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OTIS THOMAS Pastor who alleged daughter's affair with Condit recants. Sin: Filling tabloids in vain...
...government taxes cigarettes at exorbitant rates because higher per-pack costs affect teen smoking - and "sin" taxes go down easy with the public. It's a regressive tax, since smokers are statistically lower-income types. Yet nobody complains - not even Republicans, who hate tax cuts and take big contributions from Big Tobacco - because all politicians must be anti-teen-smoking. And all politicians love money...
There is, of course, another active party in the Job story--Satan. Again, David is loath to see supernatural manipulation. If evil is involved, he sees it as part of the general and far-reaching brokenness that resulted from Adam and Eve's sin. "We live in a fallen world that's full of pain and disease and death mixed in with the joy of our being here," he says. "And consistent with that, I think Hope was born to us because we are carriers of a received genetic mutation...
...magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." If that was all Brock did, we might have nothing more than another sin committed on behalf of the vast right-wing conspiracy. But Brock, who has forged a second career as a recovering conservative, makes one admission that implicates Thomas. Brock says he used information that came indirectly from Thomas to force a retraction from a woman named Kaye Savage, who had come...
...magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." If that was all Brock did, we might have nothing more than another sin committed on behalf of the vast right-wing conspiracy. But Brock, who has forged a second career as a recovering conservative, makes one admission that implicates Thomas. Brock says he used information that came indirectly from Thomas to force a retraction from a woman named Kaye Savage, who had come...