Category Archives: politics

“Sensible Proposals”

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Heather, you wrote: Anyone who was expecting Vice President Wayne LaPierre to break the NRA’s week-long silence after the Newtown massacre with an olive branch and some sensible proposals regarding better background checks, say, or restrictions on high-capacity ammo clips … Continue reading →

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Learning the Lessons of Kerensky

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Jihad Al-Khazen writes in Al Arabiya: I expected the worst as I watched on television one day the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie, who was not elected by anyone, walking in front of … Continue reading →

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Bad Start

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in an interview that he isn’t certain what the age of the earth is, and that parents should be able to teach their kids both scientific and religious attempts to answer … Continue reading →

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Of Spiritual Paths and Other Matters

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The New York Times takes a look at four arrivals in Washington with religious views that differ from the commonly (if inaccurately) understood norm: For the real underdog story in the elections this year, you have to look further out … Continue reading →

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Darwin the Candidate

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The election results didn’t give me much to smile about, but here’s one exception. The Athens Banner-Herald reports: Charles Darwin, the 19th-century naturalist who laid the foundations for evolutionary theory, received nearly 4,000 write-in votes in Athens-Clarke County in balloting … Continue reading →

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Crashing the Party

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Daily Telegraph’s Damian Thompson: [T]he Tea Party wasn’t the Religious Right – at least, not at first. When Christian fundamentalists jumped on board, that’s when public support began to bleed away. There’s something to that, I think, not least … Continue reading →

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Heckuva Job, Akin

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Medieval obstetrics expert Congressman Todd Akin crashed to humiliating defeat in his attempt to unseat Missouri’s Senataor Claire McCaskill. The Washington Post reports: McCaskill had 54.7 percent of the vote, Akin 39.2 percent and the Libertarian candidate Jonathan Dine 6.1 … Continue reading →

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Same Old, Same Old

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Guardian‘s Nick Cohen has written a powerful piece on the “Weimar of the Aegean” which is well worth reading in full, but this detail caught my attention: One can say with certainty that old alliances between extreme political and … Continue reading →

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Icon of the Religious Left

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Some hagiography here: watch?v=6fSlpUsSeiM Unclear how that whole “revenge” thing fits in with this, however.

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Silencing Timbuktu

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. I cannot say that I know that much about Mali, but my ipod knows its music. Enter the Islamists. The Guardian reports: The pickup halted in Kidal, the far-flung Malian desert town that is home to … Continue reading →

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