I’m sure my illustrious co-blogger (and rbc heavy lifter) Scott will be along shortly to discuss this story in more detail, but in the meantime, I thought we all deserve to enjoy a nervous, halting giggle over the latest round of covert theocratic hostility towards the idea of an unbiased judiciary, courtesy of the LA [...]
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Commenting on the must-read Max Blumenthal article in The Nation, in which Blumenthal recounts how his time as a sureptitious attendee to the “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith” conference, Billmon ponders the reasoning behind the “Constitution Restoration Act,” which would …make it an impeachable offense for a federal judge to hear any complaint that [...] May we all live in interesting times. So interesting that I can barely keep up. Just so it’s down for posterity in the spam-littered Movabletype database, I want to quickly note a few posts from other blogs that caught my eye. Billmon, perhaps the best writer in all of blogospheria, touched on religion a few [...] While I’ve spent a high percentage of this blog’s space to the evolution/ID faultline, let’s not forget that this administration’s attack on science is fought on many fronts. And while sad tales from those battle lines appear each day in the emm ess emm, no one has pulled all the atrocities under one tent as [...] The pope-to-pope media blanketing is disturbingly uncritical to the point where you’d soon forget that Pope John Paul II for 28 years headed the same organization that finds itself in caption boxes of sex abuse lawsuits too numerous to list. US Archdioceses are considering bankruptcy because the Vatican, in its infinite pipeline-from-God wisdom, deliberately ignored [...] The article is here but is registration only. I’ll post the entire thing, as it’s all relevant. Two impressions: 1) It’s depressing that Newdow has to jump through so many hoops to protect his plaintiffs from the defenders of God. And 2) Lost in this story is a strong indication that Newdow has his ducks [...] |
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