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...give alms to the poor. Although the Bible says that it’s easier for a camel to fit through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to go to heaven, millions of evangelical Christians across the country voted for a president who gave tax cuts to the rich while other hardworking people lost their jobs and healthcare. As a Christian myself, I find it disappointing that many Christians do not see that the basic principles that guide the Democratic Party are consistent with their faith and could improve their lives, yet cast their votes...

Author: By Loui Itoh, | Title: Selling Our Souls to the Right | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...clad in matching tennis polos, and though they were served, they failed to return any sort of tip to the baristas—perhaps put off by their “alternative” appearance. Besides, there are so many spare dimes trickling down from W’s tax cuts, right? No? As more normatively Cantabrigian patrons began to realize who these ladies were, grumbles and mutters reached their virgin ears, and the belles for Bush decided to get back on the Fuck Truck, fast...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, Sarah M. Seltzer, Zachary M. Seward, and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly: The Week in Buzz | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...George Bush sneered “Massachusetts” like it was a four-letter word. Not since the elder George Bush deployed the same thirteen-letter epithet against Michael Dukakis had a state been appropriated as an adjective to connote such out-of-touch, weak-kneed, secularist, elitist, tax-hiking Un-Americanism. Tragically, though maybe not surprisingly, it resonated on both occasions...

Author: By Jared M. Seeger, | Title: More American Than Baseball | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...been charged against us, time and again, that the Commonwealth is grossly out-of-step with American values: home to a tax-and-spend orgy that would make Sweden tremble, the only state in the union where card-carrying members of the homosexual agenda can exchange rings with one hand while axing the traditional family with the other. Our leader? Teddy Kennedy. Our purported crimes? Windsurfing, eating sushi and endorsing the Communist platform...

Author: By Jared M. Seeger, | Title: More American Than Baseball | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...said moral values would not have been the deciding factor in the election had there been tax increases or the instituion of the military draft, which many Americans would have opposed. Goldsmith said there are many Americans, including independents and Catholics, who feel that the Democratic Party does not adequately represent their moral stance...

Author: By Anne E. Bensson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Weighs Morals In Election | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

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