On homosexuality, whose narrative do we believe? http://www.abpnews.com/3155.article

Wasn't there something somewhere about "false witness"? Joe Lieberman is out there touting the alleged endorsement of Obama by Hamas as reason to vote for John McCain. http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi...

So the lie is our fault, not his McCain: People Want Me to Tie Obama to Hamas http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi...

1990's Actions By Castro Helped Revive Cuban Jewish Community http://www.wikio.com/world/americas/...

Tony Campolo, Christian Worldviews, and the Democratic Platform http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics...

Another skeleton ignored by the neocon media A second land swap deal takes a little more luster off the McCain myth: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...  Or would if anyone ever got to learn about it.

Quote of the Day From Hilzoy, commenting on which foreign regimes John McCain thinks it's respectable to lobby for and which ones he doesn't:
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So Ukraine is too much, but Burma is OK?"

Come on. Everyone has fond memories of those old Burma Shave signs, don't they?  http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsid...

Allowing children to amend the Constitution? Louisiana School Has Seniors Vote On Graduation Prayer http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2...

Obama’s New Gospel http://www.newsweek.com/id/135384/page/1

Algerian Court Fines Christian Convert For Carrying Unauthorized Religious Books http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2...

One weird recent defense policy subplot (via Matt Y)_ is that the Air Force has acquired a large pot of money to produce propaganda ads aimed at convincing the American public that the Air Force is super-important and needs more money. The fruits, a demagogic, inaccurate, fear-mongering ad about our alleged vulnerability to missile attacks on satellites:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk7DV... and http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.c...

CNN reports Evangelicals for Obama http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...

Cuz, ya know, Jesus never shut up about abortion Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City has told Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius that she should stop taking communion until she repudiates her support for abortion rights. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/...

Your neocon media at play Tina Susman of the LA Times reports that Iranian involvement in Iraq's civil war may not be everything it's been cracked up to be:

There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner's introductory remarks to journalists at his regular news briefing in Baghdad on Wednesday: the word "Iran," or any form of it. It was especially striking as Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman here, announced the extraordinary list of weapons and munitions that have been uncovered in recent weeks since fighting erupted between Iraqi and U.S. security forces and Shiite militiamen.

....A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin.

When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.

This item only showed up on the LAT's Iraq blog, not in a regular news piece. If it weren't for the blog, I wonder if we ever would have heard of this? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/baby...

Obama's Army

He's put together his own network of dirty f*cking hippies without even asking our permission. It's a BIG network. It really is a network, with connections. It's not just lotsa people. It's lotsa people who know how to use Facebook.

http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?dia...

Faith Group Sues Over California Limits On Its Use of Park To Feed Homeless http://www.newstin.co.uk/tag/uk/56560752

Young, evangelical and .... for Obama?  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...

First They Want ID

Missouri looks into an anti-voter constitutional amendment.

I remember the days when every election was followed by an editorial lamenting low rates of American voter participation. But the legacy media doesn't cover, or even much mention, the methods the Republicans use to pursue their central strategy of voter suppression. It's a pretty broad spectrum, ranging from running negative ads to outright intimidation. For them, it's even more important than what Mark Penn thinks about bible toting porch sitters or 400 pound Tab drinkers.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/...