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No, not the one about Bill. Hillary’s Prayer is a great article from Jeff Sharlet about Hillary’s connections to a weird ecumenical quasi-fundamentalist group The Family. A group of religious power brokers in Washington that Sharlet has written about before.
And has this to say about it’s place in Hillary’s politics:

That’s how it works: [...]

There has been continuous controversy over whether or not the 2004 election was stolen or not, and much of that has centered around the state of Ohio.
Adding fuel to the fire is the story that Ohio’s 2004 Election records were destroyed. Do I need to add that that is a violation of federal law?

One reporters first hand account about how “neocons” (I hate that word, does it actually mean anything? It seems like just a handy way to make anything to the right of your own politics seem evil.) express themselves when its just 500 of them on a cruise ship in the Caribean.
Neocons on a Cruise: [...]

I’m trying really really hard to not post about politics too much. And especially to not post anything about the 2008 elections.
But can I help that I’m slightly in love with Barak Obama’s rhetoric?

Obama derided President Bush’s commutation of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison term, noting black men routinely serve [...]

China Giving Labor Unions Real Power
Even as China is looking to put laws into place that will strengthen Labor and crack down on abuses of workers in sweatshop US and other other foreign companies are threatening to build less:

The move, which underscores the government’s growing concern about the widening income gap and threats of social [...]

Related to this week’s earlier post about the GOP losing its hold over the religious right is the release of a new book by David Kuo entitled, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction.
I’ve written about David Kuo before. He was the number 2 guy in the Office of Faith Based Initiatives. [...]

A nice writeup in the Washington Post on how the may be losing its hold on evangelicals.
It’s tough to say really. In many ways Republicans haven’t done enough to satisfy their religious constituents. Add to that a growing frustration with the war in Iraq, and the elevation of things like poverty and torture [...]

What if the Amish Were In Charge of the [non-existent] ‘War on Terror’?
This is not a great or life changing article. But it’s an interesting question for Christians living in a nation that self-identifies itself as Christian.
What if the US loved its neighbors as it loved itself? What if the US loved its [...]

[I'm going to start the week off by getting the Foley thing out of my system]
according to this New Republic article Foley was pressured to run again
Apparently Foley wanted to step down but:
“He said, ‘The White House made it very clear I have to run,’” explains Foley’s friend, adding that Foley told him that the [...]

In spite of the fact that in 1975 the World Medical Association banned force feeding, and in spite of the fact that the American Medical Association endorses that decision doctors at Guantemano continue to force feed hunger striking prisoners.
You know. Because America is a “culture of life.”
But, saving the lives of terrorists by force [...]