excerpt: "" Wasilla Assembly of God was in thrall to a radical Pentecostal trend once denounced by church authorities as heresy. Called the Third Wave, it was rooted in an explicitly anti-intellectual creation myth.

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Look at Michelle Obama: She has segued seamlessly from an active professional life as a highly paid hospital executive to her current incarnation as fashion plate, doting mom and demure sex object, posing for Vogue in a hot fuchsia frock that shows plenty of skin.

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Wow, talk about 25 years of some crazy preacher's influence!!! Although she left this church in 2002, she has not "severed all ties' (to use some familiar rhetoric) with the church.

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The '60s may have seen the dawn of identity politics, but it wasn't until recently that identity politics became so ... political.

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