My Take: Jesus would support Palestinian statehood bid By Carl Medearis, September 21st, 2011 12:27 PM ET … This week at the United Nations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has promised to ask for recognition of a Palestinian state. If he does, the United States will veto. Why? Largely because of something we’ll call Christian Zionism, …
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Sep 26 2011
Edge of the middle class
A voice of reason amid the madness By Heather Digby Parton, 26 Sep 2011 16:53 … “I hear all this, ‘well, this is class warfare, this is whatever’. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to …
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Sep 24 2011
What did you expect?
Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem By Robert Fisk, 24 September 2011 … So there I was, on the Via Dolorosa of course, chatting to a middle-aged guy in a red T-shirt and just a wisp of a beard with a prayer rug under his left arm. And I asked him, of course, what …
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Sep 24 2011
Lend a hand to our brothers
Foreign fighters support Israel’s settlements By Nour Samaha, 24 Sep 2011 15:53 … Two weeks ago, an announcement appeared on a French website, calling for “militants with military experience” to participate in a solidarity trip to Israel between September 19 and 25. “The aim of this expedition is to lend a hand to our brothers …
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Sep 24 2011
Joe McCarthy would have been proud
The Phony Solyndra Scandal By Joe Nocera, September 23, 2011 … If Brian Harrison and W. G. Stover, the two Solyndra executives who took the Fifth Amendment at a Congressional hearing on Friday, ever spend a day in jail, I’ll stand on my head in Times Square. It’s not going to happen, for one simple …
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Sep 22 2011
In the name of Christ
Professors denounce ‘Christian Zionism’ By Bob Allen, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (ABP) – Two Baptist ethicists released an open letter Sept. 19 opposing “Christian Zionism” and its effect on U.S. policy toward Israel. As Palestinian leaders prepared to make a unilateral declaration of statehood before the United Nations — expected to …
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Sep 21 2011
Elizabeth Warren
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