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Greg Sargent invites you to view the following screengrab from Drudge that "...neatly encapsulates the state of the American right."

Apr 03

Do informed voters make better choices? Not necessarily.

Apr 02

Former White House administrator, Harvard lecturer to speak at Pizza & Politics

Lipscomb University’s Pizza & Politics series will present Elaine Kamarck, one of the architects of the “reinventing government” plan during Pres. Bill Clinton administration and a lecturer at the…

The four best lies about the new health care law.

NYTimes Request Correction/Removal Of Our Post. We Decline.

Apr 01

How to admit that you were wrong

Actor Neal McDonough Fired For Not Doing Sex Scenes?

Oops! Hannity Rails Against Those Who “Attack The President”

Mar 31

Christian Militias: Is God Violent?

Mar 30

The health-care law: Answers to frequently asked questions

Mar 29

Missing Pieces: 17 tracks of rarities (i.e. singles, comp tracks etc.) all in one digital only release $10 for… http://bit.ly/dpvdsZ

we’re approaching the 1-year anniversary of the brouhaha over the DHS report warning about right wing extremism. hmmm.

RT @jimmycshaw: Dow-Jones trading at 18-month high. And yet, strangely, no FB statuses from my conservative friends celebrating it or ha ...

"Christian warriors" allegedly plotted attack on cops

Faulkner University - 2010 Benefit Dinner - An Evening With Sarah Palin

The difference between being pro-business and pro-market

Mar 28

Hell No, You Can’t: Obama and Boehner Duet at Last

RT @gregkb: Christian Taliban alive and well in Texas. http://bit.ly/cVlxyt

Transportation Fail

Honesty

Mar 26

Chloe Sevigny says last season of Big Love was ‘awful’

I said it’s great to be a Tennessee Vol

that didn’t last long

up by five!

The latest updates from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.

Media falsely claim Obama and staff are "exempt" from health care reform

Congress Calls on Christians to Reverse “Fight Club” Mentality of National Politics

The Republicans Who Made Health Care Reform Possible

Mar 25

$100,000 spills from armored car; passers-by pocket most of it so far | The Columbus Dispatch

The Road to Montellano Leads Straight Through My Heart

Mar 24

Wyden: Health Care Lawsuits Moot, States Can Opt Out Of Mandate

We have something to fear from fear-mongering itself

The risk of health-care reform

An attack on inequality

Mar 23

don't be hatin'

hmmm. according to this, it kinda seems like Obamacare takes away our freedom to be a d-bag. bravo. http://bit.ly/btZ497

The Fourth Branch

This is response to the numerous critics who have suggested that the Democrats were somehow unethical, anti-democratic or even tyrannical to enact their health care policy at a time when it polls…

Republicans might reform health-care reform, but they won't repeal it

RT @TimothyArcher: National anthem splits Indiana’s Goshen College - USATODAY.com http://is.gd/aTEfg

Mar 22

I’m an eye-witness that it’s not always sunny in Philadelphia

Mar 21

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RT @ezraklein: The GOP’s argument on the bill is 1) it’s socialism and 2) it cuts Medicare too much? So, too socialist and not socialist …

Finn says - If someone crashes a car on purpose, it’s not a car accident. It’s a car on-purpose.

RT @ezraklein: Shame that the Sunday shows invite Rove and Plouffe as opposed to people who actually know about, and can explain, the he ...

Why I Support Health Care Reform: A Personal and Theological Journey

House, Bart Stupak reach abortion agreement - David Rogers and Patrick O'Connor and Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

Who does health-care reform help?

Last night we watched Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992,PG) for family movie night.  From IMDB:

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working.

A bit of wisdom from the film:

There's one thing every kid knows: daddies mean fun, mommies mean business.

The kids enjoyed it.  I give it 3 out of 5.

A few examples:

Deut. 2:  They destroyed towns of King Sihon...killing men, women, and children...leaving no survivors.  The context would seem to indicate this was done with God's blessing.

Numbers 31: Instructed by God to take vengeance on the Midianites, Moses gives instructions to kill all boys and non-virgin girls while saving the virgin girls for themselves.

1 Samuel 15: God instructs Saul to destroy the Amalekites, not sparing children and infants.

I think it safe to say that the followers of Jesus are unanimous in considering infanticide to be a gross violation of God's moral code.  How does that square with these passages of God-sanctioned infanticide?  I don't have a good answer.  One unsatisfying answer is that these sorts of things represent an ancient people using God to justify there barbaric actions.  I'm not ready to accept what that says about the reliability of scripture.  Another answer is "who is the clay to question the potter", God can do what he will regarding life and death.  That's not satisfying either, but is probably where I am at this point.