Should the public know and understand the belief system of the world’s most despicable terrorist? Aren’t some ideas just too disturbing for academic study or general dissemination?
What does bin Laden believe?
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Will political reporters get it?
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., does not seem to be running for president in 2008. That doesn’t mean he will not do so, just that he is not laying the necessary framework to make a run at the Democratic nomination. He’s certainly soaking up the praise and good favor of his colleagues as major media outlets continue the drumbeat promoting the nation’s only African American senator.
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Goodbye to the White House evangelical
The departure of President Bush’s close adviser and longtime speechwriter Michael Gerson ends an era in which an evangelical Christian had unprecedented access and influnce in shaping American foreign and domestic policy. Thanks to Gerson’s humility, he never came close to receiving the attention from journalists of the likes of Karen Hughes and Karl Rove, but few were as influential.
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Southern Baptists hit the highways -- again
The year was 1979, the place was the Astrodome in Houston and, for legions of Southern Baptists on the left side of the nation’s largest non-Catholic flock, what took place there forever changed how they looked at church buses.
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Unanswered questions
Pretty much no one liked the report from London’s Metropolitan police regarding why complaints of corruption and misconduct against Asian officers are 10 times greater than for white officers. At least that’s how The Guardian‘s Sandra Laville and Hugh Muir would like you to see it.
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Preachers and pornographers unite
Kudos to The Washington Post for picking up this Religion News Service article by Piet Levy on the problems religious broadcasters see with à la carte cable plans. The subject has been around for awhile. It has received heavy coverage in publications such as National Journal‘s Technology Daily and a segment on NPR’s On the Media, but mainstream press coverage has been scant.
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Post: Christian conservatives usually look like this
Libby Copeland’s 2,500-word profile of Sen. Sam Brownback thoroughly analyzes his religious views. Titled “Faith-Based Intitiative: Presidential Hopeful Sam Brownback Strives to Be Humble Enough for a Higher Power,” the piece is all religion, all the time.
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Dang it, there's that question again
Here is a story that has been hanging around in my laptop for some time now, just bugging me from last week into this one.
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Problems on the abortion beat
Earlier this week, newspapers in the United Kingdom reported some abortion figures from the Office for National Statistics. From 1996 to 2004, 20 unborn children in late pregnancies were aborted because ultrasounds showed that they had club feet.
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