Jan 04 2011

Taking names…

…and wishing calamity on her unrepentant naysayers (who are legion), our new mayor speaks in this letter to the editor, titled “Thoughts on ‘tolerance’” (today’s Sentinel Record, page 8): Dear editor: In recent days, I have been…  [more]

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Jan 02 2011

You can’t make this stuff up

Arkansas is nicknamed “The Natural State.”  We have deer and fox (and possums, raccoons, eagles, buzzards, etc.) who walk or fly by our home nearly every day.  But the state of our state is most unnatural on this, the second …  [more]

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Dec 31 2010

A theory of everything

Introductory note:  This explanation of the current political scene in Israel can easily be adapted to help explain our own emerging fascism, and the rise of our own American Hezbollah, which will hereafter be referred to as “The Tea…  [more]

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Dec 23 2010

Ignorance

Why do Jewish groups ignore Beck? By MJ Rosenberg, for  Al Jazeera 23 Dec 2010 13:28 GMT … Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes…  [more]

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Dec 23 2010

A brush too broad

How I was smeared as an anti-Semite By Christina Patterson, for The Independent Thursday, 23 December 2010 … At the end of a long and exhausting year, it’s sometimes hard to know what will hit the spot. A spa break…  [more]

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Dec 22 2010

Happy birthday!

The bible that even atheists worship

The Independent Wednesday, 22 December 2010 King James I of England has not always had a good press. His disdain for parliament, his dodgy favourites, the extravagance of his court and his pro-Spanish foreign…  [more]

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Dec 22 2010

David Barton

The following was adapted from an e-mail conversation with my pastor, following a December 12, 2010 front-page article in the Sentinel Record describing how David Barton was “brought” to Hot Springs by another pastor (who just happens to be the…  [more]

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