Here’s a good one (via Jesus Politics) from James “Focus on the Family” Dobson, bemoaning how the “liberal Supreme Court judges” “pick and choose the people in countries or continents that agree with them”. Uhhhhh….. sounds familiar James. You mean like what Bush did with Iraq? You mean like “Most of them” (who’s doing the “picking and choosing here” , Continue Reading

from Big Lowitzki’s Blog Some of America’s Richest Say ‘No, Thanks’ to Bush Tax Cuts ”It’s obscene that Washington is handing out tax breaks to millionaires with one hand and shredding the safety net with the other,” said Marta Drury, a member of Responsible Wealth, a national network of affluent Americans advocating what they term ”widespread prosperity” and concerned that Continue Reading

Mainstream Baptist It is good to see that Republican politicians are awakening to the theocratic agenda of the Religious Right. I hope they will be able to help rank-and-file moderate Republicans wake-up. I doubt that they will be any more successful than moderate Baptists were when many of the same people took over the Southern Baptist Convention. Prescott, in this Continue Reading

Vaugn links to this article Will the hits ever stop coming on the scummy side of Delay? His own family, 16 years ago! He is so disgusting, so hypocritical, and so OPPOTRTUNIST, a nd apparently without much diginity at all when it comes to reverence for his OWN family’s ordeal. Sure , Delay can say he’s changed his mind (I Continue Reading

Jesus Politics links to the below article, which is typical, and expected. A Church speaking up for the concerns of people, especially the ones being shut out of this thing the Bush administration keeps calling a good economy and a “compassionate conservatism”. These groups are under fire and targeted by the IRS (directed by whom , I wonder?), but the Continue Reading

We listened to Tales from Lake Wobegon on CD from a collection I checked out from the public library. Very good way to pass the time on a 5 hour drive to Cincinnati. I am also reading The Gospel According to America by David Dark, and that, in combination with listening to the Lake Wobegon stories and Keillor’s narrative poetry Continue Reading

I don’t call this “Respect For Life” , but Self-Interest, Grandstanding, and Utter Hypocrisy. SojoMail “The case is full of great ironies. A large part of Terri’s hospice costs are paid by Medicaid, a program that the administration and conservatives in Congress would sharply reduce. Some of her other expenses have been covered by the million-dollar proceeds of a malpractice Continue Reading

Streak’s Blog: The West Wing I understand this is television. But it is nice to see someone else suggest that the religious right is selling out their votes for very little gain. By supporting Bush so blindly, they have invited deceit and further selling out. They have invited every dumb ass politician to get on television and quote from the Continue Reading

It seems like Howard Dean has been listening to Jim Wallis. Sojourners had an issue a while back about Pro-Life Issues, and he wrote in God’s Politics about how Democrats need to be as accepting of opponents of abortion as Republicans are of “pro-Choice”. This gives an option for people who are “Pro-Life Fabric” people (meaning a broad range of Continue Reading

Another from Professor Cole: Informed Comment One thing the Bush Administration hadn’t counted upon when it pushed for withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon was that the vacuum might well be filled by the paramilitary of the Hizbullah Party, especially in the Biqaa Valley. The opposition in Lebanon has set demonstrations for Monday in honor of the one-month anniversary of Continue Reading

Juan Cole writes: Informed Comment Although the US military was supposed to have gone to Iraq to protect us all from weapons of mass destruction, Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, actually allowed the most sophisticated weapons sites to be systematically looted, doing nothing about it. It is almost as though he did not actually care about WMD and went Continue Reading

Mike James, in Thrown to the Wolves links to this, another in a long line of stories from people rounded up with no evidence and no due process, all in the name of the “war on terror”, and so we instead create a new terror:

Mohler with his clueless ranting about Dean, and what he thinks of him. I often like using Mohler as a punching bag, since he so accurately typifies the head-in-the-sand, fundamentalistic blindness of the Religious Right. His view of Dean is no exception. Crosswalk.com – Albert Mohler’s Weblog “Howard Dean’s energy and passion will add to the political discourse in this Continue Reading

David Batstone writes on a friend of his that went missing last October, and a co-worker of that friend who was gunned down, and for what? SojoMail Kirk was ready to blow the whistle on a kickback scheme that involved business operatives and a U.S. Army officer, according to the article.

Sage – Informed Comment It is absolutely outrageous that Chalabi blames US policies for the guerrilla war. He was the one who pushed for punitive policies toward the ex-Baathists and for dissolving the Iraqi military, and he and his Neoconservative cronies in the Pentagon bear a great deal of the responsibility for the mess in Iraq today. By the way, Continue Reading