Oct 09 2011
Jerusalem can do strange things to your sanity By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 8 October 2011 … So there was this chap, a bearded guy, spectacles, a settler, asking for a lift from Hebron to Kiryat Arba. And Kiryat Arba is quite a settlement, home to Baruch Goldstein who killed about 50 Palestinians before he himself …
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Oct 08 2011
Romney’s scary Middle East advisor By As`ad AbuKhalil, Friday, Oct 7, 2011 10:00 AM 13:15:53 CDT \ … Mitt Romney has a new foreign policy adviser. His name is Walid Phares, a Lebanese -American contributor to Fox News, and rising star in Republican punditry. Phares has had three careers and all are relevant in bizarre …
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Oct 03 2011
Growing up in Michele Bachmann’s world By Karl Giberson (for FrumForum), Monday 3 October 2011 12.02 EDT … Michele Bachmann and I grew up in the same evangelical world. We heard similar sermons, read similar books – most importantly the Bible – and we followed the same anointed leaders. By the time we were in …
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Oct 02 2011
Rich people are being ‘demonized’ for flaunting their wealth. Poor dears! By Barbara Ehrenreich, September 30 … The latest group to claim victim status is the rich. Actually the super-rich, whose wealth ordinarily exempts them from pity. While they are not yet subjected to airport profiling (except for early boarding and club access), they sense …
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Oct 02 2011
Separation of church and state? Not on the 2012 campaign trail. By Jonathan Turley, Published: September 30 … On Oct. 7, 1801, three men wrote to the new president of the United States on behalf of their Baptist congregation in Connecticut. The letter from the Danbury Baptist Association is most famous not for its content …
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Oct 01 2011
The never-ending war against cliché and jargon By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 1 October 2011 … Asked to give a talk on the Middle East last week, I read on my invitation: “We want to bring visionaries, innovators, doers, funders, connectors, and their community into one space…With all of these people gathered into one space, it’s …
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Sep 30 2011
Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God By Eliot Daley, 9/30/11 01:16 PM ET … We are smothering God. And our church. We’re engaged in an unholy combination of implicit theocide and communal suicide. That is the conclusion I have reached in trying to understand the long, anguished, painful decline of mainline Christian …
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