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Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

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Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

…lwaukee and Waukesha Counties (Milwaukee Metro Area) Nevada: Clark County (Las Vegas) Arizona: Maricopa County (Phoenix) Pennsylvania: Bucks, Chester, and Montgomery Counties (Philadelphia Metro Area), and Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) The Tier 2 Counties Florida: Miami-Dade, Pinellas (Tampa Bay area), and Duval (Jacksonville) Counties Ohio: Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) North Carolina: Wake (Raleigh) and Guilford (Greensboro) Counties Michigan: Mac…

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Nevada Rejects Nihilism, California Rejects Euphoria, and Volatility Reigns

…and a “let the chips fall as they may” attitude. But nihilism did not win last night in Nevada, as Reid claimed the victory; thanks in no small part to solid ground game, Angle’s many missteps, and the state’s 26% Latino population which went 90% Reid. Surely Angle’s anti-Latino, anti-immigrant television ads helped get Latinos to the polls. *The lone congressional Democrat in Idaho has fallen, but don’t credit the Tea Party quite yet. Freshman B…

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First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

…tion. Bernadette Soubirous was a peasant girl who fit a similar profile to Wisconsin’s Adele Brise; her ongoing apparitions of the Virgin Mary in a grotto outside the small mountain village of Lourdes drew crowds just a year before Adele’s faraway apparitions. After controversy at Lourdes drew the Vatican’s attention, the Bishop of Tarbes swiftly initiated an investigation into Bernadette’s sightings. In four years the grotto was confirmed as an o…

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Is Wisconsin Union-Busting Religiously Sanctioned?

…t be public employees; most of the tasks performed by those protesting the Wisconsin state budget would, in the biblical economics of North, Chilton (and Rushdoony, of course), be privatized. Reconstructionist Gary Demar’s tea party-oriented organization, Vision2America, joined the anti-union chorus today. DeMar promotes his views in a number of venues, each tailored to connect with a specific group. His American Vision is explicitly Reconstructio…

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Praise the Lard This Holiday Season

…e holey as evidenced by Jillette’s Bacon and Donut party held ever year in Las Vegas as part of the Amazing Meeting (TAM). While the UCB consists primarily of skeptics and atheists, the nine commandments of bacon states they will accept anyone into the church and members of the UCB may worship another God besides Bacon. “Baconists love people of all races, backgrounds, sexual orientations, genders and beliefs. The divine smell of bacon is bestowed…

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Ralph Reed’s Group Goes after “Union Thugs” in Wisconsin

…be canvassing the state, in preparation for “a full-scale get-out-the-vote phone bank operation to make sure every last pro-freedom and pro-family voter goes to vote on behalf of our values.” So far, the right’s anti-union battleground in Wisconsin hasn’t been explicitly framed as a “pro-family” issue, but here’s Marx: Please join Tony Nasvik and join the fight with 100 plus FFC activists who will be going door-to-door encouraging the Badger State…

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“It’s Up to Us to Save Ourselves”: What Wisconsin is Teaching Us

…ement stronger safety legislation. Now, 100 years later, public workers in Wisconsin and around the country are standing up to the largest-scale attack on American workers in recent history. Using the economic crisis as a pretext, and with financing from billionaire businessmen, Governor Scott Walker and others are trying to strip public unions of their collective bargaining power. This debate is not about trying to balance state budgets. This deb…

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Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

…senior citizen and take his middle. I have watched passengers with first class seats hand their tickets to uniformed veterans and sit in economy. Several times I have witnessed people move further back to allow a mother to sit next to her children. All of these required not only the hassle of moving, but also the discomfort of a worse seat. Sometimes the person with the better seat was asked, sometimes s/he offered. In most situations, the person…

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Federal Appeals Court Finds Wisconsin School’s Transphobic Policy Unconstitutional Days Before Plaintiff Graduates

…” she said. She added that her son will start classes at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the fall. Tuesday’s unanimous decision keeps in place a September injunction ordered by a lower court, barring the school district from enforcing the gender essentialist policy it implemented after Whitaker began using the boys’ restroom at school last year. The defendant, Kenosha Unified School District, could appeal the decision to the full Seventh Ci…

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