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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 8:37 AM PDT

2008/05/13 · 08:37

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Thursday January 26, 2006 · 12:13 PM PST

2006/01/26 · 12:13

Jeff Sharlet, an expert on the religious right, has a profile of Senator Sam Brownback in this week's edition of Rolling Stone. A quote from the article to start us off:

Brownback's wife, Mary, heiress to a Midwest newspaper fortune, married Sam during her final year of law school and boasts that she has never worked outside the home. "Basically," she says, "I live in the kitchen." From her spot by the stove, Mary monitors all media consumed by her kids. The Brownbacks block several channels, but even so, innuendos slip by, she says, and the nightly news is often "too sexual." The children, Mary says, "exude their faith." The oldest kids "opt out" of sex education at school.

Oh there is more Read More

McCain Changing His Story on Spying?

KansasNate

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Sunday January 22, 2006 · 12:41 PM PST

2006/01/22 · 12:41

As referenced on the front page this morning, Senator John McCain came out in opposition to the President's use of the NSA to monitor domestic communications. From Think Progress:

WALLACE: But you do not believe that currently he has the legal authority to engage in these warrant-less wiretaps.
MCCAIN: You know, I don't think so, but why not come to Congress? We can sort this all out. I don't think -- I know of no member of Congress, frankly, who, if the administration came and said here's why we need this capability, that they wouldn't get it. And so let's have the hearings.

But what did he have to say just a month ago on the same topic? Read More

Senator Brownback Soft on Hate Crimes

KansasNate

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 1:46 PM PST

2005/11/03 · 13:46

As you may know, anti hate crimes legislation is winding its way through Congress. Think this would be a no-brainer for unanimous support? Think again. The inclusion of a provision that would include "gender identity" as a class of protected persons under the legislation has proved quite controversial. Senator Sam Brownback, consistent supporter of hate, explains his reasons for opposing anti hate crimes legislation: Read More

The Fellowship

KansasNate

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 · 7:43 AM PDT

2005/04/13 · 07:43

While in Washington DC, Senator Sam Brownback lives in a house named the "C Street Center"run by a secretive Christian group known as The Fellowship. He pays the low rent of $600 a month to share the house with 5 other Congressmen. While residents of the house claim that nothing crosses the line of church-state separation, an examination of the Fellowship shows that crossing the line occurs with alarming regularity.

"The Fellowship" is a loosely defined, sometimes denied, group of evangelical Christians who hold positions of power around the world. Its membership runs the gamut from our own Senator Brownback to Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda . Began in 1942 by a Methodist minister from Seattle, it has an annual operating budget of at least $10 million and in addition to the C Street Center also owns a mansion known as "The Cedars" in Arlington VA. Read More

A Liberal Oasis in Kansas

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Wednesday April 06, 2005 · 1:08 PM PDT

2005/04/06 · 13:08

As many of you may know, yesterday Kansas became the 19th state to make hatred against homosexuals part of the state constitution. The amendment passed 70% - 30%. It was a landslide, though no rationally minded person expected otherwise.

I count myself as one of the rational people. However, I did not let that keep me from putting up one hell of a fight.

Those of you living in firmly Democratic, tolerant states may be wondering how a person can continue to put blood, sweat and tears into lost causes. I wonder that myself. For a look at how my friends and I cope living in Kansas, follow me over the fold... Read More

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