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Looks like Memphis, Tennessee, Democrats are leading the fight against Sarah Palin. First, we had the cheap shot that U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen made about Jesus being a community organiser (which he wasn't) while Pontius Pilate was a governor (which he was, but so is Steve's fellow Democrat, Phil Bredesen.) Now we have this, from …
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Hacking into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account was a low blow: Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate. "This is a …
This, from John Podhertz: The poll could, of course, be an outlier. But if it even begins to approximate the truth, it is huge news. No Republican has scored more than 39 percent of the Jewish vote in modern times, and that was Ronald Reagan in 1980, following a series of missteps by the Carter …
David Brooks goes into a long diatribe of how the attacks of Sarah Palin's experience (or lack of it) are based on snobbery. He makes this observation: In the current Weekly Standard, Steven Hayward argues that the nation's founders wanted uncertified citizens to hold the highest offices in the land. They did not believe in …
This interesting comment from "JaquesArden54" in Why Anglican England is better than Secular France: The French Etat - and the French people in general - have forgotten that there is a difference between the State and Society. This confusion of two distinct realities is an error found within New Labour, Dave's Tories and the European …
This was originally posted 11 December 2005, and is a continuation of this (with explanation.) Dr. Saul Adelman's piece in the Fall 1990 issue of the Forum was not the end of the back and forth. His hard-hitting piece did get two responses. One, from Georgia, discussed some intentional distortion of the Bible translations during …
Churches that empahsise Sunday legalism get this verse recited frequently: And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an …
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I am reposting this, originally put up 7 December 2005, for two reasons. The first is that the topic this article discusses is still very relevant. The second is that Adelman's response was quoted in James C. Alexander's book Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist, without, I might note, any reference to my original article. My …
It looks like the Sh'ia/Sunni divide (also the Arab/Persian divide) is heating up: Slowly but surely, Arab columnists have started filing story after story critical of Iran's role in the region. That became strikingly clear when prime coverage was given to the death of General Hisham Sabah al-Fakhri, a decorated officer from Saddam Hussein's army, …
After my post on what a real community organiser looks like, I'm glad that Rep. Steve Cohen (D, TN) comes from the other end of the state. He informs us that "Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor."Â Although it's an obvious shot at …
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