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 …
Category: Sarah Palin is a nimrod
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Oct 02 2011
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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Sep 26 2011
Edge of the middle class
A voice of reason amid the madness By Heather Digby Parton, 26 Sep 2011 16:53 … “I hear all this, ‘well, this is class warfare, this is whatever’. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to …
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Sep 24 2011
Joe McCarthy would have been proud
The Phony Solyndra Scandal By Joe Nocera, September 23, 2011 … If Brian Harrison and W. G. Stover, the two Solyndra executives who took the Fifth Amendment at a Congressional hearing on Friday, ever spend a day in jail, I’ll stand on my head in Times Square. It’s not going to happen, for one simple …
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Sep 22 2011
In the name of Christ
Professors denounce ‘Christian Zionism’ By Bob Allen, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (ABP) – Two Baptist ethicists released an open letter Sept. 19 opposing “Christian Zionism” and its effect on U.S. policy toward Israel. As Palestinian leaders prepared to make a unilateral declaration of statehood before the United Nations — expected to …
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Sep 21 2011
Elizabeth Warren
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Sep 21 2011
Egging on the Israeli equivalents
Perry’s Faith-Based Foreign Policy Directive By Justin Raimondo, September 21, 2011 … If Rick Perry makes it to the White House, what will American foreign policy in the Middle East look like? We got a clear indication of that, recently, when he stated: “As a Christian I have a clear directive to support Israel, from …
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