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EE HOW THEY Love one another? OK. Follow this: 1) Tax Law prohibits a pulpit from being used to espouse partisan politics. 2) Last election cycle a group of liberal churches filed suit against a group of conservative churches for violation of this law. The suit failed. 3) This election cycle a group of conservative [...]

This member of the Oklahoma State Legislature thought that only 50 people heard her speak… This is what “They say” when “they” think “we’re” not listening: Gays are infiltrating city councils!… They are winning elections. They are worst than terrorists! I’m torn… It’s believable – having heard such speeches in the past. But it would [...]

The big information tonight from South Carolina was that Obama won the younger voters by such a huge majority as to cause someone on CNN to note a Generational Divide in the Democratic party. I take this to be quite hopeful, futurewise, at least. Screwy cites a whole bunch more on the hope-for-the-future side.

Jewcy’s Marty Beckerman blogs on a pew study that Generation Y is more liberal than any other age group — including Gen X when they were our age. Granted, to judge by his ouvre, Beckerman is a wee bit conflicted on the meaning of this… But I think it’s a good thing.

While it’s certainly true I’m no great fan of Pastor Huckabee, the NY Times‘ Tim Egan reports that, seemingly, “real” Republicans don’t like him either. And then he draws in every stereotype, every annoying, tedious, coastal bigoted image of the rest of us (here in the flyover areas) available. The entire article is a frontal [...]

Want to hear some sermons preached by the Rev Presidential Wannabe? Tough. Huckabee Ain’t Gonna Let His Light Shine When Mother Jones contacted the Huckabee campaign and asked if it would help make his previous sermons available, the campaign replied in a one-sentence email that it had received multiple requests for such material and was [...]

I’m not sure what more enjoyable: reading the right wing writings on Pullman’s The Golden Compass or reading the Left-wing writings about the right wing writings about Pullman’s The Golden Compass. Over at Episcopal Cafe, the Lead’s Andrew Gerns follows the right-wing by implying that Pullman’s trilogy isn’t very popular… (why would anyone make a [...]

Boing Boing starts a post with some interesting stats: Top ten most viewed pages on Wikipedia and Conservapedia: But it seems the stats are screwed by click-bots. Ok. I can handle that. But the comments section turns into a mini-fight between Conservapedia and RationalWiki. Very fun.

Danger, Will Robinson! Despite what some might expect, I’m neither pleased nor amused in the least that Fred “God-Hates-Fags” Phelps has been fined for demonstrating at the funeral of a US soldier killed in Iraq. $11,000,000 Look, the man is obnoxious. But for years (decades?) he’s been shouting his hate-filled rhetoric at gays and lesbians [...]

The Guardian reports that Google Earth is being used by al-Aqsa to target Israel: Members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group aligned with the Fatah political party, say they use the popular internet mapping tool to help determine their targets for rocket strikes. “We obtain the details from Google Earth and check them against [...]