The price you pay for wooden literalism: Gregory James Coots, 36, of Middlesboro, faces more than 150 charges. The Associated Press reported that Coots is pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, where a Tennessee woman died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a service in 1995. The fundamentalist churches…

And are demanding a convention vote since Obama doesn’t have enough pledged votes and needs the superdelegates to win. They’re hoping that superdelegates will change their mind and flip to Clinton. “If they had a meaningful vote, I have no idea who would win,” Feldman says. “But I know that if Sen. Obama were sure…

Have you seen it? I can’t believe that they depicted Michelle Obama as a terrorist! Pretty over the top. What the heck were they thinking? Where on the cover do they note that it’s a caricature of the right’s view of Obama? It just looks like they’re the ones caricaturing Obama. The Obama campaign quickly…

OK, Obamanites, what the heck does Obama mean by this: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set,” he said. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.” The context of the…

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