Feeding the bigotry of the racists

Billy Graham’s lurch towards Mitt Romney risks his legacy

By , Thursday 18 October 2012 07.57 EDT   As America’s pastor for the past half century, Billy Graham has earned a reputation as a wise and holy man.…  [more]

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Why Obama?

      Were Obama my perfect candidate, then most of the prior administration would be rotting away in Guantanamo, a latter-day Spandau prison under UN jurisdiction.  What was left of the Grand Old Party would be its ridiculous, remnant…  [more]

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Charlie Fuqua

Good solid pro-family evangelical Southern Baptists

By , October 9, 2012   Remember when we were told that Dominion Theology is just a myth? Well here’s a new book outlining how the Bible — read “literally,” of course…  [more]

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Power with the equivalent of Tourette’s Syndrome

Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power

By Tom Engelhardt, 12 Oct 2012 10:50   Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the 20th century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year…  [more]

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Awkward questions

One last letter before these portentous elections, a short compendium of awkward questions. Here’s hoping they all survive our small-town editor’s butchery…  [more]

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Blighted by imperialism

Colonised and coloniser, empire’s poison infects us all

By , Monday 8 October 2012 15.30 EDT   Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in…  [more]

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Poignant riptide

BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen

By , Saturday 6 October 2012 17.21 EDT   The fat red sun settles itself against the horizon, throwing a last, honey-sweet light through humid evening and over…  [more]

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