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...panel discussion at the Institute of Politics yesterday, three noteworthy evangelists discussed how their religious traditions, which are often seen as conservative, can offer a progressive view of the fundamental questions that arose following the financial crisis...
...This provided a more nuanced approach,” Goldstein said. “Too often there’s a tendency to lump the evangelical movement into the right side of our politics...
Cruelty to animals, it is said, is often a precursor to graver crimes. So would there not be some usefulness to a registry of individuals convicted of felony animal abuse? Legislators in California want the Golden State to be the first to establish such a record - just as California was the first in the nation to create a registry of sex offenders...
...which would list crimes against both pets and farm animals, is to make it easier for shelters and animal-adoption groups to identify people who shouldn't be allowed access to animals. It would also be a boon to law enforcement because animal abuse, the bill's authors' say, often escalates to violence against people. Abuses covered in the bill would include the malicious and intentional maiming, mutilation, torture, wounding or killing of a living animal. It would also target pet hoarders and operators of animal-fighting rings (such as dog-baiting and cockfighting) who have felony convictions. (See pictures...
...rage toward corrupt bankers seems to course through his body - even when he's on vacation. He recalls a recent trip he took with his daughter to Utah to go skiing (something he often does nowadays). After a day on the slopes, he found himself drinking Scotch and talking to some "Wall Street guys" at the bar: "I looked them in the eye and said, 'You guys aren't worth it. Capital is overcompensated these days. It's un-American, and it's unjust.'" Spitzer thinks it's an outrage that the same bankers who brought down the world economy...