BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

To truly be successful, this initiative must utilize the unique resources and identity of the faith community, while at the same time recognizing the indispensible role that government and public policy must play in tackling the root causes of poverty. truthout
But at bottom, the faith-based initiative, no matter the clunky name Obama affixes to [...]

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I had no illusions.  I didn’t kid myself that he was perfect.  From the start, there were things that bugged me.
He supports the death penalty even as he acknowledges it does little or nothing to deter crime.  (He’s credited with working to reform its application here in Illinois, but from my POV, this is a [...]

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Gary G. is a Christian. He is very involved in his church, reads his bible religiously (so to speak), and believes to the core of his soul that he is “saved” and will one day go to heaven and be filled with joy for all eternity.
Gary’s religious beliefs bring him a sort of peace [...]

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If you’re wandering about DC this week, watch out for Very Serious People, dressed in government drag, walking into traffic while all their attention is fixed on a scrap of paper.
These are Republicans who ride the tiger of the Religious Wrong Right and who are studying the 10 Commandments, skeered silly they’ll fall into the [...]

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I was really beginning to wonder about the junior senator and future president from New York. She had supported one lame-brained bill after another.
After years of saying I can’t wait for Her Clinton-ness to make a run for the White House, I was seriously beginning to wonder if I could vote for her when [...]

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