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I caught this the other night and as Rachel was explaining the facts of the story (about how a US rifle scope manufacturer has apparently been printing Bible verses on scopes that are then sold to the US military and used in combat operations in the middle east), I felt myself getting angry at the [...]

[UPDATED below] Thanksgiving Day is tomorrow and families will be coming together for dinner all over the USA to share the big meal. Football will be watched. Pie will be consumed. And inevitably, in some homes, politics will be discussed. Family members love each other, but they don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye on political issues. Political [...]

So Sarah Palin wants a talk show. The coincidental timing of Lou Dobbs’ departure from CNN cannot be ignored (Dobbs no doubt driven into retirement by the knowledge that Atlantic Magazine thinks Steve Benen is more influential than he is). So it’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that maybe Palin could fill [...]

Watch this video, where former Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, totally schools talk show host, atheist and Richard Dawkins Award winner, Bill Maher, on the efficacy of flu vaccines. It turns out that despite being a famous non-theist, Maher is a true believer of wacky alternative medicine claims, including the anti-vaccination nonsense that’s been [...]

Today’s Burlington Free Press… Zucker, a high school physics teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, guesses he had a tenth of a second to react. He threw his arms over his head and slammed his axes into the snow. The axes went all the way through the snow to the ice beneath, and Zucker thought he’d [...]

via Warren Ellis: These keen kids are rocking their love for Jesus all over town! Make sure you read some of the comments — priceless. If someone buys this shirt for me (XXL) I’ll totally wear it all the time (but I’ll have to cross my fingers when I do).

God bless The Uptake’s coverage of the MN Senate race…

via Dear S

I don’t normally pollute Candleblog with my political opinions but I’m not seeing this particular point being made elsewhere on the internets so I’m going to make it here. Yesterday, John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, sat down with Katie Couric (again — I think they LOVE her) and talked about, among other [...]

Watch this home video and be amazed.  I’m still not sure it’s real and not some clever special effect.  Thank God some people are recognizing this danger and speaking out. Let us hope that Kermit was right, and that we may indeed someday find the dreaded Rainbow Connection. via Blurt.