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American Taliban

June 1, 2009

Remember this?
April 15, 2009, Foxnews.com…
The government considers you a terrorist threat if you oppose abortion, own a gun or are a returning war veteran.
That's what House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Wednesday in response to a Department of Homeland Security report warning of the rise of right-wing extremist groups.
Smith, who said the [...]

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The Republican War On Empathy

May 27, 2009

When Republicans first declared their National War Against Empathy From the Court (NWAEFC), I found it amazingly out of touch with basic common sense. But it's Republicans we're dealing with here.
Bitter conservatives instantly attacked Obama's mention of empathy as a quality he would be looking for in a new Supreme Court Justice. Of all [...]

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Embryonic Stem Cells According to Krauthammer

March 14, 2009

Charles Krauthammer's take on funding embryonic stem cell research…..'I'm not against it, but Obama is still wrong.'….
President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos that had already been destroyed (as of his speech of Aug. 9, 2001). While I favor moving that moral line to additionally permit [...]

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The Scold Media & Nadya Suleman

February 18, 2009

Susie Madrak, blogger at Crooks & Liars, shares a personal anecdote about a story I've been meaning to write about….the Nadya Suleman, octuplets, story….
I was at a party this weekend, and this seemed to be all people wanted to talk about. At first I listened politely, but I finally said, "You know, the people who [...]

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What Would Jesus Say?

January 31, 2009

Gallup has come out with a new poll-map, by state, showing the importance of religion in Americans' daily lives. It seems that, on average, 65% of Americans consider religion important in their daily lives while 35% do not. Ohio ranks 25th, with Ohioans considering religion to be important in their daily lives by 65%.
Now compare [...]

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Patriotic, Resilient, Conservative Resistance

January 3, 2009

Have you heard about the new resistance movement? It's a resistance movement against the not-yet-president Barack Obama.
Conservative Republicans have proven in the last eight years that they can't govern successfully on a federal level, and really don't want to anyway. The next eight years will be a clinic on what conservative Republicans do [...]

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Obama, Faith-Basing & Rick Warren

December 20, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama has caught hell this week from progressives over inviting Pastor Rick Warren to give the Inaugural Invocation next month. While I'm no fan of Warren, Obama's invite doesn't really surprise me.
The new president claims he is a believing Christian. I take him at his word. Christians, by definition, all believe in the [...]

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Questions About Gay Marriage Rights

November 10, 2008

By a margin of 500,000 votes, the state of California's voters amended their state constitution last week to take away marriage rights for gays and lesbians. The California Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, had ruled in May 2008 that any statute that limited marriage to a relationship between a man and a woman violated [...]

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New Phony Narrative: America Is Center-Right

November 6, 2008

Sorry about the length of this post….it was hard to condense.
Barack Obama won the presidential election over John McCain by a wide margin. Obama currently has 52% of the popular vote and 349 electoral college votes with North Carolina still in the balances. Obama defeated McCain in the popular vote by a margin of 6%, [...]

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Authenticity

August 19, 2008

From today's Beacon opinion piece by former George W. Bush speech writer and now McCain cheerleader, Michael Gerson…..slobberingly entitled "Authentic John McCain".
"…. the Warren forum demonstrated how difficult it will be for Obama to appeal to religious and conservative voters as the campaign proceeds. His outreach to evangelical voters is obviously sincere, but he doesn't [...]

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