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in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” — Christopher Hedges at Truthdig, 12/23/07. For 1/8: “You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.” — Hillary Clinton, 1/6/08 For 1/7 “You’re not supporting the troops if you’re sending them to war for bad reasons.” — Scott Sidlow, chairman of the Parkside Democratic

’ proposing a health care program? (PageOneQ) On the subject of Huckabee, Salon reports on the amount of Christian reconstructionist pies in which the Republican candidate has inserted his fingers. See also this comprehensive report by Chris Hedges at Truthdig. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland has an enlightened new policy regarding employees and volunteers making anonymous reports of sexual abuse of minors that can be summed in four words:

class, rape the country, build a rapacious oligarchy and never pay a political price. Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, is the author of “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee and The Evangelical Rebellion (Truthdig) America's Priorities in the War on Terror (Michael D. Huckabee in Foreign Affairs) CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISM, DOMINION THEOLOGY, AND THEONOMY Dominion Theology is a grouping of theological systems with the common belief that society should

of America’s corporate entities and the market system allocating wealth and opportunity.” National Review’s Rich Lowry wrote that “like [Howard] Dean, his nomination would represent an act of suicide by his party.” continue reading at Truthdig

class, rape the country, build a rapacious oligarchy and never pay a political price. Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, is the author of “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee and The Evangelical Rebellion (Truthdig) CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISM, DOMINION THEOLOGY, AND THEONOMY Dominion Theology is a grouping of theological systems with the common belief that society should be governed exclusively by the law of God as codified in the Bible, to the exclusion of

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have said about him. They're scared that the fundagelicals might be getting tired of being the reliable Republican foot soldiers on election day and then getting little of what they want while the corporate types and neocons prosper. That was Chris Hedges' point in the piece I recommended yesterday. If you haven't read Hedges' American Fascists (Free Press, 2006), it's well worth your time. What frightens Hedges (and me) is that the classic formula for fascism is corporatism, a militaristic foreign policy,

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The world has seen one too many Georges’: Has Huck found a way to silence media criticism? Gun play is just kid’s play in Iraq: Sorry, Your Highness. You won’t be able to screw your way to the White House, this time. Like Bill, you may just have to leave a trail of bodies

and have close ties with the worst religious bigots on offer gets us? Chris Hedges, author of American Fascists: The Christian Right And The War On America, one of the most intelligent writers on the subject of the Christian Right working today, offers his take on the matter at Truthdig: Huckabee represents a new and potent force in American politics, and the neocons and corporate elite, who once viewed the yahoos of the Christian right as the useful idiots, are now confronted with the fact that they themselves are the