Latest Pope Bashing by the Media

Latest Pope Bashing by the Media
Eager to seize even the slightest pretense for bashing the Pope, news media, European governments, and even medical journals have taken his recent comments about African AIDS completely out of context.
The Lancet even went so far as to accuse His Holiness of “manipulating science” and having “publicly distorted scientific [...]

Republican Ideology: Let’s Have Less Rush Limbaugh, More Cato Institute

Short post — no need for a long one.
The papers are presenting Rush Limbaugh as the new ideological spokesman for the Republican Party.
Get a clue.
Rush is a comedian and an entertainer. Part of his schtik is to act like a serious ideologue. But he really isn’t, and its ridiculous to think otherwise.
Yes, Rush [...]

The Irony of Jon Stewart’s Diatribes Against Wall Street

The Irony of Jon Stewart’s Diatribes Against Wall Street
Lately Jon Stewart, dean of cable television comedy and host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, has been sanctimoniously criticizing Wall Street for their role in the economic meltdown. Technically, he’s right: greedy financial speculators supported a climate of easy mortgage lending, made loans, [...]

Clergy Speak Out Against the War on Drugs

Mike Gray of Common Sense for Drug Policy, in cooperation with the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative, has made a documentary titled “Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Clergy Speak Out Against The War On Drugs“.
Substantial clips (9 and 11 minutes each) from the video can be found here:
http://www.csdp.org/news/news/clergydvd.htm
These clips shows Christian and Jewish clerics speaking out against [...]