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The Duggars To Headline Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…ve disseminated a translation of a UN representative at 2009 conference in Mexico, in which he allegedly claimed that the dissolution of the family has been a triumph of human rights over the patriarchy. I’ve not been able to find a record of his actual statement in any language, but the quote “the high rate of divorces and births outside marriage represents a triumph of human rights on the patriarchy” has been so widely disseminated in right wing…

A Real-Life Truman Show?

By Lauri Lebo

…berry and tangerine. I’ve stopped here on a tour I’m taking of the Gulf of Mexico coastline. I started my drive Friday from the Atlantic Coast in Jacksonville and have been working my way west. Eventually I’ll cross paths with the eastern migration of tar balls and blobs of oil suspended in waves. After that, at some point, I’ll reach the viscous sheen that covers the water and everything in its path. With each dip I take in the warm water along t…

Drilling Wakes the Humanoid Reptiles: Doctor Who Part V

By Gabriel Mckee

…t has been in the news and, as Gabriel also notes, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has led to a disaster of devastating proportions. In this episode, drilling by humans to an unprecedented depth impinges on an underground dwelling of Silurians, a race of bipedal humanoid reptiles who once dominated planet Earth, long before the emergence of humankind. Although this was only the first part of a two-part episode, we have already been given hints that…

Conservative Propagandists Claim Silver (Or Gold) Lining To BP Disaster

By Lauri Lebo

…that BP can’t stop the millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico is proof that there is an unlimited supply of oil. Craig R. Smith, the gold peddler who authored the book Black Gold Stranglehold with conservative attack dog and birther promoter Jerome R. Corsi, is taking advantage of this nation’s worst ever environmental disaster to promote his book. Black Gold espouses the baseless notion that oil is not fossil fuel after all. R…

The Oil Spill and “Real Deathliness”

By Daniel Schultz

Efforts to put the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a theological context are all well and good but honestly, I don’t think that comparing the disaster to abortion or reminding people that “the earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world” or asserting that it really is as important as abortion is going to cut it. The basic problem is that they don’t name “the real deathliness that hovers over us,” as Walter Brueggemann calls it, “the very fea…

RDBook: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World: An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

By Mandy Van Deven

…is first presidential act of feminist solidarity Barack Obama repealed the Mexico City Policy—a.k.a. “the global gag rule”—a Reagan-era policy that denies aid to non-governmental organizations “which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.” The global gag rule has come to be seen as a litmus test of the current US President’s stance on women’s rights, though it’s just one part of the complicated history of the impact o…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…mmigration problem stems from its devastating and crippling effects inside Mexico. The only distinct winners have been the bi-national corporate elites and the US investor class. Yet the same well-placed and well-paid neo-liberal types who gave us the NAFTA and other skanky trade deals have the nerve to keep saying, “Trust us. We know better than you. This will be good for you.” Very much what Mr. Obama has been saying about his RTTT program. Ethi…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…journey, her nose in a book as she explored the mesas and riverbeds of New Mexico. The result is Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (Basic Books), a meditation on philosophy as a practical concern and the desert landscape as a spiritual calling. Apt Russell calls her religion Pantheism; I call it beautiful prose, filled with wisdom and populated by songbirds, heretics, wild pigs, philosopher-kings, and cottonwood trees. * * * In God’s P…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…e on abortion, Roe v. Wade.” One thirty-second ad—currently running in New Mexico and Ohio—is called “The Gianna ad” and features Gianna Jesson who is identified as an “Abortion Survivor.” “My name is Gianna Jesson, born 31 years ago after a failed abortion,” Genson states. She goes on: “But if Barack Obama had his way, I would’t be here. Four times Barack Obama voted to oppose a law to protect babies left to die after failed abortions. Senator Ob…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…evangelicals have appeared to make some impact on democratization: Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, and Peru in Latin America; Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa in Africa; and, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines in Asia. Each study in the project addresses the extent to which evangelicalism, a religious movement based on biblical orthodoxy, has helped or hindered the inauguration and…