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It would be wrong to think that it is only Texas Governor Rick Perry’s boasting over his state’s punitive body count in a recent Republican debate that has put the death penalty back in the news (Texas led the nation with 167 executions from 1976-1998 and still leads with an incredible 234 since Perry became governor in 2000). Not at all. It is only our collective racial amnesia and apparent moral callousness where death is concerned that can make it seem this way.

Presidential hopeful to hold “pro-Israel” press conference tomorrow in New York.

I was lost, and then I was found.

The religious right is trying to tell them something, and, for once, they’re not listening.

The Tea Party debate.

Where in the world did Perry’s analogy come from?

Mormon GOP candidates give the debate its most reasonable moments.

Rejecting science meant to appeal to religious voters who believe in biblical inerrancy.

Brian Williams and John Harris apparently don’t heed Bill Keller’s advice.

The latest bloggingheads.