Search for "airlines ticket cheap jet blue phone number 1-800-299-7264"

Conservative Christian Opposition to Health Care: Political Grandstanding?

By Daniel Schultz

…u count “I’m going to cross my eyes and hold my breath until my face turns blue.” God’s freedom meeting human justice in a new social reality? Are you kidding me? There’s not a word here about what is just or right, let alone how God operates in freedom in this situation. Although, there is a vision of a new social reality: “I don’t have trust in the process,” says Hunter. “What’s much more appealing is a stipulation up front that neither requires…

The Tyranny of Politesse: Why Decency Does Not Require us to Wish Trump a Full and Speedy Recovery

By Daniel C. Maguire

…eatening woman who “knew her place,” as the sugary “lovely lady dressed in blue” would have it.) Responses to Trump’s diagnosis The news that Trump had tested positive for Covid 19 led to the cliche du jour “I hope and pray for his full recovery.” Along with this came a storm surge of that hackneyed vacuity: “I will keep him in my thoughts and prayers.” (It’s a safe—and not at all cynical—assumption that many who intone that banality don’t mean it…

Daily Show Takes on Noah’s Christian Haters

By Gwynne Watkins

…. And for that priest who said that the Bible only refers to God as “God,” Blue Letter Bible has this list of things that God is called in the Old Testament: Introduction El Shaddai (Lord God Almighty) El Elyon (The Most High God) Adonai (Lord, Master) Yahweh (Lord, Jehovah) Jehovah Nissi (The Lord My Banner) Jehovah-Raah (The Lord My Shepherd) Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals) Jehovah Shammah (The Lord Is There) Jehovah Tsidkenu (The Lord Our R…

Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?

By Katherine Stewart

…y American culture. Single-child families are on the rise, particularly in blue states, driven partly by personal choice and partly by economic pressure. Other developed countries such as Sweden, the U.K., and France, witnessing the same falling birthrates, have taken steps to alter the economic equation with paid parental leave, free or subsidized daycare, and other benefits. Here in the U.S., such benefits are in short supply. Now here’s where…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…rtifice and campiness and which was a challenge to the prevailing (boring) blue denim authenticity of your Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, and that sort of thing. You can, perhaps, trace a line from the synthetic or artificial in culture to the notion that our entire lives have succumbed to the artificial — Jean Baudrillard talked about living in the simulacrum even before the popularization of the internet. And then, some people feel their food is…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…carrying a spear with the American flag tied below the tip, red-white-and-blue painted on his face. And he is known as the Q Shaman. How could we not notice him? The tattoos are striking. Covering much of his upper body: an axe, overlapping triangles, a tree. These symbols are well known enough to have names: valknot, Mjolnir, and Yggdrasil. The overlap of Norse neopagan symbols with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups suggests the symbols on t…

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…to be magical devices—“iron spheres, quarts and round disks,” a “string of blue and gold beads and cowrie shells.” And the only truly startling fact in the whole book comes when we learn that “every fifth person living in the city in 1789 was a slave.” But Broadway started as a Native American path. Lower Broadway wasn’t far from Five Points, the nineteenth century home to poor Irish, Italians, and Blacks. It runs through Little Italy and Chinatow…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ess, Democrats face a Sisyphean battle when it comes to turning the Senate blue in 2018. Like many of the bills introduced by Sens. Cruz, Paul, and Lee, legislation authored or sponsored by Moore is likely to lean symbolic—intended to stage a debate and advance a conversation. Clarkson has previously written that Moore knew his defiant actions—whether in placing a 2.6-ton Ten Commandments statue inside a state courthouse or instructing probate jud…

Creating Together: The Power of Social Capital

By Daniel Schultz

…policy wonks, a passive-aggressive President, the Catholic church, and the Blue Dog caucus just to keep the public option off the table. To put it another way, agree or disagree with her, the Village sees Jane Hamsher coming and they crap their pants. Can you imagine what they’d do with 300 million of her? It’s no accident that the netroots—based in the internet, one of the biggest generators of social capital in recent memory—has been disproporti…

A Note To Churches During Pride: If You’re Not LGBTQ-Affirming, Keep Your Water

By Chrissy Stroop

…ese words, evangelicals are also freaking out about a perfectly innocuous “Blue’s Clues” Pride sing-along, pushing the absurd, and in fact dangerous, accusation that making Pride content for children amounts to “predatory grooming,” even though conservative Christian families and churches, with their unhealthy sex obsession, are surely far more dangerous places for children than a Pride festival. This kind of projection, which is also part and par…