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YouTube - Barack Obama & Friends Sean Hannity Special pt1
Sean Hannity of Hannity's America Special Report Entitled "Obama & Friends - A History Of Radicalism" Including Black Panthers, Bill Ayers, Mus...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCz6dPpP9v8
John Gray: A shattering moment in America's fall from power | Comment is free | The Observer
Thoughts on the broader meaning of the U.S. financial meltdown.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/usforeignpolicy.useconomicgrowth
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times
From the Army Times -- the first ever active-unit assignment to the US Army Northern Command. A brigade combat team will be deployed to Georgia (under a command in Colorado Springs) presu...
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w
Mormons now issue in gay vows
People campaigning against a ballot initiative on amending the Arizona state constitution to ban same-sex marriage have begun claiming that support for the measure is being driven forward...
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http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/257999
Ahmadinejad: America 'Near Collapse' - TIME
Ahmadinejad
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843824,00.html
America in the 1930's. COLOR photographs! - NoNewbs
A very cool little collection of historical photos. A wide variety. Originally posted by a Daily Kos blogger at http://snipr.com/3h95w
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http://forums.nonewbs.com/showthread.php?t=42556
"Religious literacy" courses now required in Modesto, CA public schools
More religious knowledge has got to be a good thing, I think. On the other hand, a course like this has got to be fantastically easy to screw up. It would be interesting to study what the...
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/24/eveningnews/main4206426.shtml
"Ceremonial deism," U.S. civil religion, and the law
A Pew Forum backgrounder on the status of (supposedly) religiously-neutral invocations of a deity by government agents.
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http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=335
Steve Padilla, "Former New York Times reporter looks at growth of interfaith movements," Los Angeles Times (Aug. 30, 2008) - on Gustav Niebuhr
Niebuhr (the grandson of the late H. Richard Niebuhr and grandnephew of Reinhold) now teaches at Syracuse. Sounds a little fluffy to me.
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs30-2008aug30,0,189881,full.story
Tony Perry, "Symbolism of the cross widens with judge's ruling in Mt. Soledad case," Los Angeles Times (Sept. 13, 2008)
From the page: "Two years ago, the contentious cross atop the San Diego mountain was deemed part of a war memorial. A recent judicial opinion supports that, saying crosses have significan...
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs13-2008sep13,0,7595462,full.story
Real Estate Agent and Professional Real Estate Service
Find real estate agents in your area to help you buy a house or sell your home.
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http://www.realestateagentcentral.com
"Muslim Day at Six Flags"
A slightly puffy human-interest story on a recurring event at various Six Flags locations around the country, in which an amphitheater is used as a masjid and halal caterers are brought in.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/religion/chi-six-flags-muslims-25-jul25,0,2161842.story
American Sikh immigrants fear their tradition is slipping away
Many Sikh temples in the U.S. are alarmed at the relative absence of young people (mostly immigrants' children), who don't speak Punjabi and aren't interested in the old-country traditions.
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http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/123/story/533352.html
U.S. mainline Protestantism and the Institute for Religion and Democracy
Frederick Clarkson, in a 2006 article, outlines the activities of the Institute for Religion and Democracy since the eighties. Mainly funded by right-wing think tanks, he says, it has att...
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http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v20n1/clarkson_battle.html
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
Published in the Saturday Evening Post on four consecutive weeks in February and March, 1943.
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http://www.bilderberg.org/fight4.jpg
Carfree USA Blog: America's most walkable big cities
A new survey by Walk Score has ranked the largest U.S. cities by their walkability.
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http://carfreeusa.blogspot.com/2008/07/americas-most-walkable-big-cities.html
Wetlands Update--Has Preservation Had an Impact?: Scientific American
During the 1990s the rate of wetlands loss in the U.S. declined by some 80 percent over previous decades. But the nation is still losing upwards of 50,000 wetland acres per year, accordi...
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http://r7.sharedcopy.com/7ub1d88
"A Talk to Teachers" James Baldwin, 1963
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http://www.richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm
Dating Site, Dating Advice and Services, Matchmaking Resources
MatchingList.com provides information and resources on matchmaking, dating, matchmaker, ethnic dating, religious dating, foreign brides, introduction agencies, speed dating, alternative l...
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http://www.matchinglist.com
Reflections on James Dobson, child-rearing, and U.S. political discourse
For some time, Dr. Dobson has been known for his insistence that a key component of parents' responsibility is the inflicting of controlled violence on their children in order to make the...
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http://www.religiondispatches.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=AR&Id=278&SP=1
Coming Oct. 27: Total Lunar Eclipse
Almost everyone in the Americas and Western Europe will have a beautiful view of this eclipse. The Moon will be positioned well up in a dark, evening sky as viewed from most of the United...
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http://www.space.com/spacewatch/041001_lunar_eclipse.html
BOF - Bits of Freedom
Un bout part ici, un bout part là - A bit of this, a bit of that
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http://bof.waglo.com
American Rhetoric: William C. Faulkner - Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
Text and audio of Faulkner's Nobel banquet address, originally delivered Dec. 10, 1950, in Stockholm.
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/williamfaulknernobelprizeaddress.htm
The original Mother's Day (hint: it's not from Hallmark)
Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was one of the early advocates for a national Mother's Day holiday, as an antiwar organizing effort. Here's her "Mother's Day P...
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http://womenshistory.about.com/od/howejwriting/a/mothers_day.htm
"Lord, Save Us from Your Followers," a movie about American "bumper-sticker culture"
A documentary about how our national debate about serious issues has degenerated into sloganeering -- mainly carried out via bumper sticker.
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http://lordsaveusthemovie.com/home.html
CENSORED NEWS: Longest Walk Powwow May 10
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http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/05/longest-walk-powwow-may-10.html
The Dumbing Of America
It is past time for a serious national discussion about whether, as a nation, we truly value intellect and rationality.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502901.html?hpid=op...
"Modern Ruins": Photo-essays by Shaun O'Boyle
Photos of (mostly) abandoned industrial-age landmarks. Mainly black-and-white, done in a very understated, documentary style. Poignant and often beautiful.
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http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm
Suburban kids are more messed up than inner-city ones (2005)
A 2005 study showed that the average suburban, well-off white teenager is more likely to engage in substance abuse or suffer from depression than kids living in poverty or in the inner city.
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20050505-000007.html
The Black American West Museum
A museum dedicated to the often-forgotten African American men and women who helped shape the American West.
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http://www.blackamericanwestmuseum.com
New blog on religion in american history [2]
A pretty diverse bunch of academics blogging on religious themes in American history from a variety of perspectives. Worth checking out. The clip is just a taste of the type of material c...
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http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2008/03/review-steven-waldmans-founding-faith.html
New blog on religion in american history
A pretty diverse bunch of academics blogging on religious themes in American history from a variety of perspectives. Worth checking out. The clip is just a taste of the type of material c...
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http://usreligion.blogspot.com
Photos of American churches
These are kind of funny -- particularly the odd and whimsical titles -- but also beautiful. There are several pages of these photos.
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http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/chap5.htm
Nasty anti-American cartoon (but funny)
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http://kansieo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/according-to-americans.jpg
Abraham Lincoln on religion [4]
Two lesser-known pieces of writing from Lincoln that give some hints about his religious beliefs. Lincoln was notoriously cagey about his religious commitments -- he never attended church...
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http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/meditat.htm
Abraham Lincoln on religion
Two lesser-known pieces of writing from Lincoln that give some hints about his religious beliefs. Lincoln was notoriously cagey about his religious commitments -- he never attended church...
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http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/handbill.htm
God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America - Hanna Rosin - Books - Review - New York Times
A review of a new book by Hannah Rosin on Patrick Henry College.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Easton-t.html?ex=1346990400&en=574ece758aaa8c...
David Gonzalez, "For a Master Class on Global Worship, It’s Destination Queens" (NYT, July 2, 2007)
An international seminar on interreligious coexistence and pluralism, based in New York City. I haven't actually read this yet. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5SFsEzH5t.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/nyregion/02citywide.html?pagewanted=all
Map Gallery of Religion in the United States
American Ethnic Geography A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada
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http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html
Scientists Determine Age of New World Map
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http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr072902a.htm
phoenixnewtimes.com | News | In the Belly of the Beast
A 1997 piece in the Phoenix-area free paper, the "New Times," on the Tempe bar 6 East just before it was torn down. I used to go there (rarely). Some cool journalism actually.
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http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/1997-09-04/news/feature2.html