Dec 05, 2008 -
I was in Sam's Club the other day and I saw Rick Warren's The Purpose of Christmas. Have any of you read this? Is it something worth picking up?
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Dec 18, 2008 -
Gay rights advocates say convocation pick shows 'deep level of disrespect'
The Associated Press
updated 12:03 p.m. CT, Thurs., Dec. 18, 2008
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday defended his choice of a popular evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, rejecting criticism that it slights gays.
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Nov 18, 2009 -
Sarah Palin didn't put an index in her book. So we made one for her.
By Christopher Beam
Posted Tuesday, Nov.
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Sep 12, 2009 -
Democratic Dissenters
How many House votes will Obamacare lose because of its abortion subsidy?
by John McCormack
Douglas Johnson, the National Right to Life Committee's legislative director, calls it a "bookkeeping scheme" and an "idiosyncratic definition of 'public funds' that would never be accepted for five minutes if the issue weren't abortion."
Rachel Laser of the pro-choice group Third Way argues that the Stupak amendment would deny abortion coverage to many women who currently have it if they are dropped from their employer-based plans and need to purchase the government-run or government-subsidized plans.
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Apr 22, 2009 -
GM Is Becoming a Royal Debacle
By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.
It's good to be the king -- until you start tripping over your own robe.
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May 06, 2009 -
WASHINGTON — President Obama was noticeably silent last month when the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
But now Mr. Obama — who has said he opposes same-sex marriage as a Christian but describes himself as a “fierce advocate of equality” for gay men and lesbians — is under pressure to engage on a variety of gay issues that are coming to the fore amid a dizzying pace of social, political, legal and legislative change.
Two of Mr. Obama’s potential Supreme Court nominees are openly gay; some advocates, irked that there are no gay men or lesbians in his cabinet, are mounting a campaign to influence his choice to replace Justice David H.
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Jan 09, 2009 -
The Note, 1/9/09: Obama Pressed From Left on Stimulus
January 09, 2009 8:37 AM
By RICK KLEIN
With the rollout comes the blowback. And with them both comes the presidential-sized challenge for the not-yet president.
It turns out you don’t have to look very hard to find the fault lines in President-elect Barack Obama’s bid for a massive stimulus bill.
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Dec 18, 2008 -
Aretha Franklin is slated to sing at Barack Obama's inaugural swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20.
Franklin, 66, will be joined at the ceremony by Dr.
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Jan 19, 2009 -
The Only Thing We Have to Fear . . .
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Jan 02, 2009 -
Published on Thursday, January 1, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Go Upright And Vital And Speak The Rude Truth In All Ways
by Christopher Cooper
"Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve; Somebody said dignity was the first to leave." They tell you in writing classes, I think, that it's poor policy to open an essay with a quotation. It makes your writing look weak.
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