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The Opinion Mill's Sunday Bookchat: One last book from the late Kurt Vonnegut, one last gasp from neocon creep Doug Feith, one last go-round on the reason for the Civil War and, for National Poetry Month, the never-too-lost verse of Lyndon LaRouche! All in the Opinion Mill's Sunday Bookchat.

HOLY CRAP: Eldorado Texas Polygamist Cult...Representative tries to put the fear of God in an atheist...Left Behind: Waaaah!...Book store honesty...The Christian Nationalism of John McCain...Chris Hedges on Fundamentalist Atheism...James Dobson's hometown newspaper freaks out!...The FundamentaList...Wright stuff, in context...A Bible in every Ford, porn at the Marriott, & a new Top Ten...

As the "God's Clown Circus," is ready to descend upon on us, I thought I would show you what these judge battles are all about:

Chris ( author of Losing Moses on the Freeway ), appeared on NOW and explains that there is a push to turn America into a Christian Nation.

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DAVID BRANCACCIO..They believe in the literal truth of the Bible and aim to put God in charge of government.

CHRIS HEDGES: What it's calling on is for its followers to essentially take control of secular society and create a Christian, what they define as, a Christian nation.

If you want more about this, read John Cole's ( you don't have to agree with all of his positions to see his point) article on James Dobson's statement about Sandra Day O'Connor and why he feels there will not be any advise and consent on the nomination: "If anyone really thinks Dobson and Tony Perkins care about the Constitution, they need to reassess their faculties. They care about the Constitution in the context that they think liberal activist judges are robbing them from what is rightfully theirs (and in fairness, sometimes they are right). What they really care about is displaying the Ten Commandments wherever and whenever because we are a "Christian Nation." read on