Category: History

Today in Little Rock

…wherein your intrepid bloggeur discovered a nefarious plot by the Turkish navy to infiltrate the American homeland (note the submarine with the sharia’s-coming flag and the state capitol in the background).  All in all, a beautiful day in America with she-who-must-be-obeyed!                        [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId_CQBTz80[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId_CQBTz80

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The mistake of thinking

The class warfare the rich don’t understand By Heather Digby Parton, 10 Oct 2011 09:43 … “Those who own the country ought to govern it.” – Founding father, John Jay There have been rumblings in the corners of the Tea party movement for some time, but the minute president Obama announced that he was going …

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They go into your soul

Jerusalem can do strange things to your sanity By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 8 October 2011 … So there was this chap, a bearded guy, spectacles, a settler, asking for a lift from Hebron to Kiryat Arba. And Kiryat Arba is quite a settlement, home to Baruch Goldstein who killed about 50 Palestinians before he himself …

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The criteria for service

Romney’s scary Middle East advisor By As`ad AbuKhalil, Friday, Oct 7, 2011 10:00 AM 13:15:53 CDT \ … Mitt Romney has a new foreign policy adviser. His name is Walid Phares, a Lebanese -American contributor to Fox News, and rising star in Republican punditry. Phares has had three careers and all are relevant in bizarre …

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We worry

Growing up in Michele Bachmann’s world By Karl Giberson (for FrumForum), Monday 3 October 2011 12.02 EDT … Michele Bachmann and I grew up in the same evangelical world. We heard similar sermons, read similar books – most importantly the Bible – and we followed the same anointed leaders. By the time we were in …

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Politicized piety

Separation of church and state? Not on the 2012 campaign trail. By  Jonathan Turley, Published: September 30 … On Oct. 7, 1801, three men wrote to the new president of the United States on behalf of their Baptist congregation in Connecticut. The letter from the Danbury Baptist Association is most famous not for its content …

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Bring it on

Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God By Eliot Daley, 9/30/11 01:16 PM ET … We are smothering God.  And our church.  We’re engaged in an unholy combination of implicit theocide and communal suicide. That is the conclusion I have reached in trying to understand the long, anguished, painful decline of mainline Christian …

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