it’s getting worse. All summer, a shrill debate over whether to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site was fueled by pundits on the right, who …
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