Feb 28 2008
Andy, Maybe I’m naive, but the “New Age” stuff doesn’t alarm me all that much. It seems to be just another of those sleazy red flags that get waved to demonize a candidate. This is just my take on things, but all this alarm over religions and philosophies and lifestyles that compete with organized Christianity …
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Feb 27 2008
Next month America will have been in Iraq for five years – longer than it spent in either world war. Daily military operations (not counting, for example, future care of wounded) have already cost more than 12 years in Vietnam, and twice as much as the Korean war. America is spending $16 billion a month …
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Feb 21 2008
Subject: RE: Reading material Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:22:33 -0600 Actually, among non-fundamentalist evangelicals, there is less willful ignorance than we find around here, especially where wacky eschatology isn’t the primary form of ecclesiastical entertainment. I heard someone this morning (in our men’s group) mention that he hoped to be on the first trip …
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Feb 18 2008
I had hoped, in part because he seemed like a nice-enough guy, that Mike Huckabee would not descend to the level of pandering epitomized by the other Republican candidates. There were warning signs last fall, when he revealed he was getting up to speed on Middle East issues by reading books written by far-right messianic …
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Feb 08 2008
Here’s the comment I left yesterday on the Washington Post’s ridiculous opinion piece “5 myths about neoconservatism” by Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at The National Interest (founded by the grandaddy of all neocons, Irving Kristol)… +++ Asking a senior editor of The National Interest to debunk neocon myths is about like asking Stalin to …
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Feb 07 2008
Romney is giving his campaign-suspension speech now. He started it off by bragging about how America never takes land from others. Apparently (and most ironically), he derived this bit of flummery from an Israeli: +++ Simon Peres, in a visit to Boston, was asked what he thought about the war in Iraq. “First,” he said, …
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Feb 04 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/clinton-obama-and-clust_b_84811.html For those of you who will be voting tomorrow on “Super Tuesday” and days following, this post has some relevance to the wee little “droppings” Israel left all over south Lebanon during the last days of its war with Hezbollah (or, as I still call it, “The Rape of Lebanon”)… +++ Clinton, Obama, and …
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