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\u201cGiven a choice between the two, I wonder which we\u2019d be more inclined to frequent \u2014 the church with the bouncer-pastor, or the bar with the pastor-bouncer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ten Commandments monument that was the focus of the 2005 Supreme Court case Van Orden v. Perry<\/em> was one of Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s very first attempts at viral marketing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c What\u2019s an inerrantist pastor to do<\/a> when one of his children turns out not to be a believer?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c Why affordable housing is a myth, in one chart<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do feel like I have a calling for certain things, including the work I do, and that comes from my faith and my beliefs<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Obama administration, however, mandated that private plans cover contraception because doing so will save money, unlike coverage of Rush\u2019s Viagra, which does cost the taxpayers money<\/a> if he bought it through an employer-provided plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just garden variety sexism, because it\u2019s very conscious of itself and a lot of it is clearly driven by pure hatred<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 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<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c Eradicate Muslims?<\/a> Eradicate all 1.5 billion Muslims? Santorum doesn\u2019t feel the need to explain or clarify.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to visit this Republican wonderland you will need a time machine. Not because it\u2019s a description of the Santorum presidency but because this all happened a couple of decades ago in the Communist wonderland of Romania<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c The fact that a person believes in racial equality doesn\u2019t prove<\/em> that he\u2019s a Communist<\/a>, but it certainly makes you look twice, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEmpathy is key in recognizing human rights and creating democracy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c The country flunked the Hugh Thompson Test even in the case of Hugh Thompson<\/a>. The Army hounded him out of the service.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c Mohamed Dawood, Khudaydad, Nazar Mohamed, Payendo, Robeena, Shatarina, Zahra, Nazia, Masooma, Farida, Palwasha, Nabia, Esmatullah, Faizullah, Essa Mohamed, Akhtar Mohamed<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"