Orcinus, April 23, 2009 Run your bank into the ground? Hey, it was our fault for not keeping a better eye on you. Here’s some cash. Since you’re rich guys, we trust you to do the right thing going forward, so we’re not going to bother you with a bunch of rules and oversight—but you …
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Closer to Home
Orcinus, March 14, 2009 Last summer’s church shooting in Knoxville, TN hit close to home for me. As a Unitarian Universalist — and a liberal — the idea that the right wing’s eliminationist rage toward the left would end up in the death of two members of my own tribe wasn’t unexpected; but it …
“Know This If Nothing Else: This Was A Hate Crime”
Orcinus, February 10, 2009 Photo by J. Miles Cary of the Knoxville News Progressives around the country can breathe a little easier today: James Adkisson has been sentenced to life behind bars for the deaths of Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger, the Unitarian Universalist martyrs who died during his assault on their church in Knoxville, …
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More Maroons in Federal Way
Orcinus, January 16, 2009 Back in 2007, the school administrators in the working-class Seattle suburb of Federal Way found themselves on the wrong end of Jon Stewart’s wit when they refused to allow An Inconvenient Truth to be shown in their classrooms because the movie was “controversial.” The same maroons are back at it again …
Breaking News: BC’s FLDS Patriarch Arrested for Polygamy
Orcinus, January 9, 2009 Photo of Winston Blackmore by Ian Smith of the Vancouver Sun The Canadian press has erupted in the last hour or so with the news that former Bountiful, BC polygamist Mormon patriarch Winston Blackmore and his second-in-command Fred Oler have been arrested and charged with polygamy. Blackmore ran the Bountiful compound …
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