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Santorum and God’s Will

Posted by N4CM Belief, News, Top Stories 1 Mar 2012

Source: CounterPunch. The possibility of an authoritarian and ethically dysfunctional family in the White House in 2013 certainly has caught the attention of a number of liberals and other progressives. After all, what progressive or decent conservative for that matter would support Rick Santorum’s rejection of the separation of church and state or his belief that it is better to live under the rule of a theocratic state rather than in a democracy.

How the Far Right Roman Catholics and Evangelical Taliban Trapped the President

Posted by N4CM Opinion 21 Feb 2012

Source: Frank Schaeffer. I’m stunned by the fact that the US media doesn’t seem to know that the President Obama v. the US Catholic bishops — AKA “religious freedom” aka “birth control v. women” — affair is the result of a well laid plan by a few Religious Right Extremists that has succeeded in entrapping the President just as these extremists planned. The bishops have been led to attack the President by [...]

5 Signs the Christian Right Still Wields Too Much Power in the US

Posted by N4CM Belief, News, Top Stories 1 Feb 2012

Source: AlterNet. his month, in a New Republic article titled “The End of the Christian Right,” historian Michael Kazin confidently asserts that “the Christian Right is a fading force in American life, one which has little chance of achieving its cherished goals.” I have lost count of how many times the Religious Right has been declared dead as a political force by someone in the mainstream media. Maybe Kazin’s piece seemed [...]

The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 31 Jan 2012

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s been a rotten few months for the nation’s wealthiest 1 percent. From the senatorial candidacy of Elizabeth Warren to Occupy Wall Street, economic elites have faced a concerted attack on their riches and power, their arrogant and unaccountable ways. And you can hear it in their voices, or at least the voices of their spokesmen. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor declared, [...]

The great divide in U.S. politics

Posted by N4CM Features 22 Jan 2012

Source: thestar.com. It was a moment when reality met reality TV. On stage in Tampa, Fla., a slate of Republican presidential candidates, including physician Ron Paul. Facing them, an audience scenting blood. CNN host Wolf Blitzer’s question du jour: whether a 30-year-old man who was in a coma, but wilfully carrying no health insurance, should be given intensive care to save his life. “That’s what freedom is all about,” said Paul. “Taking your own risks.”

Must See TV: Bill Moyers is Back

Posted by N4CM News 17 Jan 2012

Source: Say What? A great new television series began this weekend. And it won’t just be of interest to those of us already following the broader story behind the damage done by the most anti-environmental Congress in history. Moyers & Company probes a range of the deeper issues about democracy in America by presenting riveting interviews with fascinating thinkers not usually seen on television.

Don’t Be Fooled – Why the Tea Party Is More Powerful Than Ever

Posted by N4CM Opinion 16 Jan 2012

Source: Washington Monthly. Go to the panels with the boring names. That’s the secret to any political conference. Flashy names are candy floss meant to tempt you into meetings that at best will tell you what you already know, and at worst will bore you mindless. That’s the approach I take, anyway, at the 2011 Defending the American Dream Summit, the annual megaconfab put on by Americans for Prosperity. This is the Tea Party group [...]

Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools

Posted by N4CM News, Top Stories, Wall of Separation 28 Dec 2011

Source: The New York Times. It has been nearly 50 years since the Supreme Court ruled that officially sponsored prayer in public schools violated the separation of church and state. But in some corners of the country, especially in the rural South, open prayer and Christian symbols have never really disappeared from schools, with what legal advocates call brazen violations of the law coming to light many times each year.

Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom

Posted by N4CM Features, Freedom of the presss 18 May 2011

Source: The Nation. Conservatives often complain that they’ve been exiled from power, whether in the corridors of the Capitol or the pages of the New York Times. Yet conservative ideas have dominated American politics for thirty years. The centerpiece of that dominance is the notion that the market equals freedom and government is the threat to freedom.

Religion, Democratic Losses, and the 2010 Election

Posted by N4CM Opinion 3 Nov 2010

Source: The Huffington Post, 4 November 2010. The day after the 2010 mid-term election, Democrats were reading the exit polls, searching for clues to the Republican victories. Operatives who work with particular constituencies were all examining the role their work played in the outcomes, and those doing religious outreach on the Democratic side of the [...]