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Tea partiers wary of regulation, even in BP spill By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press Writer Amazing to me that conservatives aren’t more concerned that BP didn’t take… well (no pun intended)… a CONSERVATIVE approach to deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico! In the two months since BP’s underwater well ruptured and started belching [...]

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How Christian is Tea Party Libertarianism? by Jim Wallis 05-27-2010 The Libertarians’ supreme confidence in the market is not consistent with a biblical view of human nature and sin. The exclusive focus on government as the central problem ignores the problems of other social sectors, and in particular, the market. When government regulation is the [...]

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Documents Show Early Worries About Safety of Rig The documents show that in March, after several weeks of problems on the rig, BP was struggling with a loss of “well control.” And as far back as 11 months ago, it was concerned about the well casing and the blowout preventer. Too much risk.  Profits over [...]

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Beck apologizes for mocking Obama’s daughter “In discussing how President Obama uses children to shield himself from criticism, I broke my own rule about leaving kids out of political debates,” said Beck in the statement. “The children of public figures should be left on the sidelines. It was a stupid mistake and I apologize–and as [...]

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God is NOT the author fear! Satan is. Satan and (today) the Republican party. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 Did you guess that I was talking about the health care reform bill passed by Congress yesterday? [...]

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I can’t deal with Rush Limbaugh.  Each time I read his words, I am more sickened. Here’s President Obama speaking about Haiti this morning in Washington at the White House.  He held a press conference.  Now, I want you to remember, it took him three days to respond to the Christmas Day Fruit of Kaboom [...]

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A Guide to the Health-Care Reform Debate 1. Take time to pray on this issue and discuss personal experiences with health care with your friends and neighbors. 2. Continue to educate yourself about the health-care debate. Don’t believe everything that comes into your e-mail inbox or that is said on TV. The short form: The [...]

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Sen. Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania is switching parties. Rod Dreher wrote on Crunchy Con that this was “A complete shocker”. Besides, he’s not popular among Republicans in general. But if he weren’t facing a Toomey challenge, I doubt that changing parties would have crossed Specter’s mind. There is a reason he isn’t popular among Republicans! [...]

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Election Eve

Random thoughts for the night… It seems to me that a large percentage of our population (of all political flavors) are absolutely certain that our Nation As We Know It will never be the same if The Other Guy wins tomorrow and certain Doom and Gloom will follow  when The Other Guy takes office.  Yet, [...]

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