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Sunday, December 10th, 2006Democratic Congressman William Jefferson is allegedly too corrupt for incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who in June led an effort to remove him from the powerful House Ways and Means committee amidst federal bribery charges. But New Orleans voters reelected him in yesterday’s runoff despite the ongoing investigation that includes the FBI allegedly finding $90,000 [...]
Obama versus Clinton: Is there any difference?
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006MSNBC profiles the early frontrunners for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton, and finds them remarkably similar: “Obama and Clinton are very similar, not only in votes, but in their rhetorical approaches. Neither of them has shown a desire to spend their significant political capital taking risks to, for instance, confront [...]
Friday Miscellany
Friday, November 17th, 2006+ Too Freaky? “Freak Dancing,†where teens on dance floors grind up against each other in simulated sex acts, has been banned by an Orange County high school. Too little too late? + Was Borat’s filmmaking criminal? + Publisher claims she set up OJ. Or is she exploiting his victims for profit? + Does anyone [...]
A New Faith-Based Agenda
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Of Newsweek’s five articles on the evangelical political identity-crisis, my favorite is Michael Gerson’s “A New Social Gospel.” A former speechwriter for President Bush, Gerson understands intimately both the dynamics of right-wing evangelicalism and the shortcomings of the current faith based initiative. Plus he offers a proactive, positive agenda (what we might be for) as [...]
Jesus Politics: Sex or Social Justice?
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006After the GOP debacle in yesterday’s elections, the evangelical wing of the Republican party has some serious soul-searching to do. Fittingly, Newsweek devotes its cover story and four related articles in this week’s issue to an evangelical political identity crisis. But now, more than three decades after Roe v. Wade propelled religious conservatives fully into [...]
The Haggard Truth
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Leadership Journal’s blog “Out of Ur” offers sobering insight from Gordon MacDonald, himself a survivor of scandal, on the Ted Haggard story. On TH’s personal struggles: This deeper person … can be the source of attitudes and behaviors we normally stand against in our conscious being. But it seeks to destroy us and masses energies [...]
Innocent until proven guilty
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Lost amidst the sordid allegations against evangelical mega-Pastor Ted Haggard this morning is the fact that rumors, lies, and wrongful accusations are a dime a dozen. Anyone can say anything against anybody. If the target happens to be high profile and influential they’re especially easy prey. That’s why our legal system, if not the media, [...]
Classic
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006Soldiers respond to this. Imus’ plea is almost as classic: “Please stop it. Stop talking. Go home, get on the bike.”
Random Thursday
Thursday, October 26th, 2006+ This is why Cheney doesn’t pass the smell test. (Cynic advisory alert!) He began his first term as vice president with a closed door “energy reform” effort spearheaded by disgraced white collar thief Ken Lay and other big oil execs. They witheld from the public any of their findings or reforms. Within a year [...]
Right v. Right
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006It’s been an especially lousy week for the evangelical wing of the Republican party. Among the blows: In his new book Tempting Faith, former #2 man at President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives David Kuo claims (among other things): After two years in the White House, I had come to realize that regardless of where [...]
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