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Thurman Hart says that the reason he writes is to show that "a Christian Liberal is not an oxymoron." He holds a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Central Florida and specializes in Public Policy (energy and taxation) and American Politics (electoral politics and the use of rhetoric). He teaches Political Science at the New Jersey City University. He writes regularly for the NJ Voices feature at the Newark Star-Ledger and contributes to New Jersey's the leading state and local politics blog, Blue Jersey. He also maintains his own blog at Xpatriated Texan and has been active in building an online presence for people of good faith and progressive politics. With Rachel Barrenblat of Velveteen Rabbi, he organized and hosted the first Progressive Faith BlogCon. In the past, he has contributed to The American Prospect's Midterm Madness election updates as well as longer essays concerning the misuse of federal attorney subpoena power and efforts to end the privatization of the IRS.

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4 Articles

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
POW is not POTUS
(2 comments) The qualities needed to survive as a POW may just very well sabotage a Presidency.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Time to Pick of Fight
(3 comments) All indications are that the Conservative movement is on the ropes. It's time for Progressives to go after the jugular of the Conservative movement - its anti-tax platform

Saturday, September 22, 2007
The Crisis of Outrage
(1 comments) Republicans are making hay against the MoveOn ad because Democrats are not confronting the real heart and soul of the Republican machine - the one that has made its bread and butter by character assassination and denigrating the service of honorable men and women.

Monday, September 10, 2007
You Can't "Moderate" Out of War
9/11 was only the beginning of a series of disastrous failures for the Bush Administration. There can be no "middle ground" in stopping a war.