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In SOTU Speech, Obama’s Inner Pugilist Emerges

By Peter Laarman

…Obama gave much too much to Big Energy in his burning passion for tapping domestic energy sources. Fracking? Really?? Anyone who pays attention to the impact of hydraulic fracking knows how very reckless and irresponsible this is. There wasn’t much fake religion, which is always welcome. This president doesn’t like to pander in that way, I gather. But there was the odiferous religion of nationalism. There was a distinct pong of American exception…

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…in a move that barely skirts the law preventing the CIA from carrying out domestic spying operations. In fact, what the NYPD has been doing seems to be done without the necessary legal approval from the CIA. The NYPD screening of Islamophobic ‘documentary’ Third Jihad shows just how disconnected the official police structure is from the communities they are supposed to protect and serve. The department’s counterterrorism unit has been valorized a…

Nicki Minaj Called ‘Possessed’ After Grammy Performance

By Joseph Laycock

…e developed to deal with a troubled home life. Instead of experiencing her domestic troubles as Onika Maraj (her legal name), she found it more manageable to become a variety of other people including “Cookie,” “Harajuku Barbie,” and “Nicki Minaj.” (In the 70s, David Bowie began performing through his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust.) In 2010, a new alter ego began to emerge called “Roman Zolanski.” This name appears to reference Roman Polanski, who dir…

Shutting Down the Vatican…Website

By The Editors

…saders? They go back to the selling of indulgences in the 16th century. And more recently, of course, there’s the Church’s interference in Italy’s domestic politics. (Not just Italy, we’d have to say.) – The Eds. …

Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

By Kathryn Joyce

…o. There aren’t a lot of wife-beaters that try to get the records from the domestic violence shelter where their wife took refuge. This is apparently a relatively untested part of the law. The example that sprung to mind, and that we used in our case, is Supreme Court case NAACP vs. Alabama from 1958, where the state of Alabama said we need the NAACP membership lists. We’ve cited that case and made the same arguments, that to pry into the communic…

October “Baby” is a Grown Woman

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ly universal, is it? It depicts what abortion would be like if women were all beautiful, tragic figures, living in a world run by men who treated them with, not respect, but a kind of indulgent kindness. Well, okay. In the real world of policy, poverty, pregnancy complications, and domestic violence are often important factors too. But never mind that. Just look at the sad, beautiful, fragile women in need of forgiveness. October Baby’s usefulness…

Religious Groups, Dioceses, Churches Fund Anti-Gay Initiative in North Carolina

By Peter Montgomery

…any kind of legal recognition of same-sex couples, including benefits for domestic partners. WRAL’s reporters have dug through the recent campaign finance filings and concluded that the anti-gay initiative is being pushed overwhelmingly by churches and religious nonprofits, while the opposition to the amendment is drawing most of its funds from individuals. The biggest contributor to the anti-gay effort is the state-level Christian Action League,…

Obama Gets Religion in Indonesia

By Hussein Rashid

…. Because of the popular conflation of Arabs and Muslims, both in terms of number and authenticity, including at bodies such as the Council of Foreign Relations, the President needs to obliquely address the concern. I also believe that Obama was directing the speech to address domestic concerns as well. The key line is “individuals are not defined solely by their faith.” There is so much that is made of Obama’s faith, over his actual accomplishmen…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…the Iraqis, and so on for the so-called “foreign” enemies to fear. On the domestic side, the list comes too easily: hate Indians, hate blacks, hate Jews, hate anarchists, hate war protestors, hate government, hate the North, hate the South, hate the gays…. Aside from the raw political value of hate, think of the potential for media exposure when you are a religious hater. When the Dalai Lama comes to town (to start with a counter-example) with mo…

Latest Misogyny Wasn’t First Shocking Comment from Hannity’s Preacher Pal

By Katie Toth

…woman. God wouldn’t have her discard her marriage in order to promote the domestic abuse issue or any other phony cause,” Rev. Peterson said. 6) In support of a controversial statement by Newt Gingrich: “Many black women have had babies out of wedlock and passed that on to their daughters that if they have babies out of wedlock, they’ll get food stamps, free houses and your rent paid,” Peterson said. 7) On Katrina: “about five years ago … I state…