Members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa, are responding to the needs of people who have been affected by a May 12 federal immigration raid at a Postville meat processing plant. (The raid set a new record as the largest immigration raid on a single location in American History.) Hundreds of family members of  Read more »

I know I’ve been negligent in posting this week, but I have been working on a longish post that requires a lot of research.  In the meantime though I have decided to break my usual tradition of avoiding New Years resolutions. Over the last week I have seen some completely baffling bullshit from people who  Read more »

Over in the Skilled Political Debate group on BlogCatalog.com, MadameX started an interesting thread on Religion and Politics in which she points out that a politicians religious beliefs play a large role in the formation of his socio-political beliefs.  She went on to ask: “Does religion have a place in politics? And if so, how  Read more »

From: What was God Thinking:  Richard Gere urges Olympics boycott Richard Gere urges Olympics boycott Actor Richard Gere chases a fugitive Bosnian war criminal in his latest movie role, but in real life the devout Buddhist is pursuing China on human rights abuses and says a boycott of the Beijing Olympics could help. Gere, chairman  Read more »

or tries to.  Since drugs are involved its more of a white trash ‘Cops’ version of the Ted Haggart stuff.   Apparently Oxycontin can make you want to suck some cop cock.  I wonder of Limbaugh is aware of this. Wonkette reports on her new favorite Baptist Preacher after the minister of a Baptist church has  Read more »