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Fox News Contributor: Women's Voting Rights 'One Of America's Greatest Mistakes'

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Gene Demby - May. 09 (News) - Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women the right to vote.

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For Some, Occupy Movement is a Test of Faith

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Apr. 30 (News) - Financial District — Thirty-two days after they had been evicted from their Zuccotti Park encampment in Lower Manhattan, approximately 1,000 Occupy Wall Street activists rallied together to take over another public space for their movement. They hoped to

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U.S. Nuns Face Vatican Rebuke for "Radical Feminism" in Stances on Church Teachings, Social Justice

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 27 (News Report) - The Vatican has reprimanded the largest group of Catholic nuns in the United States, accusing them of focusing too heavily on issues of social justice, while failing to speak out enough on "issues of crucial importance," such as abortion and same-sex marriage. It accuses the nuns of promoting "radical feminist" ideas and challenging church teachings on homosexuality and male-only priesthood. An archbishop and two bishops -- all of them male -- have been appointed to oversee the nuns. The reprimand, issued in a report last week, comes as the so-called "war on women" has become a key issue in the 2012 presidential race. Some Catholic nuns have opposed the bishops by supporting Obama’s healthcare reform law and contraceptive mandate. We speak to Sister Simone Campbell, head of the Catholic social justice group NETWORK, which was harshly criticized in the Vatican report. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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How Long Can Romney Keep Quiet About His Mormonism While He Panders to Evangelicals?

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sarah Posner - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - This transparent pandering is clearly aimed at the conservative evangelicals and Catholics he needs to energize in November, whose approval — and enthusiasm — is essential for a Republican presidential candidate to win. While Romney obviously doesn’t need to do much pandering to win over conservative Mormons, voters surely wonder: Once he brings up religion, where does his Mormonism fit?

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Rep. Paul Ryan is Marie Antoinette

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Paul Canning - Mar. 27 (Special Report) - His budget is full of tax cuts and programs to make the rich richer. How much does he think the aristocracy needs? Marie Antoinette Ryan gives his buddies a whopping $4.3 TRILLION in tax cuts. Why? Writes Dana Milbank in a column for The Washington Post: Ryan’s justification was straight out of Dickens. He wants to improve the moral fiber of the poor. There is, he told the audience at the conservative American Enterprise Institute later Tuesday, an “insidious moral tipping point, and I think the president is accelerating this.” Too many Americans, he said, are receiving more from the government than they pay in taxes.

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'Muslims & Buddhists: Get Out!' Says Preacher Applauded by Santorum

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Adele M. Stan - Mar. 20 (News Report) - at an event this weekend in Louisiana, Santorum, accompanied by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, the hatefulness of the Santorum agenda was exposed as the former senator from Pennsylvania applauded Pastor Dennis Terry of the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, as he spewed hatred from the pulpit for gays, Muslims and Buddhists, the latter of whom he suggested don't really belong in America.

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Florida Public Charter School Linked To Scientology

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 29 (News Report) - The school's Christmas party, for example, was held at a Scientology church in Tampa. The students were given Scientology books and DVDs, shown a play written by Hubbard and photographed with Santa Claus in front of a Scientology cross. Teachers were also required to attend training sessions at Scientology's flagship resort to be educated in Smart Way, a program designed by Scientologists, and were told they had no choice but to implement study tech in their curriculum. From the Times:

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Are Conservatives Winning the War on Women? How the Religious Lobbying Industry Truly Threatens Our Rights

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Sarah Posner - Feb. 26 (News Report) - Put aside opinion polls and the Komen and Virginia wins. The right's strategy is long-term and based in the courts.

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A Conservative Explains Why Right-Wingers Have No Compassion

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Mike Lofgren - Feb. 18 (News Analysis) - Who are these people and what motivates them? To answer, one must leave the field of conventional political theory and enter the realm of psychopathology.

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Occupiers Mic-Check Santorum as His Surge Continues--Then Are Tasered

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Sarah Seltzer - Feb. 14 (News Report) - Police ended up dragging two of the protesters outside and tasering them. Watch this disturbing video of their removal below--a local news report is here

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Mitt Romney Tax Returns Released: Paid Just 13.9% Rate In 2010, Had Swiss Bank Account

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Steve Holland, Kim Dixon - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating he will pay $6.2 million in taxes on a total of $42.5 million in income over the years 2010 and 2011.

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The Devil and Rick Santorum: Dilemmas of A Holy Owned Subsidiary

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Thomas Ferguson - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - The father of the Investment Theory of Politics reveals what pundits are missing in the GOP's failure to lead its own electorate.

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Rick Santorum-Linked Universal Health Services Facility: Fraud, Assault And Alleged 'Exorcism'

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Cherkis - Jan. 06 (News Report) - Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) has become a top-tier candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in recent weeks by appealing to evangelical votersas a man steeped in family values and his Christian faith. From 2007 to 2011, however, Santorum served on the board of directors of Universal Health Services Inc., a large hospital chain which racked up dozens of allegations of abuse during that time -- including everything from rape to suicide attempts allowed by neglect to murder.

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"Chaos and Bloodshed": 25 Die in Cairo as Egyptian Military Attacks Coptic Christian Protesters

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Sharif Abdel Kouddous - Oct. 10 (News Report) - In Egypt, at least two dozen people died on Sunday when the Egyptian military attacked a large gathering of Coptic Christian protesters. The violence broke out after a protest in Cairo against an attack on a church in Aswan province last week. Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous was in Cairo and witnessed the killings. "Then the military attacked. They came rushing forward, beating anyone in their path. Then they started opening fire. The sound of gunfire filled the air," said Kouddous. "It was really a scene of chaos, a scene of bloodshed, the likes of which I have not seen since the revolution here in Cairo. And the reaction of the army does not bode well for the future." [includes rush transcript]

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Pastors who illegally endorse from pulpit face few consequences

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - Oct. 08 (News) -

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How Conservative Politicians Wait for God to Fix the Economy, With Frightening Results

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - A study released last fall suggests that the theology embraced by American religious conservatives may render them immune to evidence and reason when it comes to economic management. The study found that a sizable minority share a uniquely faith-based view of how the economy functions, believing that both good and bad outcomes are an expression of God's will, and are therefore beyond the reach of mere mortals.

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My Life as a Daughter in the Christian Patriarchy Movement -- How I Was Taught to Obey Men, Birth 8 Kids and Do Battle Against Secular America | Tea Party and the Right

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Libby Anne - Sep. 16 (Special Report) - Deep within America, beyond your typical evangelicals and run-of-the-mill fundamentalists, nurtured within the homeschool movement and growing by the day, are the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements. This is where I grew up.

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Pennies from heaven

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Harper's - By Chris Lehmann - Sep. 15 (News Analysis) - How Mormon economics shape the G.O.P (subscription required)

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Is the GOP a Religion?

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Andrew Sullivan - Sep. 12 (News Analysis) - That's how I explain the current GOP. It can only think in doctrines, because the alternative is living in a complicated, global, modern world they both do not understand and also despise. Taxes are therefore always bad. Government is never good. Foreign enemies must be pre-emptively attacked. Islam is not a religion. Climate change is an elite conspiracy to impoverish America. Terror suspects are terrorists. When Americans torture, it is not torture. When Christians murder, they are not Christians. And if you change your mind on any of these issues, you are a liberal, an apostate, and will be attacked.' Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast

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“Fear, Inc.” Exposes the So-Called Experts and Donors Behind Islamaphobia in the United States

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Sep. 06 (Special Report) - A new report by the Center for American Progress called "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" shows how a small group of self-proclaimed experts backed by a host of donors are spreading fear and hostility toward Muslims in the United States. According to the report, these so-called experts peddle Islamophobia in the form of books, reports, websites, blogs and carefully crafted anti-Islam talking points. It also notes that right-wing Norwegian murderer Anders Breivik repeatedly cited these "experts" in his so-called "Manifesto." Among those the report highlights is Robert Spencer, author of a blog called "Jihad Watch" and leader of the group Stop Islamization of America,

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Funder For Travel To Glenn Beck’s Jerusalem Rally Tied To Anti-Semitic Group

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Eli Clifton - Aug. 20 (Investigative Report) - The travel will be paid for by WallBuilders, an organization founded by David Barton, a pseudo-historian and frequent Glenn Beck guest. Barton has a history of anti-gay and anti-Muslim rhetoric, has spoken at events sponsored by anti-Semitic organizations, and promotes a revisionist history of the U.S. claiming that the “Church-state separation is a liberal myth.” Beck’s partnership with WallBuilders is listed on the rally’s front page by clicking the “Donate” button which takes visitors to WallBuilders website. The site accepts contributions to the “Restoring Courage — Israel” fund:

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Survey’s surprising finding: tea party less popular than atheists and Muslims

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

yahoo.com - By Rachel Rose Hartman - Aug. 18 (Investigative Report) - Read 'Survey’s surprising finding: tea party less popular than atheists and Muslims' from our blog The Ticket on Yahoo! News. In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is "less popular than much maligned groups like 'atheists' and 'Muslims.'" But Campbell says the tea [...]

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The Mainstream Media's Shallow Coverage of The Response

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Texas Observer - By Robert Wilder - Aug. 15 (News Analysis) - There was probably a time when an evangelist calling for the mass conversion of Jewish people to Christianity at an event "initiated" by a mainstream presidential contender would ruffle some feathers. Apparenly not anymore.

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As Texas Gov. Rick Perry Enters GOP Race, New Exposé Reveals His Close Ties to Radical Evangelicals

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Forrest Wilder - Aug. 12 (Investigative Report) - The Texas Observer has just published an explosive article titled "Rick Perry’s Army of God." It exposes how a group of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets from a little-known movement known as New Apostolic Reformation have been quietly pushing for Perry’s presidential bid.

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Rachel Maddow Show

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSN.com - By Rachel Maddow - Aug. 12 (News Report) - Rick Perry, conduit to radical Christian overthrow of US government?

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