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• Republicans seeks balance with Limbaugh

  Wed Mar 4, 2009
  • Limbaugh is what used to be called a demagogue. Demagogues do not necessarily hold elected office, but they have the rhetorical talent and the means to get their messages out so as to infect public opinion and thus undermine the government.

• 2 Afghans face death over translation of Quran

  Fri Feb 6, 2009
  • Nice. Define religion so that it only fits Yahwism, and that way you can dismiss everyone else's.

• 2 Afghans face death over translation of Quran

  Fri Feb 6, 2009
  • To be fair, when Christianity in Europe was about the age Islam is in Afghanistan, they were burning people alive for precisely the same thing. The problem is not with Christianity or Islam per se, but with "revealed religion" in general.

• Limbaugh challenging notion of new politics

  Fri Jan 30, 2009
  • The use of Rush Limbaugh by the GOP is strategically astute. He isn't an elected official or member of the party bureaucracy, so he can't be held accountable by the people or officially by the party. Thus, he can blatantly appeal to emotion without the slightest hint of reason.

• Texas moves closer to new science standards

  Sat Jan 24, 2009
  • It appears that some people are uninformed as to just what a theory is in science. A theory is an explanation for an observed phenomenon. For example, the fact that Newton’s theory of gravity had some fundamental flaws does not mean that gravity ceased to exist.

• Rockets fuel fears of second front with Lebanon

  Wed Jan 14, 2009
  • The sad thing is that it makes no difference what the act is. The only thing that matters is who is doing it. If it is our friend, then it must be justified, or at worst a tragic mistake.

• 'Now the time has come to fight'

  Sun Dec 28, 2008
  • Two sides were fighting over a strip of land along the sea, each side claiming that Father Zeus had given it to their side. Father Zeus, however, proclaimed that as long as the two sides kept fighting, he would gradually lower the land.

• Bush revokes pardon issued a day earlier

  Wed Dec 24, 2008
  • Mad Cowboy rule #37: If you shoot from the hip, you might hit your own boot.

• Frank: Warren's views ‘deeply offensive’

  Mon Dec 22, 2008
  • Since the Reverend Mr Warren is, after all, defending an honor for himself -- the honor of giving the inaugural invocation -- and since his defending this honor is causing distress to others, would it not be the Christian thing for him withdraw his name in selfless humility and compassion?

• Don't expect head count for inaugural

  Fri Dec 12, 2008
  • Of course, an official head-count would be a decision ultimately resting with someone in the Bush administration. Okay all you Republicans and Democrats. Run with that one!