House Minority Leader John Boehner just took the Republican Party another big step towards what at one time conservatives would have called totalitarianism when he said:  “Last week, they released these memos outlining torture techniques. That was clearly a political decision and ignored the advice of their Director of National Intelligence and their CIA director,” …

Valerie Voigt reports that a Pagan Veterans association is in the process of forming.  Its url is  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pagan-Veterans-USA/ Their organizational statement reads: WHEREAS thousands of Pagan men and women have served and are serving the United States of America in the Armed Forces; AND WHEREAS the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, created to aid…

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is finally clear.  The former rejects the rule of law, the latter will honor it, at least to a point.  The former rejects human decency, the latter respects it.  The former believes in government through lies, the latter is vastly more willing to endorse honesty and openness to the…

Michael Lind has written a wonderful piece over at Salon on how America is Not a Christian Nation.   Go on over and have a read!  It has some good history in it that if it had ever been taught might be saving us much current misery.

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