A period of penitential soul-searching

Wall keeping Palestinian ill-treatment out of sight is really in Israeli minds

By , Friday 6 September 2013 14.29 EDT   Most Jerusalemites couldn’t find Shu’fat refugee camp on the map or give you any sort of directions.…  [more]

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This one will run and run

Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 27 August 2013   If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United…  [more]

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Jesuses per minute

7 Obnoxious Jesus Jukes

By , 08/23/2013  9:22 am   The phrase “Jesus juke” was originally coined by Jon Acuff in a 2010 post on his blog “Stuff Christians Like.” Jesus jukes are moves that you make in…  [more]

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Dragged away to be shot over a shallow grave

Everything was possible

By Omar Robert Hamilton, Saturday, August 17, 2013 – 22:26   I sit, for the 12th hour now, alone and struggling for what to do. For the first time since I got on a plane for…  [more]

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An endless gauntlet of potential calamities

A nation unhinged: Dispatches from “the nightmare war”

By , Tuesday, Aug 13, 2013 01:12 PM CDT   We should make Nick Turse an honorary baby boomer for writing Kill Anything That Moves. A history of the…  [more]

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Clear, vivid, and shorn of elaboration

The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart

By , Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, at 11:40 AM   This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in…  [more]

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The third option

Confessions of a Christian Skeptic

By , 08/08/2013 11:52 am   I grew up deeply entrenched in Evangelicalism. So much so, that I made it my career. I went to Bible College to become a pastor. And I…  [more]

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