His now controversial stance on the coal industry, as elucidated to the SF Chronicle, is in the mainstream--of the American left's view of the environment and the economy, as I already noted relative to the oil industry: Today, it’s fair to say that the Democrats, on the whole, would like to see a more European …
Churchgoers Still Aren’t Breaking for Obama
This from the Politico: Barack Obama has courted white weekly churchgoers as avidly as any Republican-leaning bloc of voters, though it now appears his efforts may fall flat on Election Day. The Gallup Poll now shows Obama backed by 28 percent of white voters who attend church at least once a week — a group …
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Maybe They’ll Call Obama’s “National Civilian Security Force” the Inland Police
Obama's newest idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s I try not to make it a steady diet on this blog, but sometimes I think I'm seeing stuff in my own novels come to life. In my first printed novel Paludavia (written in 2003,) I have the left-wing Republic of Verecunda defended in part by its underfunded and undermanned (and …
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The American Left: The Worst of Both Worlds
This will probably be my last "major" posting before the American elections. Although I know the social issues are what Christians are "supposed" to focus on, I'm taking a different tack and look at an economic one, one which I'm all too familiar with and which has shoved itself back into people's consciousness--the oil industry. …
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Cindy Sheehan Finds Out Thugocracy Isn’t Fun
It's getting rough out there, even for a leftist like Cindy Sheehan: Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered. Although staffers had been in the office less than an hour earlier, no one was in the …
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The Two Americas: A Lesson from South Florida
Before the real Sarah Palin went to the podium to announce that "It's Saturday Night!" Tina Fey did one of her skits on a Palin News conference, making fun of Palin's implication that parts of the U.S. aren't really "America." My wife and I watched this historic episode of SNL from Boca Raton, a place …
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Message to Australian Christian Lobby: You’re Probably Next to be Censored
I'm not sure why the Australian Christian Lobby is so gleeful over their government's proposal to implement mandatory internet censorship: The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today welcomed Government moves towards a two-tiered Internet filtering system which would include mandatory blocking of illegal material. ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said it is vital that better Internet …
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It’s Not Getting Any Better in American Public Schools
Even a liberal virtual rag like the IHT admits this is so: The United States once had the world's top high-school graduation rate. It has now fallen to 13th place behind countries like South Korea, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Worse still, a new study from the Education Trust, a nonpartisan foundation, finds that the …
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“Religious freedom is a rich and strategic human right”
As if to underscore a point no one seems to get, from a fascinating article about how interfaith efforts to secure religious freedoms have gotten lost in the journalistic shuffle: "What we found out was that human rights are part of one package," said Hertzke. "If you pull out the pin of religious freedom, it's …
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Linda Bloodworth-Thomason Rips MSNBC, and Why the Élites Hate Sarah Palin
And Bloodworth-Thomason's remarks come not a moment too soon either: The cable news channel is "completely out of control," said writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat. She added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann. Olbermann was criticized by many who …
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