Wednesday, August 03, 2005

The government and religion

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The Pope said that churches in countries like the United States are dying out. He said it's like they're going out of business. You ...
Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Bush on "Intelligent Design"

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Well, he wants it taught in schools. Let's be clear. This is not science. Science is about testing falsifiable hypotheses. "Intelli...
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I don't know who said it but it's good

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When you are in the hospital and about to have an operation, do you want your doctor to have gone to one of those creationist schools or one...

Land that I love

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O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be-- the land where every man is free. The land that's...

An old war triggers fresh emotions

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This morning I found myself reading an article on Beliefnet by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach called, "The Sin of Confederate Hero Worship...
Monday, August 01, 2005

Health care for all

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I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir with this but here's another article outlining just why we need universal medical coverage i...
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John Roberts' age

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You realize he is only 50 years old. He could serve on the court for the next 40 years. So he could still be there when we pull out of Iraq....

Absence of irony; absence of shame

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Last night I stumbled upon an article that is so well written, so insightful regarding the outlook of this administration as well as its eff...
Sunday, July 31, 2005

It really does take a village

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Perhaps it has come to your attention that Republican Senator Rick Santorum has written a right wing "answer" to Hillary Clinton...
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Hurricanes and global warming

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The article is entitled "Study: Warming Is Intensifying Hurricanes" and here's a bit of what it says: Is global warming makin...

The causes of terrorism

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I've admired the Toronto Star for several years now. Today I want to share with you one of its articles which is by Linda McQuaig and i...

Trembling for the country

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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have be...
Saturday, July 30, 2005

Decency

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This comment was left on Eschaton by somebody named Luke: It has become pretty obvious to me that Democrats are Democrats because most of t...

Climate change update

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Here's an article from CBC entitled, "Scientists sound alarm on Arctic ice cap" . Here's how it gets started: Satellite d...

A truly righteous society

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Sometimes I wonder if the Bible-thumpers have actually ever read what it says. Karen Horst Cobb agrees and outlines what a society would rea...

The complicity of the press

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I stopped watching television news when we went to war against Afghanistan. It was at that time that the local news desks in Tulsa announced...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Great snark

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The White House has now changed their slogan from the 'war on terror' to 'the global struggle against violent extremism.' Th...

White House REQUIRES newspaper to give only one side

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This is simply beyond outrageous. And we're talking about the Washington Post - that once great paper that exposed the Watergate scandal...

Revisiting Ohio

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It's been a long time since I've written about the election being stolen. But Echidne of the Snakes (one of my favorite blogs) has t...

Friday Cat Blogging!

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Here's Leroy just being himself: Photo by Ellie Finlay