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I still say we need to get someone working on a blowout preventer for Sarah Palin's mouth: "Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a scathing rebuke Monday night to the proposed "mosque" near Ground Zero and President Obama's comments supporting it. "He just doesn't get it, that this is an insensitive move by those Muslims that want to build a mosque in this location," Palin said of Obama in an appearance on Fox's "On the Record." "That...

I suppose it is my destiny to draw ire from the regular readers here, but I found something extremely odd this morning. I read Charles Krauthammer's column and found myself agreeing with every word of it. Of course, I am talking about the hot button issue that is mosque being proposed near ground zero. Then again, when 70 percent of the public is against something you aren't just talking about the lunatic fringe. You are...

No, that headline's not a typo, it's not supposed to be First Amendment. Sharron Angle said that entitlement programs are a violation of the First Commandment, as in Moses and the stone tablets, Old Testament, First Commandment. Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun found the audio of an April 21 radio interview in which Angle said: "And these programs that you mentioned -- that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward...

Three cheers for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for standing up against the religious bigots and fearmongers on the right yesterday. Those who use the inflammatory term "Ground Zero Mosque" even though the proposed Islamic Center in lower Manhattan is neither--it's 2 blocks from the former Trade Center site and it's not just a mosque. But the likes of Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, Newt Gingrich, Peter King, and Rick Lazio, to name just a...

From the Huffington Post:"Evangelical Christian minister Tim LaHaye says that the policy initiatives put forth by the Obama administration are bringing the country "closer to the apocalypse."LaHaye issued the dire warning in an appearance this week on Mike Huckabee's talk show on Fox News..."Our present president doesn't seem to get it," LaHaye explained. "He doesn't understand that some of the things he's introducing that many of us call 'raw socialism' -- it's a different name,...

. From TPMDC:   "Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, currently running third in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary race, says he's not sure if Constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion apply to the followers of the world's second-largest faith, Islam. At a recent event in Hamilton County, Ramsey was asked by a man in the audience about the "threat that's invading our country from the Muslims." Ramsey proclaimed his support for the Constitution and the...

God's Own Party is on the march. Sharron Angle, speaking to Ralph Reed:Reed: Sharron, you really came, maybe not out of nowhere but the back of the pack to win the Republican primary here in Nevada. There is a new poll out this week that shows you leading Harry Reid by 7 or 8 points. How do you explain all this? Your now a national story, are you kind of overwhelmed by it all?Angle: Not...

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, Or else I'll bust a cap in somebody's ass. Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one of the more controversial bills from the recent legislative session, one allowing guns to be carried into houses of worship.[...][State Representative Henry] Burns' [R-Haughton] bill would authorize persons who qualified to carry concealed weapons having passed the training and background checks to bring them to churches, mosques, synagogues or other houses...

In an interview with Nevada journalist Jon Ralston, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Sharron Angle, was asked to defend a 1995 statement in which she said, "the tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine." Angle's response was that "Thomas Jefferson has been misquoted...out of context." Watch:<br />OK, here's Thomas Jefferson in context, from his often-quoted letter to the Danbury Baptists:"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies...

Note: I hope Bob doesn't mind me introducing this myself. As many of you here know, I have always been interested in religion and politics.Those who are regulars here will please excuse my somewhat lengthy introduction for our visitors here. I was grateful when Bob asked me to be one of the featured bloggers here at the Daily Hurricane. I know many people consider our little home to be an echo chamber for progressives. I've...