Which Comes First: "Religious" or "Right"?

Quote of the day:
“You knock me down. I get up again. You’re never going to keep me down.”
--Chumbawumba

Website of the day:
AmIannoying.com

Follow-up to Chicken Little Has Crossed the Road:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a government agency, reported the other day that 2006 was the warmest in the continental United States of the past 112 years. The chief of their climate-monitoring branch, Jay Lawrimore, said: “People should be concerned about what we are doing to the climate. Burning of fossil fuels is causing an increase in greenhouse gases, and there’s a broad scientific consensus that it is producing climate change.”

Quote of the day no. 2:
“Some people claim to defend American values they’re too faint-hearted to even understand.”
--Leonard Pitts, "The Miami Herald"

Quiz of the day:
What three things do congressional representatives Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Hank Johnson of Georgia have in common? (answer below)

Leonard Pitts also had this to say in his column: “Keith Ellison took his ceremonial oath of office as a Democratic representative from Minnesota using Thomas Jefferson’s Koran.”

Not using the bible for taking the oath really got the radio-talk world into an overheated cappuccino froth. We are beginning to see the real size of the especially-fearful population segment that makes up the core audience for all this daily panic-inciting yaking-- between 5% and 10%. More important, we also begin to see how self-serving, attention-seeking and irrational so many far-right leaders are.

I do not use the label “religious” right or “religious” left, because almost always the position precedes the religion. That is, attitudes come first, then religion is used to justify the attitudes. It would be more correct to use the labels “right religious” or “left religious.”

(Side note: both of these spellings are acceptable: yaking and yacking.)

Quiz answer:
1. They’re Democrats
2. They’re new to Congress
3. They’re the first Buddhists to serve in Congress