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Sen. Lugar's Wife Charged With DUI, Hit-and-Run
Society & Culture  (tags: senator, wife, DUI offender, Hit and Run )

Lone
- 1 day ago - washingtonpost.com
The wife of Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) was arrested in McLean on Wednesday night after crashing into a parked car, and she was charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run, Fairfax County police said Thursday
Rachel Maddow Interview With Former Evangelist Frank Schaeffer: Christian Right Is 'Trolling for Assassins'
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: republicans, corruption, politics, propaganda, terrorism )

Melva
- 1 day ago - alternet.org
"There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."
U.S. Christian Right Activists Pushing Death Penalty for Homosexuals in Poor African State
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: republicans, corruption, politics, meddling, terrorism )

Melva
- 3 days ago - alternet.org
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill under consideration in Uganda was sparked by a conference in Kampala earlier this year at which fundamentalist Christians from the U.S. identified homosexuality as a threat to "family values".
Army's Record Suicide Rate 'Horrible,' Says Gen. Chiarelli
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: cheney, bush, crime, lies, war, troops )

Melva
- 3 days ago - washingtonpost.com
As of Nov. 16, 140 soldiers on active duty and 71 soldiers not on active duty were suspected to have committed suicide. "We are almost certainly going to end the year higher than last year," which was also a record for Army suicides, Chiarelli said at a P
C Street House No Longer Tax Exempt
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: politicians, corruption, lies, politics, sex )

Melva
- 3 days ago - tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com
Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes.
Reader Deep Thought
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: politics, republicans, bush, obama )

Melva
- 3 days ago - talkingpointsmemo.com
"How is it that it will take 'decades' for history to judge the Bush administration yet we know already that the Obama administration is a failure?"
Anti-Obamists Sink to a New Low
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: obama, propaganda, lies, media, republicans, usa, politics, seperation of church and state )

Sarah
- 4 days ago - features.csmonitor.com
The psalm reads, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow." Psalm 109:8 A nice sentiment? Maybe not. The slogan comes at a time of heightened concern about antigovernment anger.
Conservatives Say Gitmo Detainees Would Be Fine In IL Prison, Warn GOP Of 'Scaremongering'
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: republicans, corruption )

Melva
- 4 days ago - tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
Three prominent conservatives warned in a joint statement against Republican "scaremongering" on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying the prison in Thomson, Illinois would be fine to handle them.
The World's Three Largest Christian Denominations Speak Out On Climate Change
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, climate, globalwarming, world, Sustainabililty )

David
- 4 days ago - mydd.com
Christianity is beginning to speak with one voice on environmental stewardship and climate change. And Leaders of the globe's three largest Christian denominations have all spoken out against environmental destruction and called for quick action.
CNN Paid Lou Dobbs $8 Million to Quit
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: cnn, dobbs, lies, politics, propaganda, republicans, terrorism )

Melva
- 4 days ago - alternet.org
That's a hell of a severance package.
 
 
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