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• Synod Days 2,3 & 4

  Published: July 9, 2007, 10:24 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Church Of England, Disestablishment, Gay Debate, Global South, Liturgy

  The importance of the debate on the Anglican Covenant that we report in today's paper cannot be underestimated. Had it been successfully stopped at this point, the signal to the rest of the Anglican Communion, as well as the Church's...

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• Peter Akinola: 'Unity will never be at the expense of truth'

  Published: July 4, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Africa, Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Gay Debate, Global South, Peter Akinola

  I was privileged to be given the opportunity the other day to go and meet the Primate of Nigeria, Peter Akinola for an unprecedentedly frank interview. We spoke in his office in Abuja. One focus was the kind of man...

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• Gene Robinson 'to be invited' to Lambeth, says ABC

  Published: June 28, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Gay Debate, Lambeth Conference

  A number of Anglicans in England have been writing to the Archbishop of Canterbury in protest at his decision to leave Gene Robinson off the invitation list to Lambeth. I have been 'leaked' one of the letters sent back in...

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• CofE 'would shut down' without its gay clergy, says +Gene.

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Anglican Communion, Church Of England, Gay Debate

  Andrew Collier, a freelance journalist based in Scotland, has just interviewed Bishop Gene Robinson in London. This is the bit I liked best: 'I think the thing that is the most mystifying to me and the most troubling about the...

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• A Slight Glimpse at Video Game Addiction from a Designer Standpoint

  Published: July 29, 2007, 9:13 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Computer, Addiction Debate, Indiana University Purude, Video Game Addiction, Video Game Design

  looks at the whole addiction debate from the “gamers” side, and it’s interesting to see how it is likely to be treated by designers. Durwin Talon, an associate professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis who teaches video game design, said in the article: “The philosophy . . . is that you should have a

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• YouTube Presidential Debate features cancer question

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Breast, Campaign, Cancer, Care, Cnn, Debate, Health, History, Insurance, Medical, Presidential, Question, Video, Youtube

  in the second CNN-YouTube debate.Aired live on CNN, this unusual debate featured 39 serious questions -- about immigration, climate change, the voting system, even cancer.Thirty-six-year-old Kim of Long Island, who pulls off her wig mid-question, asks in her video clip about the millions of uninsured Americans who don't have access to

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• Friends create medical fund for West Virginia woman with colon cancer

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:37 am

  Tags: Healthcare Debate, Healthcaredebate

  Filed under: Research, Fundraisers, Politics, Opinion, Daily newsMary Ann Kelly, an employee of a West Virginia hospital who has been battling colon cancer for the past six years, was informed last week that her insurance benefits for the current year have run out. Due to her illness, she is unable to continue working. A medical fund has been

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• Brzezinski: Democrat's Affair 'Not Pressing,' No Objection to Vitter Coverage

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Religion, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salinas, Morning Joe, Msnbc

  Liberals can rest easier knowing that despite her outspoken views on newsworthiness and ethics, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski can still be counted on to go to bat for the Democrats. The reporter and "Morning Joe" regular showed off her famous sense of journalistic integrity while filling in for host Joe Scarborough on Monday morning. In the

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• Slate Trawls Facebook to Find Anti-Giuliani Scoop From Ex-Mayor's Daughter

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:56 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Barack Obama, Lucy Morrow Caldwell, Rudy Giuliani, Online Media, Facebook, Slate, Journalistic Issues

  Slate magazine found out that Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline has a crush on Obama. Well, maybe not a crush, but she had joined a pro-Obama Facebook group and describes herself as "liberal" (but then that's also how many Republican voters would describe Caroline's father). The article, complete with evidentiary screen grab, was written

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• After Debate, CBS's Hannah Storm Focuses On Hit Piece Against Mrs. Giuliani

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Abortion, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Double Standards, Media Bias Debate, Religion, Hannah Storm, Jim Vandehei, Judith Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Cbs, The Early Show, Vanity Fair

  held a debate on Sunday, but CBS's Hannah Storm seemed more interested in Rudy Giuliani's personal life and then Mitt Romney's crankiness. On the August 6 edition of "The Early Show," at 7:19 AM, Storm kicked off the segment noting there was a Republican debate the previous day but, "they did not talk about an issue

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• Palm Beach Post: Using Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News Story

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:39 am

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Media Bias Debate, Palm Beach Post, Journalistic Issues

  The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over the weekend. At issue was another globaloney alarmist story the paper printed on July 25th, titled "This century hotter than last, group finds," supposedly by Post writer Dara Kam. Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this "article" was

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• ABC Republican Debate

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:51 am

  Tags: Right Wing Propaganda, Power Games, Gop Presidential Candidates, Gop Presidential Debate, Political Expediency, Embracing Wingnuttia, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gop Wedge Issues, John Mccain, 2008, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Politics

  one of their unforgetable debates yesterday morning on This Week with Georgie the Greek. On display was the full panoply of GOP wingnuttia and delusional posturing on abortion, immigration, and the War in Iraq. It was truly not worth watching except that the applause of partisans cheering for their guy was totally unexpected. The

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• Rudy’s Imperious Whore

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:24 pm

  Tags: Gop Presidential Debate, Judith Giuliani, The Next First Lady, Political Expediency, Family Values Hypocrisy, Gop Presidential Candidates, Power Games, Courtesan, 2008, Rudy Giuliani, Sex Scandal, Gold Digger, Politics

  This Vanity Fair profile of Judi Giuliani, Rudy’s whore, is so hilarious that I just had to share it. I hollered, y’all.

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• Jesse Jackson's Anti-Gun Claims Unchallenged by the AP

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Guns, Media Bias Debate, Jesse Jackson, Chicago, Journalistic Issues

  Once again the Associated Press give us more of its prosaic brand of "unfair and unbalanced" news with a Jesse Jackson anti-gun story that doesn't offer a single word to counter his propaganda, their report doesn't present even a hint that there is any "side" but the anti-gun position. We aren't shocked at this, of course, but it needs to be

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• Brzezinski Reverses on Villaraigosa Story: 'That Story's Important'

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:42 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salina, Morning Joe

  of the other stories that we debate over - whether we should cover or not. That story's important. Geist: "Like..like what?" Brzezinski: "Uh, well for example, in this case, this is a mayor who had an affair with a news anchor. Several people were suspended at the TV station. And there's some conflict of interest questions. And I

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