Jun 01 2012
The Libertarian Theocrats By Michael J. McVicar, Fall 2007 … In their struggle to understand George W. Bush, some liberal intellectuals have looked to the writings of Rousas John Rushdoony, the Armenian-American minister whose championing of a theocratic America influenced some of the nooks and crannies of the Christian Right during its rise to prominence. …
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Jun 01 2012
The GOP Sees Dead People — Voting By Scott Keyes, Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 12:35 PM ET … When Americans go to the polls this November, they better have some ID. If they don’t, millions of them won’t be casting a ballot. Over the past two years, Republican legislators from Texas to Florida to …
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Jun 01 2012
Hymns to the Violence: The NYT’s Love Letter to Obama’s Murder Racket By Chris Floyd, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:21 … I must, at last, admit defeat. I simply have no words, no rhetorical ammunition, no conceptual frameworks that could adequately address the total moral nullity exposed in Monday’s New York Times article on the …
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May 30 2012
How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren By Katherine Stewart, Wednesday 30 May 2012 10.15 EDT … The Bible has thousands of passages that may serve as the basis for instruction and inspiration. Not all of them are appropriate in all circumstances. The story of Saul and the Amalekites is a case in …
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May 29 2012
The West is horrified by children’s slaughter now. Soon we’ll forget By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 29 May 2012 … Bashar al-Assad will get away with it. He got away with Deraa. He got away with Homs. And he’ll get away with Houla. So will the armed opposition to the regime, along with al-Qa’ida and any …
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May 29 2012
Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89 May 29, 2012, 6:57 PM EST … Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his management company. …
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May 26 2012
Back to the birth certificate … Dear editor: Con-tra-dic-tion: A denial of the truth. The Associated Press published a picture of Loretta Lynn’s birth certificate, which supposedly proves she is actually three years older than she claims to be. Wow! Big deal! It is common for a woman to keep her age secret. But does …
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