Posts Tagged ‘ McCain ’

Talk of change or more of the same?

Nov 6th, 2008 | By Ian Bushfield | Category: Feature

There’s a lot of hope and excitement in the (more progressive) USA right now. Except of course at Pharyngula.

Bitter ol’ PZ Myers (I know the man’s not truly bitter) wrote a couple of posts since the…



Christopher Hitchens on Fox

Oct 19th, 2008 | By Chris Basinet | Category: News

Christopher Hitchens, bestselling author of God Is Not Great and an advocate of Atheism ranked with the likes of Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) appeared on the O’Reily Factor yesterday night. Laura Ingraham interviewed him on…



Religion in political cartoons

Sep 28th, 2008 | By Ian Bushfield | Category: Media

I have to appreciate Christianity Today’s post on religion in political cartoons. Here’s a sample (click through for a few more).



Why Sarah Palin Should Scare You…

Sep 11th, 2008 | By Robin Zhang | Category: Feature

I watched Sarah Palin’s speech during the Republican National Convention, and I have to disagree with most of the punditry that it was some sort of stroke of brilliance. Ms. Palin’s speech during the RNC was…



What would a 21st century democratic theocracy look like?

Sep 5th, 2008 | By Chris Ray | Category: Feature

Last month, I wrote about how tired I was that so much of this year’s election coverage has been about which of our two leading American presidential candidates loves Jesus more. This remains the case-I still…



What’s good about Sarah Palin?

Sep 3rd, 2008 | By Ian Bushfield | Category: Commentary, List

Editor’s Note: A shorter version of this post would just say “Nothing.”

So there’s been a lot of flack to Republican running-mate Sarah Palin since John McCain announced her this past week. But can she really be…