The American Prospect: Nothing Sacred. by Brett Di Resta and Cliff Schecter. February 26, 2004.: "A quick look around the Internet shows that heterosexual couples are doing an excellent job of undermining the 'sanctity of marriage' on their own. "

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The Despoiling of America - "How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State" - a well-researched article about the theocratic ideas of dominionist religious conservatives.

Fascism Anyone?: "The cliche that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm." From Free Inquiry magazine, Laurence W. Britt.

To see ourselves as others see us: Gary Younge: God help America: "So while there is a constitutional, albeit contested, barrier between church and state, there is almost no distinction between church and politics. Indeed, when it comes to elections, religion is the primary galvanising force and the church the central mobilising vehicle." From The Guardian.

The Real Intelligence Failure (Francis Fukuyama, August 6, 2003): "The media has been focusing obsessively on the relatively minor issue of how an incorrect assertion about Iraq's nuclear ambitions got into the president's State of the Union speech. In doing so, it has missed the much larger issue, which is that of Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction. The inability to locate these weapons is vastly more consequential to American credibility than the fact that the White House staff failed to vet 16 words in a single speech. The missing weapons reflect a much more fundamental institutional intelligence failure."

Commanding Heights: Home | on PBS - an interesting web site on globalization and the global economy.

Wired News: High-Tech Vote Fraud? Oh, Yeah: Can anyone think that electronic voting systems are a good idea? Other than those who think they're the only ones who will figure out how to manipulate the systems?

Issue: Just War Tradition - an interesting background piece from The Pew Forum.