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-Mark Twain


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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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November 11, 2005
 

Heart to Heart with Doctor Teresa
After the Storm: When You Feel Like Giving Up

If you’ve been affected by Katrina or Rita, you know all too well how life can suddenly seem strange, chaotic, unpredictable…and, if you’re weary, bleak.

But not all storms in this life are physical; in fact, most aren’t. People who’ve gone through natural disasters experience losses of varying degrees. For some, the loss may be relatively minor: some damage done to one’s home or car, for instance. For others, the loss is major, whether it’s a ruined home, wrecked workplace or—worst of all—the loss of a loved one...
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The Use and Abuse of Christianity

How Fundamentalists Convinced Conservatives to Betray Jesus
"Let's Get Jesus Back" Bill Moyers

"And on the eighth day, man destroyed the earth": Confronting Conservative Apathy to Environmental Destruction

Evil Ideologies of War and Terrorism:Two Sides of the Same Coin

A Funeral and a Photo Op: Bush Teaches American Kids How to Use--and When to Ignore--Religion

"I'm Ready to Die" Fundamentalist Christianity Instills a Depressing-- and Dangerous--Nihilism

UnChristian and UnAmerican:
The Rising "Culture War"
Against Gay People


My Mother and the Pope
Religiously Incorrect Suffering and Compassion, Worlds Apart

"Don't Let the Car Fool You..." Bushianity vs. Christianity

Using My Religion

Support our troops?
So much for family values


Why Conservative Christians
Fear Tolerance, Parts 1 & 2:
1-Making Tolerance a Sin
2-Those Liberal Southern Baptists!

The Perils of Patriotism
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Democracy, Faith and Reason
Because You Shouldn't Have to Choose Just One

What de Menezes Didn't Know:
We Have to Be Careful What We Say...and What We Wear

Anti-Arabic Week in a Southern School: Students Won't Stand for Pledge in Arabic

On Refusing to Be Silenced:
Bill Frist vs. John Quincy Adams


A Word to the Wise
Careful Not to Get Too Much Education...You Could Turn Liberal

Never Smile at a Crocodile, I
Never Smile at a Crocodile, II

"How Can I Get Through To My Prowar Relatives?"

The Sorrow and the Pity:
From Despair to Resistance

Twisted Priorities: Conservatives Target Black Boys

Happy You-Name-It! Merry Something-or-Other!
Why We Still Have to Be Careful What We Say

Polluting America's Air
O Beautiful for Smoggy Skies, For Amber Acid Rain...

Should Americans of Conscience
Go on Strike?

Dreams of Nonviolent Resistance
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Seeing Is Believing

Soaked in Corporate Riches, the Bushes Celebrate Inauguration Day:
Mr. Bush Vows to Bring "The Untamed Fire of Freedom" to the "Darkest Corners of our World"...
Courtesy of NY Times

...While in a Dark Corner, His Fire of Freedom Soaks a Dark-Skinned Tot in Her Parents' Blood. "I ask our youngest citizens to believe the evidence of your eyes." GWB
Courtesy of BBC.com



NEW:

Bush's Bomb-Threat Nation: Do You Feel Safer Now?

Have You Taken Your Media Medication Today?
The Media Pressures Us to Recover Too Quickly From Disasters              9/22/05

New York Times
Skews the News
... Again

Southerners, Devastated by Super-Hurricanes like Katrina, Doubt Bush's Ability to Confront Global Warming

Conservative Christian Women are Watching Cindy Sheehan…...and Seeing Themselves

Angry Mothers and Trembling Grizzlies: The Sheehan Effect

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Recruiters vs. Our Kids

ROTC, Recruiters and High School Kids: Survival of the Fittest?

Parents: The Anti-Recruiter

Parents and Teens, Beware Monster.com's In-School Program ... Sponsored by Military Recruiters

10 Ways to Protect US Teens from The Recruiting/Draft ASVAB Test

The Body Snatchers: Kids, Did Your Recruiters Tell You About the Shallow Graves?

Why Go to College, When You Can be Cannon Fodder? Military Recruiters Target School Children

How To Protect Your Child from the Coming Draft...before it's too late

Geometry 101, Brought to You by the US Navy
Sneaky Recruiting of School Kids--Especially Minorities

Enlist Today! Winning Young Hearts and Minds--Behind Parents' Backs

From Moral Individuals to Obedient Recruits...If They Survive
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The War of Terror


Berlusconi and Bush Renew Their Vows

The Devil Made Him Do It:
The Unfortunate Incident Protocol Worked for Sanchez, Too


The Unfortunate Incident Protocol
How to Whitewash Murder, Torture and "Friendly Fire"

The Eyewitnesses Must be Crazy
Discrediting Sgrena and Other Witnesses to Unfortunate Incidents

Send This to the Soldier You Love

Clinton and Bush Together Again--But Why?
Liberal Compassion for Acts of God, Conservative Compassion for Acts of Man

"Why Are Some American Christians So Bloodthirsty?" Understanding Prowar Christians'
Indifference to Civilian Deaths


Bush Unfazed...or Unhinged?
No Regrets, No Accountability

The "Christian Nation" Bombs:

Resist the Perversion of Our Faith

The Culture of Death

"Believe the Evidence of Your Eyes"        Warning: Graphic

As I Lay Crying: On Feeling What No Patriotic American Should Feel

From Belts to Bombs, America's
Passion for Punishment

"Shocking" Torture and Murder? Let's Not Pretend We Didn't Know


Palestinian Girl, Interrupted:
How Military Morality Makes "Bad Apples" of Us All

Soulless Soldiers: The Terminators "They Don't Care... "

The Value of One Life:
Leaving Hostages to the Wolves
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The White House Media

How to Read Between the Lines
At The New York Times, the Best Editorials are on the Front Page

Swift Boat Vets Attack Social Security for Our Elders and AARP
with a Little Help from the NYTimes

Token Balance: How Mainstream "News" Stories Promote Bush,War

"Good" vs "Bad" Military Families
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The Way We Treat Children

NEW: Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Cosby Show Consultant and Harvard Professor of Psychiatry, on
Violent Parenting/Violent Youth

An Open Letter to Jamie Foxx: It Wasn't the Whippings, Jamie, It was the Love

Why Does the Right Teach Parents to Do Wrong?

"Reasonable Spankings"
Yet another Child Dies after Torture in a "Disciplinarian" Boot Camp

Spanking Harms Children (PDF)
The Immediate and Long-term Effects of Spanking and Paddling
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