Spamming my LJ this week, but I want to keep this link.

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I am a left social libertarian, but only slightly more-so than average:

My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian
Left: 4.75, Libertarian: 3.75

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The White House site (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) now has a blog! With an RSS feed even ( Read more... )

For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing , the research of Professor Robert Altemeyer was used by John Dean (Nixon's White House counsel) when researching his book Conservatives Without Conscience.    At Dean's urging Altemeyer wrote a book for laymen on his 40 or so years of study of authoritarianism and has made it freely ( Read more... )

I have a much longer post about my opinions of Palin (and you can take it as read that I am less then impressed by her, and of course I already opposed McCain). But this excerpt from her interview with Katie Couric just leaves me blinking in disbelief ( Read more... )

Somewhat surprisingly, I saw this first on del.icio.us as one of their ‘most popular links’ but it is also showing up elsewhere on my friends list ( Read more... )

From freespeechzone comes this fascinating link to a dissertation titled How Biblical is the Christian Right? by Margaret M. Mitchell, Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicagohttp://marty-center.uchicago.edu/webforum/052006/

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Keith Olbermann You Tube clip. Well worth watching. Transcript below for those who can’t watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KgkrApJ5PE&eurl=

( Olbermann’s Special Comment: Are YOURS the actions of a true American? )

If you read nothing else today, read this: http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/206303.html

On a related note, read this: http://pentane.livejournal.com/109588.html