Category: Culture

Why does all this matter?

Evangelicals Without Blowhards By Nicholas D. Kristof, July 30, 2011 … IN these polarized times, few words conjure as much distaste in liberal circles as “evangelical Christian.” That’s partly because evangelicals came to be associated over the last 25 years with blowhard scolds. When the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson discussed on television whether …

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Screeching castrati

Behold what has become of our fourth estate (there is something pathetic about getting better news from the Comedy Channel than we can get from mainstream newspapers and television): [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M

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Banning karma

The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement By Andrea Elliott, July 30, 2011 … NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s latest woes include high unemployment, continuing foreclosures and a battle over collective-bargaining rights for teachers. But when a Republican representative took the Statehouse floor during a recent hearing, he warned of a new threat to his constituents’ way of …

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Despite all our talk

The myth of the extraordinary teacher By Ellie Herman, July 31, 2011 … The kid in the back wants me to define “logic.” The girl next to him looks bewildered. The boy in front of me dutifully takes notes even though he has severe auditory processing issues and doesn’t understand a word I’m saying. Eight …

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American Holocaust

Everything you need to know- Honest! By Lee Burkett (with his permission), Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 1:08pm … We need to stop seeing what happens in Washington through the bipartisan looking glass. It is patently obvious that neither party are representing the will or the interests of the American people. The difference between the two …

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Seen today

…on Highway 84, about five miles northeast of Bismarck, Arkansas:   What it fails to mention is that some estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties are as high as 1,455,590. Afghan civilian casualties are more difficult to estimate, but the United Nations recently reported that civilian casualties in Afghanistan are worse than ever.  Almost 1500 civilians were killed …

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Days left to get rich

The Rapture Profiteers By Peter Savodnik, July 28, 2011, 4:30 PM EDT … For nearly a year, nonagenarian preacher and radio personality Harold Camping predicted the world would end on May 21. Locusts would blanket the earth and millions would die while Camping and his flock would rise up to the sky, rendezvous with Jesus, …

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