How to identify a morally deviant political party

According to this post at Alternet, there are many forms of rampant self-indulgence.  The GOP specializes in the most pernicious forms: While the culture at large was adjusting to the idea that families don't all look the same and that private sexual morality was not the business of the state,…

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The kinds of questions the candidates are being asked

The news, reported by Jamison Foser of Media Matters, is depressing: Through 17 debates this year, roughly 1,500 questions have been asked of the two parties' presidential candidates. But only a small handful of questions have touched on the candidates' views on executive power, the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, or other…

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Pat Buchanan: A vote for Rudy Guliani is a vote for endless war

I haven't kept up with Pat Buchanan.   I noticed a column of Buchanan's in a brand new publication of columnists called The Cagle Post (this is the same Cagle of Cagle's Professional Cartoonist Index) So what does Buchanan think about Guliani's proposed team to lead the "war on terror"? Team…

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