Red Hill Mining Town

Red Hill Mining Town

“Given a choice between the two, I wonder which we’d be more inclined to frequent — the church with the bouncer-pastor, or the bar with the pastor-bouncer.”

“The Ten Commandments monument that was the focus of the 2005 Supreme Court case Van Orden v. Perry was one of Cecil B. DeMille’s very first attempts at viral marketing.”

What’s an inerrantist pastor to do when one of his children turns out not to be a believer?”

Why affordable housing is a myth, in one chart.”

“I do feel like I have a calling for certain things, including the work I do, and that comes from my faith and my beliefs.”

“The Obama administration, however, mandated that private plans cover contraception because doing so will save money, unlike coverage of Rush’s Viagra, which does cost the taxpayers money if he bought it through an employer-provided plan.”

“It’s not just garden variety sexism, because it’s very conscious of itself and a lot of it is clearly driven by pure hatred.”

“This was my introduction to the fact that there are these kinds of people in the world. And now the modern Republican party has adopted the untrammeled craziness that was my former department head.”

Eradicate Muslims? Eradicate all 1.5 billion Muslims? Santorum doesn’t feel the need to explain or clarify.”

“If you want to visit this Republican wonderland you will need a time machine. Not because it’s a description of the Santorum presidency but because this all happened a couple of decades ago in the Communist wonderland of Romania.”

The fact that a person believes in racial equality doesn’t prove that he’s a Communist, but it certainly makes you look twice, doesn’t it?”

Empathy is key in recognizing human rights and creating democracy.”

The country flunked the Hugh Thompson Test even in the case of Hugh Thompson. The Army hounded him out of the service.”

Mohamed Dawood, Khudaydad, Nazar Mohamed, Payendo, Robeena, Shatarina, Zahra, Nazia, Masooma, Farida, Palwasha, Nabia, Esmatullah, Faizullah, Essa Mohamed, Akhtar Mohamed.”


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