Bill Donahue's Catholic League Fine With Rush Limbaugh's Attack On Pope Francis
Ah. That Bill Donahue! Always eager to damage the church.God love him.Several Catholic organizations have criticized Rush Limbaugh for attacking Pope Francis' agenda as "pure Marxism." But one group is...
View ArticleDespite Being Right Of The Pope, Obama Spotlights His Common Ground
Pope Francis gives a Christmas blessing from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (AFP / Getty Images / December 25, 2013)AlsoHomeless men invited to help Pope Francis celebrate...
View Article"Media Matters" Maintains A Trustworthy, Dispassionate, Left-Of-Center Website
Media financing always comes from somewhere.The question is: "How accurate is the reporting of a given news organization?"Overall, Media Matters impresses me as the most trustworthy news outlet in "the...
View ArticleBill Moyers Interviews Irish Historian Thomas Cahill On The Pope, Poverty And...
Preview: The Pope, Poverty and PoetryDecember 19, 2013Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms and Philip Levine, who explores how his years...
View ArticlePope’s ‘Liberal’ Views On Capitalism Freaking Out Conservative Catholics In...
American Conservatism's Moral Compass***"Pope Francis Links" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html***Catholic Republican lawmakers are rattled by Pope Francis, whose...
View ArticlePhotograph Of A Majestic Horse
Black Percheron Stallion… He stands 19 hands high and his nick name is “Moose”… Currently the Pecheron Supreme World Champion......
View ArticleEquinox Earth
Photo by Roscosmos/NTSOMZ/SRC "Planeta"/zelenyikot.livejournal.comHigher-resolution photoOriginal blog postThe Earth is a tilted top, spinning at an angle (about 23 degrees) as it orbits the Sun....
View Article"Health Law Cemented, G.O.P. Adjusts," New York Times
Alan: By 2017, three times as many Americans will approve Obamacare as a marked improvement over the exclusionary free market marketeering that went before it. Even now, 47% want to keep or improve...
View ArticleFox News!?! Five Reasons Americans Already Love Obamacare, Plus One "On Deck"
There’s a reason Republicans have been rushing to try and defund the Affordable Care Act before October 1, when major sections of the law take effect. Republicans know what polls show — that most...
View Article"Do You Know What You're Doing To Me?" Jesus of Nazareth
Alan: There are two kinds of Christian; those whose chief aspiration is to help everyone into heaven, and others whose happiness depends on drawing indelible lines between "the saved" and "the damned."...
View ArticleThe War On Christians
Alan: The current war of Christians upon other Christians -- to the point of declaring the Pope a Marxist infidel -- no longer models the sort of religious tolerance essential to functioning democracy....
View ArticleAs Obamacare Grows, Repeal/Reform Republicans Become The Threat To Existing...
A dinosaur so soon.***Sen. Ron Johnson, a tea party Republican from Wisconsin, knows that the politics of Obamacare are changing."It's no longer just a piece of paper that you can repeal and it goes...
View ArticleBill McKibben’s Graph Of The Year: We're Extracting More Fossil Fuels Than Ever
BY WONKBLOGDecember 26 at 2:00 pmTime has its "Person of the Year." Amazon has its books of the year. Pretty Much Amazing has its mixtapes of the year. Buzzfeed has its insane-stories-from-Florida of...
View ArticleObamacare Sign-Ups Spiking
Alan: It is seldom mentioned that, for the first time in decades, the per capita cost curve of American healthcare is declining under Obama."Health Care Spending Increases Hit New Low"USA...
View Article"The Fear Economy," Paul Krugman
1 John 4:18"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love."***The fear economy. "More than a million...
View Article"The Tea Party Isn't Going Anywhere"
SKOCPOL: The Tea Party isn't going anywhere. "Even though there is no one center of Tea Party authority--indeed, in some ways because there is no one organized center--the entire gaggle of grassroots...
View ArticleBest News Bloopers Of 2013 (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OihpIHUYYU&wpisrc=nl_wonk
View ArticleCheck Out This Government Waste
Hospice firms draining billions from Medicare. "Hospice patients are expected to die: The treatment focuses on providing comfort to the terminally ill, not finding a cure. To enroll a patient, two...
View ArticleNSA Analysts Swamped With Soo Much Info That They Can't Do Their Jobs...
NSA struggles to make sense of flood of surveillance data. "William Binney, creator of some of the computer code used by the National Security Agency to snoop on Internet traffic around the world,...
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