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Shunned Andrew Watch: Mars Hill Cult Excommunicates Member Who Wouldn’t Write Out His Sexual History
The sheer fanatic creepiness of this is worthy of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The following appeared yesterday at the Christianity Today website: Over the last month, several blogs have discussed the case of Andrew, a member of Mars Hill Church’s Ballard, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Miller, atheism, atheist, Dick Cheney, hell, Jesus, lucy in the sky with diamonds, marc driscoll, mars hill, nathaniel hawthorne, sex, the scarlet letter
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Top Secret America: An Alien Has Landed?
I just read Part 1 of the Washington Post’s investigative report on “Top Secret America.” Below is my brief digest of Part 1, accompanied by what I regard as the article’s key quotes. The full piece is here. The Washington Post calls the Fort Meade cluster of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, CIA, Dick Cheney, Dostoevsky, national security state, notes from underground, pentagon, secrecy, spies, top secret america, UFOs, underground man
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John Yoo: A War Criminal Who Materially Assisted Torturers is Interrupted by a Guy Named Larry, a Graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University
Larry and his friend stand up to a Bush torture enabler. They are true American patriots.
Apologizing for Roman Polanski? What is Anne Applebaum’s Problem?
Look, I like Rosemary’s Baby too. But in the Washington Post yesterday, the acclaimed historian of Soviet era gulags (in other words, a serious person), Anne Applebaum, offers a bizarre and full throated defense of Roman Polanski’s giving a 13 year old girl alcohol … Continue reading
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Tagged anne applebaum, Dick Cheney, feminism, pedophilia, roman polanski, sexual abuse, stand by your man, women's rights
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The Bush-Cheney Years
Nostalgic? From the just declassified May 2004 inspector general’s review of CIA interrogations: Sometime between 28 December 2002 and 1 January 2003, the debriefer used an unloaded semi-automatic handgun as a prop to frighten Al-Nashiri into disclosing information. After discussing … Continue reading
CIA Eight Years: The Plot Thickens
Dick Cheney appears to be at the center of an eight year cover-up from the Congress of a secret CIA program. This today in the NY Times: The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years … Continue reading
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Tagged America, CIA, congress, Constitution, democracy, Dick Cheney, leon panetta, marlon brando, murder most foul, the godfather, watergate
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“What serious thinker wants to support the party of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck?”: Do Republicans Have an Intellectual and Intelligence Gap to Make Up with the Democrats?
Conservative Andrew Sullivan today contemplates a Republican Party that is not being replenished and rejuvenated by enough young and serious intellectuals. Sullivan thinks that most smart public policy people are overwhelmingly moving into the Democratic camp, and that there’s a real and growing intellectual … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Ayn Rand, colin powell, conservatism, Dick Cheney, National Review, Politics, red state america, Republican, rush limbaugh
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The Upanishads, the Bible, and Greek Tragedy: Would We Have Had These Great Works of Literature Without Dick Cheney-like Free Market Competition?
What role does competition play in the generation of imaginitive art and literature? Here are six things that suggest that competition plays a very large part indeed: First, in ancient Indian literature, particularly in the early formation of the Rig Veda … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Buddhism, Christianity, Dick Cheney, Greek tragedy, Hinduism, Jesus, literature, Nietzsche, poetry, Santi Tafarella
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Prometheus Unbound 