Tag Archives: God

Ruining Ramadan in Egypt

Ramadan always means new soap operas in the Arab world. I learned today it also means not even thinking about masturbation. A small thing to you perhaps, but in a repressive sexual society where the curves of the female figure … Continue reading

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Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe

I’d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D’Souza, but I hadn’t seen the video of it until today. It’s worth a watch. The subject of the … Continue reading

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Exit Trinity. Exit Church.

Well, Mr. Obama has finally quit that ludicrous Chicago institution known as Trinity United Church of Christ. His membership had survived Rev. Wright, but was ultimately done in over the visiting Rev. Michael Pfleger’s bizarre self-hating white guilt trip, and … Continue reading

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Moral, Yet Alluring

photo: Steve Kaiser Have you ever taken a moment to read some of the many Huckabee blogs that have sprung up over the past months? They’re really quite strange. For instance, here is a snippet from a Blogs 4 Huckabee … Continue reading

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The Matter with Kansas

photo: Foxicat Looks like the liberation theologist won the Kansas caucuses with a substantial 67% of the vote. Earlier today at CPAC, Huckabee had suggested that miraculous intervention by the Almighty would eventually deliver him the GOP nomination. You have … Continue reading

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Huckabee’s New Constitutional Order

Add another unsettling dimension to Mike Huckabee’s rather bizarre views on the Constitution: he apparently subscribes to the judicial pragmatist interpretation of a Living Constitution. Imagine the notion of an open constitution into which you can read any unwritten right, … Continue reading

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God’s Own Constitution

Video clip of Mike Huckabee arguing that “what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.” Hmm. Is that really in accord with anyone’s notion of Founders intent? I know committed social conservatives who … Continue reading

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