Jan 02 2011
Arkansas is nicknamed “The Natural State.” We have deer and fox (and possums, raccoons, eagles, buzzards, etc.) who walk or fly by our home nearly every day. But the state of our state is most unnatural on this, the second day of 2011, especially after reading today’s local newspaper. Consider, for example, these two AP stories which appeared in the …
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Dec 31 2010
Introductory note: This explanation of the current political scene in Israel can easily be adapted to help explain our own emerging fascism, and the rise of our own American Hezbollah, which will hereafter be referred to as “The Tea Party of God” on this blog. The emphases in the article are mine, not Mr. Strenger’s. Here’s hoping …
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Dec 23 2010
Why do Jewish groups ignore Beck? By MJ Rosenberg, for Al Jazeera 23 Dec 2010 13:28 GMT … Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes, Abigail R. Esman pens an utterly over-the-top column called “World To Jews: Drop Dead.” Dead! She …
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Dec 23 2010
How I was smeared as an anti-Semite By Christina Patterson, for The Independent Thursday, 23 December 2010 … At the end of a long and exhausting year, it’s sometimes hard to know what will hit the spot. A spa break in Thailand? A month-long marathon of black and white weepies? Or, perhaps, a little surprise. …
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Dec 22 2010
The bible that even atheists worship The Independent Wednesday, 22 December 2010 King James I of England has not always had a good press. His disdain for parliament, his dodgy favourites, the extravagance of his court and his pro-Spanish foreign policy did not do him any credit. He was the founder of that unhappy line …
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Dec 22 2010
The following was adapted from an e-mail conversation with my pastor, following a December 12, 2010 front-page article in the Sentinel Record describing how David Barton was “brought” to Hot Springs by another pastor (who just happens to be the new mayor’s husband) for a rah-rah rally/revival to “energize and educate” Tea Party Republicans who recently routed …
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Dec 22 2010
DISGUISED FASCISM SEEN AS A MENACE Prof. Luccock Warns That It Will Bear the Misleading Label ‘Americanism’ … The New York Times, 12 September 1938, page 15, re. a sermon preached the day before (9/11 — ironic, n’est pas?)… … When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled “made in Germany”; …
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