Category: Sarah Palin is a nimrod

You’re never that far away

As the US nears the brink, the budget row is exposing Republican madness By Gary Younge, Sunday 17 July 2011 21.00 BST … Back in 2004 I met a pleasant Republican called Burton Kephart, who had lost his son in Iraq and wanted to save my soul. Opening his Bible at Matthew and Romans, he …

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Bush on steroids

Republican with self-belief and God on his ticket By Rupert Cornwell, Sunday, 17 July 2011 … Are you of the view that the last thing the US wants is another swaggering, tax-cutting, God-fearing governor of Texas running for president? Think again. Unless he’s deliberately been leading everyone a barn dance these last couple of months, …

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What it actually means

Arabic for right-wingers By Justin Elliott, Thursday, Jun 16, 2011 21:01 ET … In a now infamous column, the writer Eliana Benador argued this week that Anthony Weiner (who is a Jew) may have converted to Islam but was hiding it from the world in accordance with the practice of “taqiyya.” “It is also important, …

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The case has not been made

The Rise of the Wrecking-Ball Right By Robert Reich, Friday, July 15, 2011 … Recently I debated a conservative Republican who insisted the best way to revive the American economy was to shrink the size of government. When I asked him to explain his logic he said, simply, “government is the source of all our …

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Politics of distraction

Jesus:  please fix Texas because Governor Perry can’t By Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, Jul 13, 2011 10:34 AM … Texas Governor, and possible GOP presidential candidate, Rick Perry has endorsed ‘The Response’ a prayer event scheduled for August 6 in Texas. “As a nation, we must come together and call upon Jesus to guide us through …

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Once upon a time

Yes, I’ll dare call it treason By Cliff Schecter, 13 Jul 2011 05:32 … Once upon a time, in a land that now seems to have been populated by tooth fairies and unicorns, there was a political party that had a set of core beliefs to which they actually adhered. Among them was that actually balancing …

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I determine who is a Jew

Interview with Dr. Hajo Meyer [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4heNE-SA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4heNE-SA Dr. Hajo Meyer is a Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist activist. He has been conducting a speaking tour titled “Never Again For Anyone,” sharing his experiences of surviving Auschwitz and his perceptions of Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. This video is a selection of clips from …

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