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Some Boston College professors and students are raising a holy ruckus over the Catholic school’s return to its religious roots by hanging crucifixes in all its classrooms, calling the move “offensive” and a break from the Jesuit tradition of tolerance. “There is no choice if you don’t think it’s appropriate. You can’t turn it around,” said biology professor Dan Kirschner, faculty adviser for BC’s chapter of Hillel, a Jewish student group. “I think it is being insensitive to the people of other faith traditions here.” [Snip] In an interview with the college newspaper, The Observer, which broke the story,...

The nutroots are angry. They thought they had a real liberal in Barack Obama, but lately he's been swinging right. His vote to pass the new FISA, along with immunity for the big telecoms was the latest betrayal. So much for hope and change and a new kind of politics... For a bracing dose of nutroot anger, visit Firedoglake. Here's a sample: With his FISA vote he has proven that he is just another political hack in the pocket of the big corporations. I could see this coming. Progressive? BS. The audacity of nope. I’m so glad I didn’t give...

Liberal Rage By Keith Burgess-Jackson TechCentralStation.com | April 28, 2004 Why are liberals such as Paul Krugman, Michael Moore, and Howard Dean so angry and aggressive? I like to think that I have insight into this matter, since I was a liberal for a long time. If you haven't been a liberal, you may be puzzled by what you hear and read from them. They may seem -- dare I say it? -- insane, or at least discombobulated. The first thing you must realize is that liberals have a program. They are visionaries. They envision a world in which everyone...

My uncle and I have it out regularly and he sent me this note last night. I have ideas on what to say to him but wonder if anyone has ideas on what to write back. "Paul- The Shrub you so blindly follow is a mean-spirited greedy idiot, and you can't blame mainstream media sources for finally recognizing his lack of clothing. ..." He was not elected by a majority, he was anointed by a fiercely right wing supreme court majority, most of whom owe their positions to the Shrub man's father and party, undermining the court's legitimacy and that...

I know this is an old interview with Dean, but I was surprised to hear his complimentary words for Cheney as well as Bush. Besides, I picked up on this while lurking at DU and according to the Dean supporters, they are terrified of this interview getting out into the mainstream now!!! PLEASE DO YOUR BEST TO SPREAD IT AROUND. Also, I did search FR to see if this was posted in 7/02 and to the best of my ability, it was not found. Read on...

COLUMN | April 8, 2002 ERIC ALTERMAN Sullivan's Travails: Stop the Presses Andrew Sullivan cannot have an easy life. A Catholic gay man who is also HIV positive, his political views have led him to attach himself to a party, a movement and a church that believe him to be practicing an abomination. Influential Republican power-brokers blame America's sexual tolerance for the attacks of 9/11. The military he reveres is kicking gays out at a rate unseen since the presidency of Ronald Reagan--another Sullivan hero. And his church offers a warmer embrace for pedophile priests than for honest homosexuals....