Posts Tagged ‘Theocracy’

Michelle Bachmann and John Eidsmoe

June 28, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »

Important, from this piece on Democracy Now:

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: Well, one of the—I don’t know why this hasn’t gotten more attention. So when she was at Oral Roberts University, which is, you know, kind of a charismatic Pentecostal school in Oklahoma, she was a research assistant to a guy named John Eidsmoe, who she still cites [...]

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Theocracy

January 25, 2011Henry Baum 1 Comment »

It’s not the theocracy that scares me, because that probably won’t happen (probably), it’s the total lack of self-awareness.
We Need a Christian Dictator
(via Dangerous Minds)

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American Taliban

September 1, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

A review of Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas new book: American Taliban – How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. What in this paragraph is not actually true?
Like Liberal Fascism, American Taliban is another entry in the tired genre of “my political opponents are monsters.” Indeed, Moulitsas begins the book with [...]

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Slavery

July 12, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Michelle Bachmann says we’re being turned into a nation of slaves, etc. etc.
“‘We are determined to live free or not at all. And we are resolved that posterity shall never reproach us with having brought slaves into the world,’” Bachmann read from founding father John Jay , ending her reading with the [...]

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Glenn Beck’s Revivalism

June 5, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Haven’t seen a better summation of Glenn Beck hysteria:
Do Beck and his radical like-minded followers want to fundamentally transform America into a Christian theocracy? Does the “American Revival” tour have as its core purposes the weakening or elimination of the separation of church and state and the indoctrination of Americans, including school children, with [...]

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