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Will you prosecute war criminals? Keep reading →

Aren’t you sick of hearing about how important racists are to the 2008 election? I certainly am. It’s one thing to slice and dice the vox populi into soccer moms and nascar dads, or even brie eating, latte sipping liberals (latte with brie? ewwwww). It’s another thing to uphold racists — errr, hard working white people, as THE swing vote of swing votes upon which election 2008 depends. Keep reading →

Jeremiah Wright claimed he was “not a politician.” And it showed. Fact is, Wright’s political duncery got him a one-way ride to obscurity. We’ve heard about as much from him since Barack Obama repudiated him as we’ve heard from Vicki Iseman since … well, then.

Memo to preachers — here’s what a preacher with a heart of politician might do. He might write a letter that includes this: Keep reading →

This is just weird. According to Edward N. Luttwak, in his op-ed in today’s New York Times, a Barack Obama presidency would complicate American relations with the Middle East because he is — are you ready for this? — an apostate Muslim! Keep reading →

What do you expect? As the Times Union reports, the Legislative Ethics Commission works in secret. Could it be the way it’s put together? Keep reading →

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Here’s some straight talk from John McCain’s very own website:

The American people have been alienated from the process of self-government by the overwhelming appearance of their elected leaders having sold-out to the big-moneyed special interests who help finance political campaigns. Keep reading →

The New York Times has an article today highlighting the fact that traditional healers — curanderas — have been busily providing care to sick and injured undocumented Latinos. Keep reading →

Say it ain’t so. Say it was a really good impressionist. Nope. It was you.

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Q. If Jesus had an evil twin, what would his name be?
A. JAYzus!

I only tell this admittedly bad joke to contrast two distinct religious paths that the major Western theistic religions tread. Theologian and Minnesota candidate for the U.S. Senate, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, distinguishes the paths by their embrace or rejection of violence. Keep reading →

Errol Morris makes a good point about our stinking torture state:

It is one thing to go to war; it is another thing to promote a foreign and domestic policy without even paying lip service to ethics, morality or the law. Make no mistake, the bad apples [of Abu Ghraib] are not completely innocent of wrongdoing, but they are not the ones truly responsible. We have punished many of them for taking pictures of abuse and have never punished the people who ordered and were responsible for the abuse.

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