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Daily Archives: June 25th, 2007

The Supreme Court strikes back

Monday, June 25, 2007

The fan is being hit fast and furiously these days. Joe Lieberman’s gift to the nation-a right wing Supreme Court, has announced itself with force over the last couple of days. Corporate free speech good, student free speech, bad. Corporations good, environment bad. Institutionalized religion good, taxpayer standing bad. What’s interesting is the degree to […]

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Secularism rising

Monday, June 25, 2007

Steve Benen, writing at Talking Points Memo, comments on an article in the Atlantic, which noted that the number of Americans who stated that they had “no religious preference” doubled (from 7%) between 1992 and 2002. The authors of a study cited in the article, Michael Hout and Claude S. Fischer, concluded that the increase […]

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Connections

Monday, June 25, 2007

Two articles from Thinkprogress came across in my newsreader today, one after the other: In the first we learn that CNN has dumped an interview with Michael Moore in order to broadcast an interview with Paris Hilton. In the second, we learn that 41% of the people in this country still believe that Saddam Hussein […]

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