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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
It’s weird…it seems like every year on October 25, I post some sort of reflection about the life of Sen. Paul Wellstone, who died five years ago today in a plane crash (along with his wife and daughter, three campaign workers and a pilot). I worked for Wellstone during ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I meant to write about this last week, but Republican Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-Michigan) went after the group Catholics United in an opinion piece in the National Review, because Catholics United had the audacity to ask the question: Is it pro-life to vote against S-CHIP?
Is it pro-life ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Bob Jones University in South Carolina once threatened to arrest its gay alumni, up until the year 2000 banned inter-racial dating on campus, and has previously called Catholicism a cult and the Pope the anti-Christ. Rumor also has it that the university refuses (or at least refused) to honor ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Today marks the beginning of a three-day meeting in Washington labeled the Values Voter Summit, which will likely bring scores of conservative activists and leaders to the Hilton Washington Hotel (where the event is taking place…tip your cleaning people, please). More importantly, perhaps, is that about 50 of the ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
One reason why I continue to read alternative weeklies? Quotes like this, referencing St. Thomas University’s decision to withdraw an offer to Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on campus.
“This is pure bullshit,” said Marv Davidov, an adjunct professor within St. Thomas University’s Justice and Peace ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Here’s a poll: How many of you think all the major GOP presidential candidates are sweating buckets right now that leaders of the religious right suggested they may back a third-party Presidential candidate in 2008, due to less than enthusiastic support for the current crop of candidates?
Giuliani’s camp fought back ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Another campaign week goes by, and more evidence is emerging that the Christian right is flailing as it heads into 2008.
I wrote last week about a disappointin g gathering in Florida that attracted only 100 or so conservative Christian organizers (not including the plants from Americans United), and the general ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Proving yet again that age is no barrier in having the flexibility to stick your foot in your mouth, Sen. John McCain gave an interview to Beliefnet.co m in which he asserted that the number one issue people should make in deciding on who to vote for as President should ...
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
It’s still nearly eight months away, but word is that Pope Benedict XVI will use his first visit to the United Nations to urge a commitment to climate change. Courtesy of The Independent, the address to the UN….
“will act as the centrepiece of a US visit scheduled for next ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.” – James Baldwin
Reading the news articles stemming out of Jena, Louisiana these last two months, it’s hard to ...
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