March 28, 2005

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Terri Schiavo's blog

We noticed this at Blogdex. Utterly black humor--and a very useful set of links to the blogosphere's involvement with the case, if that sort of thing interests you.

Posted by Steve Perry at March 28, 2005 12:45 PM

 

Patriot Pastors: raising God's army

Sunday's New York Times carried a chilling piece on the religious right's efforts to sweep state and local elections in 2006 by enlisting "2,000 evangelical, Baptist, Pentecostal and Roman Catholic leaders in a network of so-called Patriot Pastors to register half a million new voters, enlist activists, train candidates and endorse conservative causes in the next year." It seems the good old-fashioned Ohio Republican Party isn't conservative enough for the religious activists, who call themselves Patriot Pastors.

"The establishment of the Ohio Republican Party is out of touch with its base," said Russell Johnson, the pastor of the Fairfield Christian Church and the principal organizer of the project. "It acts as if it lives in Boston, Mass."

Posted by Beth Hawkins at March 28, 2005 10:49 AM

 

Links digest: the "Mark of Rove" revisited

News digest:
"Mark of Rove" links

Monday's NYT contains a not-very-revealing account of Karl Rove's role in choreographing the Social Security fight. Bush's plan has been having trouble winning hearts and minds in Congress--last Friday Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley gave it a less than 50/50 chance of passing--but Rove is said to be convinced the White House will win in the end.

Here are half a dozen links to stories and websites pertaining to the political architect of the Bush regime:

Karl Rove's Moment: Steve Perry's City Pages cover essay on Rove, from March 2004.

The Controller: Nicholas Lemann's May 2003 New Yorker profile of Rove. 

The Karl Rove-Jeff Gannon connection: CBSnews.com post from February 2005.

Wikipedia's Karl Rove page: thumbnail bio plus links.

"King Karl": Newsweek's Isikoff/Fineman on Rove's enhanced policy role in the White House.

I Love Karl Rove blog: she doesn't.

Posted by Steve Perry at March 28, 2005 09:56 AM

 

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In the Strib: Slow news day--a lege update. From Sunday: there are more commercials than you think embedded in your local TV news (at KARE 11, in this case); and this Sunday page 1A commercial for the war in Iraq.

In the Pi-Press: Rod Grams, lonely guy.

Other dailies: Stateside collection agencies hound soldiers fighting in Iraq (NYT); a classified report by the National Academy of Sciences criticizes the terror-vulnerability of spent nuclear fuel storage in the US (WashPost); red tide--gasp, choke--off the coast of Florida (BGlobe); the tax man cometh for your proceeds from Ebay sales (AP).

Posted by Steve Perry at March 28, 2005 09:35 AM

 

NYT mag on the anthropology
of suburban megachurches

The Sunday NYT magazine has a long and very good piece about the megachurches scattered round the growing exurban reaches of major American cities. It may be overreaching to call them the "soul" of the exurbs (and therefore of Bush's America), as the story's title does, but they're certainly part of it.

From the archive: David Schimke's City Pages feature on a Twin Cities megachurch, Grace Church, from November 13, 2002.

Posted by Steve Perry at March 28, 2005 08:43 AM

 

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