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Why Paul Ryan's 'Personhood' Campaign
is Anti-Biblical:
Forward to the Past—An Explanation of How We Became What
We Are (Which includes, ‘The Arrest of Professor Christian
Mostly’)
The name of the game was “Bible
Roulette,” and it was the greatest religious political gamble
of all time. A Swiftian political satire that takes the reader
to the future to
look back on the past.
The Despoiling of America
How George W. Bush became the head of
the new American Dominionist Church/State
by Katherine Yurica
Most Americans have been aware that religious right Republicans
have become extremely active politically in the last twenty years.
But because we're Americans and we're mostly tolerant of other
people's religious beliefs, their rise to power hasn't really
troubled us. We should be troubled. There is now overwhelming
evidence that conservative Christians set out to takeover the
government of the United States and impose their culture and
values upon all Americans. This article is not a theory--it
is factual and historic. The proof is in this essay. Dont
miss this one.
What Does the American Airlines
Bankruptcy
Have to Do With the Presidential Election? Plenty!
Plus a little advice for American Airlines' Flight
Attendants.
A Rather Large and Significant
“Modest Proposal”
For Preventing Democrats from Interfering
in the Affairs of State and all Governing Matters In Which They
Have No Training Or Understanding and How to Prevent Them from
Being a Burden on the Country Along With a Plan For Making Them
Beneficial to the Public
By Edith Ann Getwell
October 1, 2011
When Gov. Rick Perry took the
stage at his prayer rally, he introduced his close friend Alice
Patterson, who is deeply involved in C. Peter Wagner's Leadership
Institute, where she focuses on "racial healing" in
order to get African Americans to leave the Democratic Party,
because as she says, that party is "literally controlled
by demonic spirits!" Similarly, Cindy Jacob's prophetic
word that the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell triggered mass bird
deaths but significantly, Rick Perry's Response prayer rally
has gone further, it "healed the land of Texas from the
curse of Native American cannibals!" We thought Edith Getwell's
essay will show the world the benefits to our future American
growth and development should these folks gain control over our government!
On Robbing Peter to Pay St.
Paul
Or Why the Supreme Court Erred
on the Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization Case
By Katherine Yurica
April 29, 2011
This story began when
Arizona's State legislators passed an unfortunate law in 1997
that granted a dollar-for-dollar tax credit to tax payers who
chose to make payments of up to $500 each to any of the states
"school tuition organizations" to help children attend
private religious schools. The problem is the law allows the
qualified schools to discriminate on the basis of a child's religion,
but no one seemed to notice that fact--
A "Lone Pamphleteer"
Answers the Supreme Court
Or How the Court Took a Perilous Journey
Into Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Abruptly into
The Professor's Lecture!
By Katherine Yurica
March 21, 2010
Inspired by Chief Justice John
Roberts' statement, "The First Amendment protects more than
just the individual on a soapbox and the lonely pamphleteer,"
this article takes on the Supreme Court's majority in an unforgettable
examination of the Court's decision in Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission. In
fact, you may just want to pass this essay on to anyone you know
who was depressed by the Court's decision.
Truth or Consequences:
Why America's Open Society
Is Collapsing
By Katherine Yurica
November 25, 2009
Recently, Americans have watched and heard false and outrageous
allegations that have been directed against President Obama and
congressional leaders who are trying to pass a needed revision
of America's healthcare system, which, according to the Census
Bureau, left an estimated 45.7 million people without health
insurance in 2007. The opposition and frenzy has reached almost
unspeakable heights, as reform minded legislators are labeled
as Nazis. What is behind the attacks? Who are the leaders? As
Paul Krugman pointed out, "The point is that the takeover
of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing
matter. Something unprecedented is happening here—and it's very bad for America."
Read Truth or Consequences now.
Frank Luntz' Focus Group Explains
the Massachusetts Election of Scott Brown
January 20, 2010
A video of questions and answers
plus a brilliant factual analysis by Jonathan Cohn, of The
New Republic that reveals not only the strong feelings of
Democrats who voted for Brown, but shows why the election is
no referendum against Health Care! The future isn't lost and Health Care doesn't have
to be derailed.
Mr. Smith Rewrites the Constitution
By Thomas Geoghegan
Should the filibuster
be declared unconstitutional? Thomas Geoghegan makes a coherent
argument that our present day Senate filibuster does indeed violate
the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. Citing from the
Federalist papers with a quote from Hamilton, who dismissed a
supermajority rule for a quorum by saying: "All provisions
which require more than a majority of any body to its resolutions
have a direct tendency to embarrass the operations of the government
and an indirect one to subject the sense of the majority to that
of the minority." Geoghegan writes, "senators no longer
had to keep talking. Nowadays, they don't even have to start;
they just say they will, and that's enough. Senators need not
be on the floor at all. They can be at home watching Jimmy Stewart
on cable. Senate Rule 22 now exists to cut off what are ghost filibusters, disembodied debates."
Confronting Humpty Dumpty's
Reasoning in a Homeowner's Association
By Katherine Yurica
January 25, 2012
Sometimes it's necessary to approach a problem from a different
perspective. This essay definitely does that. But if one is going
to try to find out whether or not a law has been broken, or is
being misinterpreted, or simply is not applicable, one must read
and study that law! There's no getting around it! And there is
no better help to achieve that goal than Alice's reasoning, even
though she is in a Wonderland!
How Technology May Soon 'Read'
Your Mind
From 60 Minutes: Incredible Research Lets Scientists Get
a Glimpse of Your
Thoughts.
But how will this scientific advance be used to prove innocence
or guilt in a criminal trial?
Plus-- "Timewarp: How
your brain creates the fourth dimension"
THE MAN dangles on a
cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. Suspended in a
harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of
the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to
the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo. And then it happens.
The cable suddenly unclips and he plummets towards the concrete below.
Two New York Times Must-Read
Editorials on the Supreme Court's expected "Threat
to Fair Elections"
Read the two important editorials
opposing the
Supreme Court's apparent lunge to grant corporations human constitutional
rights.
We also recommend two of Katherine Yurica's essays: First,
"Has Judge Alito Violated His Oath of Office?
And Is There a Legal Tie-in Between Abortion and Corporate Power
in the U.S.?" This essay delves into the faulty reasoning
behind the desire to grant corporations human constitutional
rights. Secondly, we recommend "The Late Great Supreme Court, An Examination
of the Dead Constitution Heresy and Why It Is Causing the Court
to Die a Slow and Painful Unconstitutional Death," which
examines the growth and development of the doctrine adopted by
the conservative majority on the Supreme Court and reveals why
and how the doctrine violates the judicial code of ethics.
Click here for the New York Times editorials.
A Letter to God On Universal
Health Care:
(With carbons to Rush Limbaugh,
Hannity, Sara Palin, and the rest of the Republican Party)
By Alice Ina Wonderland
September 2, 2009
Dear God, I need to let you know
what’s happening on earth in order to find out if it’s
what’s happening in heaven since they are both supposed
to be the same (Matthew 6:10). So I want to know if you
have an anti-universal-health-care campaign going on in heaven
too? And if you do—why did Jesus spend so much time going
around
healing the sick?
A Special Americans United
Report:
How the fundamentalist
political movement focuses on defeating Obama Health-Care Proposals
and electing Republicans To Congress and the White House.
See and Hear Ted Kennedy
Revealing why he fought so hard to achieve
universal health care coverage.
And note this fact: The founder
of Christianity spent most of His time giving universal health
care to all those who needed it. How then can any Christian oppose it?
The Late Great Supreme Court
An Examination of the “Dead
Constitution” Heresy and Why It Is Causing the Court to
Die a Slow and Painful Unconstitutional Death
By Katherine Yurica
July 26, 2009
Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged
the "unparalleled ability" to prove guilt or innocence
using DNA evidence but in a stunning and appalling 5 to 4 decision,
the Supreme Court's conservative majority threw out significant
due process claims and denied the right of a prisoner to obtain
post-conviction DNA testing that might prove his innocence. The
court sided with Alaska, the only state in the nation with no
known case of a prisoner receiving DNA testing. The New York
Times wrote, Roberts treated the DNA breakthrough "more
as an irritant than an opportunity." The question is why?
Yurica examines the ideological grounds behind the decision and
asks why Antonin Scalia did not recuse himself from participating.
Read
all about it here.
The Long Goodbye? Publishing
Industry
By Elisabeth Sifton
May 20, 2009
Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh.
When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
On Defining “Dominionism”
and “The Cultural Mandate”:
Is It a New Anti-Christian Religion?
By Katherine Yurica
May 1, 2009
Some years ago I felt the term
“religious right” was accurate enough for describing
a large segment of the church world’s involvement in American
“conservative” politics, but it seemed inadequate as
a term when one struggled to understand the theological underpinnings
that were driving the movement. In fact, it became obvious that
a new religious doctrine was being taught that urged Christians
“To take back America!” not just as a political objective
but also as a theological
and religious necessity.
Is It "The End of Christian
America" or the Beginning of The Pilgrim's Progress?
By Katherine Yurica
Revised April 21, 2009
Newsweek published a well written, brilliant, but flawed
piece, in that it prematurely assumes the Christian religious-political
movement has arrived at a “failed” crossroads when
in fact, it is growing into a worldwide phenomenon. Titled “The
End of Christian America” and dated April 13, 2009, Jon
Meacham’s article makes it clear that “rumors of the
death of Christianity are greatly exaggerated.” However,
he apparently accepted the latest statistics that show fewer
people think America is a “Christian nation” along
with the fact that the percentage of Christians is shrinking
from 86 percent in 1990 to 76 percent now, which is taken as
the harbinger that predicts the end of the dream that would establish
an American Christian state.
Excerpts from The Lost
Book of Wisdom
by Katherine Yurica
The book was written from the
point of view of ancient seers who walked like patriarchs through
their city which was built to accommodate them and their students.
One of the major questions the book seeks to answer is how much
of modern science could have been deduced in the ancient past
by brilliant observations and analysis. Thus secrets of the universe
were revealed in glimpses of radiant simplicity as seers unfolded
the nature of light to their earnest listeners, disclosing a
cosmos that meshes with our own 'modern' views. For instance,
how could ancient seers know with certainty that the cosmos is
not infinite nor is it populated by stars scattered evenly throughout
infinity? How did they know about the scientific method and how
did they define it? Read and enjoy this small sample of Yurica's poetry and art.
Rick Warren's Political Religion:
Because Rick Warren was invited
to deliver the inaugural invocation at the presidential ceremony
in Washington D.C. in January, which caused a tidal wave of objections,
the Yurica Report has obtained a copy of the video Warren taped
to urge Californian's to support Proposition 8, and which imposes
Mr. Warren's religious beliefs and prohibitions upon the state.
California Attorney General, Jerry Brown has now filed a brief
in the current lawsuit, stating that Proposition 8, which passed,
is "unconstitutional."
See our new material and the analysis, which shows the modus
operandi of the pastor in "Rick Warren's Forum:
How to Trick Candidates Into Giving Themselves a Religious
Test" by Katherine Yurica
In addition to the video of Mr.
Warren, we also recommend another article titled, What's the
Matter With Rick Warren? By Sarah Posner, dated December
17, 2008. She writes: "Democrats, in their zeal to appear
friendly to evangelical voters, have chosen celebrity preacher
and best-selling author Rick Warren to deliver the invocation
at Barack Obama's inauguration.
How to Profit From the Coming
Rapture: Getting Ahead When You’re Left Behind By Steve and Evie Levy as told to Ellis
Weiner and Barbara Davilman
Katherine Yurica Reviews a
Book:
It is after all, a humorous book.
It is meant to lampoon. But at the same time it is perhaps a
surprisingly sincere effort. It does not belittle or mock Christians
or the Bible. It teaches and guides the reader, while causing
laughter to erupt spontaneously. The authors (Weiner and Davilman),
follow the core concepts of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’
work in the Left Behind
series. But with a difference! And what a difference it is!
The Torture Report
The New York Times
December 18, 2008
Most Americans have long known
that the horrors of Abu Ghraib were not the work of a few low-ranking
sociopaths. All but President Bush’s most unquestioning
supporters recognized the chain of unprincipled decisions that
led to the abuse, torture and death in prisons run by the American
military and intelligence services. Now, a bipartisan report
by the Senate Armed Services Committee has made what amounts
to a strong case for bringing criminal charges against former
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
Save GM and Save the World!
October 29, 2008
By Katherine Yurica
There are three ways Americans
and the new administration can help to save the automotive industry
from total collapse. In fact, it will make America the "hero"
of the world! (To paraphrase a line from the Heroes television
series: "Save the General and save the world!")
What’s Good for G.M.
Is Good for the Army
By WESLEY K. CLARK
November 16, 2008, N.Y. Times
Some economists question the
wisdom of Washington’s intervening to help the Big Three,
arguing that the automakers should pay the price for their own
mistakes or that the market will correct itself. But we must
act: aiding the American automobile industry is not only an economic
imperative, but also a national security imperative.
"Oui, on peut -- Yes
we can!" Obama Zydeco from Louisiana, 2008
Click here for the exciting and joyous
song plus words in English and French
Mavericking Her Way Into the
White House
Did Sarah
Palin’s Debate Statements and Strategies Constitute Fraud
Against the American People?
By Katherine
Yurica
October 11,
2008
The choice of which candidate
Americans vote to become the next leader of the United States
may be the most important vote that anyone has cast not only
in our lifetime, but in all time. Mark DeMoss, the former chief
of staff to the late Jerry Falwell said: “Too many evangelicals
and religious conservatives are too preoccupied with values and
faith and pay no attention to competence. We don’t apply
this approach to anything else in life, including choosing a pastor.”
Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate
Transcript of the
Second Presidential Debate on October 7, 2008
The Alleged Terrorist
Barack Hussein Obama
by Frank Rich
Some voters told reporters that
they didn’t want Obama to run, let alone win, should his
very presence unleash the demons who have stalked America from
Lincoln to King. After consultation with Congress, Michael Chertoff,
the homeland security secretary, gave Obama a Secret Service
detail earlier than any presidential candidate in our history
— in May 2007, some eight months before the first Democratic primaries.
Keating Economics: John McCain
and the Making of a Financial Crisis
The current economic crisis demands
that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight
and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates
the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role
in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s.
The article also has a link to
the short documentary film. Don't miss it!
The New York Times On Sarah
Palin's Debate Performance: An Editorial
Ms. Palin never really got beyond
her talking points in 90 minutes, mostly repeating clichés
and tired attack lines and energetically refusing to answer far too many questions.
Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate
Sarah Palin Used Tax Dollars
to Fund Dominionist Churches
by dogemperor
Over the past few days, I've
done reporting on Sarah Palin's extensive dominionist connections--Including
the attempt to run her as a "stealth" dominionist candidate
and her connections to some scary dominionist groups including
not just "Joel's Army" folks but a far-right Christian
Reconstructionist political party linked to
domestic terrorism.
Also the link will lead to a
Yurica Report editor's note that in turn links to a startling
video, titled "Palin's Churches, Thomas Muthee, Witchcraft
and the Third Wave," by Bruce Wilson that includes portions
of Sarah Palin's talk to the Master's Commission at Wasilla Assembly
of God. Also the link will allow you to see another startling
video by Bruce Wilson titled, "Palin and the Holy Laughter
Annointing."
For the complete text of Sarah
Palin's amazing talk to the Master's Commission in Wasilla click here:
Soros on How to Fix the Banking
Crisis
By George Soros
The emergency legislation initially
presented to Congress was ill-conceived – or more accurately,
not conceived at all. As Congress tried to improve what Treasury
originally requested, an amalgam plan emerged that consisted
of Treasury’s original Troubled Asset Relief Programme (Tarp)
and a quite different capital infusion programme in which the
government invests and stabilises weakened banks and profits
from the economy’s eventual improvement. The capital infusion
approach will cost tax payers less in future years, and may even make money for them.
The Financial Crisis: An Interview
with George Soros on April 4, 2008
By George Soros, interviewed
by Judy Woodruff
Judy Woodruff: You write in your
new book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets,[1] that
"we are in the midst of a financial crisis the likes of
which we haven't seen since the Great Depression." Was this
crisis avoidable?
George Soros: I think it was,
but it would have required recognition that the system, as it
currently operates, is built on false premises. Unfortunately,
we have an idea of market fundamentalism, which is now the dominant
ideology, holding that markets are self-correcting; and this
is false because it's generally the intervention of the authorities
that saves the markets when they get into trouble. Since 1980,
we have had about five or six crises: the international banking
crisis in 1982, the bankruptcy of Continental Illinois in 1984,
and the failure of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, to name only three.
Who Really Told McCain to
Select Sarah Palin or Else?
By David D. Kirkpatrick
Moments after Senator John McCain announced his running mate
— Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, an outspoken abortion opponent
— his campaign sprang into action to fan flames of enthusiasm
among his party’s demoralized conservative supporters.
The Grandpa and the Cheerleader:
And How McCain Slew McAble
Or the Melt Down of the Republican
Party in 2008 – Take Your Pick
By Katherine Yurica
It began a long time ago when
McCain was young. He had a brother who seemed to always do everything
right but McCain managed to mess up one thing after another.
So the long and short of it is this: McCain slew his brother
McAble and God put a mark on McCain so that wherever he traveled
and spoke, people wouldn’t listen to him.
Former IRS Officials File
a Complaint
Against Christian Lawyers
By Meredith Heagney
Three former Internal Revenue Service executives plan to file
a complaint today against a coalition of Christian lawyers who
they say are unethically encouraging pastors nationwide to talk
about political candidates from the pulpit.
The Palin Choice and the
Reality of the Political Mind
by George Lakoff
Election campaigns matter because
who gets elected can change reality. But election campaigns are
primarily about the realities of voters' minds, which depend
on how the candidates and the external realities are cognitively
framed. They can be framed honestly or deceptively, effectively
or clumsily. And they are always framed from the perspective of a worldview.
The Sarah Palin Strategy
OhioBlues
Upon learning the news, Matthew
Staver, Chairman of Liberty Alliance Action, Chairman of Liberty
Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law said of
the choice, "Absolutely brilliant. . . ." The excitement
was palpable among conservative leaders when they heard that
Gov. Palin was Sen. McCain's choice for Vice President. There
is a high level of optimism among conservative leaders that the
McCain-Palin combination is a ticket that will connect with values voters."
Why the Bible Commands You
to Be a Liberal (And Vote for Democrats)
by Katherine Yurica
On June 3, 2008, David Klinghoffer,
a senior fellow at the right-wing Discovery Institute, published
a book titled, How Would God Vote? Why the Bible Commands
You to Be a Conservative. We think Klinghoffer's book
deserves to be answered. Rather than write a new article, however,
we decided to rename an older essay that has escaped popular
attention because there is an urgent need to quickly tell the
other side of the story. We in fact originally published the
biblical basis for the liberal Christian's view in January of
2005. The book, titled Bloodguilty Churches by Katherine
Yurica, is still available as a paperback. In addition, the Ben
Yehuda Press, a Jewish book publisher has announced the publishing
of a response to Klinghoffer in August, 2008 titled How Would
God REALLY Vote? A Jewish Response to David Klinghoffer. Click
here to read our essay on why and how the Bible asks you to be
a liberal and vote for Democrats.
Mr. Obama’s Profile in
Courage
There are moments — increasingly
rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians
are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs. In the best
of these moments, the speaker does not just salve the current
political wound, but also illuminates larger, troubling issues
that
the nation is wrestling with.
When Christianity Is UnAmerican
By Terri Murray
There is a growing chasm between
the values of America's founders and the values of the theocratic
Christian right.
The Christian right claim that
their version of authoritarianism is a more authentic interpretation
of American values than the Enlightenment values so cherished
by our nation's forebears. But their values are irreconcilable
with those of America's past. Here's how, in an incredibly lucid analysis.
How
the Culture War Has Spread to the Fine Arts:
An Answer to
H. R. Rookmaaker and
Francis Schaeffer
By Katherine Yurica
Should art be Christian? Should
Georges Rouault replace Picasso? In fact, the issue is one of
dominance rather than taste. The question is: “Whose art
shall reign supreme in our world?” Christian art or secular
art? But my question is, “Should art be judged by the belief
system of the artist or his religious mentors or should it be
judged on the basis of the vision the work itself
presents to the viewer?
The FBI Deputizes Business
by Matthew Rothschild
Today, more than 23,000 representatives
of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the
Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly
growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist
threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion,
before elected officials. In return, they provide information
to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more
to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard
card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill”
in
the event of martial law.
Harry Potter and the Preachers'
Curses
Can the Books Be Read as a Manual on
Political Warfare?
By Katherine Yurica
Some saw the publishing of the
Harry Potter books as a threat to the churches, to institutions
and to their drive for domination. While J. K. Rowling’s
Harry Potter books have caused an inexplicable sense of
elation to rise in the air—that very sense of liberty has
so worried proponents of the new Domination Theology (as
opposed to Liberation Theology) that for the first time in half
a century book burnings came back.
Militant Atheists Are Wrong
A flurry of literary attacks
on God
may also be closing the book on imagination.
By Lee Siegel
Voltaire famously quipped that if God didn't exist, he would
have to be invented. American publishers would enthusiastically
agree because God, it turns out, is a consistent moneymaker --
especially, these days, for those who want to attack him.
Homeland Security Enlists
Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared
KSLA News 12 has discovered that
the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest
problem: Us. For the clergy team, one of the biggest tools that
they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the
law is the bible itself, specifically Romans 13. Dr. Tuberville
elaborated, "because the government's established by the
Lord, you know. And, that's what we believe in the Christian
faith. That's what's stated in the scripture."
An Evangelical Coup in America's
Military?
Michael Weinstein
We are facing a national security threat in this country that
is every bit as significant in magnitude, width and breadth internally
as that presented externally by the now-resurgent Taliban and
Al Qaeda. And it is the destruction of the U.S. constitutionally
mandated wall separating church and state, in the technologically
most lethal organization ever created by humankind, which is
our
honorable and noble military.
Video, Report
Details Evangelism
at Highest Levels of US Military
A report
released publicly on Thursday by the Defense Department's (DOD)
inspector general has found high-ranking Army and Air Force personnel
violated long-standing military regulations when they participated
in a promotional video for an evangelical
Christian organization while in uniform and on active duty.
The complaining
letter to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense can be read here.
To see the DOD
Report, click here.
GAO Study
Reveals: Thousands
of Organizations Exempt from Federal
Income Tax Owe Nearly $1 Billion in
Payroll and Other Taxes
A study by the GAO found that
nearly 55,000 tax exempt organizations had almost $1 billion
in unpaid federal taxes as of September 30, 2006. About 1,500
of these entities each had over $100,000 in federal tax debts
with some owing tens of millions of dollars. Willful failure
to remit payroll taxes is a felony under U.S. tax law.
Tough Talk
On Impeachment:
Bill Moyers on the Role of Impeachment
in American Political Life
Moyers interviews Constitutional
scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment
against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION's John Nichols,
author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT. This is a solid and important discussion.
What Can Be
Done to Correct the Direction of a Manifestly Religious and Ideological
Supreme Court?
Justice Denied:
The Supreme
Court's Dark Slide
Into the Power Bog of Political
and Religious Domination
Justice John Roberts’s court
is emerging as the Warren court’s mirror image. Time and
again the court has ruled, almost always 5-4, in favor of corporations
and powerful interests while slamming the courthouse door on
individuals and ideals that truly need the court’s shelter. Is it time to talk
about impeachment?
Or this:
Another Viable
Solution to
the Bush Appointed Supreme Court:
Stack the Court
By JEAN EDWARD SMITH
WHEN a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly
ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American
politics. If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice
Felix Frankfurter once called the “political thicket,”
it may require a political solution to set it straight.
Chris Hedges:
"I Don’t Believe in Atheists"
By Chris Hedges
Yurica Report editor's note:
This is one of the most inspiring statements we have read on
what religion and God mean to those of us who are believers.
Chris Hedges statement that "God is better understood as
a verb rather than a noun," is completely in accordance
with biblical literature. Consider the fact that in the Bible,
the name of God is stated as Jehovah--which is the incommunicable
name of God; and then as Jehovah Rapha (I am the Lord
who healeth thee); Jehovah Jireh (I am the Lord who provides
for thee); Jehovah Nissi (I am thy banner) and Jehovah
Shalom (I am peace). Save this essay.
The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Someone who is deeply linked
to the Christian right, and to the current Administration, has
turned around and started what has become the world's most powerful
private mercenary army. These guys are like neo-Crusaders. To
have them on the government payroll to the tune of $750 million,
operating in a Muslim country, should be frightening to everyone who understands that.
Lockheed Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels
by Richard Cummings
This is a very solid, documented
report. If you think the Iraq War hasn't worked out well for
anyone, think again. Defense contractors such as Lockheed are
thriving. And no wonder: here's the story of how Lockheed's interests--as
opposed to those of the American citizenry--set the course of U.S. policy after 9/11.
Nuclear Armageddon?
The Rapture Cult--Path of Death
by Carol Wolman
There's lots of talk going on
about nuclear armageddon- Israeli pilots are training to nuke
Iran's nuclear facilities, Bush attacks the Iranian consulate
in northern Iraq, Syria is being demonized again. Read a Christian
psychiatrist's take on it all.
Middle East Directory
The Yurica Report is pleased
to announce a link to Pamela de Maigret's new blog which focuses
on the Middle East with outstanding journalistic analysis from
experts around the world. De Maigret is a documentary film maker
and has served as a consultant to the State Department. Read about her here and then follow the Middle
East developments as you were never able to do before.
Infiltrating the U.S. Military
Gen. Boykin’s “Kingdom
Warriors” On the Road to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
By Katherine Yurica
First the hard right dominionists took over the Southern Baptist
Convention with its 16 million members and a fortune in corporate
businesses. Then they took over the Republican Party. Now there
is evidence dominionists are trying to take over the U. S. military.
The article examines several new questions: Is there a direct
connection between the Southern Baptist Convention and Pentecostal
churches like John Ashcroft's Assemblies of God to General Boykin,
Stephen Cambone and Donald Rumsfeld? Is it true that U.S. taxpayers
are paying the seminary bills to educate chaplains who are planning
to supplant the U.S. government? Do not miss this solid article.
A Review of Infiltrating the U.S.
Military: Is the Religious Right Engaged in a Seditionist
Bid to Takeover America? posted by Les
Putting Faith Before Politics
By DAVID KUO
November 16, 2006
SINCE 1992, every national Republican
electoral defeat has been accompanied by an obituary for the
religious right. Every one of these obituaries has been premature
— after these losses, the religious right only grew stronger.
Public Stoning:
Not Just for the Taliban Anymore
By John Sugg, Church
and State
Two really devilish guys materialized in Toccoa, Ga., last month
to harangue 600 true believers on the gospel of a thoroughly
theocratic America. Along with lesser lights of the religious
far right who spoke at American Vision's "Worldview Super
Conference 2006," Herb Titus and Gary North called for nothing
short of the overthrow of the United States of America.
The Growing
Threat of Right-Wing Christians
By Onnesha Roychoudhuri,
AlterNet.
Posted July 19, 2006.
"I don't want to be alarmist,
but this is actually quite alarming," Michelle Goldberg
said. She was referring to the subject of her new book, "Kingdom
Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism," which chronicles
the steady rise of the neocons of Christianity. Whether she's
attending a Ten Commandments conference or joining Tony Perkins'
conference calls to listen in on what D.C. agenda will be passed
on to congregations, Goldberg's reporting offers insight into
a movement that has reshaped the nation's political and cultural
landscape. Goldberg did not go undercover, nor wear any disguise.
Rather, she simply showed up, listened and learned. And what
she has learned is definitely alarming.
In the Beginning
God Created an Open Society
(Guess Who’s Trying to Close It)
By Katherine
Yurica
July 21, 2006
In Genesis, the God of the Bible
created an open society. We know this because God had
the power to exclude the Serpent
from the Garden of Eden, but God chose to allow the Serpent to
stay along with his contrary voice and vision. It was
a gamble
God was willing to make. He simply rejected coercive power over
his creation. In the end, it cost God everything he loved—including
his only
begotten son.
A Vast Political Misfortune
Or Why Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr. is Correct in His Assessment of the Late 2004 Election (which
was sadly murdered by the G.O.P., may it rest in peace). And
Why Salon.com’s Article Attacking Kennedy is Wrong.
By Katherine Yurica
On June 3, 2006 Farhad Manjoo,
a 27 year old writer for Salon.com, penned a denunciation
of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s article, “Was the 2004 Election
Stolen?” published by Rolling Stone. Katherine Yurica answers him.
The Marriage Boomerang Amendment
Or the Regulation of Everyone’s
Marriage in the U.S.A.
By Katherine Yurica
June 6, 2006
(With a little help from Edith
Earle Fonder)
I know and you know that
the President and his dominionist congress have called this the
“Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment.” But don’t let them
fool you. Folks, wake up! This amendment isn’t about homosexual
marriages—the word “homosexual” isn’t even
mentioned in it. It’s about you and your marriage and how
it can be controlled in the not so distant future!
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
"Yes," Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Republicans prevented more
than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their
votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR
Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election
watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit
polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry,
had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed
a decisive lead for George Bush -- and the next day, lacking
enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded.
Why Secularists
Get the Bible and the Religious Left Wrong
A Response
to Barry Seidman's article:
"A Critique of the New Religious Left"
By Katherine
Yurica
Barry Seidman, citing Hector
Avalos in his book: Fighting Words: The Origin of Religious
Violence, makes the argument that the Abrahamic religious
texts can never be reconciled with democracy because when
read in a certain light, those texts are violent to the core
and ultimately spawn hatred, war and violence. From such scriptures
neither love nor democracy can emerge. I disagree—Avalos
and Seidman have got it all wrong!
Outing Creeping Dominionism
A Response to an Evangelical’s
Attack
By Katherine
Yurica
Katherine Yurica digs into the Dominionism movement and exposes
the true nature of the doctrine millions of American Christians
have taken to heart. For the first time, she introduces her readers
to the man who is credited with writing and inspiring the religious
doctrines that provided a new theological basis for regressive
economics and politics that would counter traditional Christian
progressive thought. In fact, the combining of conservative economics
with edicts that appear to be out of the mouth of God, may be
seen as one of the most brilliant and powerful political concepts
ever written. The man who founded Dominionism has empowered the
greedy as no man has ever done: he’s made greed a virtue!
Tim LaHaye, and His Temperament
Theory
All about LaHaye before he co-authored
the Left Behind series
An excerpt from The New Messiahs
By
Katherine Yurica
When Dr. Tim LaHaye complained that his photograph in Time
magazine wasn’t flattering enough, he said it to a national
audience. He was chatting amiably with Phil Donahue while Donahue’s
audience made up their own minds about his good looks. However,
it wasn’t the first time the Southern Baptist minister appeared
on a nationally televised program. He was a frequent guest on
the Jim Bakker Show, (before Bakker’s conviction and imprisonment)
and on Pat Robertson’s 700 Club. In fact, his influence
spread to the highest corridors of power. He was an honored guest
at the White House where he was consulted by Reagan administration
officials for his opinion on potential appointees. Who is Tim LaHaye anyway?
What the ‘Left Behind’
Series Really Means
Have we finally become
the dumbest mofos on the planet?
By Joe Bageant
“The best thing about the Left Behind books is
the way the non-Christians get their guts pulled out by God.”
-- 15-year old fundamentalist fan
of the Left Behind series
That is the sophisticated language and appeal
of America’s all-time best selling adult novels celebrating
the ethnic cleansing of non-Christians at the hands of Christ.
If a Muslim were to write an Islamic version of last book in
the Left Behind series, Glorious Appearing, and
publish it across the Middle East, Americans would go berserk.
Yet tens of millions of Christians eagerly await and celebrate
an End Time when everyone who disagrees with them will be murdered
in ways that make Islamic beheading look like a bridal shower.
Jesus -- who apparently has a much nastier streak than we have
been led to believe—merely speaks and “the bodies of
the enemy are ripped wide open down the middle.” In the
book Christians have to drive carefully to avoid “hitting
splayed and filleted corpses of men and women and horses.”
See our new directory:
Battle for Ohio
The Battle for the Control
of the Press
A comprehensive new report augmented
by the Yurica Report reveals a devastating attack on our free
press by the Bush administration.
A host of recent developments have made it clear that the
Bush White House is doing battle against the journalistic standards
and practices that underpin our democracy. With its unprecedented
campaign to undermine and stifle independent journalism, Bush
& Co. have demonstrated a brazen contempt for the Constitution
and considerable fear of an informed public.
Tom
Delay's House of Scandal
Click to see it all.
And see our new Directory of the Spreading GOP Congressional Scandals
For Articles On Judge Alito go to our
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Directory
Powerful Government Accounting
Office Report
Confirms key 2004 stolen
election findings
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove
inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under
the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is
crumbling.
The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the
election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating
report from the Government Accountability Office that has gotten
virtually no mainstream media coverage.
Read this vital GAO Report here.
Read all the other latest developments
here!
In the Directory of the Investigation
of the CIA Leak
Blackwell’s Un-American
Scheme:
Under the Guise of “Character and Civic Renewal”
Ohio State Foists a Religious Moral Code upon Its Citizens
by Katherine Yurica
J. Kenneth Blackwell has stepped to the forefront of the American
culture wars. He has posted his official endorsement of a 20-point
religious moral code claimed to be “a shared vocabulary
of character-building ethics” on Ohio’s official Secretary
of State web site. Blackwell wrote, “Character is the cornerstone
of American citizenship. And good citizenship is the foundation
of community. But to a lot of people, civic renewal means
the opportunity to not only religionize our government,
but, as we shall see, to create a new religion that is decidedly
not Christianity. Instead, it is an opportunity to convert
our citizens into docile followers of a new authoritarian rule. Includes a linked
glossary of definitions of terms plus parallel columns that compare
the text.
YURICA REPORT DOCUMENTED SPECIAL:
Read all about the Federal Government's Plans to Build Prison
Camps in America to Hold Millions!
The
Endgame
Where in the past the US Immigration
authorities have detained their prisoners in various holding
facilities, to include County Jails, Municipal Jails, Federal
Prisons, they have embarked upon this ‘ENDGAME’ plan
which will make them the largest jailer of human beings in all
of history. The Department of Homeland Security and its bureau,
ICE, are planning to build temporary cities that will hold millions
of undocumented aliens. The ramifications of these plans are
mind numbing, especially if the best of intentions get waylaid.
We urge you to download the PDF document titled "Endgame."
It's worth the time and effort. It's 1257 kb. click here: 
The Camps Of ICE,
a chilling summary.
READ MORE: Directory of a
Disaster: PART I. TWO AGENCIES: FEMA AND ICE
FEMA
Under Bush Leaves
a Trail of Corruption
Investigations by Florida's Sun-Sentinel Reporters
Reveal Republican Miami-Dade County, which suffered little or
no hurricane damage, received the bulk of the aid, while Broward
County, a Democratic stronghold received little. Here are over
45 stories revealing a trail of stunning corruption and mismanagement:
Read the articles that
describe the war against the judiciary:
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The Hurricane
Stories
Read Over
25 articles, documents, transcripts and eye witness accounts
that reveal the true tragedy of the hurricane called Katrina.
Did FEMA obstruct rescue operations deliberately? Does the Bush
Administration hate Negroes? The stories that have shocked our
nation and the world are all here in our new Directory
of a Disaster
See: Worse Than Watergate:
Directory of
the CIA Leak
The Dominionist Directory
go to the
Yurica Report's Directory to read about the intent of the Republican party, now led by
religious and corporate Dominionists, to dominate America and
its institutions and to establish a Corporate/Theocracy. These
articles have stunned readers around the world. The Rise of Dominionism in America.
See our Articles and
essays showing how to wage a cultural and political war successfully:
Directory of Strategies,
and Propaganda
What the Fundamentalists Won’t
Tell You About the Bible
By
Katherine Yurica
July 31, 2005
Since the nineteenth century, opportunistic fundamentalists
have tried to take some current events and trace them to ancient
biblical prophecy to make a name for themselves.
The Ship of State Is Sinking, Who is on
the Lord’s Side?
Katherine Yurica responds
to Jim Wallis' and Susan Jacoby's articles
The Yurica Report
had just begun to post two articles from the American Prospect,
one written by Jim Wallis, the publisher of the evangelical Sojourner’s
and the other from Susan Jacoby, called “an aggressive secularist”
by her publisher, when the questions began about whether a real
conflict exists between progressives with faith and those without.
A must read essay.
Worse Than
Watergate: Criminal Investigation of Karl Rove and
the White House on the Valerie Plame Leak, see the new directory
with transcripts of press conferences and prior statements made
and connected articles, including the John Dean legal analysis
of the leak and read
former CIA Agents' letter to congress and read about the secret
memo that identified Valerie Wilson. There may be a turn to the
case with obstruction of justice and perjury charges. The latest
articles and updates are here: Worse
Than Watergate.
Voters'
Receipt Program--How American Citizens Can Foil
Attempts to Rig Voting Machines! It's here now--and It will Defeat
Voting Fraud!
If you're tired of the depressing
thought that Republican Party Operatives will steal all future
elections, think again! If the GOP-controlled-Congress along
with their state and county officials, continue to refuse to
vote for or purchase voting machines that issue a receipt, as
is likely, we can still stop election fraud for the 2006 and
2008 elections. We can stop it dead in its tracks by a simple
method that will only cost one or two pennies per voter! The
Yurica Report has designed a method of preventing criminal fraud
in elections in America. But if the method fails to prevent criminal
manipulation of the votes, it will provide concrete evidence
of the existence of fraud that will force law enforcement agencies
to investigate and prosecute and cause courts to invalidate fraudulent
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will prevail for our children and grandchildren--sign up now
and distribute this beautifully simple system to every member
of both houses of congress and to every organization, church
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The Big Lie GOP Combatants
Tell About Democrats
And How to Respond
June 25, 2005
By Katherine Yurica
Most folks don’t know that the Bible tells Democrats
exactly what to do when they have been slandered. The reason
Republican Combatants have to lie about Democrats is this:
if they told the truth—everyone, including all
true Christians would either leave the militant Republican Party
and join the Democrats (or other parties), or would actively
seek to change the Republican Party back to the party of Abraham Lincoln.
Evangelical
Pastor Preaches the Gospel of Free Market Capitalism and Bloody
Preemptive Strikes:
[Yurica Report Editor's Note:
Read Jeffrey Sharlet's Soldiers of Christ, Inside America's
most powerful megachurch. Sharlet writes: "In
addition to New Life, Pastor Ted presides over the National
Association of Evangelicals (NAE), whose 45,000 churches
and 30 million believers make up the nation’s most powerful
religious lobbying group, and also over a smaller network of
his own creation, the Association of Life-Giving Churches, 300
or so congregations modeled on New Life’s “free market”
approach to the divine...New Lifers, Pastor Ted writes
with evident pride, 'like the benefits, risks, and maybe above
all, the excitement of a free-market society.'
It's now available on line
at Harper's. Don't miss this piece! Click on this image
to go there: 
]
The Secret Downing Street
Memo
The following important memo reveals plans to invade
Iraq included manufacturing reasons to invade, "intelligence
and facts were being fixed around the policy" by the Bush Administration.
And
see: Indignation Grows In US Over British Prewar Documents
Everything
You Need to Know About Michael Ledeen
By Katherine Yurica
He wrote, “Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require
the rule of a single leader—a dictator—willing to use
those dreaded ‘extraordinary measures, which few know how,
or are willing, to employ.’” To find out a little about
Michael Ledeen, the man who may have forged the documents, click here.
Meet the Man Who is
Responsible For Turning
Radical Religious Right Wingers Into Jolly Santas:
Frank Luntz,
the Propagandist of the Century
by Katherine
Yurica
Luntz is proud to point out that
the football he used in focus groups during the historic Contract
with America campaign is now on display at the Smithsonian
Institution! He's a pollster with a difference. His real strength
is that he polls people to test the effect of words on them!
He's a guru to politicians. He's been helping GOP candidates
win their elections since 1994. Who is this man? He's
the man who has written the Playbook for Winning the Elections
in 2006 for the GOP! Click here. To go to the essay and to download
the Playbook.
[Editor's note: the Luntz Playbook
for Winning the Elections in 2006 can be downloaded in a
newly
typed and nicely set out PDF file of 1,583 kb
]
What Did Mr. Bush’s 2nd
Inaugural Address Really Mean?
Biblical Code Unraveled
By Katherine Yurica
Mr. Bush’s second inaugural address has puzzled observers
around the world. Mr. Bush admits he copied one line from Natan
Sharansky. Few realize he copied several lines from another source.
Journalists have pointed out he used the words, “free, freedom
or liberty” forty-nine times. Not many observers, however,
have questioned why, nor have they asked, “What did Mr.
Bush mean by these words?” The answer to this question is
important for Americans and the world to understand. Katherine
Yurica gives a startling analysis of Mr. Bush’s true meaning in this essay.
Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address:
"The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard"
There's not a word of truth in anything that he said. Our
founding fathers did not set us on a course to liberate all the
world
from tyranny.
Bloodguilty Churches
Why Bush’s Agenda Is Immoral
and an Abomination to God
By Katherine Yurica
This is a
stunning major analysis of Mr. Bush's agenda.
Did you know the Bible prohibits: deregulation; vote rigging;
privatization of Social Security; tax cuts for the wealthy; invading
Iraq; oppressing the Hispanics who cross our borders; cutting
Medicaid services; cutting Medicare services; hurting the environment;
failing to answer all the questions from the 9/11 families; Tort
Reform; torture; lying to congress; bribes; tampering with the
justice system; appointing prejudiced nominees to the bench;
tipping the scales of justice to favor big corporations? Read
Bloodguilty Churches. Don't miss this hard hitting new report.
Bloodguilty Churches is now available in paperback. Click here to
see the book.
Conquering by Stealth and
Deception
How the Dominionists Are Succeeding
in Their Quest for National Control and World Power
By Katherine Yurica
Americans and the main-stream media have been very slow in
catching on to the fact that we are in a war—a war that
is cultural, religious and political--a war that uses stealth
and deception and the rules of engagement written by the enemies
of representative democracy. Unless Americans wake up--we could lose that war.
Club of the Most Powerful Gathers
in Strictest Privacy
By David D. Kirkpatrick
Three times a year for 23 years, a little-known club of a few
hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country have
met behind closed doors at undisclosed locations for a confidential
conference, the Council for National Policy, to strategize about
how to turn the country to the right. Details are closely guarded.
See our Directory of Pending
Dominionist Bills in Congress (Plus Some Fascinating Legal Analysis
Fraud Traced to the White
House
How California's energy scam was inextricably
linked to
a war for oil scheme
By Katherine Yurica
How To Detect Evil
by Katherine Yurica
Evil is far more common than most of us realize. Read about how to recognize evil.
Document Reveals Mr. Bush
Took Aim at Iraqi Oil Before the 2000 Election
Answers Why Mr. Cheney Has
Fought So Hard to Keep Secrets
By Katherine Yurica
In the battle over the release of Dick Cheney’s secret
“energy policy” papers, a Department of Commerce numbered
document has come to light. It may explain why Mr. Cheney has
fought so hard to keep his energy group’s records from the public.
How Bush Pushed Gasoline Prices
Sky High
Reported by Katherine Yurica
When George Bush vowed he would fill the nations Strategic
Petroleum Reserves to capacity, the administration began purchasing
oil. Lots of oil. Forty million barrels of oil. These purchases
drove the price of crude oil up and up--to a twelve year high.
But the higher the prices went, the more American citizens had
to pay for gasoline and for home heating oil. In just one month
Americans paid between $500 million and $1 billion in increased
costs. Read on:
The New Messiahs
By Katherine Yurica
Who they are, where they come from and what their
plans are for you.
What the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) projected as America's future military
goals in publications written in 1998 and earlier, Katherine
Yurica's excerpts from The New Messiahs reveal the domestic
agenda that the Bush administration has adopted.
The plans and policies come straight out of the religious
right's talk shows from the 1980s, especially from the transcripts
of the 700 Club where Pat Robertson led the Christian
right to embrace political positions that were designed to destroy
American civil liberties and American social programs such as
social security. The transcripts reveal the intent was to change
the very structure of our government and to exclude all liberals
from holding office in America. One chapter from KatherineYurica's
New Messiahs is excerpted here. Warning: it's shocking.
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On Illegal Wiretapping
Mon Jan 16, 2006
Congressman Barr and I have disagreed
many times over the years, but we have
joined together today with thousands of
our fellow citizens--Democrats and
Republicans alike--to express our shared
concern that America's Constitution
is in grave danger.
Prescription Errors
Kill,
Injure Americans, Report Says
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 20, 2006
At least 1.5 million Americans
are sickened,
injured and killed each year by avoidable
errors in prescribing, dispensing and taking
medications, the influential Institute of
Medicine concludes in a major report
released today.
Why Americans Should
Not Embrace
Faith Based Voting
for the 2006 Elections
My community may do it--
but don't let it happen in yours
by Fred Silverman
This fall's election may be the last election where we
enter the voting booth, pull that big lever, and register
our vote. The lever machines are retiring. With the help
of the Westchester Board of Elections, they will be
replaced with new high tech equipment.
‘Cheney cabal hijacked US
foreign policy’
By Edward Alden in Washington
Vice-President Dick Cheney and
a handful of
others had hijacked the government's foreign
policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry
out policies that had left the US weaker and
more isolated in the world...In a scathing attack
on the record of President George W. Bush,
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to
Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw
was a cabal between the vice-president of the
United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary
of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues
that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not
know were being made. Read the story here
and Col. Wilkerson's transcript here.
Cheney For Legalized
Torture
From the New York Times
Amid all the natural and political
disasters
it faces, the White House is certainly tireless
in its effort to legalize torture. This week,
Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a
novel solution for the moral and legal problems
raised by the use of American soldiers to
abuse prisoners and the practice of turning
captives over to governments willing to act
as proxies in doing the torturing. Mr. Cheney
wants to make it legal for the Central Intelligence
Agency to do this wet work.
The Dark Heart of Dick
Cheney
by Georgie Anne Geyer
But this week, the vice president
took a turn into
the deepest heart of human darkness. This week,
unprecedented in history, an elected vice president
of the United States of America proposed that
Congress legally authorize the torture of foreigners
by Americans. The Washington Post titled its
devastating editorial "Vice President for Torture."
I would say that the deceptive man from sunny
Wyoming has become the Marquis de Sade of
America. Think about it -- he is insistent upon
making torturers of many of our young soldiers --
your children.
Call to Renewal
Let's Get Jesus Back!
Speech at Pentecost 2004
by Bill Moyers
I reminded her that there are more
than two dozen varieties of Baptist
in this country. Pat Robertson
is a Baptist. So is Bill Clinton. Al
Gore is a Baptist. So is Trent Lott.
Jesse Jackson is a Baptist. So is
Jesse Helms. Richard Gephardt is
a Baptist. So is Newt Gingrich. Small
wonder Baptists have been compared
to jalapeno peppers: one or two makes for
a tasty dish, but a whole bunch of them
together in one place brings tears to
your eyes.
The Christian Paradox
How a faithful
nation gets Jesus wrong
by Bill McKibben,
Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005.
Only 40 percent of Americans can name more
than four of the Ten Commandments, and a
scant half can cite any of the four authors of
the Gospels. Twelve percent believe Joan of
Arc
was Noah’s wife.
Iraq Reconstruction:
Halliburton Overcharges
in Excess of $100 Billion
Administration Withheld Halliburton
Overcharges from International Auditors
Rep. Waxman revealed
today that Administration
officials, acting at the request of Halliburton,
redacted a Pentagon report to conceal more than
$100 million in fuel overcharges from international
auditors. See the actual documents.
The Secret GOP Social
Security Play Book.
The Yurica
Report obtained a copy
of the actual GOP Congressional
guide to Senators and Representatives
on how to sell "Reforming America's
Social Security System for Future
Generations." It reveals what words
they must use: "Personalization" not
"privatization." Appeal to youth, quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffoer, offer an
alternate reality! This is a large PDF
File. Don't miss it.
Preserving Democracy:
What Went Wrong in
Ohio
The Conyers Report
on the 2004
Presidential election
This
is a riveting
and alarming report on the status of our
ailing presidential election process. Free
Download in a PDF file.
Moral Values Belong
to
Those Who Really Follow
Jesus
And Not to Those Who
Steal His Image
Dr. Robin Meyers' Speech
to students at
Oklahoma
City University
Roman Catholic Bishops
Cut Auditing of Their
Child
Protection Measures.
Little Ones!
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Votergate
2004: For the latest
news about the prosecution
of election fraud see our
Election Fraud Directory.
Find out What really happened?
Bush and Easy Certainty
by Ron Suskind
George W. Bush, clearly,
is one of history's
great confidence men. That is not meant in the
huckster's sense, though many critics claim that
on the war in Iraq, the economy and a few other
matters he has engaged in some manner of bait-
and-switch...he clearly feels that unflinching
confidence has an almost mystical power. It can
all
but create reality.
Special Investigations
Secrecy in the Bush Administration
Rep. Henry A. Waxman
has released a comprehensive
examination of secrecy in the Bush Administration.
The report analyzes how the Administration has
implemented each of our nation’s major open
government laws.
The War President
Now in our Whistler's Gallery
a collage from portraits of
dead
American Soldiers.
Read Max Blumenthal's
brilliant blogspot
Click on the painting below.
The Whiney Museum
featuring fine artifacts
of
our political life, including
great protest songs. Plus free
MP3s you'll want to download
and share with your friends! From
the musicians to us because they love
America.
See the Exhibits
See:
Where
Have All the Flowers Gone?
Reader's Choice: Dr.
Laura
gets an answer from a U.S. Citizen
When Dr. Laura told her
radio
audience that she was duty bound to
follow the Holy Scriptures' prohibitions
against homosexuals, she was
not expecting to receive an
hilarious letter from a perplexed
educator. Funny but raises serious
questions.
Paul Weyrich's
"Teaching
Manual" on how to
defeat the Democrats by
intimidation and how to
destroy the American
Culture. It's a moral battle
between good and evil! But
guess who's evil!
And now for the first time,
we have the original essay
from the Free Congress'
web
page.
The Texas Republican
Party's
2002 and 2004 Platforms
You Should
Know what Tom
DeLay planed for America and you can
read the Texas Republican Party's
incredible hatefilled document
here at the 2002
Platform.
2004 Texas GOP's Platform
Also read: The 2004 National GOP Platform
Articles On Governor
Arnold
Schwarzenegger and his
administration
have been transferred to a special section:
California
Under the GOP. What changes
will there be? How it will affect your
pocketbook? What will it do to your rights
and benefits? Click here to see the
full collection.
The Winter of Our Discontent:
Articles on the New
Medicare Law and how
It defrauds the elderly
and how AARP helped it
all happen have been transferred over to a new
section: The
Winter of Our Discontent: The New
Medicare Prescription Drug Law and the story of
how AARP betrayed its members. Click
here to see
the whole collection, which includes original documents
and research materials not available elsewhere.
Looking for a particular
article?
It's been moved to the
Transition page & Archives
or to one of our new Directories.
9/11/01: Where Was George?
New York Times bestselling
author,
Eric Alterman writes a short and powerful
inquiry, questioning the behavior of George
W. Bush on the morning of September 11,
2001. Examining the president's statements
and finding clear contradictions,
Eric Alterman dares to raise questions
that demand honest answers.
Where Was George?
September 11th and The
Bush
Administration: Compelling
Evidence
for Complicity Kent
State Associate Professor
Walter E. Davis became concerned not
only over the president's behavior on the
morning of September 11th, but why the terrorist
attacks were not prevented. Citing sources and
giving links, Davis offers twenty-two points that cry
out for accountability. It's time for Americans to face the
possibility that the administration and agencies
of the U.S. government may have been grossly
negligent, or even worse, that there is compelling
evidence
for complicity.
Two Loud Words
William Rivers Pitt, Managing
Editor of Truthout,
says, "They received all these warnings and went
on vacation for a month down in Texas. September
11 could have and should have been prevented.
Why? Because
Bush knew."
9/11 Chair: Attack
Was
Preventable Thomas Kean, the former
Republican governor of New Jersey is ready
to point to top Bush officials, including Bush
himself. Major revelations are coming.
Evidence in Search of a Verdict:
Coulterism,
the New
Face of the Republican
Party?
Not only is McCarthyism
back, it's
back with a vengence: libel and
slander are liberally applied to help
create a one party nation. Mark
Zaid's
review reveals the ugly side
of the GOP.
CLASSIC ESSAYS:
The Philosophy Behind
the
Power
Elite and Coulterism
News from the Intelligence
Agencies
Documents You'll Need
See Our New Document Directory
Carnegie Intelligence
Analysis:
CIA reports show a sudden
dramatic change in tone
between
2001 and 2002.
Carnegie Report
reveals reason for war
was
manufactured.
Veteran CIA Agents Demand
Cheney's Resignation.
Read
Full Text of Memo to Bush
Army War College Report
broadly and scathingly
criticizes the Bush
administration's handling of the war on
terrorism and bringing the Army near the
breaking point. The entire report is
available here, by Jeffrey Record.
About the War College
Report by Washington Post reporter
Thomas
E. Ricks.
Carnegie Report
reveals reason for war
was
manufactured.
Carnegie Intelligence
Analysis:
CIA reports show a sudden
dramatic change in tone
between
2001 and 2002.
Plus
Transcript of the President's
Controversial 2003 State of the Union
Address
Transcript
of the CIA
Director
George Tenet's
Statements. Careful Parsing
of Words
Articles in
Transition
or Archived are here:
If you meant to read
an article
listed on this page and it's not
here now, don't dispair. It hasn't died.
We've moved it to The
Transition
Page where it can
frolic with
other related companion stories
and be befriended by Like Minded
Topics: Click
here.
Click-on-the-President's-nose
to enter
a world of parody
where everything is reversed
and up-side-down even the
President's news conferences.
Law Reviews:
Vikram David Amar, a
Constitutional law expert
explains: The Battle over
the Filibuster in the Senate
Part I.
Senate Filibuster,
Part II.
The Whistle Blower's Whistle
Want Proof of Dishonesty
Among
Some Religious Right
Leaders?
Read this to see that
Tim LaHaye, Jerry
Falwell, Hal Lindsay and other Religious
Right promoters are stealers of other men's
words. Click on this box: 
How to Detect Evil by K. Yurica
Book
Reviews & Essays
Honey & Brine
by
Barbara Kaplan
offers one, two and three
act plays
in the form of exquisite poetry.
Memorable pieces like "Plato,
You're a Knuckle Head!" knocks
the reader off his keister. Kaplan's
poems are a tale told full of the
sound and fury and pain of the
twentieth century: its wars,
its men, its women. It's how we
lived and how we died. How we
hated and how we loved. (May be
ordered in book stores Click to
see the cover. Excerpts follow by
clicking the book link) Published by
Erasmus Books, an imprint of Yurica
& Associates.)
Excerpts
from
Sleeping on Potatoes,
A Lumpy
Adventure from Manzanar To the
Corporate Tower
by Carl Nomura.
Read the excerpts from this
charming book, and meet a man.
a U.S. citizen--who knows what it's
like to be locked up in an American
"Relocation" alias Concentration
Camp indefinitely!
from the "greatest generation."
May be ordered in bookstores
through-
out the U.S. and the U.K.
JAPANESE AMERICANS
Read a report on how
former
internees are revisiting the camps,
in the hope that it will never happen
again.
Judging by our popular
culture,
Wisdom is something that
has
been lost by Americans. One
hopes we will find it again
lest we lose it permanently, with
whole generations of people
having no idea what wisdom is
and how it is employed and
what benefits it bestows upon
its seekers. For my part, I offer
you The Lost
Book of Wisdom.
For starters, I wrote
it. I'm K. V.
Yurica and my company
published it several years ago.
We just didn't get around
to telling folks about it 'til now.
Check
it out at Amazon.com
Art Essays and Art:
NOW: With Breaking Art News
Available!
A Sampling of Our Art
Exhibits:
Whistlers
Art Gallery
IMAGES FOR A CORRUPT
TIME
Featuring Political Art
Presently
the Gallery is
featuring an Exhibit of
Political & Corporate
Art
by Katherine Yurica
The catalog may be
reviewed here.
View the Art of Marcia
MacMullan
and Her painting Celebration
The Greatest Political
Art on the Web!
Links to the art of Sue
Coe, Picasso, and for
sheer revelation into the minds of the
wicked: Andrew Stevovich!
And you'll see artist Joel Pelletier's
canvas
welcoming Jesus back to earth
(after Ensor.) "American Fundamentalists"
(Christ's Entry Into Washington in 2008).
The whole gang is there: George W. Bush,
Dick Cheney, Antonin Scalia, Miz Condi Rice,
Momma and Poppa Bush, Billy Graham, Pat
Robertson, Tim and Beverly LaHaye, and
scores and scores more! Ya'll come over
and visit won't you? And Katherine Yurica's
art is there too. It'll
all be in the
Whistler's Gallery.
Joel Pelletier's "American
Fundamentalists"
Botero Turns
From Whimsy to War
Columbian artist Fernando
Botero
who gained fame and fortune painting
whimsical scenes of his fellow Colombians
has switched to depicting the brutal drug wars.
From the London Guardian
Jonathan
Jones, a superb art
critic and essayist writes about Picasso:
"When the Master
of Peace Did
Violence." Click on the #15 Gray Box:
Stay abreast of Jonathan
Jones'
latest essays: click on #15
Gray Box:
How Does the Artist
See?
Through the Looking
Glass:
The Next
Step in Art? An essay
by Katherine Yurica
What is Neo-Nabism?
Katherine Yurica writes about
an artist's calling.
Vincent:
The Evolution of a Master
Who Dreamed on Paper
You can still picture
van Gogh, bookish
and fastidious, pouring out his thousands
of letters and drawings, private diaries in
words and images, sent to his brother and
to a few trusted friends, providing him with
a stability that he evidently could find nowhere
else in life. The Protestant preacher's son,
he dutifully recorded his constant labors
with
pen and paper.
Imitations That
Transcend Flattery
Richard Pettibone's
Copies
By Roberta Smith
Here's an
unexpected
corner, a lovely studio
in the woods. As Socrates
put it, "Look thy last on all things
beautiful every hour." Click
here and sit a moment. Meet
a ceramic artist in her
studio.
Click the black box:
Here's a Magnificent
and Beautiful Patriotic
Surprise you won't forget
soon. Featuring the art of
Jacquie Lawson.
See the Painting
that caused
a furor at LAX
and read about it here
Columnists
John Buchanan
Joe
Conason
Dennis Crews
Maureen Dowd
Ariana Huffington
Nicholas D. Kristof
Paul Krugman
Robert Scheer
Rich Procter
Molly Ivins: A Tribute
She made us smile and laugh and
we will miss her. Here's a sample of
her writing: "Now
the whooper is a large
bird--runs up to five feet tall. The goose--
short. Now we have a state full of
hunters saying, "Hell, if this boy is
too dumb to tell a whooper from a
goose, maybe he shouldn't be
regulatin' public utilities." He was
forced to resign."
Click on Molly's
picture to read the tribute to
her by her long-time friend and editor, Anthony Zurchur.
And click here to read "Remembering
Molly Ivins" by
John Nichols, Washington Correspondent, The Nation.