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Fox News focus group in Iowa: President Obama is Muslim

By | 02.08.11 | 3:00 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

On Sean Hannity’s program Monday night, pollster Frank Luntz hosted a focus group of Iowa Republican caucus-goers, gauging their reaction of President Barack Obama’s Sunday afternoon interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.

After a question by O’Reilly about the Muslim Brotherhood’s role

Gary Bauer: Ft. Hood Suspect Was ‘Sleeper’ Agent

By | 11.06.09 | 5:19 pm

Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters, arguing that while some Muslims are all well and good, “there are also ‘sleeper cells’ or ‘sleeper individuals’ who are jihadist ticking time bombs More…

‘C Street’ Democrat: Don’t Ask Me, I Just Live There

By | 07.23.09 | 4:07 pm

The Michigan Messenger caught up today with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who lives at the “C Street” house made famous of late by several current and former residents, including Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) — all of whom More…

Would Jesus Authorize Torture?

By | 05.13.09 | 4:01 pm

Yes, according to one famous conservative Christian.

The Associated Press asks prominent evangelicals and leaders of the religious right if Jesus would condone torture. Some evangelicals say every life is sacred and torture is not peaceful and therefore incongruent with Christian teachings. But religious right leader Gary Bauer says More…

Conservative Catholic Groups Fueling Obama Notre Dame Scandal

By | 04.24.09 | 6:00 am

Within hours of the news that President Barack Obama would give the commencement address to this year’s graduates of Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind., angry opponents of the decision founded a new Website, NotreDameScandal.com, where they could register their complaints and sign a petition asking More…

I Believe in Father Christmas

By | 04.22.09 | 10:11 am

Here’s a quick appendix to yesterday’s story about the civil war in the right-wing anti-terrorism blogosphere. I quoted Robert Spencer of JihadWatch as saying:

I wrote a book called ‘Religion of Peace’ — which [Little Green Footballs' Charles] Johnson wrote a favorable review of — and I

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