Good reads...

Here's an unsettling piece by author John Sugg, courtesy of Mother Jones. Sugg comments on the Christian Reconstruction movement, and how its mission "is to establish the Kingdom of God right now - from the courthouse to the White House."

Besides facilitating evangelism, Reconstructionists believe, government should largely be limited to building and maintaining roads, enforcing land-use contracts, and ensuring just weights and measures. Unions would not exist, and neither would unemployment benefits, Social Security, and environmental protection laws. Public schools would disappear; one of the movement's great successes has been promoting homeschooling programs and publishing texts used by tens of thousands of homeschooling families. And, perhaps most importantly, the state is "God's minister," as DeMar puts it in Liberty at Risk, "taking vengeance out on those who do evil." A major task for the government key Reconstructionists envision is fielding armies for conquest in the name of Jesus.

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From OpEdNews.com, contributor Mickey Z. writes that "impeachment is just one tiny step" that needs to be taken to save America's soul. But, he cautions:

What does it mean to "take back our country" if the next president will exploit the position of following Bush to write his (or her) own book of impeachment? Those who chose the Anybody-but-Bush path in 2004 appear lined up and ready to once again embrace the Democrats, e.g. the left wing of America's one corporate party. If so, the cycle continues unabated.

[F]or Bush's impeachment to serve as more than a high-profile partisan lynching, it must be seen as a baby step toward justice. The myriad problems we face today are not of George W. Bush's making alone. He is but the current face on a system that needs a complete overhaul.