Scientology owes the City of Clearwater a half million dollars in fines and doesn’t want to pay it. The St. Pete Times thinks they should.
There will be no shortage of comparisons made between Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, but where Palin’s beliefs are 7 parts opportunism to 1 part Christianity, Bachmann is the real deal evangelical. As Michelle Goldberg deftly documents, Bachmann’s beliefs are rooted in and shaped by writers who unambiguously endorse a Christian theocracy in the United States.
A few blocks north of my neighborhood sits the Meatpacking District, which his schizophrenically undergone multiple transformations, even while I’ve lived here. The NYT looks back at its humble beginnings.
Political ads reach an ambitiously low threshold. Talking Points Memo covers the video below: