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06 October 2008
The anti-rumor
You won't hear it from the mainstream media, but Barack Obama is a really nice guy. Best part is, it's true.
Labels: Barack Obama, politics
21 September 2008
The best Maureen Dowd columns
... are not written by Maureen Dowd. Today, she has Aaron Sorkin guest-write a fictional meeting between Barack Obama and Jed Bartlett, the president from Sorkin's excellent TV series "The West Wing." I guess there's pretty strong demographic overlap between Obama supporters and "West Wing" fans, both of which categories include me.
Labels: Barack Obama, politics
14 May 2008
Mennonites = Obama-friendly
... If they're young and college-educated, anyway. The Chicago Tribune has a pretty good piece on the political leanings of Goshen College students, which mainly focuses on increasing Mennonite willingness to participate in politics at all, but also addresses Goshenites' preference for Barack Obama.
I think there's an actual trend here. In the last primaries in states with historical Mennonite population centers, Indiana and Pennsylvania, Obama lost everywhere but big cities -- and the Mennonite-heavy counties. Seriously. Check out the county-by-county results for Indiana, and Pennsylvania - both Elkhart County, Indiana (home to Goshen College) and good ol' Lancaster County are in the Obama column.
I think there's an actual trend here. In the last primaries in states with historical Mennonite population centers, Indiana and Pennsylvania, Obama lost everywhere but big cities -- and the Mennonite-heavy counties. Seriously. Check out the county-by-county results for Indiana, and Pennsylvania - both Elkhart County, Indiana (home to Goshen College) and good ol' Lancaster County are in the Obama column.
Labels: church, politics, young adults
13 October 2007
Viva Al
14 August 2007
"I don't think there is another system that is more consistent with the teachings of Jesus Christ."
Colorado Christian University has apparently fired a teacher for undermining the school's commitment to capitalism. The title quote is from the university's president, although he does concede that "a belief in free enterprise is not linked to salvation."
Apparently CCU adheres to the Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus.
Apparently CCU adheres to the Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus.
19 November 2006
"We're not about being either left or right. We're about being comprehensive."
The NY Times interviews Katherine Jefferts Schori, the first woman to head the Episcopal Church, whose first career was in academic science. Pity more Christian denominations aren't headed by ex-scientists.
07 August 2006
The Bush Doctrine comes home to roost
According to this article in the New York Times, some states have been dramatically expanding the rights of private citizens to shoot someone else and call it self-defense. To the point of, it seems, striking pre-emptively:
Thanks to this sort of law, a prostitute in Port Richey, Fla., who killed her 72-year-old client with his own gun rather than flee was not charged last month. Similarly, the police in Clearwater, Fla., did not arrest a man who shot a neighbor in early June after a shouting match over putting out garbage, though the authorities say they are still reviewing the evidence.The National Rifle Association is one of the major forces behind the new laws, of course:
�If they make a decision to save their lives in the split second they are being attacked, the law is on their side,� [NRA executive vice president] Mr. [Wayne] LaPierre said. �Good people make good decisions. That�s why they�re good people. If you�re going to empower someone, empower the crime victim.�Seems to me that (1) our justice system used to be based on the belief that even good people make mistakes sometimes, and (2) if there's a victim in a neighborly dispute over garbage disposal, it's the guy who ends up getting shot. But what do I know?
Labels: politics
01 August 2006
Christians don't have to vote Republican?
Not according to the pastor of one megachurch, anyway: Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock - New York Times
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