Category: America

Pornographers of outrage

Pigs to the Lake: The Evangelical Exorcism By Morgan Guyton, 10/18/2012  5:15 pm   In Mark 5, Jesus casts a legion of demons out of a man chained to a graveyard by sending them into a herd of pigs, who race with fury to a cliff and throw themselves in a lake. This event is …

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Feeding the bigotry of the racists

Billy Graham’s lurch towards Mitt Romney risks his legacy By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Thursday 18 October 2012 07.57 EDT   As America’s pastor for the past half century, Billy Graham has earned a reputation as a wise and holy man. But the respect he has gained as a man of unflinching, unerring principles has been severely …

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Why Obama?

      Were Obama my perfect candidate, then most of the prior administration would be rotting away in Guantanamo, a latter-day Spandau prison under UN jurisdiction.  What was left of the Grand Old Party would be its ridiculous, remnant wackadoodle tea party born-again John Birchers and a handful of secessionists still itching to fight …

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Charlie Fuqua

Good solid pro-family evangelical Southern Baptists By Fred Clark, October 9, 2012   Remember when we were told that Dominion Theology is just a myth? Well here’s a new book outlining how the Bible — read “literally,” of course — should be the basis for all civil law. It’s called God’s Law: The Only Political …

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Power with the equivalent of Tourette’s Syndrome

Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power By Tom Engelhardt, 12 Oct 2012 10:50   Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the 20th century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism – think of it as the real “American Century” – from World War I to …

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Awkward questions

One last letter before these portentous elections, a short compendium of awkward questions. Here’s hoping they all survive our small-town editor’s butchery… Given how simple-minded Arkansas politicians have once again embarrassed themselves and their constituents and our kinda unnatural state, is there any doubt now that Republicans are the preferred party for Islamophobic racists? After WW2, …

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Blighted by imperialism

Colonised and coloniser, empire’s poison infects us all By George Monbiot, Monday 8 October 2012 15.30 EDT   Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in Lenin’s gulag: “Through Labour – Freedom!”. Over the gates of the Ngenya detention camp, run by the …

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