Aug 13 2012
Paul Ryan’s faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney By Giles Fraser, Monday 13 August 2012 11.46 EDT When I was a teenager, my American girlfriend at the time gave me Ayn Rand’s cult novel Atlas Shrugged to read. It changed her life, she said. It changed mine, too. She was …
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Aug 13 2012
In Romney’s America, Welfare Is for Losers By Peter S. Goodman, 08/13/2012 6:07 am Mitt Romney would like you to know that he thinks poor people are con artists who don’t want to work, and he is intent on protecting you, the taxpayer, from underwriting their depraved lifestyle. In a Romney administration, the social …
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Aug 12 2012
Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Clarence Jordan: The Man Who Inspired the Fullers’ Affordable Housing Movement By Kirk Lyman-Barner, 08/12/2012 9:20 am Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – Oct. 29, 1969) would have turned 100 recently. A farmer with a degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia and a Doctorate in New Testament …
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Aug 11 2012
Now, what does that remind you of? Photograph (modified) of 1979 Rolls Royce: http://www.goldcanyonlimo.com/rolls.html
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Aug 08 2012
Batman, Neo-Nazis and the Good News of Jesus By Lee C. Camp, 08/08/2012 9:18 am I am a conservative Christian. But I would be a fool to say that in public these days (though I suppose I have just made myself a fool), because that label has been so co-opted by those, so it …
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Aug 08 2012
The ultra-Orthodox tighten their grip in Israel By Ruth Marcus, August 7 The rock hit Nili Philipp on the side of her helmet as she biked last year along the main road in this Jerusalem suburb. A few years earlier, the spitting had begun, as Philipp jogged on a road bordering an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood. …
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Aug 07 2012
Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achieve Israeli Democracy, If Israel Refuses Two-States It Should Expect One By Richard Silverstein, August 5, 2012 The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli democracy. Burg, a former member of what might be called the country’s ruling élite, has …
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