Hard-Liners for Jesus
It's Christmas, a holiday that couldn't be better calibrated to expose the Republicans' rank, fetid hypocrisy. How is the party of "moral values" also the party of torture and xenophobia?
But it's on their policies concerning immigrants where Republicans -- candidates and voters alike -- really run afoul of biblical writ. Not on immigration as such but on the treatment of immigrants who are already here. Consider: Christmas, after all, celebrates not just Jesus's birth but his family's flight from Herod's wrath into Egypt, a journey obviously undertaken without benefit of legal documentation. The Bible isn't big on immigrant documentation. ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
