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Arch-Conservative U.S. Christians Help Uganda 'Kill-the-Gays' Bill Stay Alive

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. June 16, 2010.

Uganda's anti-gay bill, which espouses the death penalty for homosexual acts, still lives -- with the help of the U.S. religious right.

Ethics Complaint Leveled at Right-Wing Congressional Members of Shadowy Christian Group

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. April 2, 2010.

A group of congressmen and senators living in a posh townhouse on Capitol Hill owned by the notorious Family may now have to answer to ethics committees for low rent.

Guantanamo Inmates May Go to Special U.S. Prison: Report

Agence France Presse August 2, 2009.

U.S. officials are considering a plan to move Guantanamo detainees to a special prison camp that would also contain courtrooms and long-term living quarters.

Kansas GOP Candidate Jokes Obama Doesn't Have a Birth Certificate

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress. July 14, 2009.

Is Kris Kobach, a frontrunner to become Kansas Attorney General, an Obama birther?

Sick: Operation Rescue Founder Launches 'Defeat Sotomayor' Tour, Including Press Conference at Dr. Tiller Clinic

deleted, ThinkProgress. July 6, 2009.

Randall Terry has announced a 12-city tour to spread word that "[t]o refuse to filibuster [Sotomayor] is to bow ... to the Angel of Death."

U.S. Senate Votes Formal Apology for Slavery

Agence France Presse June 18, 2009.

The resolution apologes for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" of African-Americans.

China is an Endemic Surveillance Society: Can You Name Another One?

Daniel De Groot, Open Left. August 1, 2008.

Sam Brownback is mad at China? Talk about hypocrisy in action.

Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. June 12, 2008.

In his new book, The Family, author Jeff Sharlet reveals sordid details about this power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway fundamentalist group.

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