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Progressive evangelicals believe they can end the dominance of the religious right A group of American evangelicals are on a mission to put moral issues at the heart of the most intense presidential campaign in years. Those used to the thundering rhetoric of the religious right will expect a tirade against abortion and gay marriage. But in an interview this week Jim Wallis says: "Top of the list is what happens to the poor. Poverty is the principal Biblical political issue." He adds: "climate change is now a mainstream evangelical issue. Human rights, Darfur too." Wallis is one of the...

Barack Oprahbama has gone on the rhetorical offensive against Caligula Rodham Clinton. She couldn’t be happier to watch him attack and die. Like the French assault into Germany at the beginning of World War I, his credibility on foreign policy will lay dead, face-down in the muddy trenches. He just totally blew a brilliant opportunity to shut up. After the most recent Democratic debate, where The Big O fumbled a question about meeting with psychopathic foreign leaders, Caligula all but handed him a towel and told him to dry behind the ears. While he could be forgiven if it takes...

Appearing in Miami before La Raza, the largest Hispanic lobbying group in the country, Senator Barak Obama touted his credentials as a supporter of illegal immigration: Sen. Barack Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard. "Find out how many senators appeared before an immigration rally last year. Who was talking the talk, and who walked the walk — because I walked," Mr. Obama said at the National Council of La...

Barack Oprahbama just flew into Detroit this week and gosh his arms must have been tired. Barack says the darndest things when he’s tired. He let his true lack of experience and judgment shine through when addressing automobile mileage standards. "While our fuel standards haven't moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon," Obama said. The hybrid Prius does pretty well, but the Japanese still lack access to the Starship Enterprise’s Transporter Room. Toyota offered a modest fact-check to...

The New York Times seems to have found a new way to conspire against the Right Wing Blogsphere. They have discovered that Maureen Dowd’s most pathetic opinion columns always eat more bandwidth at sites like Freerepublic.com. Not with Maureen’s words of wisdom, but instead, with the derisive Jpegs of Catherine Zeta Jones-Douglass. Today, Parvada on The Hudson scores a Daily Double. Today they have brought out the Zeta-Douglas eye candy that will paper over Conservative Blogostan. And furthermore, moderate voters will actually feel enough sympathy for Barack Oprahbama that they will might become inclined to take the man more seriously...