Curt Wechsler | April 28, 2018 “It would be a mistake to be dismissive of End Times believers,” says humanist David Niose, “because their influence in American policymaking is far from marginal.” Apocalypse cheerleaders…
Category: Theocracy
The Real ‘Enemy of the American People’ Sits in the White House
World Can’t Wait | February 25, 2017 Author and journalist Naomi Wolf’s eighth step to fascism was invoked by a Trump administration spokesperson Friday, in an unprecedented government attack on press freedom. Reporters from…
Christian Fascists, Capitalist Pigs, and the List of Shame in Texas
National attention has focused in recent years on the meetings of the Texas State Board of Education (BOE). The BOE, dominated by right wing Christian Fundamentalists, achieved notoriety in years past for…
OBAMA GETS ADVICE FROM RELIGIOUS RIGHT
By Larry Jones A week before Barack Obama’s inauguration he received religious advice from a coalition which purports to include both conservative and progressive Christian leaders. However, the truth is that the signatories…
Religious Right Not Going Away
By Larry Jones Some pundits and progressives are saying that, while George Bush had strong links to Christian fascists, Obama will soon be president so the culture wars and the religious right…
Killing Me Softly
By Merle Hoffman, Editor of On the Issues online magazine I have been on the psychological defensive since Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee — not wanting to…
Palin & Theocratic Ambitions
By Debra Sweet I have really disagreed with columnist Frank Rich over the last couple of years when he declared that the Christian Right and the Bush administration were "over". But I…