The Anti-Manichaeist

When one is an anti-manicheist, one tends to get in a lot of scraps as being independent means you got stuff to disagree with everyone on.
Over at Street Prophets, Curry called Bennett a racist. I defended and criticized him. Its amazing how people can be vindictive and judgemental.
One fellow […]

(on Swedish Baptist Pietism) *dance for joy*, now all I have to do is go back and make sure my footnotes are in Terabian style and write up the Bibliography. I’m only a week late *blush* because I put off doing the final integrative part between Swedish Baptists and Pietism til this past week […]

Josh Claybourn quotes Newt Gingrich plan to maybe run for president in 2008. “If I’m potentially going to run, I have to get my message out, and if it works and five others pick it up, I won’t run. If the message doesn’t work, I won’t run. But if the message works and nobody […]

My friend Matt does a wicked satire of how the end of times may be near now that even Rush is rationalizing how the Republicans are promoting their own big-gov’t version of the New Deal for the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, minus any immediate tax-cuts to pay for it.
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I found out via Josh Marshall that Eschaton has discovered that DeLay has lied. DeLay claimed he was not invited to attend the trial that indicted him when he was invited to testify under oath and was wisely counseled by his lawyers not to attend. Now, why would lawyers counsel DeLay not to […]

I’ve started doing some repostings over at Street Prophets.
One thing I’ve found interesting is Kos’s post where he introduced the site. He describes himself as a militant atheist whose political views are driven by his utilitarian world-view. But then he goes on to describe how he was blown away by a […]

Josh Marshall links to a site on Roy Blunt, the congressman from Missouri who is the temporary replacement for Tom Delay. Apparently he’s a divorcee who has been caught doing some pretty unethical stuff to benefit members of his family. Particularly interesting is a post by CitizenKan on Blunt,
Roy Blunt “and family” get […]

As you know, Delay has been indicted for fraud, but its amazing how the Republican party seems to be falling over itself to defend him.
But apparently
the facts of the central transactions at issue in the case — the transfer to Washington in September 2002 of $190,000 in corporate funds collected by the committee […]

Rebecca Haines of the Institute for Global Engagement has a well done article on the need to hold to a more nuanced view of religious violence and Islam than is typically presented to us in the MSM. One of the services she provides is a list of moderate muslim voices.

Kevin Drum helps to explain a mystery with some interesting stats…
George Bush is failing miserably, his approval ratings are in the tank, the liberal base is seething with anger, and yet it’s all translating into….nothing. E.J. Dionne explains why today:
[The Democratic] party’s problems are structural and can be explained by three numbers: 21, 34 and […]