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Last Sunday, Up with Chris Hayes host Chris Hayes ignited significant outrage with his musings about the word “heroes.” This morning, Up panelist and national security reporter for The Nation Jeremy Scahill waded into controversial semantic waters by repeatedly accusing President Obama of “murder” through the administration’s use of drone strikes, which have killed an indeterminate number of civilians. Surprisingly, Scahill’s indictment of the President was challenged, not by Hayes, but by Redstate.com co-founder Joshua Treviño. The topic of discussion was the so-called “kill list” of suspected terrorists to be exterminated in drone strikes. Hayes began by trying to drill...

logorrhea: excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness. -- Merriam Webster When watching lefty professor and MSNBC regular Michael Eric Dyson, the notion often occurs to me that the man suffers from the condition described above. [snip] Dyson was back at it on MSNBC today. Appearing on Al Sharpton's newly-awarded 6 PM time-slot show, Dyson suggested that the philosophy of Ronald Reagan has been imposed on modern-day Republicans "in a fascist fashion." View video here.

Read the original post here Credo colleague Chris Dierkes has requested thoughts on the idea of the church as the "resilient community," or the "base community," providing a durable and lasting protection against the shocks of the world; and Justin Hart has responded with his insights from the LDS perspective; and so I will exercise my prerogative to reply in a post. The idea of faith as the communal bedrock, absorbing the blows of the world, goes back to the Jewish exile to Babylon, and for all we know much before. When the people of Israel were dragged into captivity,...