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Matt Taibbi’s “The Divide” Might Be the Most Important Book You’ll Read this Year

On February 20th, 2014, Matt Taibbi sent shockwaves through the media landscape, announcing that he was leaving his long-time position at Rolling Stone for a new venture working alongside Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras. Although Taibbi’s site has yet to launch, he has had time to finish and release his newest book “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap“. Having recently finished it, I believe that it may be one of the most important books of the year. Continue reading →

Hobby Lobby’s the ‘Green Collection’ – Wanted: Old Christian Manuscripts

Hobby Lobby is a huge, rich corporation “person” that wants to control more than the place you buy your craft supplies and birth control. They seem to have their fingers in lots of different evangelical pies. It is actually pretty confusing to try and follow everything they are into; but it is certain that they want to implement a hardline evangelical agenda on many fronts and these include a mammoth collection of ancient biblical manuscripts, a National Bible Museum, public school textbooks, and a whole lot more. Continue reading →