The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
Max Blumenthal profiles Rick Santorum: Santorum complemented his activism with an almost unremitting stream of extreme statements. In an interview with the AP, for example, he compared homosexuality to “man-on-dog” sex, prompting the female reporter to plead, “I’m freaking out...
Progressive Alaska (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Saturday, December 12th, at 1:00 p.m. Alaska time, the blog firedoglake (where I occasionally write ) will host a book salon session with Richard Kim and Colin Robinson, the editor and publisher of the new book about the Crazy Woman, titled Going Rouge: Sarah Palin - An American Nightmare . The book has chapters by Alaskans Jeanne Devon (AK Muckraker), Elston Lauesen and Shannyn Moore . Additionally,...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday
Please, please let Little Ricky run...I've got a nice big back catalog here on this moralizer. Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast has a report on Santorum's 2012 rumblings. Having already delivered speeches to conservative groups in the key GOP primary states of Michigan and Iowa, and with plans to speak at a fundraiser for a Republican gubernatorial candidate in South Carolina on December 8,...
The Progressive Puppy (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... smacks of progressive thinking, centrism, bipartisanship, or moderation in the Republican Party. Max Blumenthal takes the leash: In 2001, Santorum attempted and failed to slip an amendment into the No Child Left Behind bill that would have required public schools to teach "intelligent design" and familiarize students with criticism of the theory of evolution. Four years later, he became...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... was not just the son of a famous evangelical leader ( Francis Schaeffer -- "credited" by Max Blumenthal and others as a founder of the religious right) but for a time I was also his sidekick and a leader in the evangelical world in my own right. I quit over the slide of the religious right into extremism. That said I'm still a believing Christian (non-evangelical and progressive)...
The Brad Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... father – the late Francis Schaeffer – who is “credited” by many, including by Karen Armstrong and Max Blumenthal – with being a key father of the Religious Right...along with R.J. Rushdoony. I quit the movement over its hate for the “other” and got out by the late 80s and started writing novels like Portofino , aimed at the heart of the movement through humor at fundamentalist’s expense....
