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Shock from the South

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Sometimes, surprising signs of hope from the most unlikely places. The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) voted in favor of two policy amendments proposed by outgoing president Thomas Robichaux at last night’s December meeting at McDonogh 35 College Preparatory High School. Robichaux’s updates included adding “zero tolerance,” among other discipline actions, to its “bullying, intimidation, […]

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Christian love in action

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Only religion can make people this cruel: An Irish woman has died after she was denied an abortion, even though she was having a miscarriage, because the medical staff found a fetal heartbeat and so would not intervene. 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar was 17 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to University Hospital Galway on October […]

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Bring on St. Thomas

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Who knew that the thorny question of free will would become a campaign issue? According to Richard Mourdock, Republican candidate for the Senate from Indiana and crazy person (I know, I’m being redundant), if a woman is raped and gets pregnant, “It is something that God intended to happen”. Now that statement can really only […]

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Let these people go

Saturday, October 20, 2012

A few days ago I mentioned that I was reading Chuck Thompson’s book advocating expulsion of the Southern States. I continue to support his basic thesis, but he was wrong about one thing. He wants to keep Texas, mainly on economic grounds. I say, let those people go. Cheerleaders in the Southeast Texas town of […]

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This week in God

Sunday, July 1, 2012

  This may be a sign of where we’re going, as the definition of “freedom of religion” becomes more and more distorted by the right. It seems that Ling Chai, a former Chinese activist, now Republican Bostonian, is being sued by another former activist, who Chai fired from her human rights organization here in the […]

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The Butler Did It

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Seems there was someone at the Vatican with a conscience, who has been leaking stories to the Italian press about criminal activity at Holy Mother Church: The pope’s butler has been arrested by Vatican police on suspicion of leaking a large number of confidential letters addressed to Benedict XVI which have lifted the lid on […]

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What religion is JP Morgan Chase?

Monday, May 21, 2012

Not to be outdone by Arizona, Missouri is getting deeper into the crazy act. The legislature there has passed a bill to keep women safe from any possibility that they might try controlling their own bodies: The bill states that no employer or health plan provider can be compelled to provide coverage _ or be […]

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Redefining the Christian brand

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly points out that the right has successfully co-opted the term “Christian” to the point where the press and many corporations use the term to refer exclusively to the subset of Christians who are totally out of their minds. This is yet another example of the right’s successful abuse of […]

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Consolidation in the world of god

Sunday, March 11, 2012

At the Washington Monthly, Ed Kilgore notes that there has been an uptick in church foreclosures in the past year. He notes that the usual suspects that see problems for religious liberty in Obama’s religious neutral requirements imposed on insurance plans, don’t seem to have a problem with the banks destroying the religious infrastructure. Part […]

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God makes his views known

Friday, March 2, 2012

No other conclusion can be drawn: St. Joseph’s Catholic Church is left in ruins Thursday in Ridgway, Ill.  

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