I’ll have to say I get the keyboard blues being constantly compelled to call out “Christians” who practice tribal religion in lieu of Jesus infused Christianity. We’ve got legions of ‘em here in the Lone Star State. They populate and dominate our Death Penalty industry.

Christians in Baghdad and Ninawa protested the renewed ethnic cleansing to which they are being subjected and complete inaction of the Maliki government to protect them.

When you count all the Christian families who have fled their homes in Mosul in the last few days and not just those who fled to Tal Keef as we have done and as Bishop Emil Shimoun Nona, Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, has done then the scale of the catastrophe engulfing Mosul’s Christians becomes clear.

Wondering why conservatives are talking more about Willie Horton than Wayne Dumond in connection with Mike Huckabee? It’s because Dumond was pardoned when a bunch of right-wing lunatics, led by Huckabee’s buddy and fellow Baptist preacher Jay Cole, ranted without proof that Dumond didn’t actually commit the violent rape of a distant relative of Bill Clinton’s. But when Frankie Parker, a genuinely repentant convict, was looking for clemency, Huckabee instead moved to execute him sooner than scheduled. The difference? Parker had converted to Buddhism, not Southern Baptistry, in prison.

Deutsche Presse Agentur have published a series articles on the forthcoming Governorate elections in Irak. The articles are a good general introduction to the issues for Irak raised by the elections.

This might indicate a little schism in the Prop 8 alliance: the senior vice president of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family claims that Mitt Romney “has acknowledged that Mormonism is not a Christian faith.”

The long simmering feud between the Kurds and Arabs threatens Iraq’s stability…