A friend alerted me to a description of Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right after the author, E. J. Dionne Jr., was featured on an hour of the Hugh Hewitt Show.  From the publisher, Princeton University Press:    The religious and political winds are changing. Tens of millions of religious Americans [...]

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In today’s tense political climate, many analysts have speculated that Reagan conservatism is dying out. Among other things, they point to the popularity of big government Republicans who may seek to lower taxes, but overcompensate through increasing government programs and spending. To Reagan conservatives, the future looks bleak. But in Reagan’s Children: Taking Back the [...]

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Take a stand for the Truth! Tell Hilary there is nothing wrong with home made cookies: http://swiftkidsfortruth.org/FoxNews posted 21 questions and answers about Mormonism today. The answers were provided by “The Church.” Unfortunately, the answers are at best deceptive and this worked out to be a great piece of propaganda for them. Rob Bowman provides [...]

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I'm at the Family Research Council's Washington Briefing: Values Voter Summit today and tomorrow.  Melinda (my boss) was invited to blog on the conference and was nice enough to bring me with her.  All of the Republican candidates for president will be speaking among other guests (including Jim Wallis), so it should be interesting.  (Unfortunately, [...]

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This is pathetic.  From Daily Kos:  Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: I know I'm a Jewish lesbian and he'd probably have me killed.  But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon…  Okay, I admit it.  Part of it is that he just looks [...]

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I hear a pretty constant stream of a specific kind of personal attack by leftists against conservatives, including to my face.  And honestly, I’m sick of it.  The basic idea they’re convinced of is that deep down, we have secret, selfish motives for everything, and/or that we’re downright evil.  You can see how this leads to [...]

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In Genesis 9:6, God commands, “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made man.”  Because he bears the image of God, the value of a man is so great that there is only one punishment worthy of the unjust taking of his life.  The [...]

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From Nancy Pelosi's speech on Thursday in favor of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007:   Science is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure and that is the embryonic stem cell research….  Yet, with his [...]

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From SPIEGEL Online International: “For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!” The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS [...]

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I guess they got the idea for this from the Jews’ evil plan to use Tom and Jerry…   But don’t be worried.  It turns out that, as Christians, we’ll be much better off under Islamic rule…  

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