Nov 09 2012
Heartbeat: My Involuntary Miscarriage and ‘Voluntary Abortion’ in Ohio By Tamara Mann, 11/01/2012 10:30 am On June 19, the state of Ohio declared that I had a voluntary abortion. My rabbi and my doctors disagreed. I simply wanted to be pregnant. The ordeal began two weeks earlier; I was in stirrups. The sonogram technician …
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Nov 09 2012
How Evangelicals Decided That Life Begins at Conception By Jonathan Dudley, 11/05/2012 4:34 pm In the late 1960s and early 1970s, evangelical Christians widely believed the Bible says life begins at birth and supported looser abortion policies. That was my argument in an Oct. 31 op-ed for CNN, titled, “When evangelicals were pro-choice.” Understandably, …
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Nov 06 2012
Well, we finally did it. My wife and I decided to go see the most wholly reverend Dwain Miller of Eldorado, Arkansas, in the flesh. We have just returned and I have three words of prophecy for you: OH-MY-GAWD! First of all, let me say that the Glory Barn regulars are the salt of …
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Nov 03 2012
Romneyism By Robert Reich, 11/03/2012 2:07 pm By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview all its own — a kind of creed that explains Mitt Romney. Those who say he has …
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Nov 02 2012
1 Not-So-Simple, Pretty Funny Question for the 73% of White Evangelicals Who Will Apparently Be Voting for Romney By Frank Schaeffer, October 31, 2012 According to polls 73 percent of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney. If the polls are correct here’s the question I’d like to ask evangelicals using their own …
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Nov 02 2012
George Bush’s secret Cayman vacation By Andrew Leonard, Friday, Nov 2, 2012 12:06 PM CDT George W. Bush gave the keynote address at an “investment conference” in the Cayman Islands on Thursday night. But we don’t know what he said, reports NBC News, because Bush’s own team required a complete “blackout” on any details …
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Nov 01 2012
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AcCUO4XPI[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AcCUO4XPI Z the people – Piano, Vocals El Far3i – Percussion, Vocals
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