Guest posting at Political Animal, Bruce Reed says:

I’d feel a lot better if our side spent less time running down the religious right, and more time building a religious center-left.

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To which one commenter responds (in a separate post):

Maybe the “liberal” Christians didn’t bother to show up. Whose fault is that? Not the half a [...]

Posted in Religion 9 Comments »

I always thought adoption was preferable to abortion. And until about fifteen minutes ago, I thought it was socially acceptable, too. But then I read about
Maria’s adopting experience.

When the phone was off and tucked back away, the nurse came in with bracelets. She asked J who should have the second one. J, [...]

Posted in What The...?!? 5 Comments »

When you are called the fourth time by the same organization in two days, and they start begging — nay, demanding! — money, and you say to the person on the other line “I will report this as harassment,” do you expect them to continue with their sales pitch?
No, neither did I. But that’s what [...]

Posted in Diary 3 Comments »

Some readers might remember the discussion I had with Cameron of the late great Snarkalicious about the runup to the war in Iraq. (My posts are
here and
here).
I think there were a lot of good reasons to invade Iraq or try to depose Saddam, and I wish it had been attempted under the Clinton [...]

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David Shaw says Air America should be more sensitive to Christianity since 64% of Americans claim to attend worship services once a month. (Funny how some people become real guardians of political correctness when they feel offended, isn’t it?)
This worries Keven Drum but not me. I mean how many of those 64% are likely [...]

Posted in Politics, Religion 5 Comments »