While I haven’t always been Chris Matthews’ biggest fan, I was very impressed with what he had to say yesterday as part of Hardball’s tenth anniversary celebration.
In front of an audience that included such notables as Alan Greenspan, Rep. Patrick Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy, Matthews began his remarks by declaring that he wanted to [...]
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From intelligent design to nativity scenes, I am always struck by the way that the so-called “Religious Right” is happy to dilute religious teachings, apparently in order to further their right-wing agenda. Groups like the Institute on Religion and Democracy attack the humanitarian mission of mainline Protestant Churches in order to bring them more [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, Mike Dunford, one of the bloggers involved in the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge, blogged about some of the new projects he had added to his list. They were totally heartbreaking, including a $298 request for an overhead projector screen (the teacher is currently using a sheet of white paper, which limits [...]
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