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In light of the threat’s by certain members of Congress against judges, and given this weekend’s conference pitting “people of faith” against people who believe in the Constitution, I think it might be timely to note the words of a great Indian leader from North America’s past:
Read moreA British resident has claimed he was tortured by US guards at Guantanamo Bay, suffering violent sexual assaults, near drowning and an attack in which he was blinded.
Read moreI was saddened this week to learn that, by definition of U.S. Senator (and Senate Majority Leader) Dr. Bill (I’ll diagnose you via videotape for a nominal contribution….ahhhh…I mean fee) Frist, and the Family Research Council, I am no longer a person of faith. That may be true. My lifelong allegience to Christianity is certainly being challenged by the Krazy Kristian Kooks, and if being a person of faith means relinquishing my rights and freedoms to the Kooks…then I withdraw my membership.
Read moreIn today’s op/ed column in the New York Times, David Books places blame for the dissolution of national discourse, for
Read moreOver on Scarborough Country, Joe and Pat Buchannan needed their little Holy War fix, so out pops, of all things, the Da Vinci Code.
Read moreI’m just surprised the CNN whores didn’t use the ol’ computer graphics package to doodle some devil horns on the head of the gay guy. And maybe give him a pitchfork to wave around.
Read moreAs the U.S. government’s budget deficit tops $2.2 TRILLION, Bush made the following statement at the signing ceremony for the credit industry relief bill (known in Congress at the Bankruptcy Reform Bill): “Bankruptcy should always be a last resort in our legal system. If someone does not pay his or her debts, the rest of society ends up paying them.”
Read moreOK, so we know that Tom DeLay isn’t all that fond of crazy activist judges like, say, the seven Republican appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court who went along with the “murder” of Terri Schiavo.
Read moreRatzinger was essentially the right hand man to John Paul, who appointed most of the College of Cardinals. I thought this guy was the heir-apparent all along. Like Bush, John Paul wasn’t ready to go.
Read moreAccording to Josh Marshall, the Rev. James Dobson, DD (Doctor of Divinity, or Daffy Duck, or both) claims to smell the odor of a burning cross drifting from our nation’s highest court. James Dobson compares the “men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan” to the “black-robed men” on the Supreme Court.
Read moreSixty years after his death we should be raising a toast to F.D.R. and his progressive ideas. And we should take that opportunity to ask: How in the world did we allow ourselves to get from there to here?
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