Apr 27 2012
After Vatican’s rebuke of nuns, time to hear Mary’s voice By Lisa Miller, April 26, 2012 … Imagine the fury of the men of Galilee when a young, unmarried girl showed up in their village pregnant. They must have talked about punishments. Stoning — a legitimate penalty, condoned by Deuteronomy — would have been appropriate, although …
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Apr 27 2012
The “Daily Show” guide to my enemies By Michael Rubens, Friday, Apr 27, 2012 06:00 PM CDT … For two years I was a field producer for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” The field producer is the person who guides the creation of the pre-taped segments, the ones where the correspondent travels somewhere to …
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Apr 27 2012
Satanazis III: Night of the Satanazis By Fred Clark, April 25, 2012 … Don’t imagine you’re safe just because Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter, is on the job. Sure, Robertson’s Age-Defying Shakes give him the strength to leg-press 1,000 pounds, but that won’t be enough when the Satanic baby-killers and the Nazis join forces to create …
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Apr 27 2012
We Japanese Americans must not forget our wartime internment By George Takei, Friday 27 April 2012 15.15 EDT … Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family’s home in Los Angeles, ordering us out. Our crime was looking like the people who had bombed Pearl …
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Apr 27 2012
This supremely Republican supreme court By Scott Lemieux, Friday 27 April 2012 15.41 EDT … The 2008 elections represented a decisive repudiation of the policies of George W Bush and the Republican party. Yet, conservative Republicans still control the supreme court – and this fact may effectively nullify the results of the 2008 election in …
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Apr 27 2012
Christians of the Holy Land By Ben White, 26 Apr 2012 06:36 … A recent report by CBS show 60 Minutes on “Christians of the Holy Land” has received a lot of attention, not least for the embarrassing contribution by Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren. It is interesting that Israel (and its advocates) …
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Apr 27 2012
The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today’s Republican Party By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, April 26, 2012 … We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush events down the memory hole, leaving us at the mercy of only what we know today. Sometimes, …
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