Feb 08 2012
What To Do About Violent Biblical Texts? By Philip Jenkins, 02/ 3/2012 4:11 pm … Every few weeks, it seems, Islam makes headlines in the U.S., whether the topic is a television show like All-American Muslim, a state prohibiting Sharia law, or just a grandstanding platform statement in a primary. No less predictable are the …
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Feb 05 2012
The ultimate Mormon male By Naomi Zeveloff, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 2:30 PM 15:58:29 CST … If there is one single impediment to Mitt Romney’s campaign, it is his utter inscrutability, his perplexing failure to schmooze with voters. Romney is seen by many as hollow, robotic, as stiff as his hair-sprayed coiffure. But to me, …
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Feb 05 2012
The slave who spoke from beyond the grave By Jonathan Brown, Saturday 04 February 2012 … An extraordinary letter written by an emancipated slave to his former owner ridiculing his request for him to return to work on a Tennessee plantation after the Civil War has become an internet sensation. More than two million people …
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Feb 04 2012
Mitt Romney, the stealth tea party candidate By Theda Skocpol, January 31, 2012 … “Many tea party folks are going to find me, I believe, to be the ideal candidate,” the Republican presidential contender said in a news conference in December. “I sure hope so.” These words were uttered not by Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, …
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Jan 31 2012
Mitt Romney: the man behind the perma-smile By Ed Pilkington, Monday 30 January 2012 15.00 EST … “Well, it’s just great to be here!” Mitt Romney says as he bounds on to the stage at a campaign stop in January, just one of hundreds he has made in his epic journey – he hopes – …
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Jan 29 2012
Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy By Sally Denton, Sunday, Jan 29, 2012 8:00 AM 12:18:27 CST … When Mitt Romney received his patriarchal blessing as a Michigan teenager, he was told that the Lord expected great things from him. All young Mormon men — the “worthy males” of the Church of Jesus Christ of …
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Jan 28 2012
Newt Gingrich’s agenda-setting big donor By Arun Kundnani, Saturday 28 January 2012 14.18 ES … By donating $10m to the pro-Newt Gingrich Super Pac campaign, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest men in the US, and his physician wife, Dr Miriam Adelson, have kept Gingrich in the Republican primary race, and given him …
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