Gonzales blasts surveillance critics Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S. security. Gonzales was the second administration official in two days to attack a federal judge’s ruling last August that the program was […]
There’s stuff all over the Internet about Pelosi backing Murtha and him not getting elected. I call that Democracy. Are we so used to the Republican block voting and zombie-like solidarity after 12 years that we forgot what it was like? See, the way it works is that Pelosi is the Speaker of the House, […]
Back in 1960 when I finished high school, I had no idea what was up ahead. All I knew was that I was going to leave home and go to college. Whatever I thought then didn’t have anything to do with what was going to happen, the twists and turns that directed my life after […]
“We need common sense judges who understand that our rights are derived from God. Those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench.” President George W. Bush Mercifully, it didn’t work this time. But that didn’t dissuade President Bush. He nominated the same group of judges as before the election. The […]
Bolton predicts he would win Senate vote on U.N. post John Bolton said on Wednesday that he believed a vote in the full U.S. Senate would confirm him as ambassador to the United Nations, despite opposition from Democrats and a key Republican. Last year the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blocked Bolton’s nomination from getting to […]
I know that I’ve been a bit too focused lately on the Ted Haggard and Mark Foley scandals. The reason is that in looking into them, I’ve been reading the Religious Right’s web sites – particularly James Dobson’s Focus on the Family and Louis Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition. There’s a theme that I thought was […]
Jim Wallis: This Was A Moral Values Election Many have now commented on the significant shifts among religious voters in the midterm elections, in what Steve Waldman described as the “Smaller God Gap” between Republicans and Democrats. Nationally, 29% of white evangelicals voted for Democrats – up from the 21% who voted for John Kerry […]
The fall of Ted Haggard Some may see the fall of Mr. Haggard as an opportunity to criticize the evangelical movement and its leaders; others may view it as confirmation that we all are sinners, and of the need to seek forgiveness and redemption. And it’s possible that from such scandal the church may emerge […]
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My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists "When I got out of the plane in Greensboro in the US state of North Carolina, I would never have expected my host family to welcome me at the airport, wielding a Bible, and saying, ‘Child, our Lord sent you half-way around the world to bring you to […]