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CADC declares Obama not a Christian

January 7th, 2009 · No Comments

The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has declared the Barack Obama is not a Christian and asks you to listen to Jesus before Barack:  Top 10 list of 2008’s Christian bashers.
Watch the video. If it wasn’t so ludicrous to declare that Obama’s tolerance for other faith’s to be anti-Christian, this might actually be scary.
Little wonder the right [...]

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GOODNIGHT BUSH

December 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I read Goodnight Moon to the kids, when they were little. We identified the items on the page, as they fell asleep to the staccato, somnolent cadence of the book. We noticed how odd the story was, though very earnest in its familial 1950s interpretation of American life, it had a surrealistic edge as elements [...]

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‘Hallelujah’

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments

So Kristi was listening to the World yesterday, where Alex Gallafent discussed the song’s evolution. I became curious and did some searching, discovering NPR’s Bob Boilen discussing it on All Songs Considered, and writing about it on his blog, About A Song: ‘Hallelujah’, including a listing of its lyrics. What is that song about? [...]

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Cheney admits his war crimes

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Dick Cheney admits to authorizing and supporting torture, including waterboarding. playerIndex?id=6468400
See his interview on abcnews.
Amazing.

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bibliography

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Download the bibliography: his390-group-biblio.

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