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Archive for February 6th, 2008

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Making UO MOre Like the Corner, And Restoring John McCain’s “Conservative” Bona Fides

Hey Mona: What if we tell the Republicans that the telecoms are in the US illegally? Cause then “amnesty” would be right out.

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Andy McCarthy of NRO: Liar

By Mona
Ten ponies to those who can identify the falsehoods in this McCarthy post about the currently pending, contentious FISA amendment legislation (Andy’s post couched as advice to John McCain as a means of supposedly reestablishing some “conservative” bona fides).
Hint: FISA is not about to expire, and the government has always been able to intercept [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Ted Haggard Needs to Reevaluate and Save Himself from an Abusive “Therapy”

By Mona
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Ted Haggard — former pastor of the Colorado Springs, New Life evangelical mega-church who stepped down when it was discovered he’d been buying meth and having sex with a male prostitute — is quitting his church’s “restoration team.” Haggard has not yet been “restored” to a heterosexual status, [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Conference Blogging: Something just ain’t the same

By Thoreau
The Biophysical Society Meeting is in Long Beach right now, so for the past few days I’ve been driving down to attend.  But this time the conference feels different than in the past:  I haven’t spent much time going to talks, learning what’s going on, and meeting new people at poster sessions and after [...]