admin | December 31, 2008
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Calling New Years’ resolutions “traditional” used to be like calling breathing “common.” But a look at surveys in recent years surprised me:
Fewer of us are making resolutions: In the years leading up to December 2005, three out of [...]
admin | December 30, 2008
Homosexuality has become the number one danger to Fundamentalists for one simple reason: its tendency to defy traditional gender roles carries an implicit threat against a foundational tenet of Judaism, Christianity, and any other major religion which relies on the Genesis account to define its gender roles.
admin | December 27, 2008
Little thoughts that I don’t have time to develop, and probably aren’t worth posts of their own. I’ll build them up over the course of a week, and discharge them sometime during the weekend.
SCORCHED EARTH
One unfortunate by-product of Bill Clinton’s end-of-second-term budget surplusses (and in a greater sense his successes) was that in a sense [...]
admin | December 27, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Time to Reboot America
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: December 24, 2008
We don’t just need a bailout in this country, we need a national makeover. That is why the next few months are among the most important in U.S. history.
admin | December 24, 2008
I must say I’ve never written a blog post as a holiday greeting before.
You can thank the weather here in north-central Indiana.
I’ve been thinking about some kind of greeting to my friends at Digg and CenterLeft for a month or so now — but everything really gelled this afternoon, as I caught myself thinking that [...]
admin | December 14, 2008
I’m bothered by the way John McCain phrased things today. [McCain Whacks RNC, Defends Obama Over Blagojevich (VIDEO)] I want to believe that there’s nothing more to his words than is evident on the surface. That he just means that he believes Obama is, and will continue to be honest.
However, I know Karl Rove as [...]
admin | December 8, 2008
I submitted the following over on Digg today, along with the comment which follows:
religiondispatches.org — Rick Warren tells Sean Hannity “God puts government on earth to punish evildoers.” If that’s true, says Louis A. Ruprecht Jr, of Georgia State, then based on the Bible verses Warren’s quoting, the US (having taken over Israel’s job) should [...]
