Showing posts with label Gene Lyons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gene Lyons. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Gene Lyons on Why So Many Republicans Hate Obama: A Report from Arkansas

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At the National Memo site this morning, my fellow Arkansan Gene Lyon has an important insider report about why so many Southern whi...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Heat, Drought, Deer Grazing in Cities: Apocalypse Now and Papal Scripts to Turn History Upside Down

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That small doe Steve and I saw standing stock-still on the perimeter of a park on 18 June, about which I blogged the following day: ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Amanda Marcotte on the Newt as the Living Id of the Republican Party: Entitlement and More Entitlement

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Amanda Marcotte offers insightful analysis of the double standard used by American conservatives (and the mainstream media and relig...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Political Commentary on Southern Themes (and the Newt): Abby Zimet, Ernest Dumas, and Gene Lyons

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This report by Abby Zimet at Common Dreams fairly well encapsulates for me what's gone incredibly awry in the political (and cul...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Newt and Fellow Conservatives: Hardly a Love Fest

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How is the current ascendancy of the Newt being received by his fellow conservatives, Gene Lyons asks at Salon?  Not so well.  
Friday, August 26, 2011

The West Memphis Three and the Death Penalty: What Would Texas Have Done?

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A little piggyback on my posting yesterday about the response Arkansas journalist Gene Lyons has gotten to a recent posting that mess...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Gene Lyons Messes with Texas, Gene Lyons Hears from Texans

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Samples from Gene Lyons' email inbox , after he dared to mess with Texas by telling the truth about Rick Perry: I like feelin...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Gene Lyons on Mark Pryor and DADT: Determined To Be on the Wrong Side of History

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At Salon today, Arkansas journalist Gene Lyons talks about the obstinate determination of many Southern church folks to be on the wr...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

More Beck: Gene Lyons on Beck's Revivalism as Same-Old, Same-Old

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I noted a day or so ago that the United States goes through periodic cycles of religious self-flagellation akin to the one we witnes...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Media Concerns Again: Gene Lyons on Media's Slippery Connection to Truth

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And, finally today, as a gloss on my reflections about the shoddy role the mainstream media played in covering the recent ELCA assembly, I...