We Are In Agreement

Oh please ohpleasohpleaseohplease..

Some fiscal conservatives, convinced that they’ll never “out-Obama Obama,” are sold on a solid-but-unflashy choice: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) was able to generate some early buzz — and news coverage — simply by telegraphing plans for a quick trip to Iowa later this year.

Politico

Rick Santorum, who lost his incumbent Senate seat by 18%, is generating some "buzz."

This is probably the best thing for sensible Republicans, though perhaps not in 2012.

Let the party implode over infighting between the neo-cons; and the evangelicals; and the 7 sane Republicans, the former 2 go form some radical warmongering platform based on witch-burning, imperialism, and oil-reserve acquisition.

The sensible republicans can peel of a large section of Democrats.

Ugh

TPM

Chris Broughton, the man who brought an assault rifle and a handgun to the Obama event in Arizona last week, attended a fiery anti-Obama sermon the day before the event, in which Pastor Steven Anderson said he was going to "pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell", Anderson confirmed to TPMmuckraker today.

Crap!

Anderson also said Broughton had informed the pastor about his planned show of arms-bearing, but "he planned out the AR15 thing long before he heard that sermon," delivered Sunday August 16 at the fundamentalist Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ.

Oh, sweet. Nevermind.

Why do we need to come to an "understanding" on evolution?

This is rich

Evolution isn't a dispute over the greatest point guard, or Haggar v. Roth (v. Cherone?), it's a dispute over the fossil record. Which is to say, a dispute over the indisputable.

From the op-ed

Sure, Lewis said, evolution could have rendered humans capable of nice behavior; we have affiliative impulses — a herding instinct, as he put it — like other animals. But, he added, evolution couldn’t explain why humans would judge nice behavior “good” and mean behavior “bad” — why we intuitively apprehend “the moral law” and feel guilty when we’ve broken it.

Hilarious.

We apprehend and apply moral law out of convenience. We stopped arbitrarily hacking each others heads off not because we felt guilty about it, but because arbitrarily hacking people's heads off isn't a sound way to run a municipality.

We live in a nation of laws because it protects property and equity, not because we have some deep moral guidance preventing us from doing so.

Or at least that's what stops me from doing it.

I wonder if Fox News will weigh in on this one

DES MOINES, Iowa - The Des Moines Regional Transit Authority has suspended a driver who refused to drive a bus bearing an ad for an atheist group.

[...]

Shiel says the message is against her Christian faith.

Good thing she's suspended, she'll need the free time to appear on Huckabee.

George W. Bush was Extremely Christian

The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God. Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

Sullivan

That shit is crazy