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Gary Bauer thinks Christians aren’t treated as well as Muslims in America because there are greater quantities of art works which use Christian symbols in ways that offend Bauer’s sensibilities than there are ones that use Muslim symbols in ways that would offend Muslim sensibilities: in a variety of contexts, American Muslims are treated better [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Torture’
On The Uses And Abuses Of Religion In Art: The Lines Between Expression, Tolerance, Respect, Fear, and Torture
December 30th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Featured, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Islam, Islam, Koran, Koran, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics 
Tags: Blasphemy, Christianity, Cruelty, Danish Cartoons, Gary Bauer, Mockery, Muslims, Offending Religious Sensibilities, Respect vs. Fear, South Park, South Park Depicting Mohammed, Tolerance, Torture 
3 Comments »FOX News’s Judge Andrew Napolitano: Bush And Cheney Should Be Indicted (And Lambasts Obama Too)
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A great interview with Ralph Nader: Napolitano’s new book, in which he discusses all these issues, is Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History. Thanks to Aram for the link. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Law, Law, Law & Politics, News Discussion, News Discussion, Politics, Politics, Videos Tags: After Words, Andrew Napolitano, C-Span, Habeus Corpus, Ralph Nader, Thurgood Marshall, Torture No Comments »McChrystal The Torturer
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke I have never liked General McChrystal being allowed to run our Afghanistan operations. Long before his current foolish comments in Rolling Stone that have gotten him fired and replaced by General Petraeus, he should have been brought up on charges of war crimes: “Once, somebody brought it up with the colonel. ‘Will [the Red Cross] [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Law & Politics, Military, News Discussion, Politics Tags: Stanley McChrystal, Torture No Comments »Cults Of Inerrant Leaders
June 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Glenn Greenwald summarizes an atrocity of institutionalized injustice, whereby the executive branch of the United States has the power to abduct and torture innocent people with impunity: The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Authoritarianism, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Featured, George W. Bush, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Canada, Glenn Greenwald, Maher Arar, Omnipotence, Superpower, Syria, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Torture, United States Supreme Court No Comments »The Best Of Shepard Smith: Taking On BP, Torture, Anti-Vaxers, Glenn Beck, Joe The Plumber, & More
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke FOX News’s one passionately sane and moral voice last week went after BP executive Tony Hayward for his flippant attitude towards the ecological disaster his company has recently wrought. The man is an oasis amidst his network’s cynical demagoguery and sincere lunacy. And, of course, there is his passionate denunciation of torture from over a [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Civil Liberties, Law, Law & Politics, News, News Discussion, Politics, Videos Tags: AIG bonuses, Anti-Vaccination, Birthers, BP, BP Oil Spill, Brian Kilmeade, CDC, Chris Wallace, FOX News, Gretchen Carlson, H1N1 Vaccinations, Israel, Jane Skinner, Joe The Plumber, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Katrina, Media Bias, Naomi Wolf, Ralph Nader, Sam Wurzelbacher, Shepard Smith, Steve Doocy, Sue Field, Tony Hayward, Torture, Torture As Part Of Interrogation, Torture Memos No Comments »
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