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First Links - 09.16.11

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Christ, the Church, and Pat Robertson Moore to the Point , Russell D. Moore President continues to prop up Planned Parenthood against states’ wishes Hot Air , Tina Korbe Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming FoxNews.com White House To Aid Islamic States Defy Free Speech . . . . Continue Reading »

The New Political Typology

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The Pew Research Center has put together a new Political Typology which divides the public into eight politically engaged groups, along with a ninth group of less engaged “Bystanders.” According to their report, the assignment of individuals to one of the eight core typology groups is . . . . Continue Reading »

Why the Poverty Figures Are Misleading

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What if told you that between 90-100% of Americans are living in “healthcare poverty.” You would probably object and say that while the country certainly has a healthcare crisis, my numbers are surely inflated. After all, most people in the U.S. have access to healthcare. Now consider . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links - 09.15.11

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Global Warming, Evolution, and Presidential Politics: The Long Shadow of Galileo Public Discourse , William Carroll On Graceful Writing Evangel , Gene Fant The U.K.’s Conservative Government Defends Abortion Time , Jay Newton-Small SAT Scores Fall As Most Test Takers Miss College Benchmark . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links - 09.14.11

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Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life Public Discourse , Adam J. MacLeod Bachmann’s Dangerous Flirtation with the Anti-Vaccine Movement NRO’s The Corner , Adam Keiper Same-sex marriage ban will be on 2012 ballot in N.C. Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein . . . . Continue Reading »

What If America Did Become a Theocracy?

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With the end of summer comes the official election season, the beginning of a thirteen month stretch in which the public must endure Republican candidates droning on about Social Security, political pundits blabbering about tax cuts, and leftist journalists screeching about the impending theocracy. Although they have been repeating the same warnings since the mid-1980s, the leftist theophobes are certain that this is finally the year when the theonomists storm the National Archives and replace the Bill of Rights with the Ten Commandments… . Continue Reading »