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The demand by a Muslim group for a loyalty oath means they don’t really understand America.

Former adjunct professor tells all.

After the Tucson shootings, a prayer for Jared Loughner.

While the details of Loughner’s views on currency and language might not have a following, they differ only in degree and not in kind from the autodidactic, eccentric musings of senatorial candidates who cite the unconstitutionality of unemployment insurance and minimum wage, who see in health care reform a plot to kill senior citizens, who propose the gold standard as a solution to the national debt, or who question the president’s birth certificate. If Loughner’s radical vision of individual autonomy is deranged and psychotic, it is a kind of derangement and psychosis that increasingly characterizes our political climate.

The decision to deploy the image of innocent childhood at the end of Obama’s Tuscon speech seemed strange then, and still seems strange now.

Religious pushback against the Second Amendment zealots.

Like superheroes, the Captain America redemptive hero does all the work, requiring no sacrifice from us. The prophetic model, like Martin Luther King Jr., asks us to see collective meaning in suffering.

Builders of Noah’s Ark theme park defend educator for teaching creationism.

Tea Party Republican Senator places hold on already controversial nomination.

The film admired by Jared Loughner defies categorization but ultimately offers a dark vision.