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The murder of abortion provider George Tiller should force a re-assessment of the Department of Homeland Security’s maligned report on “right wing extremism.” I was thoroughly dumbfounded at the conservative reaction to that report in April. If you read the report, it was quite clearly aimed a serious, violent, insane extremists. Yet mainstream conservatives took…

Here’s an excerpt from Bob Nylen’s riveting new book, in part about his experiences in Vietnam. Bob, the co-founder of Beliefnet, died in December 2008: “For several days, a private in Robert McNamara’s breathe-and-you’re in Army had played the same grotesque joke. He pulled the pin of a hand grenade, making a distinctive ping, and…

I wonder how many times I’ve walked past scenes like this and not even noticed.

Conservative Catholic activist Bill Donohue shocked me this morning by saying he will “quietly root for” the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor. During an email exchange, he wrote: “I like the fact that she is not brandishing her religion. I do not want Catholic judges to rule as Catholics but as judges. I am all for…
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