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On speaking up and speaking out: The value of original thoughts.
Sun Sep 6, 2009 8:57 PM EDT
Someone else's magic is not what cooks well on your stove. You are moved to get involved but are not fully informed on the specifics behind why you are aroused or motivated to join in the debate.
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On gun-toting straight-shooting constitutionalists
Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:27 AM EDT
A while back I watched Chris Matthews challenge the gun-toter in New England. Got me to thinking. It seems that the slogan driving these folks with the big iron(s) on their hips is ...
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Comparative Bathwaters: Evangelical Conservatives versus any kind of liberals
Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:43 PM EDT
Watched Bill Moyers' review of the Tennessee Church murders where a man influenced by long-time vilification of liberals as everything from political traitors to persons who are not human and in need of extermination.
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Britain's National Health Service: Simple, Sensible and Civilized
Seeded on Sun Jul 5, 2009 11:26 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Read this. No amount of conservative lobbied blather addresses the reality so well explained in this LA Times article.
If as they say we still need a two-party system, the GOP is not one of the parties we need now.
Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:30 PM EDT
The folks in this small coastal county don't talk politics too frequently except when the setting is comfortable - like when that kind of talk invites a sip or two of liquid spirits.
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Would you buy a used car from Dick Cheney? Would you seek treatment from a "Dick Cheney" doctor?
Sun May 3, 2009 11:20 AM EDT
Although Dr.
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Rigid Religion: Even those dang Episcopals argue about the official belief.
Sat May 2, 2009 12:03 PM EDT
The current buzz in America's leading edge - yet traditional - old-line church is about how a Bishop-to-be is dancing dangerously near the flames of heresy and non-approved dogma.
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Who do we think we are? Who do we think we've been?
Fri May 1, 2009 9:25 AM EDT
Farewell the American Century Andrew Bacevich.. Our natural sense of our global place in the world is still way to much John Wayne. Watch the five minute video.
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Asking God to help us help ourselves: A response to Franklin Graham
Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:55 PM EDT
In the April Issue of Decision Magazine without offering practical and doable suggestions as to how God's children can cope with economic hardship, Franklin Graham proposes that mere national repentance back to 19th-century self-righteousness is the road to recovery and healing.
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Rich Moniak: Missile defense promotes fear, not national security
Seeded on Wed Apr 8, 2009 10:05 AM EDT (washblog.com)
Prompted by North Korea's recent event, Rich Moniak raises questions about the national security and political logic of America's missile defense policy.
Uninformed opinons on Immigration: I agree with this commenter at Seattle Examiner.com
Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 12:20 PM EDT (Examiner)
Article written by Examiner Chad Shue. Commenter is Ray A. Then there's your reference to the Heritage Foundation.
Seems to me that Spain is only being true to the Bush doctrine
Sat Apr 4, 2009 10:55 PM EDT
"we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." - G. W. Bush, American War Criminal
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We are not a nation of selective compassion ... are we?
Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:03 PM EST
Susan Cornwall writes about how Few Speak Out for Palestinians in US Congress - via commondreams.org Does a moral perspective include cheering on the destruction of other human beings regardless of what side of the fence you step from?
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Culture conflict. Religious minorities in contemporary Republican America
Fri Jan 2, 2009 1:33 PM EST
2008 saw a lot of attention paid to the fundamentalist and polygamist Mormon sect of Warren Jeffs in Texas.
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'Green Bible' controversial - UPI.com
Seeded on Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:21 AM EST (United Press International)
PHOENIX, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S.
Monkeying Around With Textbooks
Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:24 AM EST
Well, the little woman says that if I swear when I read something, I probably am dying to say something myself. So I better check in on what our kids are supposed to learn when they're sitting is school being confused cause they couldn't say a prayer before taking a test.
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Those who worry that you are living outside the words of a book consider themselves smarter than you.
Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:18 PM EST
Tell a literalist the you and the Father are one and they will be immediately afraid. They will tell you that what you declare is not in the book.These are literalists who consider that anything you learn that is not written in the book is dangerously occult; a tool of Satan.
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The Late Great Absence of Real Prophecy in America
Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:40 AM EST
The Prompting-Driven Life: Are Christians dying to hear someone else tell them what God wants, what God is thinking or what God meant when he did the Vulcan mind-meld and prompted an Old Testament Prophet or early Christian apostle to write?
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A Veteran's Child Want's to Join Up and Get in Harm's Way
Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:30 AM EST
My generation is one in which there are still many living veterans from the Viet Nam era.
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Rick Warren? The Purpose-Driven Bigot? Are you kidding?
Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:00 AM EST
If I were "inaugurally" in charge, I wouldn't want Warren talking to God on my behalf.
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Rush Limbaugh & The Jockstraps
Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:11 AM EST
There he goes again, blowharding against someone else - in this case, Colin Powell - who is good at what he (Powell) does while Flush can't even sit in a broadcast chair without pain in his base.
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Satan: Why's everybody always pickin on me?
Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:14 AM EST
"In the Old Testament, he is merely the Adversary, a forbidding member of God's retinue.
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On the Quackitude Party and it's recent losing seasons
Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:17 AM EST
The loss of public support for Bush's Iraq policy is more and more linked in a functional way with his and his party's loss of credibility. The leadership needed for our times does not include any pretended wisdom around retention of political failures.
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Rapture & The End Times: Christian Literalists Terrifying Themselves
Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:34 PM EST
Is Obama the Antichrist? The winning lottery number in Illinois was 666, which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast. So reads the headline of a recent article by Lisa Miller in Newsweek.
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And I thought my Dad was apathetic while I was serving during the Viet Nam era.
Mon Dec 8, 2008 10:19 AM EST
Nowadays one of my axes to grind has national apathy toward the invasion and occupation of Iraq and lack of empathy for families with skin in the game. In the 60's and 70's when I served - and that was 6 years active duty USAF and 2 years Army Reserve - I did not have much occa …
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On gun-toting straight-shooting constitutionalists
A while back I watched Chris Matthews challenge the gun-toter in New England. Got me to thinking. It seems that the slogan driving these folks with the big iron(s) on their hips is ...
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Somehow you slipped under my radar for quite some time. Today I stumbled into your column...and read about a dozen of your articles.
I'll be back after I tell a few hundred people what I've found.
I have heard this cliche "skin in the game" used widely within the Republican circle, as well as some right-leaning anti-war groups. I find it interesting that you consider the war in Iraq a "game." To refer to our loved ones (mine included) as "skin" reduces those serving in combat zones to less than living breathing human beings in your "game." I would offer that by reducing this to a "game" is exactly why the American people cannot get their collective head on straight long enough to find a real solution to end this war. Frame it as a game and it becomes a game.
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On gun-toting straight-shooting constitutionalists
Rigid Religion: Even those dang Episcopals argue about the official belief.
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Asking God to help us help ourselves: A response to Franklin Graham
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We are not a nation of selective compassion ... are we?
We are not a nation of selective compassion ... are we?