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Why Conservatives are Turning on Beck

By Sarah Posner

…tion, and about how the film being promoted by a former colleague of World Net Daily’s Aaron Klein, who was one of the first conservative writers to jump on the conspiracy train: lest you forget, that line of thinking goes, Mohamed ElBaradei, while head of the IAEA, let Iran off the hook on its nuclear ambitions; ElBaradei’s OK with the Muslim Brotherhood; therefore he must be behind the plot to install a nuclear-armed-Islamic-caliphate-that-will-…

GOP Hopeful Herman Cain: Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative”

By Michael J. Altman

…ntinued to step those up. Last month he wrote a Christmas column for World Net Daily titled “An Example for America: The Perfect Conservative” in which he turned the carpenter from Nazareth into Ronald Reagan: He helped the poor without one government program. He healed the sick without a government health-care system. He fed the hungry without food stamps. And everywhere He went, it turned into a rally, attracting large crowds and giving people h…

Religious Conspiracy Theories About Giffords Shooting Emerge

By Sarah Posner

…touted by Jerome Corsi, the conspiratory theorist and contributor to World Net Daily who co-authored the book of Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004, and whose 2008 book Obama Nation was filled with falsehoods about the then-presidential candidate. Corsi is also a notorious birther. Gallups, as documented by Richard Bartholomew last summer, previously produced a video, “Jesus Saw Satan as Baraq Ubamah,” and opined that the gulf oil spill was…

Should The Senate Listen To A Court-Martialed Chaplain on DADT?

By Sarah Posner

…aking over the military); Joseph Farah, editor of the conspiratorial World Net Daily; the American Family Association, whose public policy director Bryan Fischer asserts there is a link between Nazism and homosexuality. I could name more (like Rusty Thomas of Elijah Ministries, who worked with Fischer in Idaho organizing a conference against “sodomites”), but let me just highlight the crowning touch: one of the signatories includes a former Navy c…

Condoms and Common Sense

By Frances Kissling

…it as a real or moral solution, but, in this or that case, there can be nonetheless, in the intention of reducing the risk of infection, a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality. This exchange summarized several hundred words on the subject. The Pope repeated frequent Vatican claims that condoms are not the answer to AIDS before adding, for the first time that: [T]here may be a basis in the case of…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…ripped from the headlines of the sensationalistic conservative site World Net Daily, but the setting was far more staid. The speaker, David Noebel, part of The King’s College Distinguished Visitors series, was introduced by outgoing King’s Provost and World magazine editor Marvin Olasky as “one of the long-lasting stalwarts of fighting for a lot of things we’re for here at King’s: religious, political, and economic liberty.” King’s, a Christian s…

Tony Perkins: Soldiers Will Quit if Gays Can Serve Openly

By Daniel Schultz

…side the debatable assumption that the draft is a bad thing (it could be a net positive, especially with a German-style alternative service proviso), does Perkins really think that the same men and women who will walk exposed into enemy fire to save their buddies would be scared to serve next to a gay man or lesbian? Really? Well, not exactly. As butch as Perkins’ understanding of how the military works is, it has less to do with the physical prot…

The Economy is Sacred, Stupid

By Gary Laderman

…ir right mind would read a blog on the sociology of money at “filthy-lucre.net”?!!! Christians in particular understand the dangers and temptations of mammon. They have a long history of warning against worshipping this false god, a point of great emphasis in the New Testament and tied to concerns about wealth, debt, and greed. For many good Christian Americans, the boundaries between religious life and work life are clear, separate, distinct. For…

“Far Too Extreme For America To Accept,” Hamas “Endorsed Obama,” “Forced Abortions,” and More

By Sarah Posner

…ical attack ad, starting last Friday. Using clips from Townhall.com, World Net Daily, Fox Business, CNSNews.com, and Glenn Beck, narrator E. W. Jackson invokes the boogeymen of ACORN, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the New Black Panther Party, Hamas, and Mao Tse-Tung to paint President Obama and the Democratic Party as “extreme,” “treacherous,” “socialist,” and “with hostility” towards America. As I wrote two years ago during the presidential campaign, the…

The Real Context Of The “Taliban Dan” Ad

By Julie Ingersoll

…Reconstructionist Gary DeMar’s work in “Optional Resources.” Over at AlterNet, Bruce Wilson writes that Gothard wanted to use Christian Reconstructionist R.J. Rushdoony’s seminal Institutes of Biblical Law for his programs if it weren’t for their disagreement over divorce. In his post, Wilson focuses too much on the issue of the capital offenses for which some Reconstructionists advocate stoning. That emphasis favors sensationalism over more pres…