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Trent Franks’s abortion claim and the manly Republican Party

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dana Milbank - Jun. 13 (Opinion) - Ladies and gentlemen, Republicans are again voting on new abortion restrictions. Cue their theme song: “Men men men men, manly men men men!” “Men men men men, manly men men men!” The House Judiciary Committee gathered Wednesday to pass another antiabortion bill , and the nameplates on the majority side told the ...

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Stephen Hawking's support for the boycott of Israel is a turning point

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ali Abunimah - May. 09 (Opinion) - Boycotting Israel as a stance for justice is going mainstream – Israelis can no longer pretend theirs is in an enlightened country A standard objection to the Palestinian campaign for the boycott of Israel is that it would cut off "dialogue" and hurt the chances of peace. We've heard this again in the wake of Professor Stephen Hawking's laudable decision to withdraw from Israel's Presidential Conference in response to requests from Palestinian academics – but it would be hard to think of a more unconvincing position as far as Palestinians are concerned. One of the most deceptive aspects of the so-called peace process is the pretence that Palestinians and Israelis are two equal sides, equally at fault, equally responsible – thus erasing from view the brutal reality that Palestinians are an occupied, colonised people, dispossessed at the hands of one of the most powerful militaries on earth. For more than two decades, under the cover of this fiction, Palestinians have engaged in ...

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Op-Ed Columnist: In the Boy Scouts’ Gay Debate, Religion Beyond the Right

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:06:00 -0700

New York Times - By By FRANK BRUNI - May. 07 (Opinion) - As the Boy Scouts of America reassesses its ban on gay scouts and leaders, we’re hearing a lot about the organization’s need to remain sensitive to people whose religions condemn homosexual behavior.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Is That God Talking?

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:56:00 -0700

New York Times - By By T. M. LUHRMANN - May. 02 (Opinion) - I still remember how startled I was when a young woman I was interviewing told me God had spoken to her, audibly. I was doing ethnographic field work in a quietly charismatic evangelical church in Chicago. This was the kind of church in which people soug

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In China, Feudal Answers for Modern Problems

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Yu Hua - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Guest Columnist: In China, Feudal Answers for Modern Problems

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The fun-filled ocean resort at Guantánamo Bay |

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Glenn Greenwald - Mar. 28 (Advocacy) - A growing hunger strike among detainees is mocked by gullible journalists spouting familiar Potemkin Village propaganda If you're looking for a fun activity-filled resort to take your family for a summer vacation, you simply cannot do better than Club GTMO, according to a new glossy travel guide just published by Robert Johnson, the Defense Editor of Business Insider, under the guise of a news article. Scrumptious meals. Video games galore for the kids. Outdoor sports. Newspapers from your hometown delivered by smiling bellhops to the front door of your villa. Picturesque Caribbean vistas. All that and more can be yours - provided that you're "compliant". What more could vacationers - or prisoners kept in a cage for more than a decade with no charges thousands of miles away from their family - possibly want? They are, proclaims Johnson, treated "absurdly well". Not just well: absurdly well. They are, he actually writes, lavished with "resort treatment". The context for Johnson's glowing ...

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Has the time come for a pope of color?

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Michelle Boorstein - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - When Catholicism’s cardinals meet in the Sistine Chapel to select a new pope, they will be surrounded by an explosion of divine artistic images in one of the most famous places on Earth to seek the face of God. Read full article >>

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Social media help make conclave a historic one

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - Mar. 10 () - by Rachel Zoll The Associated Press Published Mar 9, 2013 09:54PM MDT Vatican City • A pastor in Ontario wondered about behind-the-scenes politicking ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope. He could have read news reports or listened to briefings by the Vatican spokesman. Instead, he asked a cardinal. Less than an hour later, the response arrived. “What I see is a real desire to know, and so evaluate, the papabili against criteria of qualities demanded by situations,” wrote Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, using the term “papabili” for cardin... ...

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The World from Berlin: 'It Is Good that Benedict Is Gone'

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Der Spiegel - Feb. 12 () - Pope Benedict XVI is nothing if not conservative. He spent the last eight years battling against relativism and individualism -- before breaking with tradition and taking a step that no pope has made for over 700 years. German commentators say his papacy failed to introduce much-needed reforms.

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Editorial: Cardinal Mahony and the Truth

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 28 (Editorial) - The breadth of his cover-up of crimes committed by predator priests has been revealed with the release of seamy church records.

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Editorial: Galileo, the Starry Messenger

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 19 (Editorial) - Galileo’s achievement was the end of geocentrism, but ignorance and magical thinking continue to this day.

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Egypt braces for anti-Morsi protests

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - Dec. 04 () - Egyptian riot police beefed up security around the presidential palace Tuesday ahead of a massive rally planned by activists protesting the Islamist leader's assumption of nearly unrestricted powers and a draft constitution hurriedly adopted by his allies.

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Really? Don't limit freedom to marry?

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - This article explains how the orange "No" signs regarding the marriage amendment might be misleading by claiming we are "limiting" our freedom rights. The writer also lightly explores how different our society will be for the next generation should same-sex marriage laws pass.

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Doonesbury Strip Oct 13

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Gary Trudeau - Oct. 14 (Cartoon) - Two converts

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Doonesbury Strip Oct 12

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Gary Trudeau - Oct. 14 (Cartoon) - Back to God

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Mitt Romney's Real Agenda

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:30:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Tim Dickinson - Sep. 28 (Opinion) - It was tempting to dismiss Mitt Romney's hard-right turn during the GOP primaries as calculated pandering. In the general election – as one of his top advisers famously suggested – Romney would simply shake the old Etch A Sketch and recast himself as the

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Why is the Arab world so easily offended?

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Fouad Ajami - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Modernity requires the willingness to be offended. And as anti-American violence across the Middle East and beyond shows, that willingness is something the Arab world, the heartland of Islam, still lacks.

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Davies and Antolin: Paul Ryan's Catholicism and the Poor

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Antony Davies, Kristina Antolin - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - Acts coerced by government, no matter how beneficial or well-intentioned, cannot be moral.

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Mormonism’s history and meanings.

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - Aug. 06 (Opinion) - Stereotypes and pigeonholes can, in a stable multiethnic society, act as sanctuaries as much as cells. In the heyday of urban ethnic immigration, even anti-Semites allowed that Jews were good at selling drygoods and producing movies, just as Irish Cathol

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Democalypse 2012 - National Geogaffe-ic - Romney Abroad

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Jul. 31 (Comedy News) - Mitt Romney chalks up a lack of Palestinian economic vitality to its culture, and Al Madrigal doesn't see anything in the West Bank rubble to dispute Romney's claim.

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How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The New York Review of Books - Jul. 11 (Opinion) -

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How the Mormons Make Money

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - Jul. 10 (Opinion) -

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Think Before You Breed - NYTimes.com

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Christine Overall - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - Those who choose to be childless often have to justify their decision. People who procreate don't. But it should be the other way around.

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Did Republicans deliberately crash the US economy?

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - Be it ideology or strategem, the GOP has blocked pro-growth policy and backed job-killing austerity – all while blaming Obama So why does the US economy stink? Why has job creation in America slowed to a crawl? Why, after several months of economic hope, are things suddenly turning sour? The culprits might seem obvious – uncertainty in Europe, an uneven economic recovery, fiscal and monetary policymakers immobilized and incapable of acting. But increasingly, Democrats are making the argument that the real culprit for the country's economic woes lies in a more discrete location: with the Republican Party. In recent days, Democrats have started coming out and saying publicly what many have been mumbling privately for years – Republicans are so intent on defeating President Obama for re-election that they are purposely sabotaging the country's economic recovery. These charges are now being levied by Democrats such as Senate majority leader Harry Reid and Obama's key political adviser, David Axelrod.

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Why you vote the way you do

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - By Jonathan Haidt - May. 25 (Opinion) - Here's a simple definition of ideology: "a set of beliefs about the proper order of society and how it can be achieved." And here's the most basic of all ideological questions: Should we preserve the present order or change it? Political theorists long assumed that people chose ideologies to further their self-interest. The rich and powerful want to preserve and conserve; the workers want to change things. But that link has been largely broken in modern times, when the rich go both ways (industrialists mostly right, tech billionaires mostly left), and so do the poor (rural poor mostly right, urban poor mostly left). So for most of the late 20th century, political scientists embraced blank-slate theories in which people soaked up the ideology of their parents.

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