How right-wing crap polluted Democrats' political waters- June 5, 2008 -- by DaveBoth the Hillary Clinton and the Barack Obama camps emerged from this bruising primary flinging potent, and somewhat mirrored accusations at each other: that the Clinton camp had indulged in racism and racist appeals, and conversely that the Obama camp was rife with sexism. I wonder if, when they step back from the outcome and think about what's happened, they'll be able to recognize where these lines of thought originated -- and why it's a bad idea to continue indulging them. Both...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-right-wing-crap-polluted-democrats.html Fifty- June 2, 2008 -- by SaraHaven't been around much lately. After a long, busy spring getting settled in at The Big Con and otherwise spreading myself way too thin, I hit a bad burnout wall about three weeks ago, and finally just took a few weeks off blogging entirely, anywhere, to see if I could get my groove back.The long rest, plus a week spent schmooing around New York, proved to be exactly what my muse required. I've got a long list of new ideas, and am happy to be back at work.And today's the big Five-O...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/06/fifty.html Tony Perkins and the Phineas Priests- June 1, 2008 -- by DaveMark Kleiman had a post up earlier this week talking about the Phineas Priesthood and how Tony Perkins' use of the Phineas tale last year at the "Reclaiming America for Christ" confab and pointing out that Perkins should have been dismissed as a credible public figure back then. But instead, he's everywhere on TV these days. I watched him during the Jeremiah Wright foofara tut-tutting Obama over his choice of pastors, and I wondered how a guy who's spoken to the Council of...http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/06/tony-perkins-and-phineas-priests.html 'A Destroying Wind'- June 1, 2008 -- by DaveNote: Below is the text of Chapter 6 of my book In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest. I'm running it today to complement the above post on Tony Perkins.Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind...-- Jeremiah 51:1, quoted in notes accompanying a pair of bombs set off April 1, 1996, in SpokaneIt was April Fools Day, but this was no joke.The two men wore.http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/06/destroying-wind.html |