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Matt Bors

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This amazing video is well worth taking a moment to watch, via NBC News.

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another one.

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Days after the Planned Parenthood shooting, Republicans again tried to defund the organization. Bernie Sanders was not about to let that happen — and made it enormously clear on the Senate floor.

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Watch: Obama points out the hypocrisy in the U.S. governors and politicians refusing Syrian refugees.

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Amen.

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Abd al-Wahhab argued that all Muslims must individually pledge their allegiance to a single Muslim leader (a Caliph, if there were one). Those who would not conform to this view should be killed, their wives and daughters violated, and their possessions confiscated, he wrote. The list of apostates meriting death included the Shia, Sufis and other Muslim denominations, whom Abd al-Wahhab did not consider to be Muslim at all. There is nothing here that separates Wahhabism from ISIS.

Saudi Arabia’s internal discord and tensions over ISIS can only be understood by grasping the inherent (and persisting) duality that lies at the core of the Kingdom’s doctrinal makeup and its historical origins.

One dominant strand to the Saudi identity pertains directly to Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism), and the use to which his radical, exclusionist puritanism was put by Ibn Saud. (The latter was then no more than a minor leader – amongst many – of continually sparring and raiding Bedouin tribes in the baking and desperately poor deserts of the Nejd.)

The second strand to this perplexing duality, relates precisely to King Abd-al Aziz’s subsequent shift towards statehood in the 1920s: his curbing of Ikhwani violence (in order to have diplomatic standing as a nation-state with Britain and America); his institutionalization of the original Wahhabist impulse – and the subsequent seizing of the opportunely surging petrodollar spigot in the 1970s, to channel the volatile Ikhwani current away from home towards export – by diffusing a cultural revolution, rather than violent revolution throughout the Muslim world.

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It’s not that Carson is a very religious man that should concern us. Even his Biblical literalism is only troubling up to a point. The problem is this juvenile way of coming to strong conclusions and the lazy willingness to put his own pet theories ahead of the conclusions of the Scientific Community.

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Tim Eagan

It's the most regressive tax plan of any 2016 contender.

Bobby Jindal’s tax plan is a perfect example of how the Republican Party is the party for the wealthy.

Do any of these candidates realize that when you decrease the opportunities for low and middle class Americans to grow economically, you increase societal instability and decrease economic prosperity for all?

Or that its fiscally insane to help those who do not need it on the backs of the economic driver of America (the middle class)? Tell me how that is fiscally responsible.

And side note, I am sure their personal Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, would be a huge fan of helping the rich. Obviously he spent most of his time helping them.

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