Jan 07 2012

They are also dangerous

Republicans: we don’t need no regulation

By , Friday 6 January 2012 13.00 EST … Here are the two contradictory facts you must keep in your mind if you wish to understand American politics today: 1. We are…  [more]

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Jan 06 2012

Newt Gingrich is a big fat idiot

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Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people

By Natasha Mozgovaya and Reuters, 01:41 10.12.11 … U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an “invented” people who want…  [more]

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Jan 06 2012

We do sleep soundly

The shocking truth that killing can be so casual

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber…  [more]

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Jan 06 2012

I wish him to have dignity

Rebel without a state

By Evgeny Lebedev, Saturday 07 January 2012 … From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line one side of the road. When they…  [more]

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Jan 05 2012

Among the disputes are…

Romney’s Evangelical Problem Starts With Theology

By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service, 1/4/12 06:16 PM ET … The good news for Mitt Romney: he won the Iowa caucuses. The bad news for Romney: evangelicals remain reluctant to support him. Romney…  [more]

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Jan 05 2012

Another jolt of public affirmation

From Rick Santorum to Ted Haggard, reality TV answers celebrity prayers

By , Thursday 5 January 2012 11.36 EST … Voters in Iowa have given Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum the green light to continue his surge.…  [more]

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Jan 05 2012

Pray away

Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle

By , Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST … Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant…  [more]

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