How, indeed? Where was the governor when conservatives spent eight years ripping Hillary Clinton to shreds, even making foul jokes about her young daughter? Where was she when the right-wing attack machine went after Michelle Obama, blasting her as angry, unpatriotic and anti-white? Indeed, didn’t Palin notice that the...]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500 The letter I received shortly after my annual mammogram was terse and ominous: The doctor wanted me to schedule a diagnostic mammogram to clarify something slightly suggestive from the first test.

At that point, according to conservatives who push a “market-based” health care fix in which consumers take responsibility for cost control, I should have started to shop around for the cheapest diagnostic mammogram: $350, but you can’t get to me for two months? $400 if I want the test a month from now?

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A hundred years from now, historians and social scientists will look back on our own crazed obsession with guns and wonder why the madness lasted so long. They’ll shake their heads over a time in which a church or nursing home or community center could suddenly fall prey to a gunman armed with a determination to murder indiscriminately.

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Like President-elect Barack Obama, I disagree with many of the views espoused by the Rev. Rick Warren. Pastor of an Orange County megachurch and best-selling author of "The Purpose Driven Life,"� Warren vehemently opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. He has gone so far as to compare gay marriage with incest, polygamy and pedophilia, which I find deeply offensive.

But as a member of the Christian left, I would still bow my head for a prayer led by the Rev. Warren (assuming he doesn't disparage any group in the process). There are...]]> Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500