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    POPS    Obama to media: leave Palin's daughter alone
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    by enbar  9-1-2008   
     Interesting.
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    POPS    Since when is it elitist to be well-informed?
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    by enbar  8-24-2008    2
     This is Susan Jacoby's column from May 2008, already widely discussed. I hadn't seen it until now.
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    POPS    California State Legislature instructs health-care licensing boards to condemn torture
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    by enbar  8-18-2008   
     California licensing boards are instructed to inform doctors and other health-care workers holding state licensures that any involvement or complicity in torture or coercive interrogations may result in prosecution.
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    POPS    Nicholas Kristof calls for a U.S. Truth and Reconciliation commission
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    by enbar  7-6-2008    1
     No Remarks
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    POPS    "Lord, Save Us from Your Followers," a movie about American "bumper-sticker culture"
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    by enbar  5-12-2008   
     A documentary about how our national debate about serious issues has degenerated into sloganeering -- mainly carried out via bumper sticker.
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    POPS    Daniel Lazare reviews two new books on religious toleration
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    by enbar  3-5-2008   
     I basically am clipping this because I read it and want to remember it, but I think Lazare gets it completely wrong. Not only is his attitude towards religion in general misguided, he doesn't understand history.
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    POPS    Seen "Election"? Following the Democratic primaries? Watch this
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    by enbar  2-24-2008   
     Hilarious video mashup by the people at Slate. Hilary Clinton as Reese Witherspoon's character in "Election" (1999), Tracy Flick.
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    POPS    Barack Obama added you as a friend!
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    by enbar  2-17-2008    2
     Randomly generates some text about all the great things Barack Obama did for you: wrote on your FunWall, gave you a puppy, loves your laugh, made you a mixtape, told me to tell you hello.
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    POPS    Debating Mark Lilla on secularism: America magazine
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    by enbar  1-9-2008   
     Two contemporary Catholic thinkers take on Mark Lilla's indictment of secularism in the pages of the Catholic periodical America.
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    POPS    Marsilius of Padua (c.1275-1342): a few links
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    by enbar  1-2-2008   
     I've been meaning for some time to read up on this guy, sort of the intellectual godfather of medieval constitutionalism.
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    POPS    Lee Camp's "detailed analyses in cartoon form"
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    by enbar  12-24-2007   
     Political satire in, let's say, an unusual format.
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    POPS    Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" speech (12-6-2007)
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    by enbar  12-17-2007    1
     Mitt Romney, speaking at the Bush library in Texas, presents his vision of the relationship between religion and government. An interesting read.
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    POPS    Frank Rich: Americans need to wake up & pay attention
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    by enbar  10-14-2007   
     Rich argues that the longer the misguided Bush policies remain in effect -- the disastrous Iraq "surge," torturing detainees, retrograde legal and fiscal measures -- the more morally culpable the U.S. public becomes.
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    POPS    Tom Tomorrow on Alan Greenspan
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    by enbar  9-29-2007   
     Like the bumper sticker says, "Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?"
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    POPS    Ten minutes with the Christians United for Israel
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    by enbar  9-3-2007    2
     Max Blumenthal's highly unauthorized ten-minute video piece on what John Hagee's influential organization, the Christians United for Israel, actually preaches: mass conversion of Jews, Muslims as Satanists, a Middle East peace treaty as the work of Antichrist, etc.
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    POPS    Dept of Homeland Security to fight brain-eating zombies
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    by enbar  8-10-2007    1
     Bush defends his new GWOT policy, namely, the fight against zombies. (The original source for this mashup is the Rose Garden press conference of 5/24/2007, http://rurl.org/7jm). Originally from MyEverything.com
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    POPS    hey!spread: multiple simultaneous video uploads
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    by enbar  7-9-2007   
     Could be handy. Upload your video to this site and it will post to YouTube, Google Videos, MySpace, Blip.tv, DailyMotion, etc. on your behalf.
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    POPS    Quotes: conservative pundits on Iraq, 4 years ago
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    by enbar  5-17-2007    1
     No comment. Just have a look.
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    POPS    This Modern World on distrust of science
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    by enbar  5-17-2007    1
     Screw science! Why should we believe what a bunch of eggheads say, anyhow.
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    POPS    Japanese company introduces "voter turnout bra"
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    by enbar  5-9-2007    1
     A Japanese clothing company has created a "concept bra" to encourage Japanese citizens to vote (turnout has been low lately). From the source: . With voter apathy and a general aversion to politics worsening each year, the government has taken a variety of measures to encourage participation in the election process. Taking matters into their own hands, Triumph decided to focus attention on the problem by unveiling the Voter Turnout Lift-UP! Bra along with their fall/winter collection on May 9.
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    POPS    Reference work on the "religious right"
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    by enbar  5-8-2007    2
     This came across my desk the other day. Potentially interesting.
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    POPS    Michael Pollan on why cheap food is more fattening
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    by enbar  4-23-2007    1
     For anyone who reads Pollan, this is an old message -- the politics of farm subsidies are hurting Americans' health by artificially making, say, a package of Twinkies cheaper than a bag of carrots.
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    POPS    The new Tintin - now he's a revolutionary anarchist
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    by enbar  4-23-2007   
     If you like Tintin, check this out. Here he's a working-class English kid who joins the anarchist revolution. It's pretty wild.
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    POPS    MoveOn.org's anti-McCain ad helps McCain
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    by enbar  4-23-2007    2
     MoveOn's anti-McCain spot was probably a major gift to the McCain campaign. Watch the video on the site.
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    POPS    House Ag panel news release on Colony Collapse Disorder hearings (bee die-offs)
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    by enbar  4-22-2007   
     If you're interested in learning more about the disappearing bees that has people so worried, the transcripts of the testimony of Congressional witnesses are online (follow the link near the bottom of the clip, and look for the date March 29).
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    POPS    ABC's Nightline looks at BattleCry, an evangelical youth group
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    by enbar  4-16-2007    3
     An eight-minute profile of Ron Luce's (of Teen Mania Ministries) evangelical youth group BattleCry. Powerful.
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    POPS    Pew Forum on religion & Presidential politics for 2008
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    by enbar  4-11-2007   
     The Pew Forum's new informational site.
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    POPS    FBI abused National Security Letter authority, report shows
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    by enbar  3-11-2007   
     This seems to be turning into another embarrassment for Gonzales.
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    POPS    Congress 2.0: live bloggable feeds for officials, topics, bills
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    by enbar  3-10-2007   
     Very cool project of the Sunlight Foundation and Participatory Politics Fdn. A flexible, mashable, real-time stream of data on whatever aspects of Congress's work interest you. Now we need something like this for the other two branches of government.
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    POPS    Orwell on language and politics
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    by enbar  3-1-2007   
     A classic essay, which I don't think I've ever gotten around to reading.
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    POPS    Jyte: lightweight reputation engine using OpenID
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    by enbar  2-23-2007   
     Interesting idea. Sort of like Standpoint, Inkling, or Grupthink, but based on the idea of building reputation around an OpenID identity.
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    POPS    Yale Div School panel on religion & politics, with Ralph Reed
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    by enbar  2-12-2007   
     Liveblogged (pretty neutrally) by someone at HuffPo. Plenty of vitriol and ignorance in the comments though, if you like that sort of thing. Reed is interesting, albeit his usual slick, self-righteous self.
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    POPS    Chomsky debates Foucault on human nature (1971)
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    by enbar  12-12-2006    6
     Randomly stumbled across this. Looks fascinating.
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    POPS    "Politics of Religion-Making" conference @ Hofstra
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    by enbar  11-14-2006   
     I plan to submit a proposal to this ...
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    POPS    Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) on the Democrats' gains
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    by enbar  11-13-2006    10
     Lincoln Chafee recalls Cheney's offhanded dismissal of bipartisan tactics after the 2000 election and deplores the viciousness of partisan politics since 1994. He's right; it wasn't always this way. Kind of sorry to see him go.
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    POPS    New Pottery Barn Rule
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    by enbar  11-13-2006    8
     As a Democrat, I fear this may be all too true ... ( Alt. image URL )
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    POPS    Why the Democrats took Pennsylvania
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    by enbar  11-11-2006    2
     The Inky's perspective on Santorum's loss: Pennsylvanians saw him as an intolerant, arrogant, bullying know-it-all, and saw Casey and Gov. Rendell as moderate, solution-focused politicians who've worked successfully with those they disagree with.
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    POPS    Liberalism and human sinfulness
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    by enbar  11-9-2006    19
     Jon Ebel for the Revealer on the surprising sympathy between liberal values and an old-fashioned Christian view of human frailty and fallenness. Liberalism claims, he says, that everyone is messed up and that we all need to help one another heal. So do Luther and Calvin.
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    POPS    Dear God, please help the Dems
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    by enbar  11-9-2006    1
     An except from a MySpace blog -- a prayer for America.
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    POPS    Ding, dong... (Santorum concession video)
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    by enbar  11-7-2006    4
     Video of Santorum concession speech. Yippee! That sanctimonious, smarmy S.O.B. is no longer representing me.
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