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Florida Gov Cozies to Local Tea Party Xenophobes

By Julie Ingersoll

…or boasted some $5.2 billion in cuts (only to later have to admit that the number was inflated and that the cuts were “only” $3.5 billion). The announcement of our state budget, by the way, was held in the Eustis First Baptist Church. Okay, it was supposed to be in a park but they had to move it due to rain. Of course the tea party is “not religious, it’s just about taxes,” it just so happened that when they had to move the event, they went straig…

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

By Jill Jacobs

…a wholesale disregard for health and safety precautions. We can expect tax dollars to pay top rate for emergency care for public workers who lack health insurance, and therefore go without preventative care. We can expect retiring public workers to end up dependent on public and private financial support. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the early twentieth century, described unions as follows: Within the wo…

Loving an Abusive God

By Bernard Schweizer

…s fall, if I thought Nobel-winner Elie Wiesel’s loss of roughly 15 million dollars to swindler Bernie Madoff might have thwarted his gradual reconciliation with God, turning him back on the road to defiant misotheism. As I’ve written, Wiesel’s youthful Jewish piety did not survive the Holocaust. This former Hasidic devotee, after witnessing the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Buna, became one of the more outspoken misotheists. Wiesel’s anti-…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…pornography might lead to impotence, online sex brings several billions of dollars in profit each year—the pornographic gaze is good for business. The filmmakers and photographers make porn are the equivalent of arms manufacturers in the theater of war. An erect organ on screen shares space, at least in the male mind, with the shooting off of a tomahawk missile. At least in the male mind, war and sex are the playground for male desire and control….

“Traditional values.” Tom DeLay. Jesus loves low, low prices! Just another day in Texas.

By Sarah Posner

…ssure on the poor and underprivileged, while also benefiting millions of middle class shareholders who count on the firm’s financial success. The company pays employees well above the federal minimum wage, and employs more people than any other company. It offers millions of dollars in cash to community efforts, and does even more when a crisis strikes. Wal-Mart’s business model is based on the Golden Rule, and it works. And we’re betting Jesus wo…

Man Behind Willie Horton Ad Is Out to Save America from the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…of in-kind donations by the institutional Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Karger did not reveal the majority of Yes on 8 funding—about $20 million dollars—-contributed by individual LDS Church members and identified by grassroots activists….

What Happens If the Bible Is the “Owner’s Manual For Life”

By Sarah Posner

…o whether the Obama administration had broken the law prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being used to lobby for or against abortion overseas. USAID had supported the passage of a new Kenyan constitution, which decriminalized abortion. A USAID spokesperson told me last year that the Inspector General “did not find evidence that USAID funds had been spent on direct lobbying for or against abortion.” For Smith, though, and the other anti-UNFPA, anti-…

PAC Behind Anti-Park51 Ad Produced “One of the Sleaziest False TV Ads” of ’08 Campaign

By Sarah Posner

The National Republican Trust PAC, which is aiming to raise millions of dollars to run an ad opposing what it calls the building of a “monstrous 13-story mosque,” was lambasted by FactCheck.org for a 2008 presidential campaign ad in which it said Barack Obama had a “plan” to give drivers’ licenses to would-be terrorists. The National Republican Trust PAC’s mission statement is “to take back our country from the dangerous progressives that are hel…

Creating a Cell: Science Plays God

By Arri Eisen

…rd ‘maverick’—he’s the one who first made his name by bringing big private dollars into molecular biotechnology to compete with the federal government and speed up the sequencing of the first human genome (that is, the determination of the identity and order of all the billions of DNA base pairs in one human). The title here is certainly in keeping with Venter’s bodaciousness. Cooking from Scratch This is exciting stuff. Imagine if you could synth…

Pennsylvania School Voucher Plan Would Allow Religious Discrimination

By Lauri Lebo

…ly important is that the state Constitution explicitly prohibits using tax dollars for religious schools. “No money raised for the support of the public schools of the Commonwealth shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any sectarian school.” The bill is expected to be voted on by the Senate any day. If it passes and becomes law, it will assuredly be challenged by civil liberties organizations. If this happens – and it’s possible – i…