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Over the past several years, Black and Latino fundamentalist anti-abortion groups have vigorously aligned themselves with the white religious right in the battle to take down family planning. The current furor over the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to withdraw funding for Planned Parenthood highlighted the role of Eve Sanchez Silver, founder of a little-known group called the International Coalition of Color for Life. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sanchez Silver, a former medical research analyst for and charter member of the Komen Foundation, has been a leading advocate against Planned Parenthood within Komen.

Sometimes an apple is just an apple.

A barrage of articles on the Middle East have only made it more confusing. Here are two that actually help.

The latest bloggingheads.

The limits of debating policy through the Bible.

Where Bush offered shock and awe, Obama offers the hem and haw. War, but not a serious one; aid, but of the “non-lethal kind”; a desire to draw red lines, but a tendency to hope nobody notices them.

The Wise Use movements uses age old tactics to undo environmental protections for economic benefits.

In a recent speech on the the economy, Obama could have stressed biblical justice; instead he opted for a “post-partisan” emphasis on firm foundations and solidarity in common cause.

On the Kennedy paradigm, the abortion myth, Johnson’s moral compass, blithe affirmations of faith, and Billy Graham’s hypocrisy…

“You have a family doctor. His name is Jesus.”