Feb 15 2014
Ted Cruz’s imperialist fantasy: Why his latest anti-Obama epithet is so dangerous By Colin P. Elliott, Saturday, Feb 15, 2014 08:30 AM CST In the wake of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Sen. Ted Cruz now insists that Americans are living under an “imperial presidency” because of the way that the …
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Feb 15 2014
The Old Testament’s made-up camels are a problem for Zionism By Andrew Brown, Thursday 13 February 2014 08.59 EST There are 21 references to camels in the first books of the Bible, and now we know they are all made up. Some of them are quite startlingly verisimilitudinous, such as the story of Abraham’s …
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Feb 09 2014
Why the Christian right’s persecution fantasies are so dangerous By Amanda Marcotte, Friday, Feb 7, 2014 07:52 AM CST Christian conservatives feel aggrieved and they want to be heard. The problem is that their specific grievance—that everyone else hurts their feelings by not admitting we’re inferior—kind of sounds, well, hard to sympathize with. They …
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Feb 09 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman is another victim of extremely stupid drug laws By Russell Brand, Thursday 6 February 2014 10.05 EST Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death was not on the bill. If it’d been the sacrifice of Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber, that we are invited to anticipate daily, we could delight in the Faustian justice …
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Feb 09 2014
More Guantanamo and global warming, less Amanda Knox and Justin Bieber By Christian Christensen, 06 Feb 2014 11:31 Amanda Knox has, with her second “guilty” verdict for the murder of Meredith Kercher, re-entered our media landscape. There is nothing inherently wrong with some coverage of the Knox case, but the level of exposure afforded …
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Feb 04 2014
Rep. Paul Ryan is a very stupid man By Hunter, Mon Feb 03, 2014 at 12:27 PM PST I lived through the Iran Contra incident, and I have lived through a president declaring a new executive privilege to torture. I was alive when Oliver North put on a nice clean suit and testified in …
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Feb 04 2014
Understanding the faith of Cathy McMorris Rodgers By Matthew S. Rindge (Religion News Service), January 31 SPOKANE, Wash. — The Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech introduced many Americans to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. While those of us in Spokane are already familiar with our congresswoman, little is known about her alma …
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