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October 2012

October 29, 2012

Susan Eisenhower endorses President Barack Obama

"Given Romney’s shifting positions, he can only be judged by the people with whom he...

October 29, 2012

Revisionist memory: White evangelicals have always been at war with abortion

White American evangelicals are "pro-life." This is the single most important political aspect of American...

October 28, 2012

Joss Whedon endorses Mitt Romney

"Let's all embrace the future -- stop pretending we care about each other and start...

October 28, 2012

The predatory providence of ‘pro-life’ Richard Mourdock (part 2)

Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious...

October 26, 2012

The predatory providence of ‘pro-life’ Richard Mourdock (part 1)

Richard Mourdock et. al. are appealing to an expansive-but-shallow "all things work together for good"...

October 26, 2012

Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for president

The Republican former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff praised President Barack Obama because...

October 25, 2012

The Caymans are Switzerland’s route to the sea

Election Day is in less than two weeks. (It's Nov. 6, not some other date,...

October 24, 2012

Cleveland Plain Dealer: On the basis of sound leadership, re-elect Obama

"He has led the nation back from the brink of depression. Ohio in particular has...

October 23, 2012

‘Fairness and integrity’: The New Yorker endorses President Obama

"The re-election of Barack Obama is a matter of great urgency. Not only are we...

October 23, 2012

Montana is California’s route to the sea

Want to feel better about yourself? Pretend everyone else is a "Communist Nazi" baby-killer. There,...

October 22, 2012

Salt Lake City Tribune: ‘Obama has earned another term’

"Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed...

October 21, 2012

‘The arguments sounded so similar … that I got them confused’

A Missouri pastor reminds us of the bold stance that white segregationists took a generation...

October 16, 2012

Apparently there’s some sort of political debate this evening

A batch of election-related links for your pre-debate reading (or for reading instead of watching...

October 10, 2012

Things that are not in the Bible: ‘In the creation account, God creates Adam and Eve, the world and everything in it in six days.’

Adam and Eve are not part of the story of God creating "the world and...

October 09, 2012

Mark Twain shreds Republican Loy Mauch

I'm happy to be given an excuse to quote again from Mark Twain's incisive essay...

October 09, 2012

‘The best part is, it’s really easy to lie’

“It’s a strategy that works because when I lie, I’m essentially telling people what they...

October 09, 2012

Good solid pro-family evangelical Southern Baptists

Charlie Fuqua says he's just reading the Bible like any good Christian should. And the...

October 08, 2012

Fighting the beast: How can Clifford Russell be saved?

It cannot be our only response, and it cannot be our primary response, but at...

October 01, 2012

A documented case of false prophecy: Four years later, ‘Letter from 2012’ makes Focus on the Family look ridiculous

Before the 2008 election, Focus on the Family warned real, true Christians against voting for...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Mitt Romney once owned a credit-rating agency

The credit-rating business model is based on your score being both inaccurate and inadequate --...

September 24, 2012

Whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent

Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney's comments disparaging the "47 percent" stand in stark contrast...

September 22, 2012

More scenes from the class war

"Middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less." "The census data that just came out...

September 18, 2012

Mitt Romney says half of Americans are immoral parasites who think they’re ‘victims’

The scoop seems to belong to David Corn of Mother Jones, "SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells...

September 18, 2012

From the archives: Rick Warren and The Purpose-Driven Lie

This video -- -- makes this post from July of 2011 newly pertinent, so I'm...

September 17, 2012

A question on quorums and unrepresentative elections

In almost any legislative body -- from the U.S. Congress to a middle-school student council...

September 06, 2012

We can have political debate or politicized facts, but we can’t have both

First the bad news. In The New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports on how zoos...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Mitt Romney tells 533 lies in 30 weeks, Steve Benen documents them

I've written about or linked to a great deal here "chronicling Mitt's mendacity" -- to...

August 21, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin’s views typical in anti-abortion religious right

Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's future as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate may be...

August 20, 2012

Such a lonely word

Jamelle Bouie: "Why Romney keeps lying about Obama and welfare" It’s been three weeks since...

August 13, 2012

Scenes from the class war

"What my dad didn’t tell us was that those rich people who lived in those...