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\u2022 \u201cI think Todd Starnes is mistaking Jesus for \u2026 well \u2026 not<\/em> Jesus<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker gets dropkicked<\/a>. This keeps happening. Right-wing politicians keep getting slammed by lefty musicians for trying to co-opt their music. I understand why the musicians are upset, but I don\u2019t understand what the politicians are thinking. Why<\/em> would an extremely anti-union Republican governor want to associate with a Woody Guthrie song recorded by a fiercely pro-union Celtic punk band? What part of Woody Guthrie<\/em> does Walker not understand?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bill Hicks\u2019 12 Rules for Blogging<\/a>. (Technically, these are Hicks\u2019 \u201c12 Principles of Comedy,\u201d but, still, it applies.)<\/p>\n

$\"ElmwoodPark\"$ <\/a>\u2022 \u201cUsing provocative contrarianism to attract attention and then whining when people take the bait is not very sympathetic behavior<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWhen Eugene \u2018Bull\u2019 Connor was not attacking unarmed children \u2026\u00a0 he taught Sunday school<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 In our new Republican Senate, the former Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights will now simply be called the Subcommittee on the Constitution \u2014 no more \u201ccivil rights and human rights\u201d in the name<\/a>. Similarly, what had been the\u00a0subcommittee for Immigration, Refugees and Border Security has abandoned any reference to refugees<\/a> and is now just the subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publisher HarperCollins Christian and the Burpo family want everyone to know that they have no intention of retracting the miraculous story of their best-selling book Heaven Is for Real.<\/em> Sure, that other<\/em> Christian-brand publisher\u2019s Fiji Mermaid<\/a> turned out to be a hoax, but theirs is the real deal. Warren Throckmorton relays this news<\/a>, skeptically.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mike Huckabee and<\/em> David Barton<\/a> will both be speaking at a one-day conference in March just up the road at Lancaster Bible College. This may be the most exciting thing to happen at Lancaster Bible since the school\u2019s 4-2 triumph in a men\u2019s basketball game against Northeastern Bible College. (Yes: 4-to-2. The shot-clock was introduced for a reason.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"